Recent years have seen a growing literature on cross-citations (i.e. citations between courts from different countries). What explains why such cross-citations occur between some courts but not others? This paper addresses this question with original data on 2,967 citations between the...

Legal scholars, economists and other social scientist often refer to the idea that countries can be classified into a number of ‘legal families' or ‘legal origins'. Yet, this research is unsatisfactory as regards the actual classifications of the legal systems of the world. It is the aim of...

In this Article, we intend to fill a gap in the comparative law literature by adopting a case-based approach to comparative corporate law that highlights the important dimension of specific cases in corporate law matters and how identifiable, but limited issues arising from such case disputes...