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Uniform Interpretation Of The 1980 Uniform Sales Law, Franco Ferrari Oct 2014

Uniform Interpretation Of The 1980 Uniform Sales Law, Franco Ferrari

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Changing Tides: The Introduction Of Punitive Damages Into The French Legal System, Matthew K.J. Parker Jun 2014

Changing Tides: The Introduction Of Punitive Damages Into The French Legal System, Matthew K.J. Parker

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Penalty Clauses As Remedies: Exploring Comparative Approaches To Enforceability, Jack Graves Jan 2013

Penalty Clauses As Remedies: Exploring Comparative Approaches To Enforceability, Jack Graves

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trust Funds In Common Law And Civil Law Systems: A Comparative Analysis, Carly Howard Apr 2006

Trust Funds In Common Law And Civil Law Systems: A Comparative Analysis, Carly Howard

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fairness And Welfare From A Comparative Law Perspective, Horacio Spector Jun 2004

Fairness And Welfare From A Comparative Law Perspective, Horacio Spector

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article discusses the relative value of law and economics and moral philosophy to explain private law in both common law and civil law jurisdictions. It argues that the recent philosophical paradigm, which revolves around the ideas of fairness and autonomy, is intellectually continuous with the School of Rationalist Natural Law. Though this School has been directly influential on the development of civilian private law, its ascendancy on common law cannot be documented. Paradoxically, recent philosophical explanations of private law bear on common law, while legal philosophers in civil law jurisdictions still follow Kelsen's research agenda, which focuses on the …


Schwartz: The Code Napoleon And The Common Law World, J. G. Castel Jan 1957

Schwartz: The Code Napoleon And The Common Law World, J. G. Castel

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Code Napoleon and the Common Law World. Edited by Bernard Schwartz.