Australia… 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…
Seminar… Comparative Torts – Liability for AI, by Emmanuelle Lemaire 9 Dec 202228 Jul 2023 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…