Comparative constitutional law… Comments on Irini Katsirea, Press Freedom & Regulation in a Digital Age (OUP 2024) by Thomas Gibbons 11 Jul 202511 Jul 2025 Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Age is an excellent documentation and critical analysis of the way that a set of technological path dependencies has dominated regulatory approaches in…
Uncategorized BACL Book discussion: ‘Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study’, by Peter Coe 30 May 202519 May 2025 In this post I consider following question: Does the regulation against mis-and disinformation pose a threat to press freedom? In my view there are two facets to this question. Firstly,…
Canada… The Spectre of Canada: What Parliament Fears—and Misunderstands, by Chay Burt 23 May 202523 May 2025 In the UK Parliament’s recent Second Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, Canada was repeatedly referenced—often with unease. Several MPs were keen to distance the UK’s…
Comparative administrative law… Online Book Launch: Comparative Administrative Law: An Introduction (Edward Elgar 2025), by Giulio Napolitano and Leonardo Parona – 8th May, 15:00-16:30 CET 14 Apr 202511 May 2025 The Yale Comparative Administrative Law ListServ is proud to host a series of online discussions on comparative administrative law around the world! These online discussions seek to provide opportunities for exchanging ideas…
Current discussions in comparative law… The Omnipresence of Mixity in Public and Private Law, by Vernon Valentine Palmer, Agustín Parise, and Lionel Smith 11 Apr 20256 Apr 2025 Studies on mixed jurisdictions have proliferated during the past decades. A number of law review articles and of edited volumes served in that process of contrasting experiences. The seminal Mixed…
Transnational perspectives ‘The Places In Between’: Introducing the New Concept of Special Economic & Internationalised Jurisdictions, by Willem Theus 4 Apr 202522 Mar 2025 Introduction – The Historical Today There is currently a lack of theoretical framework for comparing some of the legal world’s most interesting developments, namely the creation of semi-autonomous international financial…
Interdisciplinarity Law: A Mode of Spatial Production, by Matteo Nicolini 28 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 The legal-geographical nexus As a set of rules governing human activities, the law has always been in a special relationship with geography. No wonder, therefore, that the legal-geographical nexus has…
Comparative constitutional law Judicial Bricolage – The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges in the 21st Century (Hart 2025), by Tania Groppi, Marie-Claire Ponthoreau and Irene Spigno 21 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 The volume presented is the follow up of the book, edited by Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau, published in 2013, titled The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges (Hart…
Comparative Obligations… The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability (Routledge 2024), presented by Marta Santos Silva 14 Mar 202520 Feb 2025 The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability, edited by Marta Santos Silva, Andrea Nicolussi, Christiane Wendehorst, Pablo Salvador Coderch, Marc Clément and Fryderyk Zoll, explores how private law can…
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