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Kündigungsschutz In Deutschland Und Den Usa, Thomas Kohler, Michael Kittner
Kündigungsschutz In Deutschland Und Den Usa, Thomas Kohler, Michael Kittner
Thomas C. Kohler
No abstract provided.
‘Integrative’ Comparative Law Enterprises And The Inner Stratification Of Legal Systems, Mauro Bussani
‘Integrative’ Comparative Law Enterprises And The Inner Stratification Of Legal Systems, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
The essay deals with the features of, and the challenges posed by the initiatives aiming to harmonize European private laws. The first part focuses on the comparison of (overt) methods and (hidden) implications pursued by research-oriented enterprises – such as ‘The Common Core Project’ or the ‘European Case-books Project’ –, and the initiatives whose goal is the creation of rules – such as the UNIDROIT Principles or the ‘Lando Commission’ –. The second part of the article highlights the existence of multi-level legal systems as one of the most important problems any integrative enterprise has to face. The analysis of …
Comparative Law As A Comprehensive Approach: A European Tribute To Professor Jack A. Hiller, Bernhard Grossfield
Comparative Law As A Comprehensive Approach: A European Tribute To Professor Jack A. Hiller, Bernhard Grossfield
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
An aura of "malaise" hangs over the field of Comparative Law'- sometimes alluded to as the "drama" of Comparative Law (private and public). Indeed, the comparative scholar is often asked whether his work has any practical importance. This is the question he fears most. A German legal philosopher once criticized the whole approach as follows: "Nobody asks what comparative law is and how it should be pursued. Thus, it is less to build a new structure from the laws compared, but to leave an accumulation of raw bricks in a heap that will never be used." Still today it is …
Every Man Has A Right To Decide His Own Destiny: The Development Of Native Hawaiian Self-Determination Compared To Self-Determination Of Native Alaskans And The People Of Puerto Rico, Michael W. Carroll
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Fox Hunting, Pheasant Shooting And Comparative Law, Alan Watson, Khaled Abou El Fadl
Fox Hunting, Pheasant Shooting And Comparative Law, Alan Watson, Khaled Abou El Fadl
Scholarly Works
The Roman jurists, ancient rabbis and Muslim jurists were very different people. Above all, the rabbis and Muslim jurists were engaged on a search for law as truth. And the Roman jurists were much more obviously upper-class gentlemen.91 But the similarities are great. All three had a passion for legal interpretation. They delighted in discussing hypothetical cases. They chased after solutions by ways of reasoning devised by themselves. Practical utility, while present, was in the background. At times, to outsiders, their opinions seem outr6, even callous, remote from reality. They have little interest in what actually happens in court: their …
System Dynamics: Toward A Language Of Comparative Law, David J. Gerber
System Dynamics: Toward A Language Of Comparative Law, David J. Gerber
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Common Core Approach To The European Private Law, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei
The Common Core Approach To The European Private Law, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei
Mauro Bussani
This paper discusses the aim, method, and organization of ‘The Common Core of European Private Law’ project, a scholarly initiative launched by the authors in 1994, and that at the moment this paper was written involved one hundred (and now more than two hundred) scholars, mostly from Europe and the United States. Part I describes both the immediate and the long-term goals of the Project. Part II discusses the methodological evolution that has taken place from Schlesinger's Cornell Project to the Common Core work, and tackles the main differences between the Common Core approach and other "integrative" projects taking place …
Current Trends In European Comparative Law: The Common Core Approach, Mauro Bussani
Current Trends In European Comparative Law: The Common Core Approach, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
In the last decades, many research groups have been established to support—although through different means—the Europanization of private law. Some of these initiatives are, to use Schlesinger’s terminology, ‘integrative’, that is, they are engaged in ascertaining which solutions may best regulate legal problems in a common way. Other enterprises aim to deepen the knowledge and dialogue between European legal cultures. This is particularly the case with ‘The Common Core of European Private Law’ project, which was launched in 1994 by Ugo Mattei and the author of this article to develop a better knowledge of private law rules within the European …
Choix Et Défis De L’Herméneutique Juridique. Notes Minimes, Mauro Bussani
Choix Et Défis De L’Herméneutique Juridique. Notes Minimes, Mauro Bussani
Mauro Bussani
The paper focuses on the widespread hetero-referentiality one can witness, especially in certain circuits, between jurists and philosophers: the former trying to base technical arguments on one or the other (most of the times: fashionable) philosophical trends; the latter theorizing about this or that use of a given legal notion – often referring to orientations by now obsolete, or which only partly, or vaguely grasp the law as it is. After examining the modes through which the legal debate selects the philosophical authorities able to serve as auxiliary sources of the jurist’s cultural legitimization, the essay analyzes the most remarkable …
Comparative Environmental Law Perspectives On Legal Regimes For Sustainable Development, Nicholas A. Robinson
Comparative Environmental Law Perspectives On Legal Regimes For Sustainable Development, Nicholas A. Robinson
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
As the world's largest summit meeting ended in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the heads of state and their representatives assembled at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), commonly referred to as Agenda 21. They embraced Agenda 21 as “a dynamic programme” which can “evolve over time in the light of changing needs and circumstances,” and as a process making “the beginning of a new global partnership for sustainable development.” Agenda 21 is premised on two factual perspectives. First, the documentation of trends in the deterioration of the environmental conditions in many parts of the world is …
Posner's Economic Approach To Comparative Law, William Ewald
Posner's Economic Approach To Comparative Law, William Ewald
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Labor Law And Labor Relations: Comparative And Historical Perspectives, Thomas Kohler
Labor Law And Labor Relations: Comparative And Historical Perspectives, Thomas Kohler
Thomas C. Kohler
No abstract provided.
