History… Colonial-Era Mixed Courts and Post-World War I Mixed Arbitral Tribunals as Spaces of Transnational and International Legal Innovation and Emulation, by Michel Erpelding 12 Jan 202423 Dec 2023 Introduction: Between the National and the International The numerous legal transfers and instances of cross-jurisdictional dialogue that occurred during the Interwar period did not only take place within or between…
Events and News… Launch of Healthcare, Quality Concerns, and Competition Law (Hart 2023) on 8 March 2024 10 Jan 202414 Dec 2023 Webinar: Friday 8 March 2024, 3pm (UK time) The British Association of Comparative Law is pleased to invite you to a launch of Healthcare, Quality Concerns, and Competition Law (Hart…
Book Review Kriszta Kovács (ed), The Jurisprudence of Particularism: National Identity Claims in Central Europe (Bloomsbury Publishing 2023), ISBN: 9781509960125, reviewed by Radosveta Vassileva 15 Dec 202321 Nov 2023 This much timely and thought-provoking edited collection by Kriszta Kovács, Senior Fellow at the WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism, shines a light on a striking paradox – namely, how V4…
Book Review… Thomas Kadner Graziano, Comparative Contract Law: Exercises in Comparative Methodology (3rd edn, Edward Elgar Publishing 2023), reviewed by Sirko Harder 8 Dec 202314 Jan 2024 2023 saw the publication of the third edition of the highly acclaimed book Comparative Contract Law by Thomas Kadner Graziano, published by Edward Elgar. The subtitle of the book has…
Common law world… The Right to Same Sex Marriage: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Constitutional Interpretation and Comparative Law, by Derek O’Brien 1 Dec 202317 Nov 2023 Introduction Over the previous two decades a consensus had been emerging amongst constitutional courts in the common law world, at both the state and national levels, that laws prohibiting same…
Comparative constitutional law… The Promise and Paradoxes of Transformative Constitutionalism: Protection of LGBTQ+ Rights in India and South Africa, by Anashri Pillay 24 Nov 202311 Nov 2023 In 2013, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) handed down a controversial judgment, Koushal v NAZ Foundation upholding the constitutionality of section 377 of the Indian…
