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Journal of Comparative Law

VOLUME I, ISSUE 1

I Articles I

Foster, Nicholas HD The Journal of Comparative Law: .......................................... A New Scholarly Resource 1

................................................................... Legrand, Pierre Antivonbar 13 Munro, Robin The Ankang: China's Special

................................................. Psychiatric Hospitals .41 Harding, Andrew Thailand's Reforms: Human Rights

.................................. and the National Commission 88 Twining, William et al* A Fresh Start for Comparative Legal Studies?

A Collective Review of Patrick Glenn's Legal ......................... Traditions ofthe World, 2nd Edition 100

Jackson, Bernard S Internal and External Comparisons of Religious Law: Reflections from Jewish Law ......................... 177

I Research Commentaries

I

Watson, Alan Jardine, Sandy

Reviews

Butler, WE

Ballantyne, William

Noted Publications

Legrand, Piewe

Sources

Huxley, Andrew

.............. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman: A Coda 200 A Monk's Musings: A Coda ..................................... ,204

Esin 0riicii: The Enigma of Comparative Law: Variations on a Theme for the Twenty- First Century ............................................................... 207 Wael B Hallaq: The Origins and Evolution of

.................................................................. Islamic Law 211

.................................................. Noted Publications .214

Case Note: Comparative Law Aspects of the Doe v Unocal Choice of Law Hearing ..................... 219

Books Received .................. .. ..................................... . . . ........................... 2 2 3

* Contributors to the Collective Review of Legal Traditions of the World

Foster, Nicholas H D (Editor)

Twining, William Halpin, Andrew

Woodman, Gordon

Bell, John Baasch Andwsen,

Camilla Butler, W E

Foster, Nicholas HD

Shapiro, Martin Menski, Werner Htrxley, Andrew Palmer, Michael

Stickings, Sian Foster, Nicholas H D

Introduction Glenn on Tradition: An Overview Glenn's Legal Traditions of the World: Some Broader Philosophical Issues The Chthonic Legal Tradition - or Everything that is Not Something Else Chapter Five: Civil Law Tradition Scandinavian Law in Legal Traditions of the World Russia, Legal Traditions of the World, and Legal Change Islamic Law as Tradition: Chapter Six of Legal Traditions of the World Common Law Traditions Glenn's Vision of the Hindu Legal Tradition Buddhist Law, Asian Law, Eurasian Law On Galloping Horses and Picking Flowers: China, Chinese Law and the 'Asian Legal Tradition' Where Does Japan Belong? Kindling the Debate on Diversity: Chapter Ten of Legal Traditions of the World

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VOLUME I, ISSUE 2

Articles

Watson, Alan Lord Mansfield; Judicial Integrity or its Lack; Somerset's Case .............................................................. 225

Symposium on 'Legal Transplants'

Fosteu, Nicholas H D

Twining, William ~ri ici i , Esin

Seidman, Ann and Seidman, Robert B

Channell, Wade

Dine, Janet Glenn, H Patrick

Legrand, Pierre

Research Commentaries

Watson, Alan

Reviews

Editorial Note: Symposium on 'Legal Transplants' .................................................................. .235 Diffusion of Law: A Global Perspective ................... 237 A Synthetic and Hyphenated Legal System: The Turkish Experience ........................................... ..261

Law in Aid of Development: 'Hasty Legal Transplants' and the Fatal Race. ................................ 282 Lessons Not Learned: Problems with Western Aid for Law Reform in Post-communist Countries ....... 321 Drafting Company Law in Transition Economies .... 338 On the Use of Biological Metaphors in Law: The Case of 'Legal Transplants' ................................. 358 Comparative Legal Studies and the Matter of Authenticity .................................................................. 365

Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis: Oddities of Legal Development; and Human Civilisation ........ 461

Backer, Larry Catd Jan M Smits (ed): Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law ......................................................... ..467

Bufler, WE Philip R Wood: Maps of World Financial Law ........... .475 Dine, Janet Stephen Tully (ed): Infernational Documents on

Corporate Responsibility Stephen Tully (ed): Research Handbook on Corporate Legal Responsibility ....................................................... 479

Lovet, William A Francesco Duina: The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur ................................................................. 484

Noted Publications

..................................................... Legrand, Pierre Noted Publications 487

Sources

X I Chao Case Note: Private Enforcement of Securities Law in China: Daqing Lianyi Co v ZHONG Weida and Others (2004) Heilongjiang High Court .................... 492

Books Received.. .......................................................................................................... 497



VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1

Articles

Robinson, Paul H et a1 Codifying Shari'a: International Norms, Legality and the Freedom to Invent New Forms ........................ 1