The Foreign Notarial Legal Services Monopoly: Why Should We Care?, Pedro A. Malavet
The Foreign Notarial Legal Services Monopoly: Why Should We Care?, Pedro A. Malavet
Pedro A. Malavet
This piece serves three purposes: (1) briefly to take issue with the current treatment of comparative scholarship, especially how it is ignored by main law reviews; (2) to be a succinct introduction to the Latin Notary; and (3) to point out that the adversarial ethic and notarial impartiality can co-exist and even complement one another. It presents the notary as an example of a non-adversarial ethic, in a system that has other professionals who are ruled by the adversarial ethic. It does not advocate the abandonment of the adversarial ethic, but, rather, argues that in certain legal situations a non-adversarial …
Accountability For Past Abuses, Juan E. Mendez
Accountability For Past Abuses, Juan E. Mendez
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Capital Punishment In Jewish Law And Its Application To The American Legal System: A Conceptual Overview, Samuel J. Levine
Capital Punishment In Jewish Law And Its Application To The American Legal System: A Conceptual Overview, Samuel J. Levine
Scholarly Works
In recent years, a growing body of scholarship has developed in the United States that applies concepts in Jewish law to unsettled, controversial, and challenging areas of American legal thought. One area of Jewish legal thought that has found prominence in both American court opinions and American legal scholarship concerns the approach taken by Jewish law to capital punishment. In this Essay, Levine discusses the issue of the death penalty in Jewish law as it relates to the question of the death penalty in American law, a discussion that requires the rejection of simplistic conclusions and the confrontation of the …
The Non-Adversarial, Extra-Judicial Search For Legality And Truth: Foreign Notarial Transactions As An Inexpensive And Reliable Model For A Market-Driven System Of Informed Contracting And Fact-Determination, Pedro A. Malavet
Pedro A. Malavet
Notarial transactions are specialized contracts, which in most of the world are written and certified by a legal professional known as a notary, who obviously is not the U.S. notary public. These, in effect, lawyers, practice a liberal profession so endowed of the public trust that they are expressly made alternatives to judicial proceedings. Hence, the notarial form is an extra-judicial certification of legality and truth, often comparable to our court judgments. This system guarantees honesty and legality while avoiding or resolving disputes, at a very low cost, when compared to American law practice and certainly when compared to litigation.
Aspects Of Reception Of Law, Alan Watson
Aspects Of Reception Of Law, Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
In most places at most times borrowing is the most fruitful source of legal change. The borrowing may be from within the system, by analogy - from negligence in torts to negligence in contract, for instance - or from another legal system. The act of borrowing is usually simple. To build up a theory of borrowing on the other hand, seems to be an extremely complex matter. Receptions come in all shapes and sizes: from taking over single rules to (theoretically) almost a whole system. They present an array of social phenomena that are not easily explained: from whom can …
The Evolution Of Free Trade In The Americas: Nafta Case Studies, Claudio Grossman
The Evolution Of Free Trade In The Americas: Nafta Case Studies, Claudio Grossman
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Fusing Economic And Environmental Policy: The Need For Framework Laws In The United States And Argentina, John R. Nolon
Fusing Economic And Environmental Policy: The Need For Framework Laws In The United States And Argentina, John R. Nolon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
In an effort to discover the best legal strategies to respond to these new challenges, seminars were conducted among experts in economic development and environmental protection in both the United States and Argentina. The observations and recommendations of these experts have been summarized and published and will be referenced as appropriate. This article attempts to synthesize what was learned in these two seminars, the research conducted in preparation for them, and the ongoing discussion among the participants. It begins with a summary of the forces in both countries that call for a change in the legal system, shows how these …
The Recognition And Enforcement Of Foreign Equitable Remedies And Other Types Of Non-Money Judgments In United States And French Courts: A Comparative Analysis, Noele Sophie Rigot
The Recognition And Enforcement Of Foreign Equitable Remedies And Other Types Of Non-Money Judgments In United States And French Courts: A Comparative Analysis, Noele Sophie Rigot
LLM Theses and Essays
Courts of industrialized nations are often faced with adjudication of cases which involve foreign components. It is common for those courts to be asked by individuals or legal entities from a transnational environment to adjudicate with regard to some elements already adjudged in a different legal system as if it were a local judgment. The question that arises is how effects should be given when dealing with prior adjudications. Most countries agree to recognize some effects determined by foreign jurisdictions, as long as those determinations meet standards that guarantee proper integration of the foreign decision into the domestic setting. These …
Choice Of The Applicable Law In United States Maritime Law And The Venezuelan System, Daniel Eric Vielleville
Choice Of The Applicable Law In United States Maritime Law And The Venezuelan System, Daniel Eric Vielleville
