The Congress of Vienna insisted on the creation of a strong buffer state against post Napoleonic France. Therefore the Southern Netherlands, roughly today’s Belgium, were merged into the new Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. The Kingdom became known as the ‘United Netherlands’. The Kingdom’s Constitution was amended accordingly by referendum, albeit with limited suffrage...Read More

Legal scholarship is notorious for the long form. Really long! Back in the day, the most influential legal scholars were the treatise writers—the heirs of Blackstone and Chancellor Kent—you know the names: Corbin, Davis, Moore, Nimmer, Wigmore, Williston, and Wright. And let us not forget the last great modern treatise—Tribe’s American Constitutional Law—an attempt to...Read More

He was the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. He wrote several books — the most famous was The Concept of Law (1961). This book was republished with a posthumous (i.e. after his death) postscript in 1994. In The Concept of Law, Hart explains his theory of law. He also criticized others’ ideas....Read More

Unlike most other subjects in the law school curriculum, Comparative Law is not a body of rules and principles. It is primarily a method, a way of looking at legal problems, legal institutions, and entire legal systems. By the use of the method of comparison, it becomes possible to make observations and to gain insights...Read More