NEW: Central European Journal of Comparative Law - Vol. 2, Issue 1

The Central European Journal of Comparative Law’s Issue 1 of Volume 2 has been published. It is available on the following website:https://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/cejcl/index.

We would be extremely grateful if you could recommend the Central European Journal of Comparative Law to legal scholars you find suitable to publish in the forthcoming issues of our Journal.

American Journal of Legal History Advance articles - David Harbecke, Modernisation Through Process. The Rise of the Court of Chancery in the European Perspective

Link: https://academic.oup.com/ajlh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajlh/njz023/5599867

New book: Kresin O.V. COMPARATIVE LEGAL STUDIES 1750 TO 1835 Approaches to Conceptualization

P.G. Monateri - Dominus Mundi Political Sublime and the World Order [forthcoming]

About Dominus Mundi

This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe. In particular it examines the expression 'dominus mundi', following it through the texts of the medieval jurists – the Glossators and Post-Glossators – up to the political thought of Hobbes. Understanding the concept of dominus mundi sheds light on how medieval jurists understood ownership of individual things; it is more complex than it might seem; and this book investigates these complexities. The book also offers important new insights into Thomas Hobbes, especially with regard to the end of dominus mundi and the replacement by Leviathan. Finally, the book has important relevance for contemporary political theory. With fading of political diversity Monateri argues “that the actual setting of globalisation represents the reappearance of the Ghost of the Dominus Mundi, a political refoulé – repressed – a reappearance of its sublime nature, and a struggle to restore its universal legitimacy, and take its place.” In making this argument, the book adds an important original vision to current debates in legal and political philosophy.

LINK: https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/dominus-mundi-9781509911769/

***NEW PUBLICATION*** P.G. Monateri, "L'augurio" [Mimesis, 2017]

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Partendo dall’analisi dell’augurio come atto linguistico e politico, e da alcuni aspetti significativi dell’opera di Agamben, l’Autore giunge alla concezione di una ambiguità sovrana che si annida nell’operazione politica di Augusto, e che svela, in realtà, l’indistinzione tra impero e stato di eccezione permanente.

Link: http://mimesisedizioni.it/l-augurio.html#yt_tab_products1

NEW RELEASE!!! P.G. Monateri (Ed.), Comparative Contract Law — E.Elgar [2017]

Comparative Contract Law

Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series 

Edited by Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, Italy

This comprehensive book offers a thoughtful survey of theories, issues and cases in order to reassess the present vision of contract law. Comparative refers both to the specific kind of methodologies implied and to the polyphonic perspectives collected on the main topics, with the aim of superseding the conventional forms of representation. In this perspective, the work engages a critical search for the fault lines, which crosses traditions of thought and globalized landscapes.

Notwithstanding contract’s enduring presence and the technicalities devoted to managing clauses and interpretation, the inquiry on the proper nature of contract and its status and collocation within private legal taxonomies continues to be a controversial exercise. Moving from a vast array of dissimilar inclinations, which have historically produced heterogeneous maps of law, this book is built around the genealogies of contractual theoretical thinking; the contentious relationship between private governance and normative regulations; the competing styles used to stage contract law; the concurring opinions expressed within the domain of other disciplines, such as literature and political theory; the tensions between global context and local frames; and the movable thresholds between canonical expressions and heterodox constructions.

For its careful analysis and the wide range of references employed, Comparative Contract Law will be a tremendous resource for academics, legal scholars and interdisciplinary experts as well as judges and law practitioners.

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Link: click here.

NEW PUBLICATION: Law and Justice On TV

German Law Journal - November Issue

Issue No. 6 - Volume 17 (2016)

"Constitutional Dimensions of the Refugee Crisis" 

The German Law Journal is pleased to announce the publication of the November issue “Constitutional Dimensions of the Refugee Crisis."

These are tumultuous times. That only makes reasoned and reasonable debate more necessary than ever. This is especially true of the question of migration, which seems to be the flashpoint of our new malaise. President-elect Trump has his “big, beautiful wall.” Presidential candidate Le Pen has the provocation that “they are trying to replace us.” Party Chairwoman Petry has her “colorful compost heap.” Questions about migration and integration will drive the political discourse long after all the votes are counted and the public offices have been distributed.

