Civil Law Influences on the Common Law. Some Reflections on "Comparative" and "Contrastive" Law

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

Surrogacy in Comparative law; With Emphasis on French, Iranian, English and Greek Law

The surrogacy is one of the artificial reproductive technologies through third party interference, which has raised many legal debates. Studying the law of various countries around the world shows a variety of different legislative approaches in this regard. In this paper, I first categorize legal systems around the world in the field of surrogacy. I then review the laws and regulations of four...

Some reflections on teaching law and medicine in law school since the '60s.

Law and custom in Japan: some comparative reflections

Japan is now one of the leading industrial capitalist countries in the world. It is widely held to be an economic miracle, emerging twice to dominate Asia. Yet this miracle has been achieved without leading to those two banes of almost all other advanced industrial societies, high and rising crime rates and an epidemic of civil litigation. If, as Haley suggests, 'Japan's success in reducing cri...

Natural Law, Justice and Democracy-Some Reflections on Three Types of Thinking About Law and Justice