As origens históricas do civil law e do common law

What do nursing and the law have in common: retention.

The New African Law: Beyond the Difference Between Common Law and Civil Law

Ordinary Administrative Law as Constitutional Common Law

Henry Monaghan famously argued that much of constitutional interpretation takes the form of what he termed constitutional common law, a body of doctrines and rules that are constitutionally inspired but not constitutionally required and that can be altered or reversed by Congress. This Essay argues that a fair amount of ordinary administrative law qualifies as constitutional common law: Constit...

LAW & ENTREPRENEURSHIP : Do COURTS MATTER ?

We briefly survey the economics literatures that relate to law and entrepreneurship, including the "law and finance" literature launched by the work of Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny ("LLSV"). Relying on the suggestive work of LLSV and other economists who have labored over the connections between entrepreneurship and law, we suspect that courts ...

Civil Law in India