Changes… So, are legal systems actually converging or diverging? An investigation into the evolution of the law post-crisis, by Emilie Ghio 17 May 20241 May 2024 “Are legal systems converging or diverging?” This is a question that has vexed legal scholars and comparatists for decades, especially as legal convergence is not a new concept. Its philosophical…
Interwar Dialogue… The Greek Civil Code of 1946: Preparation, Influences and the Unification of Greece’s Four Civil Law Regimes, by AE Platsas 7 Jul 202313 Dec 2023 Introduction This contribution is about the preparation of Greece’s Civil Code, which was completed in 1940 and came into effect in 1946. This code governs the majority of civil law…
René David… Legal Barbarians – Comparative Law and the Global South, by Daniel Bonilla Maldonado 28 Apr 202310 Apr 2023 Introduction: Law, Culture, and the Legal Barbarian Law is not part of culture; it is a consequence of culture. Law has typically been understood as an effect of a nation's…
Edouard Lambert… Modern Law and Otherness – The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Comparative Legal Thought (Edward Elgar 2019), by Veronica Corcodel 1 Apr 202224 Feb 2022 Traditional comparative law has been subject to a variety of critiques and, by now, has been surpassed by new and eclectic approaches. Indeed, over the past two decades or so, the…
Common law world… Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (OUP 2021), by Paul Daly 11 Feb 202226 Jan 2022 I am happy to describe myself as a comparative lawyer. I studied law in my native Ireland, before doing an LLM in the United States and a PhD in the…
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