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Foreign & International Law: Comparative Law

About Comparative Law

"Comparative Law" refers to the comparison of the laws of more than one country.

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Primary Sources

Civil Procedure

Commercial Law

Constitutional Law

Corporations and Partnerships

Contract Law

Criminal Law

Environmental Law

Family Law

Insurance Law

Intergovernmental Organizations

Medical Law

Natural Resources

Property Law

Transport Law

Trust Law

Secondary Sources

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: National Reports (Viktor Knapp, ed.).  K530I57 v.1

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: The Legal Systems of the World: Their Comparison and Unification (Rene David, ed.).  K530I57 v.2

      Chapter 1 The Different Conceptions of the Law

      Chapter 2 Structure and the Divisions of the Law

      Chapter 3 Sources of the Law

      Chapter 5 The International Unification of Private Law 

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: Private International Law (Kurt Lipstein, ed.).  K530I57 v.3 pt. 1

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 Sources

      Chapter 3 Fundamental Approaches

      Chapter 4 Connecting Factors

      Chapter 5 Characterization

      Chapter 6 Renvoi

      Chapter 7 The Law Applicable to Preliminary (Incedental) Questions

      Chapter 8 International Conflict of Laws

      Chapter 9 Interlocal Conflict of Laws

      Chapter 10 Interpersonal Conflict of Laws

      Chapter 11 Public Policy

      Chapter 12 Operation of Foreign Public Law

      Chapter 14 The Application of Foreign Law

      Chapter 15 Persons

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: Private International Law (Kurt Lipstein, ed.).  K530I57 v.3 pt. 2

      Chapter 16 Marriage and Divorce

      Chapter 17 Personal Effects of Marriage

      Chapter 21 Property

      Chapter 22 Industrial and Intellectual Property

      Chapter 23 Trusts

      Chapter 24 Contracts

      Chapter 25 Transport By Rail and By Road

      Chapter 26 Transport By Sea and Inland Waterways

      Chapter 27 Transport By Air

      Chapter 28 Labour Contracts

      Chapter 29 Agency

      Chapter 30 Quasi-Contracts

      Chapter 31 Torts--Introduction

      Chapter 32 Enterprise Liability

      Chapter 33 Intentional Torts

      Chapter 34 Unfair Competition

      Chapter 35 Restrictions on Competition

      Chapter 36 Currency

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: Persons and Family (Aleck Chloros, Max Rheinstein, & Mary Ann Glendon, eds.).  K530I57 v.4

      Introduction: Family Law in a Time of Turbulence

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 Persons

      Chapter 3 Formation of Marriage

      Chapter 4 Interspousal Relations

      Chapter 5 Divorce

      Chapter 6 Creation of Relationships of Kinship

      Chapter 7 Children, Parents and Guardians

      Chapter 9 Intra-Family Torts

      Chapter 10 The Family in Post-Socialist Countries 

      Chapter 11 The Family in Religious and Customary Laws

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: Succession (Karl Heinz Neumayer, ed.).  K530I57 v.5

      Chapter 3 Intestate Succession

      Chapter 8 Liability for Obligations of the Inheritance

      Chapter 9 Succession of Agricultural Property

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: Property and Trust (Frederk H. Lawson, ed.).  K530I57 v.6

      Chapter 2 Structural Variations in Property Law

      Chapter 5 Apartment Ownership

      Chapter 8 Recordation of Interests in Land

      Chapter 11 Trust

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: Contracts in General (Arthur Von Mehren, ed.).  K530I57 v.7

      Chapter 1 A General View of Contract

      Chapter 2 Contract in Pre-Commercial Societies and in Western History

      Chapter 3 The Impact of Large Scale Business Enterprise Upon Contract

      Chapter 4 Public Contracts

      Chapter 5 Contract in the Socialist Economy

      Chapter 6 Contract in the Far East--China and Japan

      Chapter 7 Contract Law of Islam and the Arab Middle East

      Chapter 9 The Formation of Contract

      Chapter 10 Formal requirements

      Chapter 11 Defect in the Contracting Process

      Chapter 12  Contracting Subject to Standard Terms and Conditions

      Chapter 13 Rights of Third Parties, Third Party Beneficiaries and Assignment

      Chapter 15 Breach of Contract

      Chapter 16 Remedies for Breach of Contract

 

 

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