Brian Abel-Smith and Robert Stevens’ Lawyers and the Courts (LATC), published in 1967, was the first major critical social history of the English legal system from the industrial revolution to modern times (1750-1965). It has proved matchless. It is the definitive book in the field, and its core arguments remain largely unchallenged more than forty years after its publication. Challenging the dominant traditions of doctrinal legal scholarship and lawyers’ legal history by emphasising the importance of serious empirical research on current problems, it offered a less reverential alternative to the prevailing orthodoxies of the day and asked whether England’s legal services and legal education had developed in a way that best served the public interest.read more ....
martedì 9 febbraio 2010
Sugarman on the History of the Legal Profession
David Sugarman, Lancaster University Law School, has published "Beyond Ignorance and Complacency: Robert Stevens’ Journey Through Lawyers and the Courts," in volume 16 of International Journal of the Legal Profession (2009). Here is the abstract.
Scuola Superiore S.Anna di Pisa : Ciclo di Seminari
LA FAMIGLIA E IL DIRITTO FRA DIVERSITA’ NAZIONALI ED
INIZIATIVE DELL’UNIONE EUROPEA
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna , Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 , 56127 - Pisa
11 Febbraio - 10 Marzo, 2010
Scaricate l'intero programma da Lider-lab cliccando QUI
martedì 2 febbraio 2010
Alpa, Rodotà, Luciani and Monateri on the Newer Constitutional Perspectives in European Law
Seminario
IL TRATTATO DI LISBONA E I DIRITTI FONDAMENTALI
Introduzione
Stefano Rodotà
Emerito dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza
Relazioni
Massimo Luciani
Ordinario dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza
Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Ordinario dell’Università di Torino
Conclusione
Guido Alpa
Presidente del Consiglio Nazionale Forense
Venerdì 12 febbraio 2010, ore 9-13
Consiglio Nazionale Forense - Roma, via del Governo Vecchio n. 3
giovedì 28 gennaio 2010
Estratte le Commissioni per i Concorsi Jus21
i risultati sono alla pagina http://reclutamento.murst.it/sessioni_2008/quadro_sorteggio_commissioni.php?&pub_ex=1&quadro=1&parte=1&codice=IS21&ruolo=O
mercoledì 27 gennaio 2010
Calliano and Padoa Schioppa on European Development
CENTRO STUDI SUL FEDERALISMO
Il Centro Studi sul Federalismo è lieto di invitarla alla
PRESENTAZIONE DEL VOLUME
a cura di Dario Velo
Il governo dello sviluppo economico e
dell’innovazione in Europa
(Giuffrè, 2009)
Il seminario si svolgerà
Giovedì 28 gennaio 2010, alle ore 16.45
presso la Fondazione Luigi Einaudi,
via Principe Amedeo 34, Torino
Ore 16.45 Introduce e presiede:
Antonio Padoa Schioppa, Presidente del Centro Studi sul Federalismo,
Università degli Studi di Milano
Discutono: Oreste Calliano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Vicepresidente
dell’Associazione Universitaria di Studi Europei (AUSE)
Alfonso Iozzo, membro del Consiglio del Centro Studi sul Federalismo,
Vicepresidente della Fondation Internationale Robert
Triffin
Giorgio Pellicelli, Università degli Studi di Torino
Sarà presente il curatore del volume, Professor Dario Velo,
membro della Giunta del Centro Studi sul Federalismo,
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Si prega di dare conferma della partecipazione al seguente recapito:
Centro Studi sul Federalismo, via Real Collegio 30, 10024 Moncalieri (TO)
Tel. 011.6705024 - Fax 011.6705081 - E-mail: info@csfederalismo.it
martedì 26 gennaio 2010
Riconosciute le Ragioni dell' AIDC
ha riconosciuto appieno le buone ragioni dell'AIDC nella sua querelle contro il MIUR
che aveva respinto le nostre reiterate - negli anni - richieste di dare attuazione alla reciproca affinità fra il Diritto privato comparato (IUS 02) e il Diritto pubblico comparato (IUS 21).
