Annual seminars

The BACL holds an annual symposium on a comparative law theme, usually at the time of the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference. 

  • 2025 seminar (Leeds University) on Comparative Criminal Law.
  • 2024 seminar (Bristol University) on Vulnerable consumers and the law: comparative perspectives. The presentation by Jule Mulder is available here and that by Peter Rott here.
  • 2023 seminar (Oxford Brookes) on Constitutional Legacies and Emancipation in a Comparative Perspective. The presentation by Anashri Pillay is available here and that by Derek O’Brien here.
  • 2022 seminar (King’s College London/online) on Comparative Torts – Liability for AI. Click here for an account of the seminar.
  • 2021 seminar (Durham/online) on the regulation of hate speech online. For a report and the recording of the presentations, click here. The papers were further discussed in a closed workshop online (February 2021), under the joint umbrella of BACL and the Cambridge Centre for Public Law, and with the support of the Human Rights Law Centre of Nottingham University. 
  • 2020 seminar (Exeter/online) on Climate Change and Law: A Comparative Perspective. For the recording of the presentations, click here.
  • 2019 seminar (Preston) in honour of Professor Watson: on transplants and mixed jurisdiction. For the program, click here. For a report on the discussion of transplants by Professor Kischel, click here.
  • 2018 seminar (Queen Mary London) on “Comparative Law in Troubled Times“. For the programme, click here.
  • 2017 seminar (in cooperation with the Irish Society of Comparative Law,   at the University College Dublin) on ‘Comparing UK and Irish law: A special relationship?’. Professor Gilliker, Chair of BACL, wrote an account of the seminar, that can be read here. 
  • 2016 seminar (University of Oxford) on  ‘Bernard Rudden – Comparativist, Legal Scholar, Polymath’. Professor Gilliker, Chair of BACL, wrote an account of the seminar, that can be read here.
  • 2015 seminar (York) on “Comparative Law, the Courts, and the Influence of Europe“.
  • 2014 seminar (Nottingham) on “Transnational judicial conversations“. More details on the programme can be read here.

Publications of BACL Annual Seminars