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The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal Thought: American Law and Economics vs. German Doctrinalism, The [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Law and economics has become an integral part of U.S. legal scholarship and the law school curriculum. Ever since the legal realist movement, scholars mostly view the law from an external perspective.
Gelter, Martin, Grechenig, Kristoffel
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SPOCs & surveys: a novel way to conduct comparative research into criminal justice systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Criminal justice researchers are increasingly confronted with research questions that require them to use ‘foreign information’ in their analyses.
De Bondt, Wendy
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Servitude, slavery and Scots law : historical perspectives on the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Section 4(1)(a) of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015 states that it is an offence for any person to hold another person in servitude or slavery.
Brown, Jonathan
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Scots law: a system in search of a family? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Presented as a paper at the Irish Association of Comparative Law, this article looks at the classification of legal systems into families and examines where, among the many different models, Scots law fits ...
Farran, Sue
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The Connections between German Pandectist School and Italian Legal Culture at the End of XIX Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The rejuvenating approach to Roman law taken by the German Pandectist School in the 19th century exerted a great influence far beyond the boundaries of Germany.
Furfaro, Federica
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In Search of an Effective Model:A Comparative Outlook on Administrative Silence in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Public administration inactivity, or in other words the excessive length of administrative proceedings, is not a new phenomenon; however, it appears to be of limited interest for comparative law, and it occurred particularly as attempts to develop a ...
C Harlow   +4 more
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Translating contracts as 'culturemes' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The paper proposes a translation model for contracts in which different stances, i.e. Snell Hornby’s integrated approach (1995), the functionalist views with the 'skopos' theory (Reiß & Vermeer 1984) and the concept of 'cultureme' (Oksaar 1988: 26-27 ...
Kocbek, Alenka
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Readability, Contracts of Recurring Use, nd the Problem of Ex Post Judicial Governance of Health Insurance Policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
While the rhetoric surrounding the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act focused on core issues such as cost, quality, and access to care, the dialog rarely acknowledged a key problem-the fact that most Americans do not understand ...
Cogan, John Aloysius, Jr.
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“Ulpianus scripsit”? Using Artificial Intelligence for authorship attribution of ancient Roman law texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The present article seeks to demonstrate the usefulness of artificial intelligence for the exploration of the sources of Roman law. In a small experiment, a so-called support vector machine was employed to determine to which Roman jurist a given source ...
Rüfner, Thomas
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