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The domain of private law

University of Toronto Law Journal, 2020
Private law theories tend to narrowly delineate their ambitions: many theories limit private law’s normative aspirations to a circumscribed set of liberalism’s core commitments, restrict its horizons to the boundaries of the state, and marry its norms with only one type of legal institution (courts).
Avihay Dorfman, Hanoch Dagan
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Exposing Private Third-Party Food Safety Auditors to Civil Liability for Negligence: Harnessing Private Law Norms to Regulate Private Governance

European Review of Private Law, 2019
In many industries, companies rely on private third-party audits to monitor their suppliers’ adherence to various standards. These audits are frequently paid for by the entity being audited, which creates a conflict of interest that incentivizes auditors
Timothy D. Lytton
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Who Owns Bitcoin? Private Law Facing the Blockchain

Social Science Research Network, 2019
Blockchain, or “distributed ledger” technology, has been devised as an alternative to the law of finance. While it has become clear by now that regulation in the public interest is necessary, for example to avoid money laundering, drug dealing or tax ...
Matthias B. Lehmann
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Cryptocurrencies in public and private law

Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 2019
This book examines how cyber-currencies, currencies which only exist in electronic form and generally require online transmittal, fit into existing legal frameworks.
E. O. Awuku
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From personal life to private law

Jurisprudence, 2019
The title of John Gardner’s delightful new book, From Personal Life to Private Law,1 is prima facie misleading.
J. Penner
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A decolonial critique of private law and human rights

Conquest, Constitutionalism and Democratic Contestations, 2018
Two approaches to private-law scholarship are critiqued in this article. The first problematic approach identified is that of ‘private-law purism’ that aims to segregate so-called ‘proper’ dominant private law from everything else. In its classical form,
E. Zitzke
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Public and Private Law [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This is a survey of the debates concerning public and private law. It provides a link between two debates which are typically conducted separately from each other: the debates concerning the autonomy of private law and the use of private law to promote public ends on the one hand and the debate concerning privatization on the other hand.
Markus D. Dubber, Tatjana Hörnle, Alon Harel   +2 more
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Personalizing EU Private Law. From Disclosures to Nudges and Mandates

European Review of Private Law, 2017
: A key problem in EU private law is actor heterogeneity. While special rules exist for certain subgroups of actors, for example consumers or retail investors, the members of these legal categories still exhibit vast differences in behaviour, degrees of ...
P. Hacker
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Undermining Gender Equality: Female Attrition from Private Law Practice

, 2016
The number of women in the legal profession has grown tremendously over the last 40 years, with women now representing about half of all law school graduates.
Fiona M. Kay, Stacey L. Alarie, Jones K. Adjei   +2 more
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Sizing up private law

University of Toronto Law Journal, 2016
:The conflict between external and internal perspectives in private law is both exaggerated and underplayed. Both external and internal perspectives pay too little attention to how the ‘micro’ level of individual, even bilateral, interaction relates to ...
Andrew S. Gold, Henry E. Smith
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