British Association of Comparative Law

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The function of the British Association of Comparative law (formerly the UK National Committee for Comparative Law) is to coordinate and encourage comparative legal research and teaching throughout the UK. Its membership is drawn from many of the UK’s Law Schools. Recent Seminars NewslettersContinue reading “Welcome”

Common law world…

The surprising Indian influence on English contractual remoteness rules, by Katy Barnett

27 Jan 202322 Jan 2023

The English case Hadley v Baxendale, which established the fundamental rules governing contractual remoteness in common law countries, seems quintessentially British, an offshoot of the English Industrial Revolution. Hadley’s mill…

Call for papers…

Call for Papers – POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE LAW – 2-3 May 2023, Warwick

24 Jan 202318 Jan 2023

BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF COMPARATIVE LAW POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE LAW 2-3 May 2023 University of Warwick Call for Papers ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Warwick Law School, University of…

Explaining Tort and Crime (CUP 2022), by M Dyson

20 Jan 202314 Jan 2023

Explaining Tort and Crime describes how English examples of the relationship between tort and crime have developed over the last 170 years, testing those explanations against examples from other legal…

Common law world…

Event – Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World

13 Jan 202312 Jan 2023

The new University of Bristol Centre for Private and Commercial Law will be formally launched on 8 February 2023 starting at 17.00-19.00 in the Lady Hale Moot Court 8-10 Berkeley…

Torts

Comparative Torts – Liability for AI, by Emmanuelle Lemaire

9 Dec 20229 Dec 2022

The BACL Annual Seminar, chaired by Professor TT Arvind (York University), took place online on 6th September 2022 at the start of Society of Legal Scholar’s Annual Conference at King’s…

Comparative constitutional law

Comparative Election Law, by James A. Gardner

2 Dec 20222 Dec 2022

A society’s commitment to democracy does not implement itself. Such a commitment must be brought to life by the establishment through law of the rules and institutions by which that…

Interwar Dialogue

Actors, Institutes, and Journals as Cornerstones for the Interwar Development of Comparative Law in Ibero-America, by A Parise

25 Nov 202225 Nov 2022

Law is rarely shaped after one single occurrence. Multiple actors, institutes, and journals, for example, can trigger different mutations, even motivating paradigmatic shifts. Occurrences are indeed tesserae of a mosaic.…

Interdisciplinarity…

Comparative Law & Economics: The Map is Not the Territory, by Ernesto Vargas Weil

22 Nov 202216 Nov 2022

Almost thirty years ago Ugo Mattei declared the ‘methodological wedding’ between two of the most important approaches to the law developed during the 20th century: Law & Economics and Comparative…

Comparative constitutional law

The Language of Constitutional Comparison by Francois Venter (Edward Elgar, 2022)

18 Nov 202213 Jan 2023

1 Constitutional polysemy How constitutional lawyers communicate in the 21st Century has become a matter of concern, because their established lexicon is imbued with implications, suppositions, historical baggage, epistemic premises…

Comparative private law…

A Mixed Jurisdiction in the Middle of Europe? Poland’s Interwar Experience 1918-1939, by A Grebieniow and J Rudnicki

11 Nov 20224 Nov 2022

Introduction A ‘mixed legal jurisdiction’ is typically a legal order where the common law and civilian traditions intermingle. So says the primary comparative legal literature (H.P. Glenn, Legal Traditions of…