Bell John… Discussions on French Contemporary Administrative Law (Bell & Lichère CUP 2022) – Introduction by John Bell 21 Apr 202317 Apr 2023 This is the first piece in a series of comments offered on John Bell's and François Lichère's book French Contemporary Administrative Law (CUP 2022 - available in open access by…
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,…
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