Professors Jessica Bulman-Pozen and David Pozen (BP&P) strikingly identify and intriguingly elaborate a new category of political dissent, uncivil obedience, which they propose serves as a complement to the betterknown political category civil disobedience.1 Civil disobedience familiarly involves law-breaking that aims not at impunity but rather legal reform and thus arises in the context of re...

The principle of good faith is an important guideline for contractual behaviour that permeates civil law systems. This paper examines how this principle is applied during the negotiation stage of a contract. Select examples from civil law literature of precontractual duties of good faith, and of precontractual behaviour that is deemed to be contrary to good faith, are discussed. This is followe...

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There is a large literature that finds that common law countries perform better than civil law countries in various aspects of the institutional environment. This article extends these findings to another dimension of institutional quality—the cost of registering property. In a sample of 121 countries, we find that the cost of registering property is lower by 26 percent of the world average in ...

A Primer on the Civil-Law System councils of state. In Germany and countries that follow its model, special administrative courts have been created. In theory, ordinary court and administrative court jurisdiction is separate and exclusive, but disputes arise. In France, a special Tribunal of Conflicts decides which is the proper court for a disputed case. In Germany, the court in which the case...

During the past 10 years, extensive studies have shown that schizophrenia is a true biological illness. Like diabetes and hypertension, it cannot be cured as yet, but it often can be controlled by medication. Schizophrenia, therefore, is not a hopeless condition, and many sufferers who receive proper treatment can lead productive lives. The stigma attached to schizophrenia will disappear, and t...

Sivil itaatsizlik, H.David Thoreau’nun kavramsallaştırdığı, demokratik bir toplumda siyasal toplumun ortaya koyduğu hukuk normu ve uygulamanın, adalet, insan hakları gibi sivil temelini oluşturan ilkelere aykırı olduğu yönünde toplumu bireylerin, toplum üzerinden topluma mesaj verme amaçlı, şiddete başvurmayan, kamuya açık eylemidir. itaatsizlik temel hakkıdır. Çoğulculuk farklılığın esas moder...