About SCCL:s publications
Researchers affiliated with SCCL publish their research results in a large number of articles and research reports. The ambition is that as much as possible of what is published by these researchers and by speakers at seminars and conferences organised by SCCL will also be available in open access at SCCL (https://publications.sccl.se). However, depending on circumstances and agreements with publishers, this may not take place until some time after the original publication.
With the consent of authors and other holders of rights, we have initially digitalised and made available most of what has been published in the books published by SCCL since 2008. This initially comprises 256 articles written by researchers affiliated with SCCL. Gradually the number of digitally available articles will increase.
The search function in the menu above makes it possible to search for articles both in free text and by author or by the book in which the article was originally published. On the page “Authors” there is a list of all the authors of the articles that have been digitalised and on the page “Books” there is a list of the books that have been digitalised.
In addition to digitalisation and making research results available on the website, SCCL will continue to publish books in SCCL’s publication series. This includes the SCCL Yearbook, anthologies with contributions to specific conferences and separate publications. Together with the publication series, SCCL also publishes festschrifts related to persons active at SCCL.
SCCL has an extensive library on its own premises, which was started through a donation from the late Professor Jan Hellner and through the takeover of the Library of the Institute for Company and Securities Law. The library has since been expanded through various extensive donations.
Since 2024, the Axel Ax:son Johnson Institute for Maritime and Other Transport Law is included as a research panel at SCCL https://sccl.se/forskningsavdelningar/. The Institute for Maritime Law has an extensive physical library located on SCCL’s premises, as well as a digital library available on its website https://www.sjorattsbiblioteket.se/om-institutet.
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Särtryck ur Festskrift till Svante O. Johansson
We, the writers of the below, decided to cooperate with respect to the present article. We have both in various contexts been involved in the drafting of contracts subject to both Swedish and English law.
As is well-known, contracts may turn out to involve disagreement related to their interpretation. Words may mean different things depending on the context, including the commercial or trade setting in which a particular contract is concluded. Different issues may form part of a contractual pattern, where several factors may play a role, which at least to some extent varies between jurisdictions. Aside from what can be established in a semantic exercise, contractual patterns harbour a variety of issues, where trade usage as well as the behaviour by and between the parties may play a role in the search of meaning.
Such factors taken together thus form one basis for the understanding of a contract. These are issues which may have to be considered by a judge, and in his capacity as Supreme Court Justice Svante O. Johansson has had to take related matters into regard in certain cases, and they have also had an impact, where his role as researcher or arbitrator has been involved. Whether this might also be true in those cases where he acted as average adjuster may be more doubtful.
