scholarly journals Civil Mechanism Preventing and Resolving a Conflict of Interest in the Russian Private Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yury Alexandrovich Svirin ◽  
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vlasov ◽  
Vladislav Petrovich Sorokin ◽  
Marina Andreevna Simanova ◽  
Catherina Aleksandrovna Kukhturskaya
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Minority Shareholders ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Individual Property ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Legal Mechanism

The article studies the legal mechanism preventing and resolving a conflict of interest in civil law. The Russian public law pays much attention to the prevention of competitive interests but there are still no studies on a conflict of interest in private law. The authors have written this article to consider the relevant legal studies and draw their conclusions. Methods: The authors used the methods of comparative and systemic analysis, synthesis and scientific research to examine such a legal concept as a "conflict of interest in private law". The study aims at analyzing the category of competitive interests in relation to private law, determining its prerequisites, reasons and possible solutions. The authors have concluded that a conflict of interest often causes corporate conflicts among parties involved in corporate relations. Moreover, this type of conflicts arises due to the realization of individual property interests and the possibility of one person to influence the other, for example, a conflict between majority and minority shareholders.

scholarly journals Evaluation Concepts in Russian Codifications of Civil Law

Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
V. G. Golubtsov
Keyword(s):  
Essential Feature ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Basic Evaluation

Based on general legal and civilistic experience in the study of evaluative concepts, the author investigates the general and the specific in their civil law nature. As the result of the study, the author draws the conclusion that the existence of evaluative concepts forms a distinctive essential feature of civil law as private law. It is noted, however, that the doctrine, law-maker and law-enforcer need basic guidelines that will allow to define objective criteria for nominating concepts as evaluative, as well as for determining the boundaries of their systematic interpretation. Also, the author concludes that the impact of evaluation concepts on legal regulation in private and public law is different. In civil law, depending on the localization in the text of the Civil Code, it is possible to distinguish two groups of evaluation concepts. The first group includes the basic evaluation concepts that allow us to see the goals, meaning and specifics of civil law regulation. The second group, in the author’s opinion, includes peripheral evaluation concepts that are utilized by property law and separate contractual constructions and the presence of which allows to avoid unnecessary causality and, at the same time, makes it possible to bring legal regulation closer to real relations.

scholarly journals History of codification of private law in the Republic of Moldova

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-28
Author(s):  
Gheorghe Avornic ◽  
◽  
Violeta Cojocaru ◽  
Iulian Moraru ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

The division of the entire system of law into public law and private law comes from ancient times, which we have referred to in several previous personal publications. In this article we will analyze the evolution of private law in the Republic of Moldova. Private law constitutes one of the fundamental subdivisions of the science of law as a whole. At the level of the Republic of Moldova, the subdivision in question represents a distinct specific in the context that: (i) it is stratified into numerous branches of law and (ii) it constitutes a symbiosis of several national, supranational and international private legislations that correspond to modern trends of evolution of related social relations. One of the main branches of domestic private law is civil law, namely the rules tangent to the branch of law in question regulate a considerable number of social relations varied in terms of structure and content. This article will briefly address evolutionary-historical aspects of the private law legislation of the Republic of Moldova. In particular, we will analyze the influence of the Model Civil Code of the CIS States, on the one hand, and European legislation, on the other. Historical aspects will be divided into three periods.

Punitive Damages: Reorienting the Debate in Civil Law Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
María Guadalupe Martínez Alles
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Punitive Damages ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Country Specific

AbstractScholarly debates in a number of Latin American and European countries have recently focused on the legal institution of punitive damages. These debates have been primarily influenced by the Anglo-American experience with the institution. The dominance of an outcome-driven, interpretive approach to an inherently complex and contradictory practice in the prevailing Anglo-American scholarship on punitive damages, however, has seriously affected and likely distorted the comparative and normative scholarly debates over the introduction of the institution in countries that follow the civil law tradition. In this article, I argue that, in order to participate more meaningfully in the punitive damages debate, civil law scholars should, on one hand, refrain from attempts to improve the understanding of the Anglo-American practice while offering country-specific assessments of the authors’ own legal system’s (in)compatibilities with the institution; and, on the other hand, actively engage in thorough discussions regarding the fundamental theoretical grounding of the place of punishment in modern private law. The novelty of this scholarly approach will require private law scholars to acknowledge both the punitive elements currently hidden yet nonetheless patent in domestic private law practices of awarding damages and the constraining effect of the pervasively proclaimed yet easily disputable clear-cut line between private and public law.

