Events and News… Nordic Legal Culture: Myth or Reality? June 1 and 2, 2023, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen 28 Feb 20231 Mar 2023 Carta marina, a wallmap of Scandinavia. The caption reads:Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels, most carefully drawn up at Venice in the year 1539 through…
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,…
Interdisciplinarity… Comparative Law & Economics: The Map is Not the Territory, by Ernesto Vargas Weil 22 Nov 202216 Nov 2022 Almost thirty years ago Ugo Mattei declared the ‘methodological wedding’ between two of the most important approaches to the law developed during the 20th century: Law & Economics and Comparative…
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…
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…
Interdisciplinarity… Interdisciplinary Comparative Law – a Sisyphean task? by Jaakko Husa 24 Jun 202224 Jun 2022 1. The Metaphor After reading the title, the reader might remember an image of a poor human being rolling a heavy stone up a hill. One may wonder what that…
Common law world… REPLY from PAUL DALY, UNDERSTANDING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN THE COMMON LAW WORLD 10 Jun 20229 Oct 2022 This is the author's reply in a series of comments offered on Paul Daly's book Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (OUP 2021) at a meeting hosted by…
Covid-19 - comparative perspectives… Between Comparison and Commensuration, by David Nelken 25 Feb 202211 Apr 2022 News of the global advance of the Covid -19 epidemic, as of the varying fortunes of international and national responses to it, confronts many of us daily (see e.g. here).…
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