Comparative lawPub Date : 2019-02-21DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198791355.003.0009
Uwe Kischel
{"title":"Contexts in Asia","authors":"Uwe Kischel","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198791355.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198791355.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter studies the Asian legal context. There is no single uniform context in the Asian region. Its cultural, religious, historical, and political systems are too diverse, as are the foreign and domestic influences on legal systems in the region. Nevertheless, it is possible to single out individual legal systems and groups of systems in Asia which are clearly distinguishable in their respective contexts, but which cumulatively open up the legal world that is Asia and can thus serve as a blueprint for understanding all Asian legal systems. The chapter specifically looks at the People's Republic of China and the free-market democracies in Southeast Asia. India could be regarded largely as a common law country, the chapter states. Finally, the chapter argues that Indonesia is the world's fourth largest country by population, with a culturally mixed population, a civil law influenced state legal system, a system of indigenous customary law which partially survives, and considerable Islamic influence.","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45060790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-019
E. Orucu
{"title":"A Project: Comparative Law in Action","authors":"E. Orucu","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-011
M. Antokolskaia
{"title":"Comparative Family Law: Moving with the Times?","authors":"M. Antokolskaia","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-007
A. Ogus, D. Nelken, E. Orucu
{"title":"The Economic Approach: Competition between Legal Systems","authors":"A. Ogus, D. Nelken, E. Orucu","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-012
Nicholas H. D. Foster
{"title":"Comparative Commercial Law: Rules or Context?","authors":"Nicholas H. D. Foster","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-001
D. Nelken
{"title":"Comparative Law and Comparative Legal Studies","authors":"D. Nelken","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-004
Kevin R. Boyce
{"title":"Com-paring","authors":"Kevin R. Boyce","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-004","url":null,"abstract":"ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Chair, Geological Sciences/Earth & Planetary Sciences, Stanford University, (2020-2023) • Professor (by courtesy), Biological Sciences, Stanford University, (2019present) • Professor, Geological Sciences, Stanford University, (2018present) • Associate professor, Stanford University, (2013-2018) • Associate professor, University of Chicago, (2010-2013) • Assistant professor, University of Chicago, (2003-2010) • National Research Council associate, NASA Astrobiology Institute, (2001-2003)","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-008
E. Orucu
{"title":"A General View of ‘Legal Families’ and of ‘Mixing Systems’","authors":"E. Orucu","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Comparative lawPub Date : 2008-03-20DOI: 10.5040/9781509955558.ch-010
J. Smits
{"title":"Convergence of Private Law in Europe: Towards a New Ius Commune?","authors":"J. Smits","doi":"10.5040/9781509955558.ch-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509955558.ch-010","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution - a chapter in a well-known textbook on comparative law - discusses several of the questions which the emergence of a European private law raises. First, attention is paid to the need for convergence of private law: what are the reasons usually given for harmonising or unifying private law and are these reasons in any way convincing? Secondly, the question is raised how convergence of private law takes place at present. Thus, unification by treaties and harmonisation through Directives are discussed, together with the far-ranging idea of creating a European civil code. A third question is whether convergence of private law is at all possible. Some have argued that the differences among the 28 private law systems we have in Europe (27 national systems and Scots law) are too large to come to any real convergence. Finally, various other methods to reach (further) convergence of private law in Europe will be considered. Should the European Union continue with the present harmonisation process by issuing European directives or should other methods (also) be used to reach more convergence of law? For instance, such wide-ranging pleas have been made for promoting a European legal science and education and for convergence of law through competition of legal systems.","PeriodicalId":83667,"journal":{"name":"Comparative law","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70537651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}