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EU fundamental rights; constitutional law; international

Comparative law is a research methodology which has been increasingly fashionable in recent decades, as comparisons between common law and civil law have dominated the law studies landscape. There are many methods of comparative law in use, including comparison of legal rules, comparison of cases, and comparison of legal theories. Each of these methods has strong proponents and opponents. Dogmatic comparisons of rules are criticized for not giving the whole picture of law in action, but prais

In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. However, historians have long recognized that medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law and legal procedure. This book makes the case that one cannot understand the era's cultural trends without considering the profound development of law.

Preface -- 1. Introduction: Cross (?) Fertilisation -- Ewa Letowska ( Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) -- Part I - The Making of Consumer Law in the EU 2. The Origins of Consumer Law and Policy at EU Level -- Ludwig Krm̃er (European Commission, Belgium (retired)) 3. The Early Days of the European Consumer Organisation BEUC, 1962-1985 -- Koen Docter (Euro pean University Institute, Italy) 4. The Intellectual Community of Consumer Law and Policy in the EU Hans-W Micklitz (European University Institute, Italy) -- Part II - The Making of National Consumer Law and Policy and Its Interaction with the EU 5. German Consumer Law: Own Initiatives in the 1970s and Transposition of EU Directives since the 1980s Klaus Tonner (University of Rostock, Germany) 6. The Making of Consumer Law and Policy in Italy -- Guido Alpa (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 7. The Emergence of Nordic Consumer Law and a Nordic Consumer Law Community and Its Impact on Nordic Legal Unity Thomas Wilhelmsson (University of Helsinki, Finland) 8. Consumer Law in Poland: Or There and Back Again -- Aneta Wiewiórowska Domagalska (University of Osnabrück, Germany) and Mateusz Grochowski (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany) 9. Ordoliberalism and Opportunism? The Making of Consumer Law in the UK Iain Ramsay (University of Kent, UK) -- Part III - Post War History and the Sociology of Consumption 10. Consumer Imaginaries, Political Visions and the Ordering of Modern Society -- Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 11. The Making of Consumer Law ? A Sociological Critique Thomas Roethe (Euro pean University Institute, Italy) -- 12. Epilogue: Looking Back to Look Forward Hans-W Micklitz (European University Institute, Italy) and Thomas Wilhelmsson (University of Helsinki, Finland) -- Index

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions.

Foreword To The Florence Integration Project Series -- Acknowledgements -- Table Of Contents (Book 1) -- Cumulative Table Of Cases -- Cumulative Table Of Treaty Provisions -- Cumulative Table Of Constitutional Provisions -- List Of Abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction -- Integration Through Law: Europe And The American Federal Experience � A General Introduction -- Part Ii: A Comparative Political, Legal And Economic Overview -- Federal Democracy: The U.S.A. And Europe Compared � A Political Science Perspective

This book deals with foundation law in various European countries. It sums up contributions from the most outstanding experts in foundation law in fourteen countries. These are either civil law or common law, and their socio-economical situation is considerably different. Despite the outstanding differences in each country, foundations have been growing in number and importance all over Europe in the last decades. Political, economical and social changes occurred in various European countries increased foundations' role. The need to focus on foundations' laws and regulations arose in many States for different reasons. The contributions in this book focus in particular on the recent development of foundation law, on the evolution foundations have undergone in recent years and on trends in law