An-Nn'int, Abdullahi Ahmed

Robinson, Paul N and Zu@qar, Adnan

Glenn, H Patrick

Halpin, Andrew

Samuel, Geofiey

Smith, fiktor

A Brief Comment on the Maldives Penal Code Project: Failure to Take Shari'a Seriously, Not

................................................................... 'Codifying' It 54

Of Neocolonialism, Common Law and Uncodifiable Shari'a: A Reply to Professor An-Na'im ......................................................................... 61

Legal Traditions and Legal Traditions ........................... 69 ...................................................... A Rejoinder to Glenn 88

Taking Methods Seriously (Part One) .......................... 94

Linguistic Diversity versus Legal Unity in Europe: Getting beyond the Chicken-and-Egg Discussions .l20

.................... Leyland, Peter The Ombudsman Principle in Thailand 137

Newton, Scott Law and Power in Rwanda in the Shadow of the Genocide ........................................................................ 151

Leckey, Robert Private Law as Constitutional Context for Same- Sex Marriage .................................................................. 172

Research Commentaries

Sedley, S tqhen Law and Plumbing ..................................................... 192

Reviews

Nebbia, Paolisa Guido Alpa and Mads Andenas: Fondnrnenti del diritto privato europeo ..................................................... 195

Marquitz, Phyllis Carolin Arul: Water Laws and Rights in India ............. 197

Gildin, Gary S Ian Cram: Contested Words: Legal Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Liberal Democvacies ..................... 200

Quigley Jr, John B

Shapiro, Martin

Assaf Likhovski: Law and Identity in Mandate ......................................................................... Palestine 205

Anna Mestitz and Simona Ghetti (eds): Victim- Offader Mediation with Youth Oflenders in Europe:

.............. An Ovmiew a d Comparison of 15 Countries 211

Noted Publications

..................................................... Legra~td, Piewe Noted Publications ..214

Literature Guide

Nicl~olson, Penelope (Pip) Vietnamese Law: A Guide to Sources and and Quan Hien Nguyen Commentary ................................................................. 219

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VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2

Articles

Stewart, Ann Mehra, Madhu

Saidov, AkmaI Faundez, Julio

Fu, Hualing Siems, Mathias Leyland, Peter

Huxley, Andrew Omar, Paul

Samuel, Geof iey

Review Article

Butler, William E.

Reviews

Xahmatian, Andreas

Legrand, Pierre

Noted Publications

Legrand, Pierre

.................................................................. Guest Editorial 1 Women's Equality and Culture in the Context of

................................................................. Identity Politics 6 Muslim family justice and human rights: the

......................... experience of British Muslim Women 38

........................... Comparative Law and Law-making. 67 The Fragile Foundations of Administrative

......................................................................... Legality ...V .................................... When Lawyers are Prosecuted .95

..................................... The End of Comparative Law 133 Thailand's constitutional watchdogs: dobermans,

.......................................... bloodhounds, or lapdogs? .I51 ..................... Jeremy Bentham on Legal Transplants 177

Updating the Framework for Asset Security in France: The Reforms of 2006 ...................................... 189

......................... Taking Methods Seriously: Part Two 210

Alan Watson: The Shame of American Legal ....................................................................... Education -238

Pierre Legrand and Roderick Munday (eds): Com- parative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions ............. 248 Matthias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmennann (eds): The Oxfovd Handbook of Comparative Law ............. 253

...................................................... Noted Publications .254


VOLUME 111, ISSUE 3

The Boundaries of Unity: Mixed Systems in Action

Guest Editor: Professor Emerita Esin 0riicii

oriicii, Esin Palmer, Vernon V. ~riicii, Esin

Glenn, Jane M.

Furnish, Dale B. Herbst, M., and Du Plessis, W. Rauterbach, C.

Cooray, Anton

Smits, Jan

Picker, Carol

Donlan, Sean P.

................................................................. Guest Editorial 1 Two Rval Theories of Mixed Legal Systems ............... 7 What is a Mixed Legal System: Exclusion or Expansion? .................................................................... .34 Mixed Jurisdictions in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Mixing, Unmixing, Remixing .................. 53 The Law of the Navajo Nation .................................... 77 Customary Law v Common Law Marriages: a Hybrid Approach in South Africa .......................... 105 South African Common and Customary Law of Intestate Succession ..................................................... 119 Oriental and Occidental Laws in Harmony: The Case of Trusts in Sri Lanka ................................. 133 Mixed Jurisdictions: Lessons for European

........................................................... Harmonisation? 151 Beyond the Usual Suspects: Application of the Mixed Jurisdiction Jurisprudence to International Law and Beyond .......................................................... 160 'Our laws are as mixed as our Language': Commentaries on the Laws of England and Ireland, 1704-1804. ...................................................... 178

Articles

Rahmatian, Andreas A Comparison of German Moveable Property Law and English Personal Property Law ................ 197

Berger, B. L.

