Interesting article comparing fundamental rights, judicial review, and parliamentary supremacy in Australia, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Britain.
The Common Law and the Constitution as Protectors of Rights in Australia
Anthony Gray (University of Southern Queensland)
39 Common Law World Review 119 (2010)
Available online via LexisNexis.
The Januray 28th issue of Recueil Dalloz includes an interview in French with Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty discussing her work with the French-American Network for the Internationalization of Law; there are also Franco-Brazilian and Franco-Chinsese networks. In the interview she mentions a book she edited with Justice Stephen Breyer.
Regards croises sur l’internationalizaation du droit: France-Etat-Unis
Paris : Société de législation comparée, 2009
ISBN: 978-2-908199-79-6
http://www.lgdj.fr/colloques-etudes-rapports/229059/regards-croises-internationalisation-droit-france-etats
Interview citation:
Le réseau internationalisation du droit: entretien trois questions a Mireille Delmas-Marty.
Recueil Dalloz 2010 #4/7409 page 248.
Christopher Hodges, Stefan Vogenauer and Magdalena Tubilacka have published the following article on SSRN: Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Study.
Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Study
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1511714
Countries studied are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England and Wales, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA.
The Appendices look very interesting
I. Questionnaire 49
II. Contributors to the Comparative Study 53
III. Ranges of Lawyers’ Hourly Rates 55
IV. Case Studies: Minimum costs risk for claimant 58
V. Summaries of amounts of Court Fees and Lawyers’ Fees 73
VI. Success and Contingency Fees 81
VII. Abbreviations 83
Bain and Company and the Brazilian Law Firm of Tozzini Freire Advogados authored a multi-part comparative study of oil and gas production regimes around the world. The study was produced for Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social) to help Brazil design a scheme to develop its large offshore oil reserves. The study is published exclusively in Portuguese, but the charts and bibliographies will be useful to all. The study constitutes of the following 4 reports.
RELATÓRIO I – REGIMES JURÍDICO-REGULATÓRIOS E CONTRATUAIS DE E&P DE PETRÓLEO
Report 1: Legal and Regulatory Arrangements and Contracts For Oil Exploration & Production
557 pages
RELATÓRIO II – FUNDOS FINANCEIROS BASEADOS EM RECEITAS DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS
Report 2:Financial Funds Based on Income from Oil and Gas Receipts (Sovereign wealth funds, etc.)
170 pages
RELATÓRIO III – DESENVOLVIMENTO DA CADEIA PRODUTIVA DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS E INVESTIMENTOS EM E&P
Report 3: Development of the Chain of Production of Investments in Oil and Gas Exploration.
473 pages
ESTUDOS DE ALTERNATIVAS REGULATÓRIAS, INSTITUCIONAIS E FINANCEIRAS PARA A EXPLORAÇÃO EPRODUÇÃO DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS NATURAL E PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO INDUSTRIAL DA CADEIA PRODUTIVA DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS NATURAL NO BRASIL
Studies of Regulatory Institutional and Financial Alternatives for Oil and Gas Exploration and the Development of the Chain of Production for Oil and Natural Gas in Brazil.
238 pages
All four reports are available full-text at:
http://www.tozzinifreire.com.br/portugues/Noticias/arquivos092009.php
http://www.tozzinifreire.com.br/portugues/Noticias/index.php
Hap tip to attorney Luiz Antonio Maia Espínola de Lemos who helped author the reports and posted them on the Tozzini Freire Web site.
Muito obrigado!
Cambridge University’s Squire Law Library maintains an oral history archive of interviews with prominent international law scholars and practitioners. The site includes audio files and transcripts of the interviews.
Interviewees include:
Judge Stephen Schwebel
Professor Elihu Lauterpacht
Professor Derek Bowett
Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Many thanks to the folks at the Squire Law Library for creating and maintaining this resource that brings personal and historical perspectives to the discipline of international law.
Eminent Scholars Archive
West’s Legal Ed Center has a free video program called “Filming Legal Cultures: French and American Civil Procedures Compared” in which U.S. and French judges and practictioners dicuss the differences between American and French civil litigtaion. In addition to the video discussion, the site also provides handouts.
https://westlegaledcenter.com
Program Description:
As more and more French companies conduct business in the United States, they face the possibility of being sued. U.S. companies conducting business in France face a similar possibility in France. It is difficult for them to grasp the nuances of working within these two very different legal systems. It is easier to learn about the law than to comprehend the culture of a foreign court. This innovative project seeks to make such understanding possible through the use of images.
Judge Antoine Garapon, head of the Institut des Hautes Études sur la Justice in France and author of Juger en Amérique et en France, along Daniel Schimmel, an American litigator with Shearman and Sterling will explore some of the intricacies of the two systems in a completely new manner. Their analysis of images of both French and American civil trials will show how practitioners, companies, academics, judges, and others working in a global environment can reach a better understanding of U.S. and French legal cultures.
The Paris based Foundation for Continental Law (Fondation pour le droit continental) offers a three week course on foreign, comparative and international law. This year’s program includes courses on Asian legal systems, bioethics law, comparative constitutional law, international litigation, and introduction to Roman law. Professors come from throughout Europe and classes are offered in French and English.
Foundation for Continental Law – Summer University for Continental Law. July 6 -July 25, 2009 http://www.fondation-droitcontinental.org/7.aspx?sr=0
The Summer University for Continental Law was established by the Foundation for Continental Law under the direction of its International Scientific Council.
The Summer University of the Foundation for Continental Law is the new and international, yearly meeting place for persons interested in continental legal culture, whether they are academic scholars, legal professionals, or students.
The Summer University offers a training course with a Certificate in Continental Law upon completion. It focuses on students having completed their legal studies’ cycle, on professors and professionals.
The Summer University, in addition, provides the opportunity for networking and establishing numerous international contacts. This will be a true international campus that is held in Paris each year
Edizione Giuridiche Simone has made available a collection of Italian language dictionaries free of charge. The Law Dictionary (Dizionario giuridico) includes annotations to legislation. Other dictionaries inclide canonical law, political philosophy and the Historical Dictionary of Italian and European Law (Dizionario storico del dritto italiano ed europeo). These dictionaries are searchbale free of charge, but all content is in Italian. Grazie mille ai nostri amici dell’ EGS.
Edizione Giuridiche Simone online dictionaries
Bolivian voters approved a new constitution in a national referendum on Sunday, January 25. This constitution should be of interest to students of Latin American law, indigenous rights, minority language rights, and sustainable development law.
Full-text (Spanish) of the new Constitution can be found here:
http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/TextoCPE.pdf
http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/textos.aspx
New York Times article on the constitutional referendum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/world/americas/26bolivia.html?ref=world
A consortium of German university libraries, led by the University Library of Regensburg, maintains the Electromic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek ). This Web site provides links to online journals organized by topic, one of which is law. The law category contains hundreds of journals in dozens of languages. The site conveniently indicates which journals provide free content and those that charge per article. Vielen dank to our German colleagues for this useful journal resource.
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (German Interface)
http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=de
Electronic Journals Library (English interface)
http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en
