Distance Teaching in Law: Possibilities for Commonwealth Cooperation by John Goldring

“…Most Commonwealth countries share the heritage of the common law. Many of them face difficulties in training a legal profession to meet current needs. …”
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Entre ethos professionnel et logiques d’entreprises : La recherche et l’innovation dans les agences d’architecture by Mélanie Guenot

“…Encouraged by an incentive and reforming public policy, agency executives are showing a real interest in integrating research or innovation practices into their structures. However, the common law mechanisms open to architecture agencies and designed to promote research and innovation are considered to have received insufficient investments by the field of architecture (CIR, CII, CIFRE). …”
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Considerations concerning the functioning of the simple company by Ana-Maria LUPULESCU

“…The utility of such an approach is obvious, at least given the fact that, according to the legislator's express option, the rules on the simple company constitute the common law in relation to companies, being applicable in the silence of the special law regulating other forms of companies. …”
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The Timeless Quest for Truth in a World of Doubt: Re-Examining Modes of Proof in the Medieval Era by Isaac Amon

“…Through an examination of the rituals of compurgation and the ordeal, which were techniques designed to discover truth prior to the establishment of the inquisition in medieval Europe and the common law jury trial in England, the human quest for intellectual conviction has been indelibly with us since the days of antiquity. …”
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Particularități ale dialogului social în cadrul autorităților și instituțiilor publice by Raluca DIMITRIU

“…The paper contains a number of <em>de lege ferenda </em>proposals, meant to create a special regulation of social dialogue in case of public servants, and to eliminate the application of common law in this regard.</p>…”
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Urgensi Peningkatan Peran Notaris Melalui Implementasi Konsep Cyber Notary dalam Pembuatan Akta di Era Cyber Society 5.0 by Dini Anggraeni, Siti Mahmudah

“…Things that need to be considered are the reasons why Indonesia has not implemented it, such as the suitability of the application of long distance notaries and cyber notaries from common law to the Indonesian legal system, namely civil law and legal reasons that prevent them from being applied. …”
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Twenty-five years of legal education at the IIUM by Rashid, Syed Khalid

“…What makes the law programme at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) unique, is the combining of sharf'ah and common law courses, enabling its graduates to practise law at the civil as well as shartah courts...…”
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Judicial certainty and creativity: an evaluation of stare decisis by Ismail, Ibrahim

“…It is inherited from the English common law. Although the doctrine has its positive aspects such as certainty, stability and continuity but at the same time it also produces some negative elements such as rigidity and in creativity towards the development of a legal system. …”
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Climate change and statutory construction: administrative law expertise and “new” emergencies by Fisher, E

“…This article is a study of how statutory construction arguments are figuring in these cases in common law jurisdictions. Arguments relate to direct and indirect climate change legislative provisions and legislative obligations concerning environmental assessment. …”

Plainly wrong by Perry, A

“…English law and wider common law jurisprudence have endorsed the condition that an appellate court should reject a trial judge's finding of fact which it believes is “plainly wrong”. …”

Divergent evolution in the Law of Torts: Jurisdictional isolation, jurisprudential divergence and explanatory theories by Goudkamp, J, Murphy, J

“…Posner, writing together with William Landes, asserted that ‘ the common law of torts ’ should be accounted for ‘ as if the judges who created the law through decisions operating as precedents in later cases were trying to promote effi cient resource allocation ’ . 2 Many scholars, especially in the United States, remain in the thrall of Posner ’ s economic model.…”

Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis by Armour, J, Deakin, S, Sarkar, P, Siems, M, Singh, A

“…Using a panel dataset covering a range of developed and developing countries, we show that common law systems were more protective of shareholder interests than civil law ones in the period 1995-2005. …”

The values and rules of capacity assessments by Hass, B

“…These arguments count against the prevailing model of assessment in common law countries-the four abilities model-which is often incorrectly advertised as being value-neutral in respect of patient decision-making both by its proponents and in statute. …”

Jurisdiction agreements: exclusive, optional and asymmetrical by Keyes, M, Marshall, BA

“…This article explores the approach to exclusivity under the Hague Choice of Court Convention, the Brussels I Recast, and at common law. We demonstrate that non-uniquely “exclusive” and unilateral optional jurisdiction agreements are uncomfortably accommodated within and inconsistently treated by these regimes, comparing, particularly, the acceptance of unilateral optional agreements in England with their rejection in France.…”

Precedent and fairness by Perry, A

“…Courts in common law systems decide cases as they decided like cases in the past—even if they believe they decided those past cases wrongly. …”

Was Entick v Carrington a landmark? by Endicott, TAO

“…Lord Camden’s decision was a model of the common law method of devising new ways of controlling public powers, while disclaiming any power to legislate and, in fact, claiming to abide by the ‘ancient venerable edifice’ of the constitution. …”

Taking law seriously: essays in honour of Peter Cane

“…Consistently with the international prominence that Cane's research has enjoyed, the contributors are drawn from across the common law world. The volume will be of value to anyone who is interested in Cane's towering contributions to legal scholarship and administrative law and tort law more generally.…”

Strike, under the Industrial Relations Act 1967. / Haslina Hassan by Hassan, Haslina

“…Apart from the provisions of the Act, regards have also been given to the common law provisions in an attempt to compare and to differentiate the sanctions given by both courts and statutes. …”
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Tenancy exempt from registration under the Malaysian torrens system / Mazelan Jamaludin by Jamaludin, Mazelan

“…In Australia, there exists a du y system of land law namely the common Law system of Lana tenure imported directly from England as well as the torrens system devised in Australia.…”
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Islamic finance litigation: problems within the Malaysian Civil Courts structure by Hizri Hasshan

“…Islamic finance litigation is an area of practice which involves application of Shari‘ah law, civil legislations, rules of court and the common law. In the year of 2003, the Malaysian judiciary has taken an administrative step to establish a Muamalat Division at the Kuala Lumpur High Court for adjudication of Islamic financial cases. …”
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