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The Scandinavian Legal Family -An IntroductionMrten Schultz (LLD)
Faculty of Law, Stockholm University;Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law
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Todays Lecture
Introduction to Swedish/Scandinavian law Characteristics of Scandinavian civil law
Why Scandinavian law is not like thecontinental, civil law systems Why Scandinavian law is not like the
common law systems The Scandinavian approach in the era ofglobalization (Europeanization)
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Introduction to Todays Lecture
Civil law (patrimonial law) wheredifferences are most apparent
(Public law and criminal law, an exampleof a Swedish freedom of press andwhistle blower protection)
Emphasis on Swedish law.
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General Observations
Scandinavia and the Nordic countries Language barriers in the Nordic countries
The use of non-national legal sources(from other Nordic countries) in courts,preparatory works, academia, etc.
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Brief Remarks on the ConstitutionalStructure of the Scandinavian
Legal Systems Constitution? Swedish examples
No constitutional court Division of powers The court system
The judge career
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Methodological Remarks
The use of preparatory works Analogies
Legal dogmatics
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Introduction to Scandinavian CivilLaw
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Introduction to Scandinavian CivilLaw
Sweden (Scandinavia): No civil code The Swedish law reform from 1734
Attempts to codify Scandinavian law The Swedish law book (lagboken) is not
a code
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Statutory Law and Judge MadeLaw
Swedish civil law: A patchwork oflegislation and general principles
On the notion of general principles in thiscontext
Systematics of Swedish civil law
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Legislative Gaps
General law of obligations Services (non-consumers)
Unjust enrichment/the law of restitution Negotiorum gestio (Qausi-contracts)
Implications of a void contract
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The Nordic Legislative Co-operation
The Nordic tradition Common legislation: The Act on
Contracts (avtalslagen), the sales of goodsact (kplagen), consumer protectionlegislation
Contemporary projects?
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Statutory Law and Judgemade Law a more detailed view
General contract law Property law
The law of sales Consumer protection law Tort law
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Why Scandinavian law is not like thecontinental systems
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Characteristics of the ContinentalSystems
The civil code: BGB; CC; ABGB; BW, etc. What is a civil code?
The legal-cultural importance ofcodification. The systematic importance of codification
The material importance of codification
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Continental and Scandinavian LawCompared
Again: Sweden (Scandinavia): No civilcode
Many areas of civil law lack legislation General legal principles without (clear)
statutory support
Difficult to find systematic coherence
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Why Scandinavian law is not like thecommon law systems
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Common Law
Judgemade law The idea of leading cases
Distinguishing
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Common Law and Scandinavian(Swedish) Law Compared
The use of analogies in Swedish law as abasis for general legal principles
The loyalty to Parliament of the SupremeCourt
Preparatory works
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Concluding Remarks on
Scandinavian Legal Method
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looking back
General legal principles and analogies The use of preparatory works
The uneasy place of constitutionalarguments
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The Heritage from theScandinavian Legal Realists
The Scandinavian legal realist movement Hgerstrm founder of the Uppsala-school Olivecrona & Lundstedt (Swedish) Alf Ross (Denmark)
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On the relationship with American legal realism
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Tenets of Scandinavian LegalRealism
Emotivism Non-Cognitivism
Moral anti- realism (value nihilism)
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Consequences for legalanalysis
Vicious circles and empty legal language Repudiation of fundamental legal
concepts: Rights, wrongfulness(Rechtswidrigkeit ), etc.
The notion of justice