Changes… Tax Legality in China: Constitutional Principle or Governance Technique? 29 Jul 2026 Tax legality has increasingly been celebrated in Chinese legal scholarship as a constitutional principle under the 1982 Constitution, particularly following the 2015 amendment of Article 8(6) of the Legislation Law of…
Comparison in Europe… Regulating Assisted Dying: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative Failure 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026 The regulation of physician-assisted dying (PAD), and in particular assisted suicide, represents one of the most contentious and conceptually demanding challenges in contemporary legal systems. Drawing on a comparative perspective…
Comparison in Europe… Local Meanings: What Comparative Law Can Offer to EU Legal Studies 10 Jun 202610 Jun 2026 Comparative law can be a very rich resource to reflect on the contemporary challenges of EU legal scholarship. It has always been a core basis for the development of EU…
Current discussions in comparative law… The Omnipresence of Mixity in Public and Private Law, by Vernon Valentine Palmer, Agustín Parise, and Lionel Smith 11 Apr 20256 Apr 2025 Studies on mixed jurisdictions have proliferated during the past decades. A number of law review articles and of edited volumes served in that process of contrasting experiences. The seminal Mixed…
Interdisciplinarity Law: A Mode of Spatial Production, by Matteo Nicolini 28 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 The legal-geographical nexus As a set of rules governing human activities, the law has always been in a special relationship with geography. No wonder, therefore, that the legal-geographical nexus has…
Common Core… Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons, by Filippo Valguarnera 31 Jan 202530 Jan 2025 The challenge of the commons The book Property meeting the Challenge of the Commons – edited by myself together with Ugo Mattei, Alessandra Quarta and Ryan Fisher – was released…
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