Il TAR ha confermato l'AIDC associazione esponenziale degli studiosi della materia, come tale peraltro già riconosciuta dal MIUR,
ed ha annullato il provvedimento del Ministero che ostava al riconoscimento dell'affinità tra questi settori disciplinari che da sempre la nostra Associazione vede riuniti.
Secondo il TAR, fra l'altro,
"la mancata comunicazione dei motivi ostativi all'accoglimento dell'istanza e la conseguente adozione del provvedimento negativo senza il previo contraddittorio procedimentale, è
omissione idonea ad inficiare l'atto impugnato, tenuto conto, per quanto
concerne la controversia in trattazione, della natura ampiamente
discrezionale dell'attività provvedimentale rimessa al Commissario e della
circostanza che se fosse stata posta nelle condizione di proporre le sue
osservazioni l'Associazione avrebbe sicuramente evidenziato l'evoluzione
degli orientamenti del CUN in ordine all'accorpamento dei raggruppamenti
disciplinari de quibus ..." continua
A tal proposito ricordiamo che con deliberazione del settembre scorso il
CUN ha proposto la creazione di un unico settore disciplinare "Diritto
comparato" che unisce sia IUS 02 che IUS 21.
Si tratta, come ognuno vede, di un importante riconoscimento delle ragioni della nostra Associazione nel portare avanti il programma che ci eravamo dati.
A tutti i soci che ci hanno sostenuto con la loro opera e le loro numerose mail di solidarietà va il nostro sentito ringraziamento per l'affetto dimostrato nei confronti della nostra Associazione che non è mai venuto meno
Potete scaricare la sentenza in formato pdf cliccando QUI
AIDC WebSite News
Supreme Courts on Facebook
visit the brand new site of the French Cour de Cassation
that devoted to the Italian Corte di Cassazione
the Italian Corte Costituzionale
and the European Court of Justice
AIDC WebSite Comparative Law News
20 years of Antitrust in Italy
Catricalà, Rescigno, Zoppini, Zeno Zencovich, Roppo, Libertini, Denozza and many others at the
LUISS and Roma TRE Conference: 29 janary 2010
Auditorium Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
via Monteverdi, 35, ROMA
mercoledì 20 gennaio 2010
Hovenkamp on Coase, Institutionalism, and the Origins of Law and Economics
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak on the Legal History Blog
Coase, Institutionalism, and the Origins of Law and Economics has just been posted by Herbert J. Hovenkamp, University of Iowa College of Law. Here's the abstract:
AIDC WebSite Comparative Law News
Ronald Coase merged two traditions in economics, marginalism and instituread more ...tionalism. Neoclassical economics in the 1930s was characterized by an abstract conception of marginalism and frictionless resource movement. Marginal analysis did not seek to uncover the source of individual human preference, but accepted preference as given. It treated the business firm in the same way, focusing on how firms make market choices, but saying little about their internal workings.
“Institutionalism” historically refers to a group of economists who wrote mainly in the 1920s and 1930s.
AIDC WebSite Comparative Law News
Comparing Constitutions
CFP: Comparative Perspectives on Constitutions
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (The School of Advanced Study, University of London) WG Hart Legal Workshop 2010 Comparative Perspectives on Constitutions: Theory and Practice 29 June-01 July 2010 Hat tip: Comparative Law Blog.The W G Hart Legal Workshop 2010 will explore theoretical and empirical aspects of national constitutions (including instruments such as Basic Laws and ‘
CALL FOR PAPERS: International Property Law Conference (Pretoria, 28-29 October 2010)
An International Property Law Conference will be held on 28-29 October 2010 at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. My notice read:
We hereby invite you to submit an abstract of your paper to be presented at the conference.The topics (and sessions) for the conference are the following:
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in the Jacaranda City (Pretoria) when it is in full bloom in October 2010! Please note that the conference organisers are not responsible for travelling costs of speakers at the conference and speakers are not exempted from the registration fee.
