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Book Globalization of contractual law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederico Eduardo Zenedin Glitz
  • Publisher : Frederico Glitz Consultoria Jurídica
  • Release : 2014-12-01
  • ISBN : 8591689925
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Globalization of contractual law written by Frederico Eduardo Zenedin Glitz and published by Frederico Glitz Consultoria Jurídica. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts the proposition that it is possible to the customs to be sources of contractual obligations. To support that premise, it was necessary to seek jurisprudential (arbitration and litigation) and comparative basis. Even more, due to contract law internationalization, customary international sources should be subject of domestic treatment, as they provide contractual obligations as well as they work as contractual interpretation tool. However, one can´t neglect the need to control the customary content. In detailed terms, then, we can say that the role reserved for the custom as contractual law rules source has always been residual in Brazilian law. Accompanying the modern European experience, doctrine and Brazilian legislation emphasize the secondary, when not merely interpretive, role of the contractual custom. In turn, Brazilian case law wasn´t able to give general treatment to contractual custom. Moreover, the process of reducing distances and cultural, social and economic approximation, usually called globalization, influenced the contracts through the incorporation of a number of solutions brought from the international trade practice. Although they might be justified by the age-old principle of freedom, somehow these international "uses" insinuate themselves into Brazil to the point of requiring that the Brazilian Courts themselves to give them treatment and shelter. On one side, if you deny the existence of a creative normative role in contractual custom by another, albeit indirect, is recognized not only their existence but the possibility of foreign origin. This paradoxical treatment reflects, to some extent, another consequence: the Brazilian contract law is in the process of internationalization. Here, then, a new confrontation is announced: a broad creative freedom (a tributary of the so-called Lex mercatoria) and the foreign act incorporation control (public policy). Unlike before, however, no simplistic answer would be feasible, particularly because of the complexity of contemporary and regulatory Brazilian contract law.

Book Abuse of Rights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto
  • Publisher : Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto
  • Release : 2023-11-16
  • ISBN : 6500865375
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Abuse of Rights written by Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto and published by Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an adaptation of part of the author's PhD thesis, which won the international prize Prémio FIBE, and was voted one of the three best in Brazil, in the field of Law, in 2023. It deals with the history of the notion of abuse of rights, in its two traditions: the Franco-Belgian (abus de droit) and the German (unzulässige Rechtsausübung). It also presents the discourse of abuse of rights with a 'shortcut' function. Finally, it places the scientific formulation of groups of cases as necessary for the proper use of the abuse of rights discourse. Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto PhD in Constitutional Law (Universidade de Fortaleza - Brazil). State Attorney. Private lawyer. Winner of the international prize Prémio FIBE, and of an honorable mention in the Capes (Brazilian Ministry of Education) PhD Thesis Award 2023. INTRODUCTION 1 THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORIES OF ABUSE OF RIGHTS 2 THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF ABUSE OF RIGHTS 2.1 Literature Admission of Abuse of Rights as an Atypical Unlawfulness 2.1.1 Unconscious Phase 2.1.2 Constructive Phase of Incipient Dogmatization 2.1.3 Constructive Phase of Peripheral Systematization 2.2 Delimitation of Abuse of Rights in the Face of Abuse (Misuse) of Power 2.3 Presuppositions of the Notion of Abuse of Rights 2.3.1 Permission Granted by ‘Abstract’ Interpretation of a Normative Text 2.3.2 Prohibition ‘Discovered’ by Judge, Outside the Limits of ‘Abstract’ Interpretation of Normative Text 3 THE FUNCTION OF THE NOTION OF ABUSE OF RIGHTS 3.1 Abuse of Rights as a “Gathering Concept” 3.2 Practical Indispensability of the Dogmatic Formulation of (Open) Groups of Cases for the Rational Application of the Prohibition of Abuse of Rights 3.3 Abuse of Rights as a “Shortcut” (which “can Slow You Down”) 4 THE TWO TRADITIONS OF PRIVATE LAW DOCTRINES OF ABUSE OF RIGHTS 4.1 The French-Belgian Tradition of Abus de Droit 4.1.1 Harmful Intent Approach 4.1.1.1 The Beginnings of the Abus de Droit Tradition 4.1.1.2 Unnecessary Dammage Approach 4.1.2 Deviation from the Economic and Social Purposes of Rights Approach 4.1.2.1 Louis Josserand’s Original Approach 4.1.2.2 Violation of Dominant Morality Approach 4.1.2.3 Reception in Germany by Wolfgang Siebert of the Deviation of Purpose Approach (Rechtsmißbrauch) and its Evolution into the Doctrine of Institutional Abuse (Institutioneller Rechtsmißbrauch) 4.1.2.4 Denial of the Axiological Fundament (‘Formal Axiologism’) Approach: Non-Replacing Overcoming 4.1.3 Disproportion between Advantages and Losses Approach 4.2 The German Tradition of Unzulässige Rechtsausübung 4.2.1 Prohibition of Chicanery Approach 4.2.2 Violation of Objective Good Faith Approach 4.2.3 Violation of Good Customs Approach 4.3 Excerpt: Germanophile Definitory Approach of Abuse of Rights as Violation of Principle 5 THE METHODICAL ISSUES NOT RESOLVED BY DOCTRINES OF ABUSE OF RIGHTS 5.1 The Importance of the Recognition of the Meta-Individual Function of Rights 5.2 Meta-Individual Function and Individual Function: Methodical Requirement of Sizing Criteria for Each Right 5.3 Limited Scope of the Objective Good Faith Approach 6 THE NEED FOR RATIONAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF ABUSE OF RIGHT AS A MECHANISM FOR CONTROLLING JUDICIAL DISCRETION 6.1 Insufficiency of the Standard Theories of Legal Argumentation for Rational Justification of the Evaluation of Abuse of Rights 6.2 The Use of Dogmatically Formulated Groups of Cases for the Rational Justification of the evaluation of Abuse of Rights CONCLUSION REFERENCES