In this climate the German Law Journal is proud to offer this special issue. The collection—assembled by GLJ board members Jürgen Bast and Matthias Goldmann—tackles the topic head-on and from a rich variety of perspectives, including the diverse systems under consideration and the varying ideological approaches the contributors take to this contentious issue.

This special issue also concludes the Journal’s German Law in Context Program, which has examined Europe’s refugee crisis in a series lectures, discussions, and film-screenings across the last months. As part of that program, and to expand the discussion connected with this excellent collection of articles, several of the contributors will participate in a panel discussion at 12.00 (EST) on Monday, 28 November 2016. Please join the conversation:

Special issues, like those we have published in 2016 (Corrupt Practices; Brexit Supplement; Democracy and the Financial Order), are a central part of the Journal’s coverage of “developments in German, European, and International jurisprudence.” Looking ahead to Volume 18, we are thrilled to have a number of excellent special issues planned, including “Persons/Things” (from guest editor Toni Selkälä) and “Immigration, Citizenship, and Constitutional Identity” (from guest editors Jürgen Bast and Liav Orgad). And we announce today a call for proposals for special issues that will appear in Volume 19 (2018).

As we head into the distracting and sometimes overly-demanding winter season, we wish our faithful contributors and readers peace, and the comfort that comes from the confidence that our communities are animated by a commitment to justice, tolerance, and empathy. And, as always, we wish you “happy reading.”

Pólemos: Journal of Law, Literature and Culture — 10th ANNIVERSARY!!!

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The international research field of "Law and Literature" has been widely expanding during the past years. It has by now moved on to many innovative topics, combining questions of legislature and jurisdiction with other fields of studies, such as "Law and Religion", "Law and the Image", "Law and Power", "Law and Equity", etc. The journal Pólemos was founded in 2007 at the very beginning of this development. Originally started as an Italian journal, Pólemos is now being re-launched with De Gruyter as an international journal with contributions in English that cover the whole area of emerging topics in Law, Literature and Culture. 

The aim of Pólemos is to call attention to the developments in international scholarship dealing with interdisciplinary "Law and ..." topics and to act as a sounding board for innovative critical ideas, connecting all scholars working within the field of law and humanities.

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pol

NEW BOOK!!! — Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context (De Gruyter)

Fables of the Law

Fairy Tales in a Legal Context

Ed. by Carpi, Daniela / Leiboff, Marett

eBook (PDF)

 

Publication Date: 

October 2016

ISBN 

978-3-11-049668-0

https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/476062

Aims and Scope

The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically correct and of the various means that have been used to enforce the law. Fairy tales are a fundamental tool to examine legal procedures and structures in their many failings and errors. Therefore, we have privileged the term "fables" of the law just to stress the ethical perspective: they are moral parables that often speak of justice miscarried and justice sought.
Law and jurists are creators of "fables" on the view that law is born out of the facts (ex facto ius oritur) so that there is a need for narrative coherence both on the level of the case and the level of legislation (or turned the other way around: what does it mean if no such coherence is found?). This is especially of interest given the influx of all kinds of new technologies that are "fabulous" in themselves and hard to incorporate in traditional doctrinal schemes and thus in the construction of a new reality.

Table of contents

https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/476062

!!!! New ISSUE !!!! THE CARDOZO ELECTRONIC LAW BULLETIN ::: Vol. 22 (1) - Spring Summer ::: 2016

Pierre Schlag's latest novel!