We hereby invite you to submit an abstract of your paper to be presented at the conference.The topics (and sessions) for the conference are the following:
- Basic Principles of Property Law (Keynote speaker: Prof. em. Dr. Dr.h.c. H P Westermann, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
- Acquisition of Ownership (Keynote speaker: Mr Justice L Mpati, President, Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa)
- Real Security Law (Keynote speaker: Dr AJM Steven, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Constitutional Property Law (Keynote speaker: Prof AJ Van der Walt, Professor of Law and South African Research Chair in Property Law, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in the Jacaranda City (Pretoria) when it is in full bloom in October 2010! Please note that the conference organisers are not responsible for travelling costs of speakers at the conference and speakers are not exempted from the registration fee.
SISDIC Conference in Capri : Video Online
Il video del IV Congresso Nazionale della SISDIC del 16 aprile 2009 è disponibile online cliccando qui
AIDC WebSite News
AIDC WebSite News
Mixed Jurisdictions Compared
Recent publication of Vernon Valentine Palmer and Elspeth Christie Reid (eds), Mixed jurisdictions compared: private law in Louisiana and Scotland (2009).
As the Edinburgh University Press site explains:
Returning to a theme featured in some of the earlier volumes in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series, this volume offers an in-depth study of ‘mixed jurisdictions’ – legal systems which combine elements of the Anglo-American Common Law and the European Civil Law traditions. This new collection of essays compares key areas of private law in Scotland and Louisiana. In thirteen chapters, written by distinguished scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it explores not only legal rules but also the reasons for the rules, discussing legal history, social and cultural factors, and the law in practice, in order to account for patterns of similarity and difference. Contributions are drawn from the Law Schools of Tulane University, Louisiana State University, Loyola University New Orleans, the American University Washington DC, and the Universities of Aberdeen, Strathclyde and Edinburgh.The contributions include:
1. Praedial Servitudes, Kenneth GC Reid
2. Title Conditions in Restraint of Trade, John A Lovett
3. Servitudes: Extinction by Non-Use, Roderick RM Paisley
4. Inheritance and the Surviving Spouse, Ronald J Scalise Jr
5. Ownership of Trust Property in Scotland and Louisiana, James Chalmers
6. The Legal Regulation of Adult Domestic Relationships, Kenneth McK Norrie
7. Impediments to Marriage in Scotland and Louisiana: An Historical - Comparative Investigation, J-R Trahan
8. Contracts of Intellectual Gratification - A Louisiana-Scotland Creation, Vernon Valentine Palmer
9. The Effect of Unexpected Circumstances on Contracts in Scots and Louisiana Law, Laura Macgregor
10. Hunting Promissory Estoppel, David V Snyder
11. Unjustified Enrichment, Subsidiarity and Contract, Hector L MacQueen
12. Causation as an Element of Delict/Tort in Scots and Louisiana Law, Martin A Hogg
13. Personality Rights: A Study in Difference, Elspeth Christie Reid.
The work should be of interest to all comparatists:
‘This is an impressive and extremely valuable contribution not only to the study of the law of mixed jurisdictions, but also of comparative law in general. Mixed jurisdictions are veritable comparative-law laboratories in continuous operation. A comparison of two such laboratories, when done with the insight, depth and sophistication that characterize this book, is a marvelous gift to comparatists and legal historians around the world.’ - Symeon C. Symeonides, Dean and Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law, President, American Society of Comparative Law
‘Fifty years ago, mixed legal systems would reach out to one another feeling embattled and lonely, as if banding together would stave off their otherwise inevitable juridical demise. Today, legal sources are increasingly recognized as mixed in nearly all jurisdictions and, as a result, places like Louisiana and Scotland are no longer seen as isolated or exotic. This book is thus doubly important: first, as comparative study of private law in Louisiana and Scotland and, second, as a work that helps explain the reconfiguration - real or imagined - of legal traditions elsewhere in this age of globalization.’ - Nicholas Kasirer, McGill University
Anyone interested in additional information on mixed legal systems should visit the website of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists.
