Graduation Address McGill University

A speech given by professor Reinhard Zimmermann, director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, to the graduates of McGill University is presented. He said the theme of his graduation address is legal history and comparative law. Today, particularly in codified l...

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Published inMcGill law journal Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 231 - 234
Main Author Zimmermann, Reinhard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Montreal McGill Law Journal / Revue de droit de McGill 01.12.2010
McGill Law Journal (Canada)
McGill University Faculty of Law
Subjects
Comparative law
Evaluation
International law
Legal history
Legal professions
Zimmermann, Reinhard
Canada
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Summary:A speech given by professor Reinhard Zimmermann, director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, to the graduates of McGill University is presented. He said the theme of his graduation address is legal history and comparative law. Today, particularly in codified legal systems, people are used to regarding their private laws as comprehensive and closed systems of legal rules constituting an autonomous interpretational space. Duties to disclose and dealing in good faith, change of circumstances, and the effect of undue influence on wills and contracts: these are all issues that every modern legal system in the Western world has to grapple with.
ISSN:0024-9041
1920-6356
DOI:10.7202/045702ar