Comparative Obligations… Unifying European Private Law in the Interwar Period: The Case of the Franco-Italian Draft Code of Obligations and the Polish Code of Obligations, by K. Kryla-Cudna 3 Feb 20232 Feb 2023 Introduction In a previous post, Aleksander Grebieniow and Jan Rudnicki discussed the process of unification of the Polish law of obligations in the interwar period. As explained by the authors,…
Interwar Dialogue Actors, Institutes, and Journals as Cornerstones for the Interwar Development of Comparative Law in Ibero-America, by A Parise 25 Nov 202225 Nov 2022 Law is rarely shaped after one single occurrence. Multiple actors, institutes, and journals, for example, can trigger different mutations, even motivating paradigmatic shifts. Occurrences are indeed tesserae of a mosaic.…
Comparative private law… A Mixed Jurisdiction in the Middle of Europe? Poland’s Interwar Experience 1918-1939, by A Grebieniow and J Rudnicki 11 Nov 20224 Nov 2022 Introduction A ‘mixed legal jurisdiction’ is typically a legal order where the common law and civilian traditions intermingle. So says the primary comparative legal literature (H.P. Glenn, Legal Traditions of…
Comparative administrative law… The importance of the personal factor in the diffusion of the Austrian general law on administrative procedure, by A Ferrari Zumbini 28 Oct 20224 Nov 2022 Introduction There is one cross-jurisdictional dialogue in the interwar period to which comparative lawyers should pay more attention: the diffusion of the Austrian general law on Administrative Procedure of 1925,…
Australia… British Race Patriotism and Private Law: Et In Arcadia Ego?, by M Lunney 14 Oct 202214 Oct 2022 Much of my work over the past fifteen years has involved exploring a phenomenon that had long puzzled me. As an Australian, I was well aware that our legal system…
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