History… The Turkish Civil Code and Code of Obligations of 1926 and the Charm of Swiss Civil Law, by Michał Tutaj 23 Feb 202422 Feb 2024 Introduction The emergence of the modern Republic of Turkey (or Türkiye as some Turks prefer) is a compelling chapter in the rapid transformation of formal legal structures. In the mid-1920s,…
comparative legal history… Lyuben Dikov, Filippo Vassalli, and Karl Llewellyn: Three Scholars Who May Hold a Key to Understanding Some Peculiar Similarities between Bulgarian, Italian, and US Law, by Radosveta Vassileva 9 Feb 20249 Feb 2024 Introduction While researching the evolution of the principle of change of circumstances for my PhD thesis, I was intrigued by a peculiar coincidence – Bulgaria, Italy, and the United States…
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…
Comparative constitutional law… Against Methodological Factionalism in Comparative Constitutional Law, by Alex Schwartz 10 Nov 202310 Jun 2024 Ran Hirschl, in his book Comparative Matters (OUP, 2014), speaks of a “renaissance in comparative constitutional law”. This renaissance, he says, is evident in the proliferation of a more cosmopolitan…
comparative legal history… Concluding Remarks: Interwar Dialogues and the Patterns of Legal Change, by Radosveta Vassileva 21 Jul 20234 Dec 2023 Introduction In the 2022-2023 academic year, the British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) ran the “Cross-jurisdictional dialogues in the Interwar period” series edited by Professor Yseult Marique and me. This…
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