LLM Theses and Essays
International maritime transport is an important means of transport in international trade. The vessels used in international maritime transport face unique dangers which necessitate maritime law that addresses the perils associated with maritime transport. Maritime law concerns many jurisdictions, which creates a special interest for the study of conflict of laws. There are private international maritime laws in addition to multilateral treaties. This paper analyzes the international approach that the United States takes in maritime conflict of laws, and compares it with the Venezuelan system of private international law. Venezuela is a civil law country with old maritime legislation which …
Counsel For The Situation: The Latin Notary, A Historical And Comparative Model, Pedro A. Malavet
Counsel For The Situation: The Latin Notary, A Historical And Comparative Model, Pedro A. Malavet
Pedro A. Malavet
Can a lawyer, in certain matters, be an impartial counsel for the situation, rather than an advocate for either party? The Latin Notary is a legal professional of the Civil Law world that is expected to be a non-adversarial, expert legal counselor to every party to a transaction. The State seeks to ensure impartiality by imposing on the notary very strict training, admission and ethical requirements. In exchange for such high demands, the state often grants the notaries profitable subject-matter and geographic monopolies. Covers historical development, current definition and scope, relation to "lawyer as intermediary" of Model Rule 2.2.
Towards A Payments System Law For Developing And Transition Economies, Raj Bhala
Towards A Payments System Law For Developing And Transition Economies, Raj Bhala
Faculty Publications
This paper examines the legal foundations of large-value credit transfer systems and the importance of certainty, efficiency, and fairness in funds transfer law. A case study is presented to highlight key terminology and concepts. Thereafter, five particularly noteworthy legal rules are discussed in the context of the case study: (1) a rule defining the scope of the law; (2) a rule establishing when the rights and obligations of parties to a funds transfer are triggered; (3) a receiver finality rule; (4) a rule assigning liability for interloper fraud; and (5) a money-back guarantee rule, coupled with provisions on discharge. Finally, …
From Legal Transplants To Legal Formats, Alan Watson
From Legal Transplants To Legal Formats, Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
Most of the time rulers and governments in the Western world as a whole were little interested in making private law. Instead, the task devolved upon some group of the legal elite who became in effect subordinate law makers without having been given power to make law. Thus, Roman jurists as such were private individuals with no ties to government: they made law when their opinions came to win approval from other jurists. English judges in the Middle-Ages and later were appointed to decide cases: the tradition long was that they found the law but did not make it. Continental …
The Extraordinary Counter-Majoritarian Power Of The New Supreme Court Of Nepal, Richard Stith
The Extraordinary Counter-Majoritarian Power Of The New Supreme Court Of Nepal, Richard Stith
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Bankruptcy In Russia: The Evolution Of A Comprehensive Russian Bankruptcy Code, Paul Williams, Paul Wade
Bankruptcy In Russia: The Evolution Of A Comprehensive Russian Bankruptcy Code, Paul Williams, Paul Wade
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article traces the development of the current bankruptcy code, with it origins in the early economic laws of perestroika; explains key provisions of the current law; and comments on the prospects for its effective implementation. The intent of this article is to provide a balanced understanding of the Russian bankruptcy code useful both to the study of the emergence of a market-based economy in Russia and as a bankruptcy primer for individuals or corporations conducting business in Russia.
European Law: Thinking About It And Teaching It - An Introduction To The Symposium (Dimensions Of European Union Law: A Symposium), David J. Gerber
European Law: Thinking About It And Teaching It - An Introduction To The Symposium (Dimensions Of European Union Law: A Symposium), David J. Gerber
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Importance Of 'Nutshells', Alan Watson
The Importance Of 'Nutshells', Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
In modern legal systems, common law and civil law alike, and their spread over many territories in several continents, are inconceivable without the input of Nutshells often written in far-off times and in far-away places. I also want to show that the history of Nutshells vividly illumines themes that I have pressed for decades.3 First, they demonstrate the easy transmissibility of legal rules, institutions, concepts and structures from one society to other, very different, ones. Second, they indicate the frequent longevity of such rules, institutions, concepts and structures. Third, their very success is attributable to the lack of interest by …
Heinrich Kronstein And The Development Of United States Antitrust Law, David J. Gerber
Heinrich Kronstein And The Development Of United States Antitrust Law, David J. Gerber
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Foreword: O Canada, William W. Van Alstyne
Foreword: O Canada, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Publications
This forward, written ten years after the adoption of the Constitution of Canada, draws sharp comparisons between Canada’s constitution and the United States’ original governing document, the Articles of Confederation.