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How Does Case Law Shape Civil Law Systems? An Analysis of Spanish Administrative Courts
The paper explores the use of case law by Spanish administrative courts. Based on a database of 2964 sentences, a content analysis captures the...
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Jurisdiction Regarding Administrative Proceedings in Jordanian and French Legislation: Views on the Administrative Judiciary in 2021
This article analyses jurisdiction regarding administrative proceedings (lawsuits) in Jordan and France. Moreover, it also discusses the fact that...
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The Perpetual French Codification
The bicentenary of the French Code civil at the beginning of the twenty-first century has fulfilled its symbolic function. In the wake of the...
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Codification and the Interpreter
Civil codes have changed their nature and function since they were first put into force. The unifying ideas prevailing in the nineteenth century...
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Recodifying the Law: A Metalinguistic Inquiry into the Recodification of Belgian Law Between 2014–2019
Legal scholars attribute a great deal of importance to the linguistic dimension behind recodification. According to them, language contributes...
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Economic Law
In the legal theory of civil law system, the division of public law and private law is a basic legal classification method, which has become the...
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Blitzkrieg Codification: The 2020 Belgian Civil Code
In the early nineteenth century, Belgium received all of Napoleon’s codes. Despite a call for national codifications in the 1831 Constitution of...
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CAVV Symposium on Independent Advice on Public International Law
This report provides a summary of a symposium on independent advice on public international law, organized by the Dutch Advisory Committee on Public...
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The Challenges and Rewards of Law Drafting in Small States
Making legislation in a small state presents some challenges, physical and operational, that are not so apparent in a large state. There are...
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Was There a Rule of Law in Early Modern Amsterdam? Mercantile Customary Law as a Test
This contribution intends to shed light on the development of the rule of law, particularly by questioning the existence of such rule of law in early...
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The Rule of Law as a Well-Established and Well-Defined Principle of EU Law
Against increasing rule of law backsliding within the EU, the European Commission has presented the rule of law as a well-established and...
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Law and Political Economy
The second chapter sketches the methodological framework for the thesis. It challenges the conventional view of law as an instrument for political...
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Europe Needs a True Business Law. What Does That Mean?
This contribution is concerned with the status of business law in Europe, especially in the European Union. The first observation that may be made is...
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Theoretical Research on AI and the Rule of Law
The purpose of conducting theoretical research on AI and the rule of law is to integrate the strengths of law, philosophy, management, sociology, and...
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EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
The article discusses a unique case of the EU’s application of rule of law conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine, while the latter is in active war with...
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The State of the International Criminal Court, of Special Tribunals and of International Criminal Law: A Concise Review
International criminal law has changed rather dramatically in the last three decades. Whereas in the early 1990s the field was an almost exotic...
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Contract Law in Germany
Contract law in Germany is regulated by the German Civil Code, which is over 120 years old. Nevertheless, contract law in particular has been the...
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The Intersystemic Rationality of Administrative Law: Reflexiveness, Structural Couplings and Environmental Observation
This article seeks to elaborate a description of Administrative Law in a society differentiated in autopoietic social systems. I will employ Niklas...
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International Cooperation and Harmonization in Competition Law
Experience with various legal assistance projects for develo** countries in Asia shows that the situation and level of development of competition...