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Workshop
Alternative Dispute Resolution Models in China and Western Countries Practice
The Lider Lab of Scuola Sant'Anna in collaboration with the Confucius Institute of Pisa would like to invite you to the workshop on "Alternative Dispute Resolution Models in China and Western Countries Practice"....

Intersentia has published another volume in the Ius Commune Europaeum series. A Uzelac and CH van Rhee (eds), The Landscape of the Legal Professions in Europe and the USA: Continuity and Change
deals with recent developments in the legal profession in Europe and in the United States of America from a comparative and historical perspective. Apart from discussing the legal profession in general, specific attention is paid to the Latin Notary...

The newest issue of the German Law Journal is available. In addition, the editors note the publication of Comparative Law as Transnational Law: A Decade of the German Law Journal (OUP).
The announcement of the journal reads:
This issue is packed to the rim with first-rate, exciting scholarship and it is ---- collaborative! Have a look at our call for papers in conjunction with the English translation of Hermann Kantorowicz's 1906 article on "Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft...

The following 'Dialogue on Comparative Functionalism' between Jaakko Husa and Jan Smits may be of interest:
The use of the functional method when comparing legal systems remains debated, even to such an extent that some authors have discarded functionalism as a fruitful method. The two authors of this paper ask what we can still expect from functionalism....