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The American Journal of Comparative Law (ISSN 0002-919X) is a quarterly law journal dedicated to comparative law. It is published by the American Society of Comparative Law. It is currently being co-hosted by the Institute of Comparative Law (McGill University) and the Georgetown University Law Center. The Institute of Comparative Law’s Director, Helge Dedek, and Georgetown University Law Center’s James Feinerman and Franz Werro, currently serve as Co-Editor-in-Chiefs.
Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries. More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Jewish Law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law. It includes the description and analysis of foreign legal systems, even where no explicit comparison is undertaken. The importance of comparative law has increased enormously in the present age of internationalism, economic globalization and democratization.
The origins of modern comparative law can be traced back to 18th century Europe, although, prior to that, legal scholars had always practiced comparative methodologies.
Montesquieu is generally regarded as an early founding figure of comparative law. His comparative approach is obvious in the following excerpt from Chapter III of Book I of his masterpiece, De l'esprit des lois (1748; first translated by Thomas Nugent, 1750):
Few Supreme Court decisions in recent memory have so captured the attention of the American public as Citizens United. To help me explore the road to Citizens United, as well as consider the potential paths leading beyond it, is Timothy Kuhner, associate professor at Georgia State University College of Law. Professor Kuhner’s scholarship has been cited in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, and the American Journal of Comparative Law, and he is most recently the author of Capitalism v. Democracy: Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution.
Richard M. Buxbaum, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law at the School of Law at University of California, Berkeley presents "Comparative Law as a Bridge Between the Nation State and the Global Economy" for the fourth annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture. Buxbaum is an expert in the fields of corporation law and comparative and international economic law, and since 1987 has been editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law. On the UC Berkeley faculty since 1961, he founded and was the first chair of its Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Western European Studies, and was dean of international and area studies from 1993-1999. Introductory remarks and portrait unveiling of Herbert Bernstein by Dean Katherine Bartlett ; additional trib...
BOOK REVIEW ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN COMPARATIVE LAW 3rd edition By Raymond Youngs ISBN: 978 0 41554 066 7 ROUTLEDGE TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP For full table of contents click here http://bit.ly/1EjPjek www.routledge.com THE LEGAL SYSTEMS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY COMPARED: THE DEFINITIVE TEXTBOOK FOR STUDENTS OF COMPARATIVE LAW An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers UK students of comparative law will welcome the publication of the latest edition of this substantial and authoritative legal textbook from the Routledge, and the Taylor & Francis Group. The author, Raymond Youngs, a solicitor, is a senior lecturer at Kingston University and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Global Law, University College London. Compara...
The Distributive Family: How and Why to Deconstruct the Market/Family Distinction Janet Halley is Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author of After Sex?: New Writing since Queer Theory (with Andrew Parker) and Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism?, and is the editor of the new special issue of the American Journal of Comparative Law on Critical Family Law.
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Williamson B.C. Chang Professor of Law Degrees AB Princeton University 1972 JD University of California, Berkeley 1975 Biography Professor Williamson Chang was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai`i. He graduated from Princeton University with degrees in Asian Studies and from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Thereafter, he attended the University of California, Berkeley [Boalt Hall] where he was an editor of both the California Law Review and the Ecology Law Quarterly. He clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Dick Yin Wong in Honolulu and began teaching at the University of Hawai`i the following year. He has taught a wide variety of courses including corporations, securities regulations, Native Hawaiian Rights, Indigenous People's Law, Legal A...
Denial of services from the federal government why pay taxes? Congress has created a procedure that permits any person to file a complaint in the courts about the behavior of federal judges—but not about the decisions federal judges make in deciding cases. Below is a link to the rules that explain what may be complained about, who may be complained about, where to file a complaint, and how the complaint will be processed. There is also a link to the form you must use. Almost all complaints in recent years have been dismissed because they do not follow the law about such complaints. The law says that complaints about judges’ decisions and complaints with no evidence to support them must be dismissed. If you are a litigant in a case and believe the judge made a wrong decision—even a very w...
William Twining, the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, University College of London, and a regular visiting professor at the University of Miami Law School, presents the annual Bernstein Lecture titled "Normative and Legal Pluralism: A Global Perspective." Introductions by Dean Levi and Ralf Michaels. Sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law. Recorded on April 07, 2009. Series: Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International & Comparative Law 7th. Related article: William Twinning, Normative and Legal Pluralism: A Global Perspective, 20 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 473-518 (2010). Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djcil/vol20/iss3/8/
Legal scholar and author, Bernhard Schlink, will present the Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law. Professor Schlink is both a respected legal scholar and the acclaimed author of a number of popular works of fiction, including the novel The Reader. His lecture will focus on proportionality in German and American constitutional law. Recorded on April 05, 2011. Full title: Proportionality in Constitutional Law: Why Everywhere but Here?. Series: Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International & Comparative Law 10th. Appearing: Bernhard Schlink, lecturer ; Introductory comments by Dean David Levi. Speaker introduction by Ralf Michaels. Related paper: Bernard Schlink, Proportionality In Constitutional Law: Why Everywhere But Here?, 22 Duke Journ...
December 5, 2013 By C. Raj Kumar Vice-Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University Professor C. Raj Kumar is the Founding Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University and the Founding Dean of Jindal Global Law School. Professor Kumar spearheaded the initiative to establish the O.P. Jindal Global University and four of its inter-disciplinary schools: Jindal Global Law School; Jindal Global Business School; Jindal School of International Affairs and the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy in the National Capital Region of Delhi (Sonipat, Haryana). Professor Kumar is also a Member of the National Legal Knowledge Council (NLKC). He was a faculty member at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, where he taught for many years. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of ...