Notes

White Fire: Structural Indeterminacy, Cons- titutional Design, and the Constitution Behind the Text ......................................................................... .249

Hendry, Jennifer "Unity in Diversity": Questions of (Legal) Culture in the European Union ................................................ 289

Butler, William E.

Review Article

Erpyleva, N. Iu. Kleuchenkova, M.

Noted Publications

Legrand, Pierre

Unpublished Normative Acts in Post-Soviet ................................................................ Legal Space.. ..295

Peter Stone: EU Private International Law ................... 311

Noted Publications ..................................................... ..344


VOLUME 111, ISSUE 2

Constitutional Courts: Forms, Functions and Practice in Comparative Perspective

Guest Editors: Andrew Harding, Peter Leyland

Harding, Andrew, Leyland, Peter, and Groppi, Tania

Comella, Victor Ferreres

Frosini, Justin O., and Pegoraro, Lucio

Garnper, Anna, and Palerrno, Francesco

Ginsburg, Tom

Groppi, Tania

Harding, Andrew, Leyland, Peter

Henderson, Jane

Kante, Babacar

Klug, Heinz

Kornmers, Donald P. and Miller, Russell A.

Lach, Kasia and Sadurski, Wojciech

Guest Editorial ................................................................. 1

The Spanish Constitutional Court: Time for Reforms .......................................................................... -22

Constitutional Courts in Latin America: A Testing Ground for New Parameters of Classification? ........ 39

The Constitutional Court of Austria: Modem Profiles of an Archetype of Constitutional Review ............................................................................. 64

Constitutional Courts in East Asia: Understanding Variation .......................................................................... 80

The Italian Constitutional Court: Towards a 'Multilevel System' of Constitutional Review? ....... 100

The Constitutional Courts of Thailand and Indonesia: Two Case Studies from South East Asia ................................................................................ 118

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation: The Establishment and Evolution of Constitutional Supervision in Russia .................................................. 138

Models of Constitutional Jurisdiction in Franco- phone West Africa ....................................................... 158

South Africa's Constitutional Court: Enabling Democracy and Promoting Law in the Transition from Apartheid ............................................................ 174

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht: Procedure, Practice and Policy of the German Federal Constitutional Court ..................................... 194

Constitutional Courts of Central and Eastern Europe: Between Adolescence and Maturity ......... 212

Lombardi, Clark B.

~ r i i c i i , Esin

Ponthoreau, Marie-Claire and Hourquebie, Fabrice

Articles

Tan, Seow Hon

Nesossi, Elisa

Noted Publicatioils

Legrand, Pierre

Recently Appeared

Butler, William E.

Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court: Managing Constitutional Conflict in an Authoritarian, Aspirationally 'Islamic' State ..................................... 234

The Constitutional Court of Turkey: The Anayasa Mahkemesi as the Protector of the System ................ 254

The French Conseil Constitutiomel: An Evolving ................................... Form of Constitutional Justice 269

Pragmatism, Morals Legislation and the Crim- inalization of Homosexual Acts in Singapore. ........ 285

Reforming Criminal Justice in the People's Republic of China? The Black Hole of Pre-trial Detention ..................................................................... 305

Noted Publications ....................................................... 316

....................................................... Recently Appeared 321


Volume IV, Issue 1

Articles

Fournier, Pascale Transition and Translation: Islamic legal Trans- plants in North America and europe ...........................1

Fabbrini, Federico “Reasonableness” as a Test for Judicial Review of legislation in the French Constitutional Council .....39

Valcke, Catherine on Comparing French And english Contract law: Insights From social Contract Theory ........................69

Masferrer, Aniceto Codification of spanish Criminal law in the Nineteenth Century ......................................................96

Hespanha, J. P. &c. modelling legal and Administrative Cadastral Domain: Implementation in the Portugese legal Framework ...................................................................140

Notes

Okuyucu-Ergun, G. Witness Anonymity in Turkish Criminal law: some Comparative observations ..............................170

Salim, M. R. Are legal Transplants Impossible? ..........................182

Review

Rains, Robert E. livia Holden: Hindu Divorce ......................................192

Noted Publications

Legrand, Pierre Noted Publications ......................................................199

Recently Appeared

Butler, William E. Recently Appeared ......................................................204


Volume IV, Issue 2

Global Wrongs and Private Law Remedies and Procedures

Guest Editor: Stathis Banakas

Banakas, Stathis Preface ...............................................................................1

