scholarly journals THE WRIT OF PROTECTION: FROM PROCEDURAL TO SUBSTANTIVE RIGHTS AND BETWEEN CIVIL AND COMMON LAW

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel Oquendo
Keyword(s):  
Common Law

“Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment?” – A Common Law Response

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-337
Author(s):  
Steve Hedley
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
German Law ◽  
Unjust Enrichment ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
The Law ◽  
Unjustified Enrichment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Logical Process

In this article, Professor Steve Hedley offers a Common Law response to he recently published arguments of Professor Nils Jansen on the German law of unjustified enrichment (as to which, see Jansen, “Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment” (2016) 20 EdinLR 123). The author takes the view that Jansen's paper provided a welcome opportunity to reconsider not merely what unjust enrichment can logically be, but what it is for. He argues that unjust enrichment talk contributes little of value, and that the supposedly logical process of stating it at a high level of abstraction, and then seeking to deduce the law from that abstraction, merely distracts lawyers from the equities of the cases they consider.

Scots Law: Mixed from the Very Beginning? A Tale of Two Receptions

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
WDH Sellar
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Common Law ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Mixed System ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Ius Commune ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
Considerable Period

This article is the revised text of the lecture delivered to the Stair Society at its Annual General Meeting in November 1997. It defends the proposition that Scots law, from the time of its emergence in the Middle Ages, has been a “mixed” system, open to the influence of both the English Common Law and the Civilian tradition. It also compares and contrasts the Reception of the Anglo-Norman law with that of Roman law. The former was quite specific as regards both time and substantive legal content. The Reception of Roman law, on the other hand, took place over a considerable period of time, and its effects were complex and diffuse. Above all, the Civilian tradition and the wider ius commune provided an intellectual framework against which to measure Scots law. Both Receptions exercised a profound influence on the continuing development of Scots law.

Modernité de Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (Number 153- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 193-217
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Moreau
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Défense Des Droits

Rien ne saurait mieux illustrer la modernité de Thomas More que la décision de Jean-Paul II, en novembre 2000, d’en faire le Patron des responsables de gouvernement et des hommes politiques. Pour évoquer cette modernité, quatre thèmes ont été retenus, sans souci d’exhaustivité: sa stature morale et l’écho particulier qu’éveille aujourd’hui son héroïsme, l’Utopie, non point comme programme politique mais comme champ d’expérimentation intellectuelle et littéraire, les droits de la conscience individuelle et leur transformation en défense des droits de l’homme, l’Europe en construction actuellement n’est pas totalement étrangère à l’édifice (chrétienté) que More voulait maintenir : principe de subsidiarité, rapports entre droit communautaire/droit canon et droit des Etats membres/Common law etc.

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