Common law world… Clameur de haro: What an Ancient Norman Self-help Remedy Shows Us about the Common Law Today, by Katy Barnett 22 Nov 202422 Nov 2024 Introduction The common law allows ‘self-help’ remedies to a limited degree, provided that the exercise of self-help is reasonable. This allows the plaintiff to take the law into his or…
comparative legal history… The Afterlife of Hungarian Private Law following the Treaty of Trianon – Miklós Ujlaki’s Critical Approach to Legal Unification, by Balázs Fekete 5 Jul 20247 Jun 2024 Introduction The story of comparative law in Hungary in the Interwar years is largely unknown to the foreign audience. The main reasons for this include the practical inaccessibility of the…
comparative legal history… The Yugoslav Law on Obligations of 1978 and the Legacy of Professor Mihailo Konstantinović (1897–1982): The Influence of the Interwar Period on Post-WWII Legal Transfers, by Ivan Tot 8 Mar 202420 Jan 2024 Introduction The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY, 1963–1992; previously known as the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, FPRY, 1945–1963) was a one-party communist state established after World War…
comparative legal history… Lyuben Dikov, Filippo Vassalli, and Karl Llewellyn: Three Scholars Who May Hold a Key to Understanding Some Peculiar Similarities between Bulgarian, Italian, and US Law, by Radosveta Vassileva 9 Feb 20249 Feb 2024 Introduction While researching the evolution of the principle of change of circumstances for my PhD thesis, I was intrigued by a peculiar coincidence – Bulgaria, Italy, and the United States…
comparative legal history… Concluding Remarks: Interwar Dialogues and the Patterns of Legal Change, by Radosveta Vassileva 21 Jul 20234 Dec 2023 Introduction In the 2022-2023 academic year, the British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) ran the “Cross-jurisdictional dialogues in the Interwar period” series edited by Professor Yseult Marique and me. This…