 Pierre Schlag,

author of Aesthetics of American Law

Announcing the publication of  “American Absurd,” 

                     a novel from Bowen Press

 (The absurdity begins March 15th) 

        Order on Amazon

TROPOS – New Issue

TROPOS | JOURNAL OF HERMENEUTICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM

Edited by Gianni VATTIMO and Gaetano CHIURAZZI

Website: http://troposonline.org/

TROPOS | CURRENT ISSUE

"PAUL RICOEUR: HUMAN, ANTIHUMAN

, POSTHUMAN

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edited by Paolo FURIA and Alberto MARTINENGO

Full details here: http://wp.me/s1UoYU-20151

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A. Martinengo, La via lunga del soggetto 

Paul Ricoeur: Human, Antihuman, Posthuman 

E. Brennan, Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Self (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-7z)

G. Aranzueque, Heterogeneidades sin síntesis. Del hombre falible al doliente (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-7F)

J. Michel, Of Testimony and Confession: Two Paradigms of the Subject (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-7L)

O. Aime, L’animale autobiografico e l’identità narrativa nell’epoca della tecnoscienza (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-7P)

P. Furia, Identità e narrazione: la posizione ricoeuriana alla prova dei social network (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-7T)

A. Romele, Digital Traceability and the Right to be Forgotten: Ricoeurian Perspectives (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-88)

Saggi 

A. Michelis, Una prospettiva di emancipazione socratica dalla città globale della retorica (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-8e)

A. Rotundo, Phantasy, Picture-Consciousness, and the Phenomenological Method (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-8i)

K. Lundsgaard-Leth, Anxiety, Freedom, and the Future of the Past (http://wp.me/p1UoYU-8m)

[Forthcoming]: Comparative Law and Economics - EElgar - 2016

Comparative Law and Economics

Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series 

Edited by the late Theodore Eisenberg, formerly Cornell University, US and Giovanni B. Ramello, Università del Piemonte Orientale and International Programme IEL – Institutions, Economics and Law, Italy

Contemporary law and economics has greatly expanded its scope of inquiry as well as its sphere of influence. By focussing specifically on a comparative approach, this Handbook offers new insights for developing current law and economics research. It also provides stimuli for further research, exploring the idea that the comparative method offers a valuable way to enrich law and economics scholarship.

With contributions from leading scholars from around the world, the Handbook sets the context by examining the past, present and future of comparative law and economics before addressing this approach to specific issues within the fields of intellectual property, competition, contracts, torts, judicial behaviour, tax, property law, energy markets, regulation and environmental agreements.

This topical Handbook will be of great interest and value to scholars and postgraduate students of law and economics, looking for new directions in their research. It will also be a useful reference to policy-makers and those working at an institutional level.

Visit page: http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/comparative-law-and-economics-12853

!!! The Italian Legal System An Introduction, Second Edition - MICHAEL A. LIVINGSTON, PIER GIUSEPPE MONTANERI, AND FRANCESCO PARISI !!!

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For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system. The book's original authors, Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo, provided not only an overview of Italian law, but a definition of the field, together with an important contribution to the general literature on comparative law. The book explains the unique "Italian style" in doctrine, law, and interpretation and includes an extremely well-written introduction to Italian legal history, government, the legal profession, and civil procedure and evidence.

In this fully-updated and revised second edition, authors Michael A. Livingston, Pier Giuseppe Monateri, and Francesco Parisi describe the substantial changes in Italian law and society in the intervening five decades—including the creation and impact of the European Union, as well as important advances in comparative law methodology. The second edition poses timely, relevant questions of whether and to what extent the unique Italian style of law has survived the pressures of European unification, American influence, and the globalization of law and society in the intervening period. The Italian Legal System, Second Edition is an important and stimulating resource for those with specific interest in Italy and those with a more general interest in comparative law and the globalization process.