Call for Papers : Israel Law Review
Posted via SSRN Legal Scholarship Network
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
We wish to inform you of important changes in the Israel
Law Review and to invite you to submit a written
contribution to the journal, which is now published by the
Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
ABOUT IS.L.R:
The Israel Law Review is the oldest and most prestigious
law journal appearing in English in Israel, published for
more than 40 years under the academic auspices of the
Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The
Faculty of Law recently decided to shift the focus of the
journal to public law and human rights in times of tension,
conflict and transformation, and to place it under the
academic and organizational leadership of the Minerva
Center for Human Rights. This new focus acknowledges a
growing interest in the ability of public law and human
rights norms and institutions to meet the challenges faced
by societies under pressure, and is indicative of the
increased relevance of comparative and international
scholarship to existing debates in and on such societies.
The Israel Law Review will continue to publish three issues
per year. These issues will continue to be distributed in
paper and electronic form (in Lexis and HeinOnline). The
issues will contain, as before, long articles, shorter
notes and book reviews submitted to the journal by a
variety of authors from around the world. All submissions
are subject to a "double-blind review" process by two or
more referees, and undergo technical and style editing by
the student editors - supervised and assisted by the
journal's Academic Editor (Dr. Yael Ronen), Executive
Editor (Adv. Danny Evron) and Production Editor (Adv.
Michele Manspeizer). The general policy of the Law Review,
as well as overall responsibility for its contents and
format, will lie with the two Editors-in-Chief: Prof. Yuval
Shany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof. Sir Nigel
Rodley (University of Essex).
ADVISORY BOARD:
In its new format, the Israel Law Review will be assisted
by an International Advisory Board composed of prominent
public law and human rights experts:
- Prof. Aharon Barak (former President of the Israeli
Supreme Court)
- Prof. Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel-Aviv University)
- Prof. Antonio Cassese (Florence University)
- Prof. Malcolm Feeley (University of California,
Berkeley)
- Prof. Jochen Frowein (Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law,
Heidelberg)
- Prof. Francoise Hampson (University of Essex)
- Prof. Vicki Jackson (Georgetown University)
- Prof. Michael Karayanni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Prof. Eckart Klein (Potsdam University)
- Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer (Hebrew University of
Jerusalem)
- Prof. David Kretzmer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Prof. Fionnuala Ni-Aolain (University of Minnesota
University of Ulster)
- Prof. Frances Raday (College of Management Academic
Studies, Rishon Le Zion)
- Prof. William Schabas (National University of Ireland)
- Prof. Malcolm Shaw (Leicester University)
- Prof. Henry Steiner (Harvard University)
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
We strongly encourage those of you interested in public law
and human rights issues relating to societies facing
tension, conflict and transition - to consider submitting
future work for publication in the Israel Law Review. We
are committed to a prompt and professional review and
printing process, and believe that we can offer you an
attractive and prestigious publication platform.
More information on the submission and publication process
can be found on the Israel Law Review website:
http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/pirsumim.asp?cat=735
The staff will gladly answer any question you may have
concerning the journal and publishing in it (please refer
any such queries to:
Email: ilr@savion.huji.ac.il
CONTACT: Prof. Yuval Shany
and
CONTACT: Prof. Sir Nigel Rodley
Chief Co-Editors
AIDC WebSite Comparative Law News
lunedì 18 gennaio 2010
Call for Papers: Empirical Legal Studies at Yale
CALL FOR PAPERS: FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES AT YALE LAW SCHOOL
November 5-6, 2010
The Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2010 of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) will be held at the Yale Law School, in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6, 2010.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
The Yale Law School and SELS work with the Social Science Research Network to provide an online paper submission system. To submit a paper for consideration, please go to the CELS 2010 Conference page on SSRN, at:
The deadline for submission of papers is July 2, 2010.
