Author Archives: Anita Frohlich

International Divorce and the Importance of Comparative Law

The current issue of The Economist contains an article on the variety of divorce laws worldwide and the implications for divorcing multi-national couples.  For the online version of the article, click here. Following is a short excerpt of the article:

How to Tackle a Comparative Law Problem

You are faced with a comparative research task. The sheer amount of material to cover makes you feel dizzy. You need a plan, but you do not know where to start… Here is some help. Professor Örücü has written an article [see the end of this post for the complete reference] outlining an extremely useful step-by-step [...]

How to Visualize Foreign Law in Class

This post discusses the use of movies to visualize how the law of a foreign country works.

Comparative Law Methodology 101: Comparative Law and Economics

Second post in a sequence on comparative law methodology. It discusses the combination of two interesting legal fields: Comparative Law and Law and Economics.

Comparative Law in the Curriculum

This post describes a two-tiered approach on incorporating comparative law in the curriculum.