Comparison in Europe… Foreign Footprints in the Administrative Law of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, by Vuk Cucić 12 May 202324 May 2023 In the Interwar period, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a country erased from the map, perhaps now even forgotten, a country comprising several jurisdictions fraught with ethnic tensions and centrifugal forces…
Comparative contracts… Mapping out the contract laws of Asia, by Stefan Vogenauer 7 Oct 20222 Oct 2022 The research project Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides the first comprehensive overview of the laws of contract in 14 jurisdictions stretching from India in the West to…
History Roaming Across the X and Y Axes: A Plea for Comparative Legal History, by Agustín Parise 15 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 Comparative legal history offers opportunities to roam across time and space. Travelling across the X (time) and Y (space) axes triggers enriching perspectives that help students, instructors, and researchers to…
European private law… A new look at the history of modern European comparative law, by Balázs Fekete 20 Jul 202118 Jul 2021 Does it make any sense to study the history of legal scholarship in the 21st century? The answer is not self-evident at all. Our age is definitely fascinated by contemporariness,…
History Known Unknowns: Legal Responses to Intractable Factual Uncertainties, by Andrew J. Bell and Joanna McCunn 28 May 20214 May 2021 In arguments relating to General Stanwix’s Case, heard in the English Court of Chancery in 1772, one lawyer posed the following question: ‘Do not facts, in their very nature, precede…
History… O.V. Kresin – COMPARATIVE LEGAL STUDIES: 1750 TO 1835. APPROACHES TO CONCEPTUALIZATION (transl. 2019) 25 Nov 2019 The history of law is a promising domain. A number of legal disciplines, such as legal theory, the philosophy of law, the sociology of law and epistemology do not have…