JOURNAL - UPDATE : The European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance

In December, I posted the following message:

Through an unusual arrangement with the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists (WSMJJ), the new European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance has brought together some two dozen articles generated by the WSMJJ Congress in the summer of 2011.

As I write in my introduction to this collection, the Congress

reflected a thriving Society consolidating its core scholarship on classical mixed jurisdictions (Israel, Louisiana, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Scotland, and South Africa) while reaching to new horizons (including Cyprus, Hong Kong and Macau, Malta, Nepal, etc). The collection reflects the complexity of contemporary scholarship on mixed and plural legal systems.  

The articles are available here. They were originally published in several law journals across Europe, the United States, and Africa. Another five articles will be made available soon.

In future, the journal will publish print versions of its volumes. The journal

publishes top-level academic contributions in English that explore the phenomena of law and governance from a comparative perspective. It includes comparative studies from different fields of law and regulation as well as multi-disciplinary studies on societal governance issues. Comparative studies involving non-European countries are welcome when they deal with topics relevant also for European science and society. All contributions will be subject to double-blind peer review.

Have a look. 

-SPD

The full list of articles is now available online. They include: 

·        Mixed and Mixing Systems Worldwide: An Introduction - Seán Patrick Donlan

·        Considering Precedent in Louisiana: Balancing the Value of Predictable and Certain Interpretation with the Tradition of Flexibility and Adaptability - Mary Garvey Algero

·        The Mélange of Innovation and Tradition in Maltese Law: The Essence of the Maltese Mix? - B. Andò

·        An African Doctrine of Equity in South African Public Law - Thomas W. Bennett

·        A Pluralist Approach to Mixed Jurisdictions - Mauro Bussani

·        Pure or Mixed? The Evolution of Three Grounds of Judicial Review of the Administration in British and Israeli Administrative Law - Margit Cohn

·        The Mediterranean Hybridity Project - Seán Patrick Donlan

·        Innovation in a Hybrid System: The Example of Nepal - Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler

·        Civil Recodification in an Anglophone Mixed Jurisdiction: A Bricoleur’s Playbook - Shael Herman

·        Shapeless Trusts and Settlor Title Retention: An Asian Morality Play - Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow

·        The Italian Legal Recipe: Basic Ingredients and the Bustle of Time - Marta Infantino

·        Unification of Private Law in Europe and ‘Mixed Jurisdictions’: A Model for Civil Codes in Central Europe - Mónika Józon

·         Inside the Judicial Mind: Exploring Judicial Methodology in the Mixed Legal System of Quebec - Rosalie Jukier

·        Precedent in Argentine Law - Santiago Legarre

·        Liability of the State and Public Authorities in Israel and South Africa - Max Loubser ; Tamar Gidron

·        Love, Loyalty and the Louisiana Civil Code: Rules, Standards and Hybrid Discretion in a Mixed Jurisdiction - John A. Lovett

·        Creating Mixed Jurisdictions: Legal Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region - Salvatore Mancuso

·        Double Reasoning in the Codified Mixed Systems – Code and Case Law as Simultaneous Methods - Vernon Valentine Palmer

·        Law Applicable to Unilateral Juridical Acts and Uniform Conflict-of-law Rules - Monika Pauknerová 

·        The Methodology Used to Interpret Customary Land Tenure - Gerrit Pienaar

·        The Enigmatic But Unique Nature of the Israeli Legal System - Antonios E. Platsas

·        What Happens When the Judiciary Switches Roles with the Legislator? An Innovative Israeli Version of a Mixed Jurisdiction - Haim Sandberg

·        The Characteristics of an Abstract System for the Transfer of Property in South African Law as Distinguished from a Causal System - P.J.W. Schutte

·        Comparative Legal Scholarship as Ordinary Legal Scholarship - Stephen A. Smith