Private Law Theory

ABSTRACT
The common law is often referred to in the singular, as if ‘the common-law world’ followed a single body of rules and principles. But this has long stopped being true, assuming it ever was. The common law has become a multiplicity of common laws, thereby bringing about the possibility of an exercise in comparison between legal systems historically rooted in English law: ‘comparative common law’. One principal stake of this exercise is to maintain, if not the unity of rules between those countries, at least that of a common sphere of dialogue between them.

Descheemaeker, Eric, Comparative Common Law (March 30, 2021). 72 Revue internationale de droit comparé (2020), 915-48.

First posted 2021-04-15 14:45:51