Basic Issues of Private Law Codification in Europe: Trust

Canada's Criminal Law Codification

La r6forme du droit par la codification et son histoire semblent fasciner tout juriste, et notamment le juriste qu6b6cois. L'auteur analyse l'histoire et l'historiographie de ce genre particulier de r~forme h partir d'un recent historique de la codification du droit p6nal canadien de 1892. Toujours conscient des pifges du r6visionnisme et du prsentisme, il 6tablit un paralle entre cette codific...

Codification of the Criminal Law

The Many Faces of the Codification of Law in Modern Continental Europe

evasion of law in private international law

it is generally accepted that no one is allowed to abuse his legal rights accorded by a country for evasion from some limitations provided by the same country and several laws and verdicts have considered and confirmed this requirement as a rule. nevertheless there is neither common sense about neither the conditions under which such a rule may be applied nor the reactions to be taken against s...

Liabilities in Private Law

This article elaborates upon and defends the distinction between “primary duty” claims and “primary liability” claims in private law introduced in a previous article. In particular, I discuss the relevance of the distinction to the debates over fault and strict liability and “duty skepticism” and to the relationship between primary and remedial rights. I argue that the tendency to assume that a...