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Transition-metal oxides (TMOs) show remarkable properties, not found in standard semiconductors, such as high-temperature superconductivity, large magnetoresistance, metalto-insulator transitions, or photo-catalytic behavior. The realization of …

Abstract In line with the French codification model, continental codes have been presented as a decisive technique for achieving legal unification and legal positivism. From this perspective, codes would not be compatible with other sources besides the …

Abstract In this contribution, the author reflects on the relationship between constitutional history and comparison at the European level. This is a particularly stimulating and complex context for the application of comparative legal history . This …

Abstract This paper will examine the role of doctrine in the formation of administrative law. It examines the conditions that seem necessary to ensure the emergence of a new branch of law: a specific set of rules, a specific jurisdiction or procedure by …

Abstract When, on the European continent, courts organized under a judicial bureaucracy were forced to issue reasoned judgments, the question arose as to how the plurality of judges was to arrive at a single judgment. The old procedure had allowed each …

Abstract The presentation will discuss some aspects of premodern Swedish legal history from a comparative and European perspective. The development of law will be analyzed in the context of the political situation. Among the themes selected to highlight …

Abstract Much has been said about the specialization and universality of commercial law, giving rise to a fascinating debate that is far from over. The cross-border vocation of the ius mercatorum, which nonetheless bears the hallmarks of legal …

Abstract Twentieth-century legal historians have worked intensively on the birth of the notion of dominium utile , a legal category that was absolutely central during the Ancien Régime. Describing as dominium (property) the right exercised by the vassal …

Abstract Judicial authority is both influenced and shaped by its institutional and normative environment. This interaction is a fundamental aspect of a legal culture. Based on the circumstances specific to the legal tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, …

Abstract Contrary to a widespread view in English historiography, the law of evidence, and in particular the law of testimony, existed in common law before the 18th or 19th century, and owes its existence not so much to the specific features of the legal …

The key massage of this lecture is that we are witnessing the renaissance of electrochemistry and that fundamental understanding of critical electrochemical processes at interfaces in aqueous and organic environments will provide ample opportunities (and …