Unification of Private Law and Codification of International Law

Legal Engineering in Israeli Law: Codification and Unification of the Law of Remedies

Legal engineering is the process of designing, constructing and finally implementing means to influence the development of a legal system. In Israel, a relatively young legal system, the concepts of legal engineering and comparative law are deeply interconnected. This interconnection is best reflected in the area of private law. The development of this area of the law, almost since the very inc...

evasion of law in private international law

it is generally accepted that no one is allowed to abuse his legal rights accorded by a country for evasion from some limitations provided by the same country and several laws and verdicts have considered and confirmed this requirement as a rule. nevertheless there is neither common sense about neither the conditions under which such a rule may be applied nor the reactions to be taken against s...

Canada's Criminal Law Codification

La r6forme du droit par la codification et son histoire semblent fasciner tout juriste, et notamment le juriste qu6b6cois. L'auteur analyse l'histoire et l'historiographie de ce genre particulier de r~forme h partir d'un recent historique de la codification du droit p6nal canadien de 1892. Toujours conscient des pifges du r6visionnisme et du prsentisme, il 6tablit un paralle entre cette codific...

Codification of the Criminal Law

A Logical Model of Private International Law

We provide a logical analysis of private international law, the body of law establishing when courts of a country should decide a case (jurisdiction) and what legal system they should apply to this purpose (choice of law). A formal model of the resulting interaction among multiple legal systems is proposed based on modular argumentation. It is argued that the model provided might be useful for ...