Parker School Summer Program in Foreign Law

1962 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-161
Author(s):  
Willis L. M. Reese
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Law ◽  
Summer Program ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Foreign Law

The Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law will hold its sixth Summer Program in Foreign Law on the Columbia University campus during the period from June 4 through June 29, 1962.

scholarly journals Engaging Foreign Law: Not So Liberally

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (75) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Pierre Legrand
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Georgetown University ◽  
The Way

Taking its cue from a remarkable institutional initiative owing to the Georgetown University Law Center, this essay contests some of the key assumptions that have informed liberalism’s cosmopolitan turn. In particular, the argument addresses the way in which liberal legal thought has handled a doctrine widely known as “the rule of law”. The text challenges the universalizing drive having informed the dissemination of “the rule of law” and the attendant marginalization of culture in the form of the decredibilization of local knowledge. The paper suggests that “comparative law” can offer a valuable opportunity for the liberal self to revisit its uniformizing ideological commitments  — although not “comparative law” of the mainstream brand.

scholarly journals IL DIRITTO SOCIETARIO TRA DIRITTO COMPARATO E DIRITTO STRANIERO

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe B. Portale
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Law ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Private Company ◽  
General Role ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Specific Regulation ◽  
The One ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article tackles the issues related to the use of comparative law a source of substantive law in a specific legal system, with specific regard to corporate law. Expanding on previous studies on the general role of comparative law in the framework of sources of law (§ 1), the study argues that the comparative argument may be used to regulate purely domestic cases and as well as a play a crucial role in interpreting internal laws (§§ 1.1, 1.2) and analyzes the theoretical foundations of such process (§ 1.3) as well as the problems caused by the application of foreign law by a domestic judge (§ 2). Subsequently, two examples of such usage of the comparative legal argument are provided, drawn from the Italian corporate law experience (§ 3): on the one hand, the introduction of a specific regulation of a simplified private company (società a responsabilità limitata semplificata), representing a circulation of German (Unternehmergesellschaft- UG) and Belgian (société privée a responsabilité limitée starter) models (§ 3.1); on the other hand, the use of comparative law by in the interpretation of the organization structure in the Italian dualistic system (§ 3.2).

Comparative Law and Legal Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 709-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Cotterrell
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Law ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Foreign Law

The idea of legal culture has had an important place in major recent debates about the nature and aims of comparative law. The idea of legal culture entails that law should be treated as embedded in a broader culture of some kind. This culture may, but need not necessarily, be seen as wider than the lawyer’s or lawmaker’s professional realm of law. Often, however, conceptions of legal culture encompass much more than this professional juristic realm. They refer to a more general consciousness or experience of law that is widely shared by those who inhabit a particular legal environment, for example, a particular region, nation, or group of nations. Culture appears fundamental—a kind of lens through which all aspects of law must be perceived, or a gateway of understanding through which every comparatist must pass so as to have any genuine access to the meaning of foreign law.

scholarly journals Expert Opinions on Foreign Law in Court: Applied Comparative Law in the Munich Institute for East European Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Herbert Küpper
Keyword(s):  
Basic Research ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
European Law ◽  
Domestic Court ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
East European ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Law

Comparative law has many facets. It often consists of basic research for academic purposes, but it may have a practical side as well. A genuine combination of basic and applied comparative legal research are expert opinions on foreign law for adomestic court. The expert researcher has to fully comprehend the foreign law on the books as well as in action, and has to be able to translate this foreign law into the legal background of the domestic court and into the procedural setting of the law-suit at hand. Taking the ‘Munich Institute for East European Law’ as an example, this essay describes the continuous basic research as a prerequisite for expertise on foreign law, as well as the practice of writing expert opinions for courts of law and authorities with regard to the law of the formerly socialist countries in Europe.

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