Book Abuse of Fundamental Rights

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  • Author : Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto
  • Publisher : Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto
  • Release : 2023-11-20
  • ISBN : 650086817X
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Abuse of Fundamental Rights written by Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto and published by Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an adaptation of part of the author's PhD thesis, which won the international prize Prémio FIBE, and was voted one of the three best in Brazil, in the field of Law, in 2023. It addresses the appropriation of the private law notion of abuse of rights by the theory of fundamental rights. It also presents guidelines for an appropriate use of the discourse of abuse of fundamental rights (highly dependent on a Dogmatics of scope, approached according to a model of groups of cases). Fabio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto PhD in Constitutional Law (Universidade de Fortaleza - Brazil). State Attorney. Private lawyer. Winner of the international prize Prémio FIBE, and of an honorable mention in the Capes (Brazilian Ministry of Education) PhD Thesis Award 2023. INTRODUCTION 1 THE GENERAL NOTION OF ABUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS 1.1 Admission by Literature of the Abuse of Fundamental Rights 1.1.1 Unconscious phase 1.1.2 Constructive Phase of Incipient Dogmatization 1.1.3 Constructive Phase of Peripheral Systematization 1.2 Delimitation of the Abuse of Fundamental Rights in the Face of the Verwirkung of Fundamental Rights 1.3 Presuppositions of the Notion of Abuse of Fundamental Rights 1.3.1 Fundamental Right Permission Granted by ‘Abstract’ Interpretation of the Constitutional (or with Constitutional Status) Text or of a Judicial Decision Interpreting the Constitution 1.3.2 Prohibition ‘Discovered’ by Judge, Outside the Limits of ‘Abstract’ Interpretation of the Normative Text 2 FROM PRIVATE LAW DOCTRINES OF ABUSE OF RIGHTS TO A THEORY OF ABUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS 2.1 The Effectiveness of Fundamental Rights Between Private Individuals (Drittwirkung) as a Bridge Between Private Law Doctrines of Abuse of Rights and the Theory of Fundamental Rights 2.2 Problems of Using the Approaches of the Private Law Doctrines of Abuse of Rights in the Theory of Fundamental Rights 2.2.1 The Problem of the Controllability of State Interventions in Fundamental Rights 2.2.1.1 Creation of Law Outside the Limits of the Normative Text 2.2.1.2 Lack of Control Parameters of the Definitory Approaches 2.2.2 The Problem of the Risk of Eliminating the Individual Function of the Fundamental Right 2.2.3 The Problem of the Confusion with the Dogmatics of the Limits of Fundamental Rights 2.2.3.1 Dogmatic Autonomy of Abuse of Fundamental Rights vis-à-vis the Doctrines of Limits of Fundamental Rights 2.2.3.2 The Relation Between Abuse of Fundamental Rights and Dogmatic Conceptions of the Broadness of the Tatbestände of Fundamental Rights 3 CONTROL OF THE RATIONALITY OF THE DISCOURSE OF ABUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AS A JUSTIFICATORY “SHORTCUT” 3.1 Needless for a Constitutional General Clause to Restrain Abuse of Fundamental Rights 3.2 The Need for a Singular Dogmatics 3.3 Identification of the Abuse of Fundamental Rights as a Task of Peripheral Systematization Grounded on Concrete Evaluations 4 UNACCEPTABLE APPROACHES TO THE ABUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS 4.1 Abuse of Fundamental Rights Without Parameters 4.2 Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Inadmissible Form of Exercise 4.3 Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Synonym for Exceeding a Limit 4.4 Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Typical Unlawfulness 4.5 Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Fraud Against the Law 4.6 Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Unreasonableness 4.7 Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Result of Alexyan Balancing 4.8 Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Disproportionality (Abuse of Fundamental Rights as Result of Means-End Balancing) 5 ACCEPTABLE APPROACHES TO THE ABUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS 5.1 Inadmissible Harmful Intent 5.2 Dogmatization of the Normative Scope 5.2.1 Direct Dogmatization 5.2.2 Indirect Dogmatization 5.3 Violation of Objective Good Faith 5.4 Violation of Good Customs 6 GROUPS OF ABUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS CASES AS LIMITS OF THE LIMITS CONCLUSION

