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par Nicolas Des Groseillers, étudiant à l'EBSI (Université de Montréal) La période Edo (ou l’ère des Tokugawa) marque un tournant dans l’histoire du Japon. Cette période est fortement associée à une bureaucratisation d’un pays qui a longtemps été défini par la guerre. La majorité des membres de la caste guerrière, soit les samouraïs, travailleront à…

The German Constitutional Court has powers that are no weaker than the powers of the US Supreme Court. Justices are openly selected by the political parties. No

Illiberal constitutionalism has spread recently in various parts of the world raising the question of whether it is a viable alternative to its liberal counterp

Governmental interest analysis revolutionized choice of law in the United States and heavily influenced the Second Restatement of the Conflict of Laws, which is

This article analyzes the legal implications of using artificial intelligence in government and how it is challenging the foundations of the administrative stat

How a country allocates cases among its courts depends upon the nature, values, traditions, and history of that country. Focusing on the longstanding distinctio

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. The survey covers significant cases decided in 2023 on choice of law, party autonomy, extraterrito…

On February 20, 2024, the New York Court of Appeals handed down its opinion in Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. The issue presented—which I described in a previous post as the b…

Canada and the European Union are at the forefront of AI regulation in tabling bills, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and the Artificial Intelligence A

In two decisions, Svensson and BestWater, the CJEU found that linking to, or embedding of, protected works freely available on another website does not constitu

This article explores the use of a multi-step research process as a scaffolding technique to teach foreign, comparative, and international law research classes.

Over the last two decades, comparative constitutional inquiry has witnessed tremendous intellectual renaissance. The scholarly pursuits of Mark Tushnet reflect

The article discusses the role of courts in civil law culture using examples of rulings from Polish courts. The study focuses mainly on the relationship between

Based on the experiences of this volume, this chapter challenges two common ways of understanding constitutional courts in transitional regimes – the Descriptiv

All countries with judiciaries allocate judicial authority to various courts. Allocations can be vertical (eg, original or appellate) or horizontal (eg, by geog

Colloque organisé par le MIL (Paris-Créteil), l'ISIT (Paris-Panthéon-Assas), FRAPP, l'Université de Turin ainsi que la maison d'édition Lexis-Nexis sous la direction scientifique de L. Clément-Wilz, I. Cennamo et A. de Laforcade

Whether constitution-making should be constrained has long been debated, but little is known about whether it is possible. We make several contributions to this