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The Power of Comparative Law: What Types of Units Can Comparative Law Compare? (2019)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2019). The Power of Comparative Law: What Types of Units Can Comparative Law Compare?. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 67(4), 861-888. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avz030

What can comparative law compare? It is relatively uncontroversial that certain topics are included in its scope. For example, there is little doubt that any comparison between legal rules of different countries belongs to the field of comparative la... Read More about The Power of Comparative Law: What Types of Units Can Comparative Law Compare?.

The law and ethics of ‘cultural appropriation’ (2019)
Journal Article
Siems, M. (2019). The law and ethics of ‘cultural appropriation’. International Journal of Law in Context, 15(4), 408-423. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552319000405

Cultural appropriation is often defined as the ‘taking of intellectual property, cultural expressions or artefacts, history, and ways of knowledge’. Despite this apparent link to intellectual property, legal issues are only rarely mentioned in the cu... Read More about The law and ethics of ‘cultural appropriation’.

The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros (2019)
Journal Article
Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mucciarelli, F., Schuster, E., & Siems, M. (2019). The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros. European Business Organization Law Review, 20(3), 425-465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40804-019-00157-9

The European Court of Justice’s landmark decision in Centros was heralded as creating the preconditions for a vibrant market for incorporations in the EU. In practice, however, today’s corporate landscape in Europe differs little from that of the lat... Read More about The Illusion of Motion: Corporate (Im)Mobility and the Failed Promise of Centros.

What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law, (2019)
Journal Article
Goanta, C., & Siems, M. (2019). What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law,. Legal Studies, 39(4), 714-734. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2019.8

Harmonisation and legal convergence are core tasks of the European Union. This article explores the question about the determinants for national convergence of EU law, specifically applied to the ever-growing body of European consumer sales law. The... Read More about What Determines National Convergence of EU Law? Measuring the Implementation of Consumer Sales Law,.

The Chinese Social Credit System: A Model for Other Countries? (2019)
Journal Article
Mac Síthigh, D., & Siems, M. (2019). The Chinese Social Credit System: A Model for Other Countries?. Modern Law Review, 82(6), 1034-1071. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12462

Many countries know financial consumer credit ratings, and recent years have also seen a proliferation of rating systems in relation to online platforms and in the ‘sharing economy’, such as eBay, Uber and Airbnb. In the view of many Western observer... Read More about The Chinese Social Credit System: A Model for Other Countries?.