Book Civil Procedure in Portugal

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  • Author : Alexandre Dias Pereira
  • Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
  • Release : 2024-05-17
  • ISBN : 940352278X
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Civil Procedure in Portugal written by Alexandre Dias Pereira and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient volume provides comprehensive analysis of the legislation and rules that determine civil procedure and practice in Portugal. Lawyers who handle transnational matters will appreciate the book’s clear explanation of distinct terminology and application of rules. The structure follows the classical chapters of a handbook on civil procedure: beginning with the judicial organization of the courts, jurisdiction issues, a discussion of the various actions and claims, and then moving to a review of the proceedings as such. These general chapters are followed by a discussion of the incidents during proceedings, the legal aid and legal costs, and the regulation of evidence. There are chapters on seizure for security and enforcement of judgments, and a final section on alternative dispute resolution. Facts are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. Succinct, scholarly, and practical, this book will prove a valuable time-saving tool for business and legal professionals alike. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Portugal will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its comparative value as a contribution to the study of civil procedure in the international context.

Book Religion and Law in Brazil

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  • Author : Thiago Magalhães Pires
  • Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
  • Release : 2023-09-25
  • ISBN : 9403516577
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Religion and Law in Brazil written by Thiago Magalhães Pires and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how Brazil deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion is approached. Coverage proceeds from the principle of religious freedom through the rights and contractual obligations of religious communities; international, transnational, and regional law effects; and the legal parameters affecting the influence of religion in politics and public life. Also covered are legal positions on religion in such specific fields as church financing, labour and employment, and matrimonial and family law. A clear and comprehensive overview of relevant legislation and legal doctrine make the book an invaluable reference source and very useful guide. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to practitioners in the myriad instances where a law-related religious interest arises in Brazil. Academics and researchers will appreciate its value as a thorough but concise treatment of the legal aspects of diversity and multiculturalism in which religion plays such an important part.

Book Market Integration Through Data Protection

Download or read book Market Integration Through Data Protection written by Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of the continuous advance of information technologies and biomedicine, and of the creation of economic blocs, this work analyzes the role that data protection plays in the integration of markets. It puts special emphasis on financial and insurance services. Further, it identifies the differences in the data protection systems of EU member states and examines the development of common standards and principles of data protection that could help build a data protection model for Mercosur. Divided into four parts, the book starts out with a discussion of the evolution of the right to privacy, focusing on the last few decades, and taking into account the development of new technologies. The second part discusses the interaction between data protection and specific industries that serve as case studies: insurance, banking and credit reporting. The focus of this part is on generalization and discrimination, adverse selection and the processing of sensitive and genetic data. The third part of the book presents an analysis of the legislation of three EU Member States (France, Italy and UK). Specific elements of analysis that are compared are the concepts of personal and anonymous data, data protection principles, the role of the data protection authorities, the role of the data protection officer, data subjects’ rights, the processing of sensitive data, the processing of genetic data and the experience of the case studies in processing data. The book concludes with the proposal of a model for data protection that could be adopted by Mercosur, taking into account the different levels of data protection that exist in its member states.

