The essay deals with the features of, and the challenges posed by the initiatives aiming to harmonize European private laws. The first part focuses on the comparison of (overt) methods and (hidden) implications pursued by research-oriented enterprises – such as ‘The Common Core Project’ or...

Using the policy of unified management of local courts below the province, we found that the independence of the judiciary can significantly improve the success rate of firms in administrative litigation cases, promoting the corporate fixed assets investment rate. The positive influence of...

In this paper the author analyses the regime of nullity of a company’s registration, regulated by the Law on the Registration procedure into the Business Agency Register. The focus is on conditions for nullity, possibilities to remedy nullity, time prescription as well as different legal...

This paper makes a conceptual prescription: it argues that judges and lawyers should adopt a positivist concept of law, on normative grounds. The positivist view, I will argue, is more consistent with reasonable disagreement and majority rule than nonpositivist views, offers a better view of...

Chapter 1. Focusing on When Do People Obey Laws and Why It Matters -- Part I: Developing an Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Chapter 2. An Integrated Framework of Compliance With Law as Social Influence: When Law Changes Behaviors -- Chapter 3. When Law Changes Attitudes Within the...