University of Warsaw Journal of Comparative Law

23/06/2017

Dear Readers,
it is with the greatest pleasure that we would like to announce that Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2017 of the University of Warsaw Journal of Comparative Law is already available on our website.
Follow the link:http://www.uwjcl.wpia.uw.edu.pl/upload/UWJCL-Volume1Issue1January2014-7.pdf
This issue features five articles and one short article:
- Judyta Banaszyńska - The role of public prosecutor and parties in criminal cases – an insight into Polish and American regulations
- Sofie Cristens - The meaning of bad faith in European trademark law
- Patryk Polek - Methods of lifting the veil of incorporation in the company law of the United Kingdom and its judicial difficulties
- Maria Bun - CEFTA and CISFTA as Mechanisms for Introducing Free Trade in Central and Eastern Europe Post-1989
- Michał Bałdowski - An ocean apart: Comparison of Insider Trading regulations in the US and in the EU
- Julia Rychlińska - The system of monitoring wholesale energy markets for electricity and gas – the REMIT Regulation.
We hope you will enjoy reading it and that it may contribute to your daily work, research or studies.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us under: [email protected].

03/11/2016

Dear Readers,

it is with the greatest pleasure that we would like to announce that Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 2016 of the University of Warsaw Journal of Comparative Law is already available on our website.

Follow the link:http://www.uwjcl.wpia.uw.edu.pl/upload/UWJCL-Volume1Issue1January2014-6.pdf

This issue features four articles, three short articles and one case note:

- Sunusi Musa - Comparative Constitutional Law: Analysis of President’s Veto under the USA and Nigerian Constitution

- Jan Sarnowski - Five Shades of Income Splitting. Marriage Taxation in Poland and Germany

- Anano Kuparadze – Separability Presumption in Commercial Arbitration

- Adam Strobeyko – The Validity of the Inquisitorial/Adversarial Division: a study of French, German and English Civil Procedure

- Julia Berg – Human Trafficking in the Legal Systems of Poland and Germany

- Krzysztof Olszak - Selected aspects of formation of the Spanish capital companies

- Daniel Drabarz - The influence of moral responsibility on legal responsibility and definition of causation

- Joanna Mazur - The Impact of European Union Regulations on Development Assistance: Comparison between the United States and Polish Regulations Concerning Official Development Assistance.

We hope you will enjoy reading it and that it may contribute to your daily work, research or studies.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us under: [email protected].

The University of Warsaw Journal of Comparative Law has been established in 2013 as a scholarly Journal welcoming legal scholars and professionals from various jurisdictions to contribute to the study of differences and similarities between different legal systems.

30/09/2015

Szanowni Państwo,

informujemy, że tegoroczne wydanie monografii prawnoporównawczej przygotowanej przez Common Law Society WPiA UW jest dostępne pod niżej wskazanym adresem:

http://issuu.com/commonlawsociety/docs/monografia_prawa_por__wnawczego

Życzymy przyjemnej lektury!

Lista Autorów i artykułów tegorocznej monografii:

1. Agata Kleczkowska – Cultural defense w amerykańskim procesie karnym
2. Aleksandra Frelek – Instytucja klauzuli sumienia w prawie polskim i niemieckim
3. Aleksandra Pijas – Plan pracowniczej własności akcji w Stanach Zjednoczonych
4. Andrzej Girdwoyń – Zmiana przepisów o ubezwłasnowolnieniu. Rozwiązania niemieckie i angielskie a dylematy polskiego ustawodawcy
5. Aneta Kmoch – Class action w prawie amerykańskim a postępowanie grupowe w prawie polskim. Różnice formalne i ich praktyczne konsekwencje
6. Antoni Roszkowski – Financial assistance w kontekście wykupów lewarowanych w prawie polskim i w prawie wybranych państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej
7. Bartosz Gryziak – Między fiskusem a podatnikiem – różne sposoby kształtowania relacji na wybranych przykładach
8. Dominika Jędrzejczyk – Konsekwencje przyjęcia porozumienia CETA dla porządku prawnego Kanady i Państw Członkowskich UE
9. Dominika Zielińska – Listy zastawne jako źródło refinansowania działalności banków w świetle prawa polskiego i niemieckiego.
10. Iwona Jasiak – Problematyka zbiegu roszczeń ex delicto i ex contractu w prawie francuskim
11. Jadwiga Glanc – Instytucja nadużycia prawa głosu we francuskim prawie spółek
12. Joanna Kaźmierczak – Roszczenie o wykonanie zobowiązania w ujęciu komparatystycznym
13. Judyta Kasperkiewicz - Przestępstwo oszustwa komputerowego w Polsce i Wielkiej Brytanii
14. Karolina Pasko – Odstąpienie od umowy w polskim i włoskim prawie cywilnym
15. Krzysztof Mularski – Actio publiciana wczoraj i dziś. Wybrane wątki z debaty nad obecnością petytoryjnej ochrony posiadania w prawie polskim i współczesny zarys stanowiska
16. Maciej Balcerowski/Diana Bożek – Odpowiedzialność cywilna pośrednika ubezpieczeniowego w prawie polskim i amerykańskim
17. Magdalena Nabielec - Narodziny dziecka darczyńcy jako powód odwołania darowizny na tle włoskiego prawa cywilnego
18. Malwina Sulińska – Parodia a instytucja fair dealing w prawie kanadyjskim. Od Ludlow Music do czasów obecnych – ewolucja w podejściu do parodii
19. Małgorzata Moczulska – Ugoda w sprawie o podział majątku wspólnego małżonków na tle prawnoporównawczym
20. Marcin Jan Stępień – Zbiorowe zarządzanie prawami autorskimi i pokrewnymi w Federacji Rosyjskiej
21. Marcin Lisowski – Terms implied in fact w prawie angielskim
22. Mariola Jakubowska – Kontradyktoryjny model procesu w prawie polskim i prawie amerykańskim
23. Marta Błachnio – Rozważania na temat odpowiedzialności w prawie ochrony środowiska Państw Członkowskich Unii Europejskiej na tle rozwiązań prawnych przyjętych w dyrektywie 2004/35/WE
24. Marta Kaźmierczak – Modele regulacji prawnych dotyczących związków jednopłciowych w Europie oraz sytuacja prawna w Polsce
25. Marta Zglińska – Don't ask, don't tell. Zasada w amerykańskim prawie wojskowym
26. Michał Dorociak - „Bardziej ekonomiczne podejście” - o modernizacji prawa konkurencji w zakresie zakazu nadużycia pozycji dominującej
27. Miłosz Jamrocha – Poszukiwanie dowodów elektronicznych w polskim postępowaniu karnym i wybranych zagranicznych systemach prawa
28. Patrycja Słyś – Okres próbny w polskim i francuskim prawie pracy
29. Paulina Konarska – Metody wyrażania zgody na pobranie komórek, tkanek i narządów ex mortuo na przykładzie prawodawstwa Polski, Wielkiej Brytanii i Stanów Zjednoczonych
30. Zuzanna Morawska – Wrongful birth claim – w prawie polskim oraz holenderskim
31. Daniel Drabarz – A brief overview of French, Italian & German Loss of Chance
32. Daniel Zatorski – Collateral estoppel in international arbitration
33. Katarzyna Południak/Izabela Skoczeń – Public access to official documents in the Polish and Swedish legal systems
34. Mateusz Małota – A comparative look into English and Polish copyright law
35. Michał Habas – Hands across the sea. TTIP's challenges and implications (short article)
36. Oskar Marszałek – Contract formation – negotiation, offer and acceptance in light of the Polish law and the Common law
37. Radomir Szewczuk – Consideration and its counterparts in civil law