Information about the Conference, including the submission process, is available at the CELS 2010 website at:For information about the Society for Empirical Legal Studies please visit:
60 years of GrundGesetz in The German Law Journal
The German Law Journal opens its 11th year of publication with a very special special issue: "The Basic Law at 60", concluding finally the year of Germany's great constitutional anniversary while setting out into a new decade, brings together a unique selection of contributions taking stock of six decades of the German Basic Law, with articles by Susanne Baer, Dieter Grimm, Juliane Kokott,Matthias Mahlmann, Hubert Rottleuthner and Brigitte Zypries.
This special issue originates in a lecture series sponsored by the German civil rights organization Humanist Union and the Law and Society Institute at Humbold University's Faculty of Law which took place in Berlin throughout 2009 and took stock of six decades of the German Basic Law with commentary from academia, politics and the media. Employing perspectives from legal doctrine, the humanities, or the social sciences, the lecture series attempted to contrast the normative claim of the constitutional text ? mirrored in the current public law doctrinal debate ? with empirical or critical consideration of contemporary German society. The German Law Journal now proudly publishes a selection of these lectures.
Dargo on the clash of legal traditions
The Purchase of all of Louisiana in 1803 brought the new American nation into contact with the French Creole population of the Lower Mississippi Basin. While the settlement in and around the city of New Orleans (the capital of the province when it was ruled by Spain) was not large, it had well established governmental and legal institutions. One of the most vexing problems that confronted the administration of Thomas Jefferson after the purchase of all of Louisiana in 1803: Which system of law would prevail in this volatile corner of the North American continent—Louisiana civil law or Anglo-American common law?
That Louisianians would remain committed to their civil law heritage was by no means certain. But the enactment of the Civil Law Digest by the territorial legislature in 1808 was a major event in the evolution of Louisiana’s increasingly complex legal regime. Jefferson’s Louisiana shows how this important moment came at a time when political forces and outside events joined together to reinforce local determination to resist total Americanization and to preserve Louisiana’s established legal culture. The book reconnects a segment of American legal history to the general history of the period. In addition to official records, it also uses archival sources that demonstrate how the struggle between civil law and common law forces affected people who were either outside of, or but marginally connected to, legal and governmental structures.
Sally Reeves, Former Chief Archivist of the New Orleans Notarial Archives and President of the Louisiana Historical Society (2003-9) called the work:
A rich and pioneering examination of the roles of Thomas Jefferson, Edward Livingston, and others in the battles between Creoles and Americans at the dawn of the American period in Louisiana. Dargo’s deft analysis sets the contest between civil and common law against the background of a larger cultural struggle. It is a major contributor to our understanding of the challenge of integrating disparate and competing traditions in a democracy.
Lesaffer on Legal History
The rediscovery of Roman law and the emergence of classical canon law around AD 1100 marked the beginnings of the civil law tradition in Europe. Between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, a highly sophisticated legal science of a truly European dimension was developed. Since then the different European States have developed their own national legal systems, but with the exception of England and Ireland they are all heirs to this tradition of the ius commune. This historical introduction to the civil law tradition, from its original Roman roots to the present day, considers the political and cultural context of Europe’s legal history. Political, diplomatic and constitutional developments are discussed, and the impacts of major cultural movements, such as scholasticism, humanism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, on law and jurisprudence are highlighted. This contextual approach makes for a fascinating story, accessible to any reader regardless of legal or historical background.
Mahmud on Law and Geography
Tayyab Mahmud has published Law and Geography: A Commentary from the Margins of Empire
Here is the abstract
This commentary examines the relationship between law and geography through the prism of colonialism and empire. Using two novels set in the India of 19th and 21st century, respectively, it evaluates the so-called first law of geography that posits determinative valance of spatial distance upon relations between things. It is argued that the formative and enduring relationship between global systems of domination and modern law has created a geo-legal space that has a global dimension. This geo-legal space procreates norms and subjectivities that are intimately related to spatially distant forces and projects.
Download the paper from SSRN at the link
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1433449
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