THE ORTHODOX LAW TRADITION

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Challenging the Corporate Law Tradition: A Socialist Feminist Critique

Introduction This paper offers a feminist critique of corporate law and corporations. It will discuss some of the more traditional legal theories of corporate law and argue that these theories are inadequate in evaluating the effects that corporations have on people because they do not question the political and economic context they exist in. These theories treat capitalism as a given and, the...

Employment Policy and Bankruptcy Law - Does Legal Tradition

In this paper we analyze the relationship between strictness of employment protection and efficiency of bankruptcy law. We argue that country’s legal tradition provides the appropriate institutional proxy to explain the nature of such relationship. We find that for civil law countries where bankruptcy procedures are more inefficient a stricter employment protection policy is enforced. For commo...

The Creative Role of the Judge: Restraint and Freedom in the Common Law Tradition

The Mélange of Innovation and Tradition in Maltese Law: the Essence of the Maltese