comparative law

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A Dialogue on Comparative Functionalism (with Jan M. Smits), Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2011)

The use of the functional method when comparing legal systems remains debated, even to such...

 

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Book-Review of Galdia's Legal Linguistics (2009), Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2011)

Our understanding of the discipline of law, or more broadly the sphere of law, has...

 

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The False Dichotomy between Theory and Practice - Lessons from Comparative Law, Rechtswissenschaft als juristische Doktrin (2011)

Allegedly, there is a conflict between theoretical and practical comparative law. This conflict can be...

 

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Review of Schlesinger's Comparative Law 2009 edition, Tidsskrift for rettsvitenskap - Nordic Journal of Jurisprudence (2010)

The 2009 edition of Schlesinger’s Comparative Law may be regarded as a kind of a...

 

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Turning the Curriculum Upside Down: Comparative Law as an Educational Tool for Constructing the Pluralistic Legal Mind, German Law Journal (2009)

Argument in this paper draws inspiration from the pedagogical theory of so‐called constructivism. Following this...

 

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Germanic and Nordic Fraud - A Comparative Look Under the Surface of Commonalities (with Jussi Tapani), Global Jurist Advances (2008)

This article studies the similarities and differences between criminal fraud, i.e. deception punishable under criminal...

 

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Legal Families and Research in Comparative Law, Global Jurist Advances (2008)

This article highlights the methodological value of legal families in micro-comparative law from Nordic point...

 

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About the Methodology of Comparative Law - Some Comments Concerning the Wonderland..., Maastricht Working Papers - Faculty of Law (2007)

In this paper methodology of comparative law is analysed by using the metaphoric device of...

 

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Comparative Legal Linguistics - A Book Review, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2007)

Heikki Mattila’s book ‘Comparative Legal Linguistics’ (2006) deals with legal language. Clearly, language is distinctly...

 

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Global Comparative Law - Right Cure for the Wrong Disease?, Tilburg Foreign Law Review (2007)

This review-article deals with Werner Menski’s interesting argument (Comparative Law in a Global Context: The...

 

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Legal Families, ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIE LAW (2006)

Comparative law has sought for decades to reach a macro-level grasp of the global panorama...

 

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Methodology of Comparative Law Today - From Paradoxes to Flexibility?, Revue internationale de droit comparé (2006)

This article criticizes overtly normative, rigid and paradoxical positions found within the methodological debate of...

 

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Classification of Legal Families Today - Is it Time for Memorial Hymn?, Revue internationale de droit comparé (2004)

Classifying and grouping legal systems is said to be an elemental part of macro-comparative law....

 

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Farewell to Functionalism or Methodological Tolerance?, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (2003)

The academic writing on comparative law can deal with many kinds of questions. Here the...

 

comparative constitutional law

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Nordic Constitutionalism and European Human Rights - Mixing Oil and Water, Scandinavian Studies in Law (2010)

This article seeks to make sense of why the ECtHR’s interpretation techniques are problematic from...

 

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'We the Judges...': Discovering Constitutional Ius Commune Europaeum, Ticom Working Paper on Comparative and Transnational Law (2009)

Article examines the possibility of modern constitutional ius commune. The methodological idea is to use...

 

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Constitutional Transformation in Europe – Mixing Law and Politics?, Europarättslig Tidskrift - European Law Journal (2002)

Constitutionalism in Europe has been for a long time in a constant state of flux....

 

comparative law teaching

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Turning the Curriculum Upside Down: Comparative Law as an Educational Tool for Constructing the Pluralistic Legal Mind, German Law Journal (2009)

Argument in this paper draws inspiration from the pedagogical theory of so‐called constructivism. Following this...

 

legal linguistics

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Book-Review of Galdia's Legal Linguistics (2009), Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2011)

Our understanding of the discipline of law, or more broadly the sphere of law, has...

 

legal theory

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The Method is Dead, Long Live the Methods! European Polynomia and Pluralist Methodology, Legisprudence (2012)

Globalisation and Europeanisation do not only produce coherence and uniformity but are flanked by differentiation...

 

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Nordic Law - Between Tradition and Dynamism, Nordic Law - Between Tradition and Dynamism (with K. Nuotio and H. Pihlajamäki) (2007)
 

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Emancipation or Deprivation for European Legal Mind? The Contribution of the Legal Traditions Approach, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law/TICOM Working Paper No 2008/3 (2006)

In this review essay the problem of an exclusive legal mind is tackled with the...