Intro
Avant-propos/Foreword
Contents
Comparative Law and Multicultural Legal Classes: Challenge or Opportunity?
1 The Self and the External World: The Question of Understanding
2 The Genuine Meaning of the Query
3 Comparatio as a Field of Scholarly Activity and as a New, Comparison-Based Form of Legal Education
4 Centrality of Self-Image, or Our Own Place in the World
5 The Problem of Legal Families
6 Successes and Results
7 Challenge and Opportunity
References
Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons

1 The Entrance of the Commons on the Stage of Comparative Law
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Raise of the Commons in the Italian Legal Debate
1.3 Conceptualize the Commons
1.4 Comparative Projects on the Commons
2 Structure and Sense of the Research
2.1 The Commons as the Challenge
2.2 The Questionnaire
2.3 The Legal Systems Covered
2.4 A Comparative Discussion
3 Open Questions
3.1 Understanding the Commons
3.2 Past and Present of the Commons
3.3 Academic Debates on the Commons
3.4 Comparative Analysis

3.5 The Protection of Public Property Beyond the Law in the Books
3.6 Inalienability of Public Goods
3.7 Remedies Against Privatizations
3.8 Remedies Against Nationalization of the Commons
3.9 Comparative Remarks
3.10 Private Property and the Commons
3.11 Private Property and Constitutional Protection
3.12 Exclusion and Access in Property Law
3.13 Comparative Remarks
4 Conflicts and Cases
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Property Rights vs Other Constitutional Rights
4.2.1 Right to Home
4.2.2 Comparative Remarks
4.2.3 Right to Health
4.2.4 Right to Food

4.2.5 Culture
4.2.6 Access to Nature
4.2.7 Partial Final Remarks
4.3 Access to Water
4.3.1 Rural Context
4.3.2 Urban Context
4.4 Informal Communities and Future Generations
4.4.1 Territory
4.4.2 Climate
5 Conclusive Remarks
The UNIDROIT Principles as a Common Frame of Reference for the Uniform Interpretation of National Laws
1 Introduction
2 Foundations for Using the PICC to Interpret and Supplement Domestic Contract Law
2.1 Jurisdictions Lacking Normative Foundations for Applying the PICC to Interpret or Supplement the Domestic Law Governing th ...

2.2 The Concept of ``General Principles of Law ́́as a Source of Application of the PICC
2.3 The PICC as a Codification of the Law Merchant (`lex mercatoria)́
2.4 International ``Trade Usages ́́or Customs as an Alternative Source of the PICC
2.5 Jurisdictions Where the PICC Have Been Used as a Model for Reform of the Domestic Contract Law
2.6 Choice of the PICC as a Means of Interpreting and Supplementing the Applicable Domestic Law
2.7 Use of the PICC by Arbitral Tribunals as Opposed to National Courts