Monthly Archives: March, 2026
Symposium: ‘Crossroads of Codification: A Comparative Dialogue’: ELTE Law Journal
Preface to the Contributions Regarding ‘Crossroads of Codification: A Comparative Dialogue’ (Orsolya Szeibert) The CISG and Unforeseeable Events (Ulrich Magnus) Codification at the European Level (Peter-Christian Müller-Graff) Codification in the Common Law (John Cartwright) The Civil Law’s Common Law (Christian von Bar) Learning from Common Law? The Binding Nature of the Hungarian Curia’s Judgments (Péter […]
‘Racial Harms, Contracts, and Reparations’
Dorothy Brown, ‘Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past’ (2026). Dorothy Brown’s new book Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with our Past shows that ‘the legacy of slavery … is found in every nook and cranny of American life’ (p 164). So […]
Nadav Shoked, ‘Two Hundred Years of Spite’
ABSTRACT Spite’s role in property law is garnering much academic attention. Yet spite remains strikingly misunderstood. Commentators partaking in the reinvigorated debate over property rights’ nature often point at the law’s prohibition on spiteful uses of property by owners as indicating that property law is sensitive to individuals’ goals and attitudes when distributing powers. This […]
Chałaczkiewicz-Ładna, MacNeil and Esser, ‘Defining Corporate Purpose: From Concept to Practice (Part 2)’
ABSTRACT Corporate purpose became a central focus of business practice and academic research. This paper presents a longitudinal empirical study (2018-2022) of 20 FTSE100 companies, analysing corporate documents to understand the concept of corporate purpose. Although corporate purpose has been widely examined, its practical operationalisation remains underexplored. This study addresses that gap by offering a […]
Gordon-Tapiero, Kaplan and Parchomovsky, ‘Deepfake Liability’
ABSTRACT Deepfake technology is spinning out of control. Recent advancements allow users to quickly, easily, and anonymously create fake yet highly realistic images and videos featuring real people. While this technology has potential benefits, it is widely used nefariously to create pornographic images and videos of young girls. Ninety-eight percent of all deepfake videos online […]
Adrian Cordina, ‘The Regulation of Litigation Funding in Europe: An Application of Principal-Agent Theory’
ABSTRACT Litigation funding in Europe, and third-party funding (TPF) of litigation in particular, has acquired renewed, and perhaps outsized, significance in recent years as the debate over its importance, benefits and drawbacks has grown. This chapter takes an economic approach and systematically applies agency theory to the relationships found in the question of regulating TPF, […]
Lauren Hund, ‘Moving from Medical Risk to Medicolegal Causation: An Exemplar from Stroke tPA Litigation’
ABSTRACT While medical experts often opine about causation in medical malpractice lawsuits, mapping the medical literature onto the probabilistic ‘more likely than not’ legal causation standard sometimes goes beyond medical expertise. In many medical malpractice applications, experts cannot utilize the logic of differential etiology and general and specific causation that are common in toxic tort […]
Jenny Russell, ‘Breaking down “vulnerability” within legal doctrines’
INTRODUCTION ‘Vulnerable’, ‘vulnerability’ and its plural ‘vulnerabilities’ are terms that we use unthinkingly in day-to-day life. We might speak of vulnerable relatives, feeling personally vulnerable, or even of the vulnerability of financial systems. Given the commonplace usage of these terms, it is unsurprising that vulnerability is prevalent in legal discourse too. A Westlaw search for […]
Rachel Leow, ‘Can parents sell their children’s property? A property law perspective’
INTRODUCTION Christmas arrives. Nicki’s nine-year-old son receives a gaming console and many soft toys as Christmas gifts from his doting relatives, each of them delivering the gift right into her son’s hands. Nicki, however, is annoyed. Her son has far too many soft toys: his entire room is covered in them. Nor does her son […]
Hudson and Mitchell, ‘Standing in trusts law, the beneficiary principle and the juridical nature of trustee duties’
INTRODUCTION Private law theory is dominated by questions about duties owed to parties with correlative rights and the remedies that secure performance or respond to breach. Private law theorists rarely consider rules of standing that confer liberties not to refrain from bringing or defending proceedings and powers to bring and defend them. Yet parties with […]