Accounts of the nature of legal authority typically focus on the authority of officially sanctioned rules issued by legally recognised bodies - legislatures, courts and regulators - that fit comfortably within traditional state-centred concepts of law. Such accounts neglect the more complex processes involved in acquiring legal authority. Throughout the history of modern legal systems texts have come to acquire authority for legal officials without being issued by a legislature or a court. From Justinian's Institutes and Blackstone's Commentaries to modern examples such as the American...
Accounts of the nature of legal authority typically focus on the authority of officially sanctioned rules issued by legally recognised bodies - legisl...
Private law beyond the state is a topic that is fashionable, important, and widely discussed. Yet it presents so many different aspects and perspectives that it has, so far, remained remarkably poorly understood. Precisely because globalization moves the law beyond the state, lawyers find themselves forced to rethink private law and its relation to the state. This volume brings together contributions of leading scholars from the United States, Israel and Germany exploring the topic from different perspectives: legal history, law and economics, legal sociology, private international law, and...
Private law beyond the state is a topic that is fashionable, important, and widely discussed. Yet it presents so many different aspects and perspectiv...
This detailed description and comparative analysis of the development of tort law in Europe over the last 150 years is based on national reports that are structured by a basic questionnaire. The national reports are complemented with a comparative analysis of the parallel, though often diverging, developments in the different legal systems. It can clearly be seen that different groups in the legal systems, such as judges and scholars, often had diverging views on tort law that were translated into more specific doctrinal and evaluative statements. Accompanied by a general expansion of...
This detailed description and comparative analysis of the development of tort law in Europe over the last 150 years is based on national reports that ...
Written by a series of experts in European contract law, this work manifests itself as a set of comprehensive historical and comparative commentaries, providing the basis for understanding and evaluating international texts, and for assessing to what extent they restate European law in a credible and appropriate manner.
Written by a series of experts in European contract law, this work manifests itself as a set of comprehensive historical and comparative commentaries,...
