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Translation, Codification And Transplantation Of Foreign Laws In Taiwan, Tay-Sheng Wang National Taiwan University College Of Law
Translation, Codification And Transplantation Of Foreign Laws In Taiwan, Tay-Sheng Wang National Taiwan University College Of Law
Tay-sheng Wang National Taiwan University College of Law
Taiwan is an excellent example to rethink the significance of translation and codification of law in the process of the transplantation of modern law in the East Asian countries. Regardless of its strangeness to the general public, the translation of Western laws was always codified for the purpose of “receiving” modern law in Meiji Japan. Those Japanese Westernized legal codes were also taken into effect in Taiwan during the later period of Japanese colonial rule, although Japanese colonialists initially applied the Taiwanese customary law, created by Western legal terminology, to the Taiwanese for decreasing their resistance to the new regime. …
Remedies For Breach Of An Obligation: A Look At The Remedies' Section Of The New Israeli Civil Code, Dr. Yehuda Adar, Prof. Gabriela Shalev
Remedies For Breach Of An Obligation: A Look At The Remedies' Section Of The New Israeli Civil Code, Dr. Yehuda Adar, Prof. Gabriela Shalev
Yehuda Adar Dr.
-This article is in Hebrew-
The remedies section in the new Israeli draft civil code is an endeavor to create a unified law of remedies, applicable to all branches of civil and commercial law, including torts and breach of contract. This article explores the main innovations included in the remedies section. It opens with a short overview of the status of the law of remedies in modern times, and the debate over the justification for unifying it. Then, in the remainder of the article, the authors examine the various changes, in terms of both structure and substance, reflected in the …