scholarly journals La responsabilité civile délictuelle des municipalités en matière de combat des incendies

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-408
Author(s):  
Micheline McNicoll
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Closed Field ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Civil Responsibility ◽  
Recent Developments

The delictual responsibility of a municipality for offences and quasi-offences committed by its fire department or brigade has been clearly acknowledged by Quebec Courts. This position, which some consider anachronistic, is the result of a long evolution whereby the private law rules of civil responsibility were gradually introduced in the normally closed field of public law. The following article is a study of the most recent developments in this area, as well as an attempt by the author to ascertain the applicability of the civil law to the field of municipal delictual responsibility in general.

scholarly journals The possibilities of consensual resolution of judicial conflicts with the Public Administration

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (72) ◽  
pp. 31-50
Author(s):  
Gabriel Perlingeiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Studies

This text endeavors to define the theoretical limits of the capacities of the public administrative authorities to reach consensual solutions to disputes within the framework of judicial review. It is motivated by the lack of a clear understanding in Brazilian law of the border area between the legal relations of public and private law involving the public authorities, and the expressions “inalienable right” (or “inalienable interest”) and “public interest” as shown by the inexplicable asymmetry between what the public administrative authorities can do within a judicial proceeding and outside one. Based on a comparative study of common law versus civil law legal systems and an examination of the treatment of the subject in Brazilian statutes, case law and legal studies, this article reviews the relationship between the public interest and inalienability, demonstrating, in conclusion, that the possibility of the administrative authorities to enter into settlements or follow similar practices should not be rejected a priori, even in cases of public law. According to the author, there are three possible scenarios in which public administrative authorities may resort to consensual dispute resolution in the context of the judicial review: in private-law relationships, in public-law relationships with respect to the exercise of administrative actions prescribed by law and public-law relationships with respect to the exercise of discretionary powers.

scholarly journals LEGAL NATURE OF CONTRACTS IN THE FIELD OF ENTREPRENEURIAL FISHING

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-124
Author(s):  
Yu.E. Budnikova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Complex Regulation ◽  
Contractual Relations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Mechanism

The article analyzes the legal nature of contractual relations arising from the implementation of entrepreneurial fishing (industrial and coastal). The question under examination is to which type of contracts we can attribute obligations in the field of fisheries: civil law, business or natural resources. Norms of which branch of legislation should govern contractual relations in the field of fisheries? Contracts that generate entrepreneurial obligations in the field of fisheries, as well as provide the right to harvest (catch) aquatic biological resources, are at the same time the basis for the emergence of the right to conduct entrepreneurial activity and the basis for the transfer of a property right to natural resource. The article substantiates the conclusion that these contractual relations are entrepreneurial in the field of environmental management, have a public-law nature and are subject to complex regulation not only by the norms of natural resources law, but also entrepreneurial legislation, but not civil law. To this end, it is proposed to develop a new legal mechanism for regulating entrepreneurial obligations in the field of fisheries.

scholarly journals CURRENT PROBLEMS OF CIVIL LAW OF UKRAINE IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-33
Author(s):  
K. E. Kosiachenko ◽  
D. R. Zamkova
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Business Law ◽  
The Cross

