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If The Government Says So, It Must Be Right: An Analysis On The Impact Of Government Issued Force Majeure Certificates, Verónica Orantes May 2022

If The Government Says So, It Must Be Right: An Analysis On The Impact Of Government Issued Force Majeure Certificates, Verónica Orantes

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

In March 2020, the world came to a halt with the beginning of the Covid–19 pandemic. The pandemic’s worldwide im-pact resulted in endless business transactions becoming im-possible or impracticable to perform. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade issued force majeure certificates for its national business parties to excuse their performance under cross–border transactions. This note explores how the excuses for the performance of a contract work under Common Law and Civil Law systems and how each system would react to the parties invoking force majeure under a force majeure certificate issued by a government agency.


Borrowing American Ideas To Improve Chinese Tort Law, Yongxia Wang Apr 2020

Borrowing American Ideas To Improve Chinese Tort Law, Yongxia Wang

St. Mary's Law Journal

As China develops its modern jurisprudence it faces a choice between emulating the legal frameworks of civil law countries or common law countries. Thus far, the civil law path has allowed for a rapid expansion of Chinese tort law, but jurists have found difficulty in applying such generalized statutory schemes with the absence of supporting judicial interpretation. Cognizant of the differences between the public policy of common law countries and China, Vincent Johnson’s Mastering Torts (Měiguó Qīnquán Fǎ) provides this guidance through the lens of American tort law. The hornbook takes care to simplify the role of judicial …


The Fourth Circuit’S Treatment Of Anunconventional Obligation Inwegmann V. Tramontin, Nathan W. Friedman Dec 2017

The Fourth Circuit’S Treatment Of Anunconventional Obligation Inwegmann V. Tramontin, Nathan W. Friedman

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Disobeying Courts’ Orders—A Comparative Analysis Of The Civil Contempt Of Court Doctrine And Of The Imageof The Common Law Judge, Carlo Vittorio Giabardo Dec 2017

Disobeying Courts’ Orders—A Comparative Analysis Of The Civil Contempt Of Court Doctrine And Of The Imageof The Common Law Judge, Carlo Vittorio Giabardo

Journal of Civil Law Studies

The aim of this article is to briefly tackle, from a comparative viewpoint, an academically quite overlooked topic: techniques of enforcement of lawful judgments. Despite a gradual convergence in many fields of law, common and civil law jurisdictions still maintain a striking diversity in the ways in which they react to non-compliance with court judgments. Whilst in common law tradition, failure to comply with a judicial order is considered civil contempt of court, in civil law countries this legal institution is simply unknown. Furthermore, it is only in civil law systems that failure to comply with a court judgment cannot …


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.


Nonsuit In Virginia Civil Trials, Richard G. Moore Nov 2013

Nonsuit In Virginia Civil Trials, Richard G. Moore

University of Richmond Law Review

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 …


La Doctrine Et L'Interprétation Du Code Civil, Stéphane Beaulac Apr 1999

La Doctrine Et L'Interprétation Du Code Civil, Stéphane Beaulac

Dalhousie Law Journal

Les Éditions Thémis publiaient en 1997 un livre intitulé La doctrine et l'interprétation du Code civil, par Me Sylvie Parent. Cette étude constitue le fruit de ses recherches et de sa réflection effectuées dans le cadre de ses travaux de maîtrise en droit à l'Université de Montreal; son directeur de thèse était le professeur Pieffe-André Côté, éminent auteur dans le domaine de l'interprétation des lois. C'est à ce dernier qu'est revenu l'honneur de rédiger la préface de cet ouvrage. Il n'a point hésité, à juste titre d'ailleurs, d'ajouter le nom de Me Parent à la liste d'auteurs contemporains ayant contribué, …


Trial By Jury Jan 1992

Trial By Jury

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Right-To-Die, Bruce Morton Jan 1991

Right-To-Die, Bruce Morton

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Free Exercise Of Religion Jan 1991

Free Exercise Of Religion

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Demurrer - At Common Law, Under Modern Codes, Practice Acts, And Rules Of Civil Procedure, Alison Reppy Jan 1957

The Demurrer - At Common Law, Under Modern Codes, Practice Acts, And Rules Of Civil Procedure, Alison Reppy

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


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.


Cause In The Civil Law And Consideration In The Common: Much Ado About Nothing, Robert L. Henry Jan 1941

Cause In The Civil Law And Consideration In The Common: Much Ado About Nothing, Robert L. Henry

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.