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Constitutional Crowdsourcing: Democratizing Original and Derived Constituent Power in the Network Society by Antoni Abat Ninet, a Book Review – Part I
[Editor’s note: this is the first of two posts featuring the book Constitutional Crowdsourcing by Antony Abat Ninet, (Edward Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law, 2021)]
Constitutional Crowdsourcing: Democratizing Original and Derived Constituent Power in the Network Society by Antoni Abat Ninet, provides empirical evidence from online citizen feedback within various constitution(s).
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The French Yearbook of Public Law (FYPL), a new comparative public law periodical
The French Yearbook of Public Law, FYPL,,is published in English, once a year and is accessible free of charge online: https://fypl.fr Its Steering Committee is made up of Jean-Bernard Auby (Professor Emeritus, Science Po Paris), Philippe Cossalter (Professor at Saarland University), Giacinto della Cananea (Professor at Bocconi University, Milan) and Prof.
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Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
The conventional premise for embracing law in the context of economic reform calls for a modern legal system as a prerequisite for economic development. The premise suggests that economic exchange between unfamiliar parties requires reliable and uniformly applicable norms and institutions, to protect the rights of economic participants and provide credible commitments for growth (secure contracts and property rights, specifically).
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From Ancilla Legislatoris to Ancilla Juris:
A Policy Brief on the Role of Comparative LawIt is beyond doubt that comparative law has a major significance for legal academia and practice. But what role does, and should, it play in detail? Legal academics as well as legal practitioners often understand comparative law as an “ancilla legislatoris,” that is, a subordinate “servant of the legislator” (Grundmann/Thiessen 2015): First, they claim that comparative research must serve legislation by producing findings useful for the process of amending old and creating new regulations de lege ferenda [I.].
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Mindful of the World: “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence”
[Editor’s note: this is the final of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn”, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]
It has been a long journey from the first tentative ideas to the publication of this collection in memory of an esteemed colleague and beloved friend.
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Thinking Too Well of Traditions
[Editor’s note: this is the third of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn”, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]
Often the words we use are at the same time commonplace and weightless; we are comfortable using them and they loosely, often usefully, direct the flow of verbal traffic one way or another along paths we and others can understand.
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Thinking well of traditions
[Editor’s note: this is the second of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]
The most controversial theoretical contribution to comparative law by the polymathic Patrick Glenn in his Legal Traditions of the World was his effort to get us to think well of tradition(s). For
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Legal Monotheism and Its Discontents
[Editor’s note: this is the first of four blog posts featuring the volume “A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in Memory of Patrick Glenn, edited by Helge Dedek, Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022]
Patrick Glenn’s scholarship does not introduce a ‘concept of law’ or explicitly criticize the concepts of others.
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