History… A House Divided: Czechoslovakia’s Long Way to United Private Law, by Václav Dvorský 26 Jan 202423 Dec 2023 Introduction The end of WWI led to the redrawing of European borders. Many empires collapsed and, as a result of this happening, the territories of some states were enlarged (e.g.…
History… Colonial-Era Mixed Courts and Post-World War I Mixed Arbitral Tribunals as Spaces of Transnational and International Legal Innovation and Emulation, by Michel Erpelding 12 Jan 202423 Dec 2023 Introduction: Between the National and the International The numerous legal transfers and instances of cross-jurisdictional dialogue that occurred during the Interwar period did not only take place within or between…
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,…