Publikacja naukowa z zakresu komparatystyki prawniczej przygotowana przez Common Law Society (Wydział Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego) w roku akademickim 2014/2015.

26/01/2014

Dear Readers,

it is with the greatest pleasure that we would like to announce that Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2014 of the University of Warsaw Journal of Comparative Law is already available on our website.

Follow the link: http://uwjcl.wpia.uw.edu.pl/?id=issues

We hope you will enjoy reading it and that it may contribute to your daily work, research or studies.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us under: [email protected].

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07/01/2014

Last month the Australian High Court ruled that methods of medical treatment of the human body can be patentable inventions.
Australia hence joins the United States where methods of medical treatment fall within the patentable subject-matter.
The EU remains however opposed to such an approach.

Should medical treatment methods be patentable? Can the decision of Australia's High Court impact other countries and in particular the EU?

Follow at: http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/australian-high-court-confirms-that-meth-45718/?utm_source=jds&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=legalalerts

06/01/2014

Tunisia's Parliament rejected Islam as the main source of law for the country and opts in its new constitution for secular civil law rather than Sharia.

Follow this brief update at the Jurist: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/01/tunisia-assembly-opts-for-civil-law-over-shari-in-constitution.php

02/01/2014

As the European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that "life" imprisonment sentences violate the European Convention on Human Rights, British ministers are considering to change sentencing rules and allow judges to send criminals to jail for decades and even hundreds of years.

Such US-style jail sentences would allow to get round the ban by ECHR judges.


Follow on The Telegraph.

Murderers and other offenders convicted of very serious crimes could be given US-style jail sentences lasting hundreds of years to get round a ban by European human rights judges, The Telegraph can disclose

02/01/2014

Conflict of Laws .net reports today on the publication by the Hague Conference of Private International Law of the General Principles for Judicial Communications. The principles aim to improve the cooperation of judges in various countries within the context of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

You can find the principles here:http://www.hcch.net/upload/brochure_djc_en.pdf

The Hague Conference on Private International Law has announced the publication of the General Principles for Judicial Communications.

01/01/2014

1 January 2014 is the day on which the so-called 'Obamacare' health reforms come into force in the United States. But this reform, introduced by the Affordable Care Act and aiming to ensure affordable health care to everyone, comes to life amid many voices of criticism.

Do you think this system will prove itself in this upcoming year? How could it impact efforts in other countries to provide an effective health care system for everyone?

Follow on BBC News.

For a recap of what 'Obamacare' is about: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24370967

Millions of Americans are to receive health insurance cover for the first time as President Obama's flagship healthcare reforms come into effect.

01/01/2014

1 January 2014 is the beginning of a New Year but it also marks an important changes for millions of EU citizens. As of today, all EU Member States' restrictions on workers from Romania and Bulgaria have ended allowing them to work freely across the EU.

Also, the Eurozone welcomes today its newest member: Latvia.

How will those two changes shape the European Union in 2014?

Follow on BBC News.

Citizens of Romania and Bulgaria can work without restrictions across the European Union after transitional controls end.

31/12/2013

The European Law Blog has prepared a summary of their Top 10 Most Read Posts of 2013.

What European Union law developments where followed the most by ELB readers this year?

With the end of the year approaching, it is once again time to continue the fine tradition of listing the 10 most read posts of the year for the purpose of this concluding post of 2013. The numbers...

29/12/2013

Does the European Court of Human Rights have too much power?

According to Lord Judge, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the "activism" of the ECHR is undermining the Parliamentary sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

Follow this article from The Telegraph for a glimpse of UK's scepticism towards the ECHR.

Is this attitude present in other European countries and how will it impact the future of the ECHR?

Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice, warns that the European Court of Human Rights is becoming 'unanswerable' and must 'stop here'