The Circulation of Legal Ideas and Institutions across Jurisdictions

In this work in progress seminar, the speakers investigate four past and present examples where legal ideas and institutions have moved from their jurisdiction of origin into a new jurisdictional home. The speakers consider the reasons that influenced the process of circulation; why some jurisdictions were especially receptive to outside influence; and how those ideas and institutions were adapted by the process of circulation.

Dr León Carmona Fontaine, Assistant Professor of Private Law, Pontificia Universidad Cathólica de Chile.

· The reception and circulation of trust institutions in South America

Professor Alexandra Braun, Lord President Reid Chair of Law, University of Edinburgh

· Purpose trusts: English influences on Scots law

Dr Grigoris Bacharis, Lecturer in Private Law, University of Edinburgh

· Enforcement torts: How US-style private enforcement is reshaping tort liability in Europe

Professor David Fox, Chair of Common Law, University of Edinburgh

· The transmission of Georg Knapp’s chartal theory into the common law of money
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