Commercial Law Quarterly. The lectures were part of a special series, "The Common Law and Finance: Perspectives from the Bench …) were invited to reflect on the role of the common law judge in the regulation of commerce and finance. In this introduction …

maximum effect to the principle of freedom of contract in company law. This would not only give corporate lawyers the tool … experimentation. The second claim is that corporate lawyers in common law systems are more open to legal change and innovation than … their civil law colleagues. The difference seems to lie in the more experimental nature of common law compared to civil law …

This paper examines how the 'public' and the 'private' have historically been constructed in the common law and civil … law traditions, and how the differences in the respective constructions of each tradition may explain some observable …

for the trust of English law. The Courts of Seychelles have, however, a statutory equitable jurisdiction. That …

A central requirement in the design of a legal system is the protection of law enforcers from coercion by litigants … through either violence or bribes. The higher the risk of coercion, the greater the need for protection and control of law … France remained less peaceful than England), and may explain many differences between common and civil law traditions with …

Recent finance scholarship finds that countries with legal systems based on the common law provide better investor … protections and have more developed financial markets than civil law countries. These findings echo Hayek's claims of the … superiority of English to French legal institutions. In this paper, I present evidence that common law countries experienced …

literature; yet, it then goes further as it uses distinct categories into which each country’s law is allocated in quantitative … social sciences (initially in economics but subsequently also in political science, sociology and legal scholarship). This …