Link: Amazon

PUBBLICAZIONI D'INTERESSE COMPARATISTICO

Le ultime pubblicazioni di interesse comparatistico

• B. Fauvarque-Cossson (a cura di), Le droit comparé au XXI Siècle. Enjeux et défis, Journées internationales de la Société de législation comparée 8-9 avril 2015, Société de Législation Comparèe, Parigi, 2015, pp. 267, € 58,00 (dove i contributi dal titolo La société de législation comparée dans le XXIe siècle di B. FAUVARQUE-COSSON; La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne et la méthode comparative di K. LENAERTS; Les fondateurs de la société de législation comparée di D. FOUSSARD; Le renouveau de la société au milieu du XXe siècle : l’apport de Marc Ancel di X. BLANC JOUVAN; La société de législation comparée du XXe au XXIe siècle di G. CANIVET; La société de législation comparée du XXe au XXIe siècle di J.L. DEWOST; La société de législation comparée du XXe au XXIe siècle di E. PIWNICA; La société de législation comparée du XXe au XXIe siècle di E. PICARD; Les nouveaux défis pour le droit comparé dans un monde globalisé di J. C. MARTIN; Les nouveaux défis pour le droit comparé dans un monde globalisé vus du poste d’observation du juriste d’entreprise di V. CHAPUIS THUAULT e S. FOUGOU; Les nouveaux défis pour le droit comparé dans un monde globalisé di V. TURCEY; Le droit et l’Amérique latine: un terrain de rêve pour le comparatiste di J. A. MORENO RODRIGUEZ; Les nouveaux défis de la globalisation pour le droit comparé : baliser entre contre-courants di V. GROSSWALD CURRAN; La circulation de la pensée juridique dans le domaine du droit commercial (XIXe – XXe siècles) di A. MONTI; Un aperçu des modèles européens dans la mondialisation di R. M. KIESOW; L’idée de culture juridique française est-elle utile au droit comparé ? di J. L. HALPERIN; Un modèle moderne dans un monde ancien : les titres dématérialisés en droit privé commun di M. HAENTJENS; Comparaison et fabrique des identités juridique di S. SOLEIL; La circulation des modèles en droit comparé: quelles évolutions? di R. SACCO)
• A. Rinella - C. Pungitore, Organismi geneticamente modificati. Profili di diritto comparato ed europeo, Filodiritto, 2015, pp. 215, € 35,00

Pòlemos - NEW ISSUE!!!

A new issue of Pòlemos - Journal of Law, Literature and Culture available at:

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pol.2015.9.issue-2/issue-files/pol.2015.9.issue-2.xml

...with articles by P.G. Monateri, C. Costantini and D. Carpi!

The Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin - NEW ISSUE!!! - Vol. 21 (1) - Spring - Summer Issue

A Baroque Account of Law by Rubens.

A Legal Reading of ‘The Council of the Gods’

ofthe Marie de’ Medici Cycle 
Filipe Antunes Madeira da Silva  

Geo-Food and Normative Identities.

Power and Privilege

Across Competing Traditions 
Cristina Costantini

Il caso Paperopoli.

I figli dell’Occidente e lo spirito del Capitalismo 
Umberto Mangiardi

Addio Giovinezza:

L’Ordinamento Goliardico e 

l’Ordinamento Giuridico 
Miriam Andrea Fadda e Riccardo Avena

A partire da Les Plularismes Juridiques

di Jacques Vanderlinden:

Alcune riflessioni sull’utilità

dell’ipotesi pluralista per il diritto contemporaneo 

Maria Chiara Locchi

!!! New Paper by Prof. P.G. Monateri: "The Equivalence of Political and Economic Allocations" - Cardozo Accepted Papers Series

Title: The Equivalence of Political and Economic Allocations
Author: P.G. Monateri
 
Abstract:     

The aim of this paper is to analyse what does it happen when we introduce “violence”, threats and self-help, into economic models. This will be done considering the alternative between a market or a political allocation. The conclusions will be:

a) That under standard assumptions there is no difference between a market allocation and a political allocation; and so that there is no inner superiority in a market allocation in comparison with a political one.

b) That if we move away from these standard assumptions, then the only real economic problem becomes a “political” problem, and that there cannot be efficient conclusions which are independent from an initial allocation of force and resources.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 10

Keywords: Law and Economics, Economic Allocation, Property Rights, Violence, Blackmail, Political, Coase, International Relations, Efficiency, Social Cost.


Download HERE 

Il diritto all'oblio ai tempi di Internet - Giorgio Resta, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich

Si segnala il nuovissimo volume – edito  dalla Roma TrE-Press – curato da Giorgio Resta e da Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich su “Il diritto all’oblio su Internet dopo la sentenza Google Spain” che contiene 12 approfonditi commenti alla sentenza della Corte di Giustizia, da diverse prospettive.

Il volume è pubblicato sotto licenza “creative commons” ed è dunque liberamente scaricabile dalla pagina 

http://ojs.romatrepress.uniroma3.it/index.php/oblio