Before 1804, France was strictly divided in terms of legal regimes: a part was under Roman civil law while the majority of the territory was under customary laws which, as with common law, gave more flexibility to judges and fewer rights to the state. This dichotomy offers the unique opportunity...

The practice of tuition discounting—providing institutional aid to select students to offset the price of attending a college or university—is widespread in higher education, and its use has increased over the past few decades. NACUBO annually collects tuition discount rates and other data...

In the US, law and economics is so well established that many law schools have given up on a separate law and economics course. It seems obvious that economic theory matters for the interpretation and the evolution of the law. More recently, the empirical law movement has been gaining momentum...

The present article (written in German) discusses whether legal instruments creating uniform private law - either by way of a Convention (a treaty under public international law) or in some other form - should preferably be designed as quot;opt inquot; instruments (meaning that the uniform law...

As regards the emergence of a European private law in our time, this article shows that lessons can be learnt from the history of unification of regionally defined private law in the German Confederation (1815-1866). An important lesson is that the Europeanization of private law will be anything...