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The New Private Law – the View from Germany — Henry Smith
Post by Henry Smith This summer I spent a month visiting the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, in the group headed by Prof. Reinhard Zimmermann. It was an enjoyable and...
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Post by guest blogger, Malcolm Lavoie, University of Alberta Faculty of Law It is impossible to explain the “new private law” to non-American jurists without first describing a little bit of history:...
View ArticleDefences in Unjust Enrichment, Book Review — Yotam Kaplan
Post by Yotam Kaplan, Private Law Fellow, Harvard Law School Defences in Unjust Enrichment, edited by Andrew Dyson, James Goudkamp and Frederick Wilmot-Smith, is the recently published second volume in...
View ArticleParty Autonomy to Choose a Forum: Philosophical and Historical Justification...
Student post: Milana Karayanidi On March 18-19, the Young Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) hosted its fifth annual global conference at Tulane University...
View ArticleFaulty Facades and Product Liability — Samuel Beswick
Post by Samuel Beswick, Frank Knox Memorial Fellow, SJD candidate, Harvard Law School * At the outset I should disclose that I had a hand in drafting the plaintiffs’ claim as a solicitor at Meredith...
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Chang & Smith – Convergence and Divergence in Systems of Property Law
Post by Henry Smith Yun-chien Chang and I have a paper out on SSRN about comparative property law. We differentiate between aspects of property law that are structural versus those that are stylistic...
View ArticleRetroactive Rights of Action
By Samuel Beswick, Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, The University of British Columbia I recently suggested on Balkinization that a storm seems to be brewing concerning the place of...
View ArticleThe Liability of Judges for Wrongful Imprisonment
By Samuel Beswick, Assistant Professor of Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law, The University of British Columbia. Last month, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Court of...
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