Banakas, Stathis Private law Remedies and Procedures: A Double-edged sword? ..................................................................3

Moscati, Maria Federica Individual Autonomy, Public Wrongs and sexual orientation: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective ......................................................................29

Nesossi, Elisa Civil litigation for Violations of International Human Rights law: The Case of the Falun Gong under the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789 ...................44

Schiaffo, Francesco The Privatization of the management of Public security in Recent Italian legislation: A Brief Focus on the Italian Reform of self-Defence .............63

Palmer, Michael Administrative Suits and Harmonious Settlements: A Twilight Issue in the legal Development of Contemporary China ....................................................71

Wadlow, Christopher Intellectual Property as an ‘Investment’ In International law: A Case of Access To medicines versus Access To Justice?..............................................79

Xu, Ting The Right to Private Property and its enforcement: the Changing Public-Private Divide in the PRC ......96

Jenkins, Catherine The Jurisprudence of Truth? litigating Apartheid in us Courts .................................................................110

Chambers, Rachel Is Home state litigation the Way to Fill the lacuna in Corporate legal Accountability for Human Rights Violations Perpetrated in Host states? .........133

Muchlinski, Peter The Provision of Private law Remedies against multinational enterprises: a Comparative law Perspective. ...................................................................148

van Boom, Willem H De minimis Curat Praetor: Redress for Dispersed Trifle Losses ..................................................................171

Articles

Butt, Simon Indonesia’s anti-corruption drive and the Constitutional Court ....................................................186

Barzilai, Gad and engineering the law and Justice Deconstruction: Peleg, Ilan Ideologies of Knowledge in law and Politics in Israel and Beyond .........................................................205

Garoupa, Nuno and Reputation, Information and the organizationGinsburg, Tom of the Judiciary ..............................................................228

Wagner, Richard K Alternatives to magistrate Justice: merchant Guild Dispute Resolution and the Foreign Trader Driven litigation and Arbitration Reforms of late Imperial and early Republican China ..............257

Sources

Phuyal, Hari and Case Note: ‘The Third Gender Case’ Decision Moscati, Maria Federica of the supreme Court of Nepal on the Rights of lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex People ............................................................................291

Reviews

Nesossi, Elisa leena Avonious and Damien Kingsbury (eds.): Human Rights in Asia. A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate ....................................................298

Ng, Patricia Scott Leckie (ed.) Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Post-Conflict United Nations and Other Peace operations. A Comparative survey and Proposal for Reform .....................................................301

Moscati, Marica Federica William Twining General Jurisprudence. understanding law from a Global Perspective .......305

Fischer, Alexander Tamir moustafa: The struggle for Constitutional Power: law, Politics, and economic Development in egypt ..........................................................................308

Noted Publications

Legrand, Pierre Noted Publications .......................................................311


Volume V, Issue 1

Foundations of Comparative Law: Methods and Typologies

Editors: W. E. Butler, O. V. Kresin, and Iu. S. Shemshuchenko

Kresin, O. V. Guest editorial ..................................................................1Shemshuchenko, Iu. S.

Butler, W. E. The Place of ukraine on the legal map of the World ..................................................................................3

Kresin, O. V. The Periodization of Comparative law: In search of an Acceptable model .................................................10

Luts, L. A. Typologies of modern legal systems of the World ..28

Oksamytnyi, V. V. legal systems of the modern World: Problems of Identification ...................................................................41

Damirli, M. A. Comparative law Hermeneutics: Cognitive Possibilities ......................................................................65

Tkachenko, A. V. Functionalism and the Development of Compara- tive law Cognition .........................................................71

Tikhomirov, Iu. A. Comparative law and the Integrating Role of International law ...........................................................84

Bekhruz, Kh. N. Comparative legal Research in an era of Global- ization ...............................................................................94

Salomatin, A. Iu. Unified Potential of Comparative Law as a Science and Instructional Discipline ........................................105

Skakun, O. F. legal system: state, society, Region, World? ..........123

Romashov, R. A. The Concepts of “Jus” and “lex”: Historical and legal linguistic Aspects ..............................................145

Tikhomirov, A. D. Philosophical Problems of legal Comparativ- istics ................................................................................159

Kostenko, A. N. social Naturalism as a methodological Principle of Comparative law and legal Globalistics ............179

Kharitonov, E. O. Classification of European Systems of PrivateKharitonova, O. I. law .................................................................................195

Marchenko, M. N. Convergence of Romano-Germanic and Anglo- saxon law .....................................................................211

