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unusual facts about comparative law



Eugen Huber

After 1908, he was one foreign correspondent of the first comparative law journal in the U.S., the Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association.

Swiss Civil Code

It was largely influenced by the German civil code, and partly influenced by the French civil code, but the majority of comparative law scholars (such as K. Zweigert and Rodolfo Sacco) argue that the Swiss code derives from a distinct paradigm of civil law.

Swiss law

It was largely influenced by the German civil code, and partly influenced by the French civil code, but the majority of comparative law scholars (such as K. Zweigert and Rodolfo Sacco) argue that the Swiss code derives from a distinct paradigm of civil law.


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African Journal of International and Comparative Law

The African Journal of International and Comparative Law is published twice yearly by the Edinburgh University Press in March and September.

Carlos Mendoza Davis

He earned a law degree with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1992, for which he wrote the thesis Human rights and their protection in Mexican constitutional law. In 1994 he attended the Institute of International and Comparative Law summer school in France, sponsored by the Cornell Law School and the University of Paris.

Chang King-yuh

Chang obtained his bachelor's degree in law from National Taiwan University, master's degree in diplomacy from National Chengchi University, master's degree in comparative law and doctoral degree from Columbia University in the United States.

David McGuinty

He earned a Diploma in Agriculture from the Kemptville College of Agriculture, a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of Ottawa, specialized diplomas in Civil and Comparative Law at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Ottawa, and finally a Master of Laws at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gela Bezhuashvili

In 1997 obtained Master of Law degree, LL.M-International and Comparative Law, Southern Methodist University (SMU) School of Law, Dallas, United States.

George Maior

He graduated in 1991 from the Law Faculty of Babeș-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, and in 1992 from the Faculty of International and Comparative Law of George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. He is a doctor of law, a title obtained at UNESCO in 1998.

George P. Fletcher

He studied at the University of Freiburg from 1964 to 1965 and received a Masters in Comparative Law in 1965 from the University of Chicago.

Giacinto Auriti

He graduated in Rome, where he taught maritime, international, private and comparative law.

Javier Martínez-Torrón

He is also, since 2001, part-time Professor of the Saint Louis University Law School (Comparative Law, Summer Law Courses).

John N. Hazard

He was associated with the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia and helped shape its programs in Russian and East European law.

Mads Andenæs

He is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo and the former Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and the former Director of the Centre of European Law at King’s College, University of London.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond

She also holds a certificate in the international and comparative law of human rights from the University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.

Roger M. Milgrim

He did graduate comparative law studies at NYU and the University of Paris School of Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

Suri Ratnapala

He is a Professor of Public Law and Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law in the School of Law at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Ugo Mattei

Ugo Mattei (born 1961 in Turin, Piedmont) is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California and a full Professor of Civil Law in the University of Turin, Italy.

Viscount Mountmorres

He was the son of James Edward Geoffrey de Montmorency, Quain Professor of Comparative Law at the University of London.