This article is an attempt at a comprehensive legal analysis of current problems of civil law in the fields of contemporary law of Ukraine. With regard to cross-industry links, legal doctrine is defined as relations of interdependence, conditionality and commonality between different legal sectors, including their individual parts. In particular, the problems of correlation of civil law of Ukraine with other branches of law, such as labor law, business law, administrative law, criminal law, information law, financial law, are considered. Considering the problems of civil law in the context of modern law, the connection between private and public in civil law of Ukraine was highlighted. It has been concluded that scientists have for many years regarded civil law as a basic component of private law, and in some cases even identified it. At the same time, both the branches of private law and the branches of public law are recognized as components of the unified system of law of Ukraine, and, accordingly, they cannot exist completely autonomously from each other. All areas of law interact and interact. It was possible to distinguish the civil law of Ukraine from other basic branches of the system of Ukrainian law, and to draw some conclusions about the recognition of the civil law of Ukraine as a complex branch of law. Civil law terms and concepts used in other areas of law, relevant industry codes or other regulatory issues were also considered. The cross-sectoral links of civil law, which are not only limited to the legislative sphere, but also the cross-sectoral links at the level of enforcement are highlighted. This article stated that in order to achieve a stable and efficient functioning of the legal system, as a component of the domestic legal system, it is possible, subject to fruitful cooperation of the legislator, theorists and practitioners, their main task – to justify and develop a single organic complex of balanced branches of law. That is why special attention should be paid to the interaction of civil law with other branches of Ukrainian law, in particular, to determine the points of their contact, permissible situations and limits of mutual influence. The tendency to expand the sphere of civil law is reflected in the domestic law enforcement practice, which is reflected in the actual extension of civil law structures to public rights, the judicial protection of which affects the rights and obligations of a private nature (in particular, it concerns a tax lien, financial credit, etc.). It is concluded that the system of civil (private) law should be characterized as clear criteria for boundaries of action and separation from related fields (industries). Public law, defined by the codes of the relevant sphere (branch) of law, and take into account the tendencies of development of relevant spheres of public relations by means of norms capable to create inter-sectoral links with public-law norms in the framework of complex legislative acts.

The Codification of Civil Law and the Law of Torts

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 628-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aharon Barak
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legislative Authority ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Judicial Lawmaking ◽  
The Law

From the establishment of the State until the present day, two quiet “revolutions” have occurred in Israeli law — thefirstin the area of public law, and thesecondin the area of private law. In public law we have witnessed the incorporation of a functional constitution — partly in the form of the Basic Laws, prescribed by the Knesset as constitutive authority; and partly through the consolidation of human rights, the handiwork of the Supreme Court engaged in judicial lawmaking. In private law we have witnessed the coalescing of a civil codification — mainly the product of the Knesset as legislative authority with judicial lawmaking “between the cracks” of the legislation.

Enforcement

2019 ◽  
pp. 669-720
Author(s):  
Carsten Gerner-Beuerle ◽  
Michael Schillig
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Private Enforcement ◽  
Minority Shareholders ◽  
Public Enforcement ◽  
Great Practical Importance ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms ◽  
A Company

This chapter explores whether the lower level of investor protection that some commentators associate with the civil law can be explained with deficiencies in the enforcement mechanisms that investors, and in particular minority shareholders, have at their disposal. It starts with a discussion of the so-called ‘contracwetualisation of responsibility’. It then analyses how the claims that a company has against its own directors can be enforced, in particular, by minority shareholders. The last part of the chapter gives an overview of substitute enforcement mechanisms for the minority shareholder lawsuit that are of great practical importance in some jurisdictions. In contrast to litigation by the company (acting through its authorized organ or minority shareholders), these substitute mechanisms are predominantly of a public law nature. Thus, this final section will illustrate how some legal systems have a preference for public enforcement, while others rely extensively on private enforcement.

National Report for Mexico

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Sánchez-Mejorada y Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Profit Motive ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
The Status

In civil law systems, such as Mexico, a distinction is made between civil law (‘derecho civil’) and commercial law (‘derecho mercantil’), which can be confusing to persons unfamiliar with the system. As is the case in common law jurisdictions, law in civil law systems can be divided into public law and private law, the latter being those laws that govern relationships between and among private parties, regarding which the state functions more as a ‘supervisor’ or an ‘umpire’ than as an authority. Public law would include constitutional law, administrative law, etc. In turn, private law comprises civil law, ie those rules governing the status, rights, and obligations of the residents of the state as persons, their property, their estates, their obligations, and their contracts; and commercial law, those rules governing all acts of the residents of the state that have a profit motive, which in Mexico—as well as in other jurisdictions—are called ‘acts of commerce’ (‘actos de comercio’).

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