Lukianov, D. V. Religious Legal Systems: Features and Classifi- cation ..............................................................................232

Smykalin, A. S. Canon law in the modern legal system ofMotrevich, V. P. society ............................................................................243

Shaliapin, S. O. Confessional law and the subject of Comparative Research .........................................................................250

Bibliography

Butler, W. E. Publications of ukrainian Association of Comp- arative law ....................................................................254

Review

Butler, W. E. Lafitskii, V. I. Сравнительное правоведение в образах права [Comparative Jurisprudence in the Images of law] ..............................................................261

Ewald, W. Richard Hyland: Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law ..................................................................................265

Noted Publications


Recently Appeared

Butler, W. E. Recently Appeared .......................................................285


Volume V, Issue 2

Using Legal Culture

Guest Editor: David Nelken

David Nelken using legal Culture: Purposes and Problems .............1

Sally Engle Merry What is legal Culture? An Anthropological Perspective .......................................................................40

David M Engel The uses of legal Culture in Contemporary socio-legal studies: A Response to sally engle merry ................................................................................59

Susan S Sibley J. locke, op. cit.: Invocations of law on snowy streets ...............................................................................66

Tom Ginsburg lawrence m. Friedman’s Comparative law, with Notes on Japan .......................................................92

Franz Von Benda- Why Not legal Culture? .............................................104Beckmann and Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann

Debbie D Girolamo seeking Negotiated order Through mediation: A manifestation of legal Culture? .............................118

Marc Hertogh The Curious Case of Dutch legal Culture: A Reassessment of survey evidence .........................146

Marina Kurkchiyan Comparing legal Cultures: Three models of Court for small Civil Cases .........................................169

Sandra Hotz understanding legal Culture through the Inter- section of law, Culture and Gender — An example from Japanese Family law .........................194

Stewart Field Finding or Imposing Coherence? Comparing National Cultures of Youth Justice ...........................216

Osvaldo Saldías Can We explain the emergence of legal Cultures? A methodological Approach Based on the example of the Andean Community’s legal Culture ...........................................................................232

Yüksel Sezgin The Role of Alternative legalities in Bringing about socio-legal Change in Religious systems..................245

Michael Palmer Rethinking Children’s Rights and Interests?: economic Reform, social Protection and legal Culture in Post-mao China .........................................260

Articles

Aris Chan and Is It Worth Going to Court? An evaluation of the Geoffrey Crothall Chinese Justice System’s Effectiveness in

Resolving labour Disputes through an Analysis of employment Discrimination and occupational Disease lawsuits ..........................................................281

Lilian Miles and Corporate Governance Reform in malaysia: An Mohammad Rizal Salim Institutional Theoretical Approach ............................314

Stephen A Smith Comparative legal scholarship as ordinary legal scholarship .........................................................331

Xiong Jincai The Dilemma of Homosexuals’ Conventional marriage in China.........................................................357

Reviews

Elisa Nesossi Flora sapio. Sovereign Power and the Law in China ........371

Patricia Ng sarah Blandy, Ann Dupuis and Jennifer Dixon (eds). Multi-owned Housing. Law, Power and Practice ............... 374

Russell Wilcox Rafael Domingo. The New Global Law ............................. 378

Noted Publications



Volume VI, Issue 1

Vázquez, I. Ramos The “old Regime” Penology: maximum severity versus utilitarianism and Humanism in england, France, and spain ............................................1

Mixed Jurisdictions and Comparative Law

Guest Editor:s: Sean P. Donlan and Vernon Valentine Palmer

Palmer, V. V. Double Reasoning in the Codified Mixed Systems: Code and Case law as simultaneous methods .........28

Jukier, R. Judicial methodology in the mixed legal system of Quebec .........................................................................54

Infantino, M. The Italian legal Recipe: Basic Ingredients and the Bustle of Time .................................................................70

Cohn, M. Pure or mixed? The evolution of the Grounds of Judicial Review in British and Israeli Adminis- trative law .......................................................................86

Pauknerová, M. Unilateral Juridical Acts and Uniform Conflict of law Rules ..................................................................115

Jozón, M. Unification of Private Law in Europe and “Mixed Jurisdictions” A model for Civil Codes in Central europe ............................................................................127

Mancuso, S. Creating mixed Jurisdictions: legal Integration in the southern African Development Community Region ............................................................................146

Bussani, M. A Pluralist Approach to mixed Jurisdictions ...........161

Review Article

Broekman, Jan M. Wagner, Anne, and Bhatia, Vijay K. (eds.), Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts. Explorations in the Semiotics of Law....................................................169

Noted Publications


Recently Appeared

Butler, W. E. Recently Appeared ......................................................213