Comparative Private Law

(Vst.-Nr. 0511)

Title	Comparative Private Law
Description	Content The course held by Prof. Alonso, Babusiaux, Hadžimanović, Fiocchi and Fragu will introduce students to the methods of Comparative Private Law. In doing so, the course will present topical examples of Comparative Private Law in the field of Contract Law, Property Law and Consumer Protection Law. All materials (powerpoint slides, further reading) will be published on this webside (depending on the respective professor’s choice before or after the course). Organisation The course will be held in presence; a podcast will be available of each class about 10 days after the respective lesson (see teaser, above right). Please note, that the recording of podcasts may fail due to technical difficulties. Students who decide to watch the podcast instead of attending, take this decision at their own risk. Should the pandemic situation require it, the teaching will switch to Zoom.
Date	Tuesday, 14:00-15:45
Venue	RAK-E-8 (lecture hall)
Module	See
Preparation	The students will need to read the respective chapters of the following book: Michael Bogdan, Concise introduction to Comparative Law, 2013; ISBN 9789089521255 (and the additional reading material published for each lesson).

Title

Comparative Private Law

Description

Content
The course held by Prof. Alonso, Babusiaux, Hadžimanović, Fiocchi and Fragu will introduce students to the methods of Comparative Private Law. In doing so, the course will present topical examples of Comparative Private Law in the field of Contract Law, Property Law and Consumer Protection Law.
All materials (powerpoint slides, further reading) will be published on this webside (depending on the respective professor’s choice before or after the course).

Organisation
The course will be held in presence; a podcast will be available of each class about 10 days after the respective lesson (see teaser, above right). Please note, that the recording of podcasts may fail due to technical difficulties. Students who decide to watch the podcast instead of attending, take this decision at their own risk.
Should the pandemic situation require it, the teaching will switch to Zoom.

Date

Tuesday, 14:00-15:45

Venue

RAK-E-8 (lecture hall)

Module

See

Preparation

The students will need to read the respective chapters of the following book: Michael Bogdan, Concise introduction to Comparative Law, 2013; ISBN 9789089521255 (and the additional reading material published for each lesson).

The course will be held according to the following provisional schedule:

Date	Lecturer	Subject	Reading (Bogan)	Further material
21.09.21	Alonso	Introduction, Definition and Aims	Part I, Chapter I, 2, 6	Slides 1 (PDF, 3 MB) Samuel (PDF, 1 MB) Zweigert (PDF, 2 MB)
28.09.21	Alonso	Methods	Part I, Chapter I, 4, 5, 7	Slides 2 (PDF, 4 MB) Müller-Chen (PDF, 2 MB)
05.10.21	Alonso	Legal Transplants and Legal Families		Slides 3 (PDF, 18 MB) Reimann (PDF, 5 MB) Siems (PDF, 2 MB)
12.10.21	Hadžimanović	Introduction, Principles and Common Core	Part I, Chapter 7, 8	Addis v Gramophone (PDF, 1000 KB) Hadžimanović (DOC, 108 KB) Reader (DOCX, 75 KB)
19.10.21	Hadžimanović	English Law	Part II, Chapter 9	see above
26.10.21	Hadžimanović	English Law	Part II, Chapter 9	see above
02.11.21	Fragu	French Law	Part II, Chapter 11	Slides (PDF, 3 MB)
09.11.21	Fragu	French Law	Part II, Chapter 11
16.11.21	Babusiaux	German Law	Part II, Chapter 12	Slides (PDF, 1 MB) §823_Commentary BGB (PDF, 6 MB) Markesinis, Unberath the German Law of Torts, p.1-39, 372-505 (PDF, 127 MB)
23.11.21	Babusiaux	German Law	Part II, Chapter 12	Slides 2 (PDF, 431 KB)
30.11.21	Babusiaux	Case Study of Comparison between French and German Law		Brigitte Feuillet-Le Mintier, The Perruche case and French medical liability, Drexel Law Review 4 (2011) pp. 139-149 (PDF, 169 KB) French Law on Wrongful Birth (PDF, 184 KB) German Case Law on Wrongful Birth (PDF, 274 KB)
07.12.21	Fiocchi	Tribal Law	Additional Reading (t.b.d.)	CPL and African Customary Law (PDF, 473 KB)
14.12.21	Fiocchi	Tribal Law	Additional Reading (t.b.d.)
21.12.21

Weiterführende Informationen

The postponed lecture on Friday is held in room RAK-E-8 as usual.

Podcasts of this lecture will be made available here continuously after each lecture: Podcasts Comparative Private Law.

Please note that due to possible technical issues full and complete availability of the podcasts cannot be guaranteed.

Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät Lehrstuhl Alonso

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Comparative Private Law

(Vst.-Nr. 0511)

Weiterführende Informationen

Lecture on Friday, 15th October at 4-6 pm

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