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Towards a trans-systemic approach to observing Chinese civil law development

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The essence of this article is a comparison of two major codification projects—the new codification of Chinese civil law legislation in the twenty-first century, compared with roots in similar projects of a European Union draft civil code or frame of common reference. This is further compared with the recent project at the Faculty of Law of McGill University to pursue the modern teaching of civil law and common law as a ‘transsystemic’ class-room, a theory that seems to be at play in modern Chinese legislative development.

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Notes

  1. Wieacker 1981, 275–277.

  2. Glenn 2005, 49–51.

  3. Supra. no 1, pp. 280–281.

  4. Lee 1923, 136.

  5. Ibid. at p. 135.

  6. Ibid, at p. 136.

  7. Zimmermann 2004, 32–33.

  8. Ibid. at p. 42.

  9. Legrand 2006, 33.

  10. Legrand 1996, 66.

  11. Legrand 2004, 260.

  12. Kaiserer 2003–2004, 485. Italics in the original.

  13. Ibid, at 491–492.

  14. Janda 2005, 976.

  15. Ibid, at p. 981.

  16. Glenn 2005, 898.

  17. Ibid, at p. 866.

  18. Ibid, at p. 890.

  19. Ibid, p. 867.

  20. Ibid, at p. 872.

  21. Ibid, at. pp. 897–898.

  22. Zweigert and Kötz 1998, 40.

  23. Lubman 1999, 12.

  24. Ibid, at pp. 35–36.

  25. Watson 1991, 147–165.

  26. Watson 1993, 6–7.

  27. Ibid, p. 95.

  28. Ibid, p. 95.

  29. Ibid, p. 99.

  30. Sacco 1991a, b, 1.

  31. Sacco 1991a, b, 343–350.

  32. Chen 2008, 12–15.

  33. Ibid, 14–16.

  34. Ibid, p. 16.

  35. Ibid, p. 19.

  36. Ibid, p. 38.

  37. Head 2009, 77.

  38. Ibid at p. 29 and 32.

  39. Ibid at pp. 40–42.

  40. Ibid, p. 49.

  41. Chen 2008, 23.

  42. Ibid.

  43. Ibid at p. 24; Head 2009, 77 citing a treaty with the United States containing a similar promise.

  44. Chen, supra no. 41. at p. 27.

  45. Ibid, 27–28.

  46. Ibid, p. 28.

  47. Chen, supra no. 41. at pp. 329–330.

  48. Ibid at p. 330.

  49. Ibid. at pp. 331–333.

  50. Head, supra no. 37. at pp. 86–87.

  51. Chen, supra no. 41. at p. 70, citing comparison by W.C. Jones.

  52. Green 2008, 126–136.

  53. Chen, supra no. 41. at p. 361.

  54. Ibid. at p. 335.

  55. Ibid at pp. 337–338.

  56. Lihong 2009, 1003.

  57. Ibid. at p. 1008.

  58. Ibid at p. 1009; Hui 2002, 291, Xu 2004, 50–51.

  59. Zhang 2000, 241.

  60. Ibid. at pp. 241–242.

  61. Ibid. at p. 241.

  62. Ibid. at p. 244.

  63. Ibid. at p. 244.

  64. Ibid. at pp. 245–253.

  65. Jiang 1996, 248–250.

  66. Ibid, at p. 258.

  67. Potter 2001, 50–51.

  68. Ibid at p. 52.

  69. Ibid at pp. 52–53.

  70. Ibid at p. 53.

  71. Ibid at p. 55.

  72. Zhang 2008, 333.

  73. Chen, supra. no. 41, at pp. 376–377.

  74. Ibid. at p. 378.

  75. Ibid. at pp. 68–69.

  76. Schmelzer 2008–2009, 137.

  77. Ibid. at p. 137.

  78. Ibid, p. 158.

  79. Chen 2007, 23.

  80. Zhang, supra. no 72. at pp. 345–346.

  81. Ibid, at p. 355.

  82. Ibid, at p. 356.

  83. Chen, supra. no. 41, at p. 62.

  84. Lubman, infra. no. 94 at p. 77.

  85. Chen, supra. no. 41, at pp. 52–53.

  86. Ibid.

  87. Head, supra. no. 37, at p. 147.

  88. Head, ibid. at pp. 147–148.

  89. Head, ibid. at p. 148.

  90. Head, ibid. at pp. 206–207.

  91. Ibid, pp. 208–209.

  92. Ibid, pp. 210–213.

  93. Ibid, p. 214.

  94. Lubman 2006, 80–83.

  95. Lubman, supra no. 37., at pp. 85–87.

  96. Lubman, ibid. at. pp. 87–88.

  97. Ibid, p. 88.

  98. Ibid, p. 90.

  99. Ibid, p. 91.

  100. Ibid, p. 92.

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Comeau-Gallimore, S. Towards a trans-systemic approach to observing Chinese civil law development. China-EU Law J 2, 161–184 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12689-013-0030-8

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