Bell John… Basil Markesinis: An Appreciation, by John Bell 23 May 202328 Jul 2025 Professor Sir Basil Markesinis QC, FBA, Doctor honoris causa (mult.) died on 23 April 2023 at the age of 78. Markesinis was a distinguished comparative lawyer whose career spanned forty…
Comparative private law… Basil Markesinis KC FBA (1944-2023): A tribute by Professor Roy Goode 17 May 202328 Jul 2025 With the death of Sir Basil (Vassili) Markesinis, who sadly passed away at his home on 23 April aged 78 after a long illness, we have lost not only an…
Bell John… National and European Dimensions of French Administrative Law, by G della Cananea 5 May 202324 May 2023 This is the second 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…
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,…