The Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne Law School is proud to announce the launch of Comparative Constitutional Studies (‘CCS’), a new peer reviewed international journal of comparative constitutional law published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Who are we? CCS is edited by Adrienne Stone and Lael Weis (General Editors), Erika Arban (Comments Editor) and … Continue reading Comparative Constitutional Studies – A new international journal
In this newsletter, we look back at another extraordinary year. Notwithstanding the ripple effect of the Covid-19 pandemic and a global economic crisis, BACL activities have continued to attract new audiences online. We have carried on many discussions of Comparative law research and methods and have taken pride in gradually expanding the range of themes … Continue reading BACL Newsletter 2021-22
In the 1990s, Bruce Ackerman defined ‘constitutional moments’ as historic milestones of intense deliberation and change in a country’s politics, change that reflects in the country’s constitutional settlement. Since October 2019, Chile has been going through its own constitutional moment, a moment that began with popular resistance against rising public transport fees in the capital Santiago. Social Rights and … Continue reading Social Rights and the Constitutional Moment: Learning from Chile and International Experiences (Hart 2022), edited by Koldo Casla, Magdalena Sepúlveda, Vicente Silva and Valentina Contreras
Literature on East European legal systems, and especially on Bulgarian law, in the English language is incredibly scarce. Bulgarian Private Law at Crossroads, which marks the beginning of Intersentia’s new ‘Private Law around the World’ series and which is forthcoming in August 2022, responds to this gap in knowledge by surveying the development of the … Continue reading Bulgarian Private Law at Crossroads (Intersentia 2022), by Radosveta Vassileva
I have recently defended my PhD thesis at UCL, which focuses on trusts law in Japan as well as Quebec from an English legal perspective. The thesis has two parts: first, I aim to show that the structures of Japanese and Quebec trusts are highly similar to English express trusts, understood as a set of … Continue reading Structure and Rulemaking in English, Japanese and Quebec Trusts, by Joyman Lee
Public contracts have been rarely subjected to comparative legal research. Foundations of Public Contracts: A Comparative View is a contribution to start filling this gap by studying US, French, and Brazilian laws. The choice of these three legal systems is not casual. Comparative law, being essentially dialectical, develops by antagonisms. Among the influential Western liberal … Continue reading FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC CONTRACTS: A COMPARATIVE VIEW (EDWARD ELGAR 2022), BY JOSÉ GUILHERME GIACOMUZZI
Introduction Imagine a statute that confers powers on an independent regulator to decide on technicalities related to electricity and gas. Imagine a statute or statutory instrument that incorporates articles of a code against doping in sports developed by a privately notarized Swiss organization (World Anti-Doping Agency). Imagine, finally, a labour rule that was made by … Continue reading Outsourcing Rulemaking Powers, by C Jenart
On October 16, 2021, David Peace, a terminally ill patient, claimed that the English legislation had ‘failed' him. Diagnosed in 2019 with a disease affecting his motor skills, this Londoner travelled to Switzerland to benefit from a dignified end to his life without fearing “intolerable” pain. English laws do not allow people near death to … Continue reading Assisted dying: A subject at the heart of legal and societal issues, by L MILLESCAMPS
1. The Metaphor After reading the title, the reader might remember an image of a poor human being rolling a heavy stone up a hill. One may wonder what that image has to do with comparative study of law if the idea is not to say that comparative law is forbiddingly difficult. Now, most of … Continue reading Interdisciplinary Comparative Law – a Sisyphean task? by Jaakko Husa
« Vulnerability in International, European and Comparative law » collects the proceedings of a conference that the Research Centre on European and Comparative Legal Studies (CEJEC) organised at the University of Paris Nanterre in October 2019. This symposium gathered academics, including young researchers (doctors and PhD students from the CEJEC), and practitioners to reflect on the legal … Continue reading La vulnérabilité en droit international, européen et comparé, edited by Augustin Boujeka and Marjolaine Roccati
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