Book PROPRIEDADE PRIVADA E FUN    O SOCIAL SEGUNDO O MARXISMO E A TEORIA CR  TICA

Download or read book PROPRIEDADE PRIVADA E FUN O SOCIAL SEGUNDO O MARXISMO E A TEORIA CR TICA written by Felipe Frank and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O presente trabalho corresponde à terceira parte expandida da dissertação de mestrado do autor, defendida em 07/04/2014 no âmbito da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal do Paraná, sob a orientação dos professores Luiz Edson Fachin e Carlos Eduardo Pianovski Ruzyk. Na obra, o autor busca decompor a crítica do marxismo à propriedade privada para aclarar como se deu a construção de uma nova filosofia pautada pela luta de classes e como ela contribuiu para a criação da teoria crítica do direito, que propagou a noção de função social da propriedade.

Book Contractual Performance and COVID 19

Download or read book Contractual Performance and COVID 19 written by Franz Schwarz and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll, contractual parties have frequently faced significant obstacles in performing their contractual obligations due to unexpected impediments arising from the pandemic and government measures taken in response. This indispensable book – the most comprehensive comparative examination of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on contractual performance – discusses the legal provisions and doctrines available to address these issues. The book examines under what circumstances COVID-19-related impediments may excuse contractual performance or lead to modification or termination of the affected contractual obligations in twelve representative civil and common law jurisdictions – the United States, England and Wales, Singapore, Brazil, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, China, and Russia. For each country, the book examines the following aspects in depth: the relevant fundamental legal principles; the various legal emergency valves available to an obligor to respond to COVID-19-related events; any remedies available to the obligee; selected examples for specific government measures related to particular types of contracts (e.g., construction, employment, lease agreements); and how the legal framework applies in typical factual scenarios. As further legal and factual developments occur, and with further jurisdictions being added, this publication will continue to be updated both online and in print. The book provides a detailed explanation under what conditions the emergency valves specific to each jurisdiction may apply. It cuts through the seeming complexity of the various legal rules and doctrines in these jurisdictions and shows that they often produce similar results in practice. The book thus opens up a wealth of insights for businesses, practitioners, and academics around the globe by providing an easily accessible analytical framework across key jurisdictions and typical factual scenarios. ‘Definitely mandatory reading for practitioners and academics alike!’ –Klaus Peter Berger, University of Cologne ‘Everyone who has had or is likely to have a brush with a COVID-19-induced legal issue would be well advised to keep this book within arm’s reach.’ – Davinder Singh, Davinder Singh Chambers LLC, Singapore ‘The “holy book” for all those lawyers whose clients become ensnared in the rising attempts to fix legal liability midst the rampant COVID-19.’ – Charles Brower, Twenty Essex, London

Book Comparing the Prospective Effect of Judicial Rulings Across Jurisdictions

Download or read book Comparing the Prospective Effect of Judicial Rulings Across Jurisdictions written by Eva Steiner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with the temporal effect of judicial decisions and more specifically, with the hardship caused by the retroactive operation of overruling decisions. By means of a jurisprudential and comparative analysis, the book explores several issues created by the overruling of earlier decisions. Overruling of earlier decisions, when it occurs, operates retrospectively with the effect that it infringes the principle of legal certainty through upsetting any previous arrangements made by a party to a case under long standing precedents established previously by the courts. On this account, in the recent past, a number of jurisdictions have had to deal with the prospect of introducing in their own systems the well-established US practice of prospective overruling whereby the court may announce in advance that it will change the relevant rule or interpretation of the rule but only for future cases. However, adopting prospective overruling raises a series of issues mainly related to the constitutional limits of the judicial function coupled by the practical difficulties attendant upon such a practice. This book answers a number of the questions raised by this practice. It makes use of the great reservoir of foreign legal experience that furnishes theoretical and practical ideas from which national judges may draw their knowledge and inspiration in order to be able to advise a rational method of dealing with time when they give their decisions.

