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CALUMET: INTERCULTURAL LAW AND HUMANITIES REVIEW 'Calumet is an on-line pioneering review. It was formed with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary collaboration in the face of problems arising from intercultural relationships and their interweaving with legal experience. The premise and starting point of Calumet is the belief that even under the lens of law, people are not norms. More and more often, individuals from different cultures come into daily contact, interact, and arrange their own affairs. History and present intercultural relationships demonstrate, however, that the law inevitably crosses their paths. Normative structures are constantly looming in the background of their actions. The presence of law, perhaps silent at first, is nevertheless ready to burst forth at the first sign of possible conflict. At the same time, every contact between norms coming from different social or political circuits transmits interactions between cultural systems. Those intercultural int...

The latest Journal of Comparative Law (Wildy & Sons), a special issue on ‘interdisciplinary study and comparative law’, is out.  The  Guest Editors are Nicholas HD Foster, Maria Federica Moscati,  and Michael Palmer.  The issue includes: Nicholas HD Foster, Maria Federica Moscati, and Michael Palmer, Introduction Eric Heinze, The Literary Model in Comparative Law: Shaespeare, Corneille, Racine Jaakko Husa, Interdisciplinary Comparative Law – Between Scylla and Charybdis? Dionysia Katelouzou, A Leximetric Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: The Case of Hedge Fund Activism Karen McAuliffe, Translating Ambiguity Fernanda Pirie, Comparison in the Anthropology and History of Law Marian Roberts, A View from the Coal Face: Interdisciplinary Influences on Family Mediation in the United Kingdom Mathias Siems, Bringing in Foreign Ideas: The Quest for ‘Better Law’ in Implicity Comparative Law Florian Wagner-von Papp, Comparative Law & Economics and the ‘...