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Le fonds commun du droit privé européen
No full textThis paper presents and discusses the cultural reasons which back a scholarly project launched six years ago by the authors at the University of Trento, Italy. The Project is entitled « The Common Core of European Private law ». It involves today more thon one hundred scholars mostly from Europe and the United States and should produce in due course the first published (by Cambridge University Press) outcome. The present essay willfirst describe the immediate and long run goals of the Project, and then will discuss the methodological evolution which has taken place, within the comparative law scholarship, frorn the well known Cornell Studies, directed by R. Schlesinger in the 60s, to current days. After having underlined the cultural and structural guidelines of the Project, the article will tackle the main differences between the « common core approach » and a series of apparently similar « integrative » comparative law enterprises. The need of a wider and deeper knowledge of legal data is stressed by the authors through the comparison of(overt) methods and (hidden) implications pursued by research-oriented enterprises— such as The Common Core Project or the European Case-books Project — on the one hand, and the initiatives whose goal is the creation of rules — such as the Unidroit Principles or the Lando Commission — on the other. The final part of the essay describes the Common Core Project 's framework and organization.Cet article traite de l'objectif, de la méthode et de l'organisation d'un projet de recherche — « The Common Core of European Private Law » — lancé il y a six ans par les auteurs. Aujourd'hui, plus d'une centaine d'experts participent au projet, la plupart venant de l'Europe ou des États-Unis. La recherche donnera bientôt le jour aux premiers volumes qui paraîtront dans une série publiée par Cambridge University Press. L'essai va ici repositionner le projet dans le cadre d'initiatives similaires, dites « inté-gratives », dans le domaine du droit comparé. La première partie de cet article offre une description des objectifs à court et à long terme du projet. La deuxième partie traite de l'évolution méthodologique du droit comparé dans les dernières décennies, en s'attachant notamment aux principales différences entre le projet Common core et les autres projets menés en Europe aujourd'hui. La nécessité d'une connaissance accrue et étendue des données juridiques est mise en exergue par les auteurs à travers la comparaison des méthodes (déclarées) et des implications (cachées) entraînées par les entreprises axées sur la recherche — telles que The Common core project ou le European case-books project — d'un coté, et les initiatives dont le but est la création de règles — telles que les Principes Unidroit ou la Commission Lando — de l'autre. La troisième partie de l'essai propose une description de la structure et de l'organisation du projet Common core.Bussani Mauro, Mattei Ugo. Le fonds commun du droit privé européen. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 52 N°1, Janvier-mars 2000. pp. 29-48
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Las Leyes de la Naturaleza y la naturaleza del Derecho
No full textIn the present work, the author narrates the transition occurred don the science realm, going from a rationalist and mechanist vision of the world, to a more holistic and ecologist one. Still, he shows that this transition has not occurred in the realm of law, which still remains in the previous paradigm. Thus, parting from the conception of law as a vehicle of social action, the author highlights the need that the change occurred in the science realm must happen also in the law paradigm, so it can reach a state of ‘ecology of law’. En el presente trabajo, el autor relata la transición que ha ocurrido en el plano científico, pasando de una visión racionalista y mecanicista del mundo, hacía una visión más bien holística y ecologista. Sin embargo, precisa que dicho cambio no se ha visto reflejado en el mundo del Derecho y de las leyes, que conservan el paradigma anterior. Así, partiendo de la concepción del Derecho como un vehículo de acción social, el autor destaca la necesidad de que el cambio ocurrido en el mundo científico ocurra también en el Derecho, alcanzando así un estado de ‘ecología legal’.
The Laws of Nature and the Nature of Law
No full textEn el presente trabajo, el autor relata la transición que ha ocurrido en el plano científico, pasando de una visión racionalista y mecanicista del mundo, hacía una visión más bien holística y ecologista. Sin embargo, precisa que dicho cambio no se ha visto reflejado en el mundo del Derecho y de las leyes, que conservan el paradigma anterior. Así, partiendo de la concepción del Derecho como un vehículo de acción social, el autor destaca la necesidad de que el cambio ocurrido en el mundo científico ocurra también en el Derecho, alcanzando así un estado de ‘ecología legal’. In the present work, the author narrates the transition occurred don the science realm, going from a rationalist and mechanist vision of the world, to a more holistic and ecologist one. Still, he shows that this transition has not occurred in the realm of law, which still remains in the previous paradigm. Thus, parting from the conception of law as a vehicle of social action, the author highlights the need that the change occurred in the science realm must happen also in the law paradigm, so it can reach a state of ‘ecology of law’.
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
False Conscience: Sustainability and Smart Evolution—Between Law and Power
No full textThe contribution describes the legal phenomenon as a playing field characterized by a progressive regression of the law, understood as a sovereign will from top to bottom, both in the vision of formalist legal positivisms in continental Europe and in realist terms, in the United States. Soft law represents the main strategy to subordinate the law to the interests of the economy, elasticizing environmental law, making it favorable to the market, reducing ecology to the simplistic metric of CO2 emissions. The consequence is a retreat of the statist vertical normativity of law which is not replaced by a de facto power granted to those who control the technology, built by design to close spaces for pluralism and democratic action, in the interest of surveillance and concentrated power in private and government oligopolies. The author concludes by advocating the urgency for genuinely innovative categories, particularly in the legal education, such as the commons, capable of including sustainability into a “new ecological jurisprudence committed to inclusion and solidarity rather than exclusion and struggle”
False Conscience: Sustainability and Smart Evolution—Between Law and Power
No full textThe contribution describes the legal phenomenon as a playing field characterized by a progressive regression of the law, understood as a sovereign will from top to bottom, both in the vision of formalist legal positivisms in continental Europe and in realist terms, in the United States. Soft law represents the main strategy to subordinate the law to the interests of the economy, elasticizing environmental law, making it favorable to the market, reducing ecology to the simplistic metric of CO2 emissions. The consequence is a retreat of the statist vertical normativity of law which is not replaced by a de facto power granted to those who control the technology, built by design to close spaces for pluralism and democratic action, in the interest of surveillance and concentrated power in private and government oligopolies. The author concludes by advocating the urgency for genuinely innovative categories, particularly in the legal education, such as the commons, capable of including sustainability into a “new ecological jurisprudence committed to inclusion and solidarity rather than exclusion and struggle”
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