Book Fundamenta Iuris  Terminolog  a  Principios e Interpretatio

Download or read book Fundamenta Iuris Terminolog a Principios e Interpretatio written by Pedro Resina Sola and published by Universidad Almería. This book was released on 2012 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El presente volumen recoge un conjunto de trabajos sobre una temática sugerente, relevante y de permanente vigencia, dado que atañe a los fundamentos de uno de los pilares más sólidos en que se cimenta la Europa de los pueblos y de los ciudadanos, así como de la Comunidad Iberoamericana. Eso sí, partiendo del más preciado patrimonio común, su Historia, y, en particular, el legado jurídico que tuvo como referente el Derecho romano, base de la cultura jurídica de la mayor parte del Mundo Occidental. Todo jurista está llamado a asumir el compromiso de recrear un estudio e investigación propios del siglo XXI, que vengan a dar respuesta a lo que el momento actual demanda, y no perder el tren de la Historia. Por fortuna, sin duda, somos herederos del rico patrimonio que comporta la experiencia jurídica de la antigua Roma, de la que constituimos sólo un paso más de su largo devenir. Quienes colaboran en esta obra así lo entienden, y sirvan como prueba sus aportaciones.

Book Afro Latin American Studies

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  • Author : Alejandro de la Fuente
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-04-26
  • ISBN : 1316832325
  • Pages : 663 pages

Download or read book Afro Latin American Studies written by Alejandro de la Fuente and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political thought, social movements, legal history, environmental history, and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the region's long history of slavery to the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics, the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field.

Book Revista jur  dica de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico

Download or read book Revista jur dica de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DIREITOS HUMANOS  um debate contempor  neo

Download or read book DIREITOS HUMANOS um debate contempor neo written by Renata Furtado de Barros and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Export of Legal Education

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  • Author : Professor D Wes Rist
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-02-28
  • ISBN : 1409496775
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Export of Legal Education written by Professor D Wes Rist and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the multifaceted result of an effort to learn from those who have been educated in an American law school and who then returned to their home countries to apply the lessons of that experience in nations experiencing social, economic, governmental, and legal transition. Written by an international group of scholars and practitioners, this work provides a unique insight into the ways in which legal education impacts the legal system in the recipient’s home country, addressing such topics as efforts to influence the current style of legal education in a country and the resistance faced from entrenched senior faculty and the use of U.S. legal education methods in government and private legal practice. This book will be of significant interest not only to legal educators in the United States and internationally, and to administrators of legal education policy and reform, but also to scholars seeking a more in-depth understanding of the connections between legal education and socio-political change.

Book A History of Academical Dress in Europe Until the End of the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book A History of Academical Dress in Europe Until the End of the Eighteenth Century written by W. N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1978 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text goes country by country examining dress within schools and classes.

Book Common Law     Civil Law

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  • Author : Nicoletta Bersier
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2022-01-01
  • ISBN : 3030877183
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Common Law Civil Law written by Nicoletta Bersier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth analysis of the differences between common law and civil law systems from various theoretical perspectives. Written by a global network of experts, it explores the topic against the background of a variety of legal traditions.Common law and civil law are typically presented as antagonistic players on a field claimed by diverse legal systems: the former being based on precedent set by judges in deciding cases before them; the latter being founded on a set of rules intended to govern the decisions of those applying them. Perceived in this manner, common law and civil law differ in terms of the (main) source(s) of law; who is to create them; who is (merely) to draw from them; and whether the law itself is pure each step of the way, or whether the law’s purity may be tarnished when confronted with a set of contingent facts. These differences have deep roots in (legal) history – roots that allow us to trace them back to distinct traditions. Nevertheless, it is questionable whether the divide thus depicted is as great as it may seem: international and supranational legal systems unconcerned by national peculiarities appear to level the playing field. A normative understanding of constitutions seems to grant ever-greater authority to High Court decisions based on thinly worded maxims in countries that adhere to the civil law tradition. The challenges contemporary regulation faces call for ever-more detailed statutes governing the decisions of judges in the common law tradition. These and similar observations demand a structural reassessment of the role of judges, the power of precedent, the limits of legislation and other features often thought to be so different in common and civil law systems. The book addresses this reassessment.