Comparative Obligations… The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability (Routledge 2024), presented by Marta Santos Silva 14 Mar 202520 Feb 2025 The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability, edited by Marta Santos Silva, Andrea Nicolussi, Christiane Wendehorst, Pablo Salvador Coderch, Marc Clément and Fryderyk Zoll, explores how private law can…
Comparison in Europe… Can a non-discrimination law lens enrich our understanding of consumer vulnerability? – Comparative insights considering the regulation of sexist advertisement may provide some answers, by Jule Mulder 14 Feb 202513 Feb 2025 Vulnerability within EU Consumer Law How to protect vulnerable consumers is one of the key issues of our time. The European ideal of a well-informed, observant and circumspect consumer that…
Comparative Obligations… Limitation of Actions in the Slovenian Law of Obligations: Judges as Harbingers of Spring?, by Karmen Lutman 7 Feb 202512 Feb 2025 1. Introduction In a time of rapid social changes, civil codes might seem like fossils. Although it is considered that they should be amended with a delicate touch, occasional reforms…
Comparative Obligations… When Judicial Creativity Goes Wrong: The Case of Punitive Damages in Peru, by Sergio Garcia Long 24 Jan 202523 Jan 2025 Introduction There is constant friction between the stability of the law and the needs of practice. Civil codes are laws made to last for centuries to give stability and certainty;…
Comparative private law… BACL Annual Seminar 2024 – Vulnerable consumers and the law: comparative perspectives 6 Aug 20243 Aug 2024 The British Association of Comparative Law warmly invites you to its Annual Seminar on 3 September 2024 on the occasion of the Society of Legal Scholars’ Conference at Bristol University.…
Comparative contracts… CALL FOR BLOG PIECES FOR BACL’S NEW ‘JUDICIAL CREATIVITY AND RECENT REFORMS OF THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS’ SERIES 12 Jul 202426 Jul 2024 The British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) is pleased to announce a call for blog pieces for its new ‘Judicial Creativity and Recent Reforms of the Law of Obligations’ series.…
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… 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 private law… Greening the Civil Codes: Comparative Private Law and Environmental Protection (Routledge 2023), by Sabrina Lanni 17 Nov 20237 Nov 2023 Civil Codes and the Environment In the face of the irreversible impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems produced in the Anthropocene era, scholars have been reflecting on the current…
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