Global Secured Transactions Law-making and National Law Reforms: Quo Vadis Secured Transactions Law?

Secured transactions and patterns of legal change: the contribution of comparative law

Uniform Law Review ◽

10.1093/ulr/unaa020 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Francesca Fiorentini

Keyword(s):

Comparative Law ◽

Legal Change ◽

Positive Law ◽

Secured Transactions ◽

The Many ◽

Law Making

Abstract The article analyses the many actors and initiatives that, in the last decades, have pursued the goal of worldwide harmonization of secured transaction laws, scrutinizing the achievements and the limits of these experiments. In light of such results, the article also outlines the methodological contribution that comparative law can offer to legal change in the sector of secured transactions law, by way of confronting positive law models with meta-legal elements such as culture, society, economy, law-making processes, and geopolitics.

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From meditation to action – a research agenda for studying informal global rule-making: remarks on ‘Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a “global administrative law”’

International Theory ◽

10.1017/s1752971920000639 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Oliver Westerwinter

Keyword(s):

Global Governance ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Institutional Design ◽

Administrative Law ◽

Democratic Legitimacy ◽

Institutional Architecture ◽

Global Law ◽

Rule Making ◽

Law Making

Abstract Friedrich Kratochwil engages critically with the emergence of a global administrative law and its consequences for the democratic legitimacy of global governance. While he makes important contributions to our understanding of global governance, he does not sufficiently discuss the differences in the institutional design of new forms of global law-making and their consequences for the effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance. I elaborate on these limitations and outline a comparative research agenda on the emergence, design, and effectiveness of the diverse arrangements that constitute the complex institutional architecture of contemporary global governance.

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Zwölf Jahre Erfahrung in der Schweiz: Quo vadis BSE?

Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde ◽

10.1024/0036-7281.144.12.716 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 144 (12) ◽

pp. 716-727 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

P. Schaller ◽

H. Schwermer ◽

D. Heim

Keyword(s):

Quo Vadis

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Ethik – Quo vadis? Anmerkungen zur Debatte um die Sterbehilfe

Therapeutische Umschau ◽

10.1024/0040-5930/a000875 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

pp. 7-10

Author(s):

Jean-Pierre Wils

Keyword(s):

Quo Vadis

Zusammenfassung. Die Ethik kann auf eine eindrucksvolle Renaissance zurückblicken. Nachdem die grossen politischen Emanzipationsprojekte ihren Glanz in den siebziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts verloren hatten und sich am Horizont neue biomedizinische Entwicklungen abzeichneten (Stichwort „Gentechnologie“), war die Ethik gefragt. In einigen Fällen hatte sie vor allem eine begrenzende, also limitierende Funktion, in anderen Fällen eine erlaubende, also eine lizenzierende Funktion. Aber seit einiger Zeit wächst das Gefühl einer gewissen Ohnmacht. Die Wandlungen im Autonomie-Begriff und die Entwicklungen in der Diskussion um die Sterbehilfe können das verdeutlichen. Ein neues Menschenbild hat sich durchgesetzt, dessen Dynamik ethisch kaum mehr zu steuern ist.

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