"La enseñanza trascendental de Gierke es haber explicado para la posteridad, de forma explícita, las contradicciones entre el Juristenrecht y el Volkrecht, y la nota característica de la tradición germánica de cara a la edificación de su concepto de un Estado soberano, esto es, la tendencia comunitaria. Sus sistematizaciones sobre la estructura colectiva en la formación del Estado durante la edad media europea, así como sus explicaciones respecto del desenvolvimiento del poder en relación directa con la unidad de un pueblo, demuestran un grado alturado de sensibilidad social en el jurista; tan solo le bastó a Gierke valorar la naturaleza asociativa del ser humano para erigir un sistema integral histórico para exponer los orígenes, diferencias, y las verdaderas necesidades al interno de su tradición". Luis Alejandro Luján Sandoval. Magíster con mención en Derecho Civil y Comercial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Becario de la Comisión Europea para estudios en la Universidad de Bologna (Italia).

This comprehensive Handbook offers a thoughtful survey of contract theories, issues and cases in order to reassess the field's present vision of contract law. It engages a critical search for the fault lines which cross traditions of thought and globalized landscapes. Comparative Contract Law is built around four main groups of insights, including: the genealogies of contractual theoretical thinking; the contentious relationship between private governance and normative regulations; the competing styles used to stage contract law; and the concurring opinions expressed within the domain of other disciplines, such as literature and political theory. The chapters in the book tease out the tensions between a global context and local frameworks as well as the movable thresholds between canonical expressions and heterodox constructions.

Challenges to Legal Theory offers the reader a fascinating journey through a variety of multi-disciplinary topics, ranging from law and literature, and law and religion, to legal philosophy and constitutional law. The collection reflects some of the challenges that the field of legal theory currently faces. It is compiled by a selection of international and Spanish scholars, whose essays are made available in English translation for the first time. The volume is based on a collection of essays, published in Spanish, in honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales, of Complutense University, Madrid, and brings the rich scholarship of pre-eminent Spanish scholars of law and legal theory to an international audience.

This book explores the challenge that the commons present to the private-public dichotomy in a wide variety of national legal systems representing the West European legal tradition as well as post-socialist and post-colonial experiences. It presents national reports from 13 jurisdictions, ranging from Belgium and the South Africa to the US. Constituting the outcome of the 20th General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2018, it offers a valuable and unique resource for the study of comparative law.