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The chapter delves upon some recurring themes underlying Bussani’s scholarship—from his pluralistic view of legal sources, to his emphasis on people’s identity and affiliations as determinants of legal and disputing behavior—as far as the law of obligations in the West is concerned. In this light, the chapter scrutinizes the many ways in which people’s affiliations shape the legal contexts in which they live in, including the legal layers governing their obligations and the life cycle of their contractual and tortious claims. The aim is to provide a glimpse of the many paths of understanding that Bussani’s teachings open up for the study of Western contract and tort law.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This line of research is now being further expanded within the research project ‘The Common Core of European Administrative Law’, jointly led by Mauro Bussani and Giacinto della Cananea (Bocconi University) and funded by the European Research Council for the years 2016–2021: see www.cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/204844_en.html, as well as www.coceal.it.

  2. 2.

    For instance, between 2006 and 2009 Bussani taught a course on ‘Comparative Business Law’ at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macao, P.R.C. In 2014, he was instructor for a course on ‘Comparative Contract and Tort Law’ at the Radzyner School of Law, The Interdisciplinary Center, in Herzliya, Israel. Since 2015 he is teaching ‘Comparative Liability Law’ at the Université d’été du droit continental, held every summer in Paris, France.

  3. 3.

    The course on ‘Comparative Contract Law’ was established in 2009 under Bussani’s direction (and since 2012 is taught by the author), while the course on ‘Comparative Tort Law’ exists since 2015, and is still taught by Bussani himself.

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Infantino, M. (2020). Legal Pluralism in the Western Law of Obligations. In: Fiorentini, F., Infantino, M. (eds) Mentoring Comparative Lawyers: Methods, Times, and Places . Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34754-3_3

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