Bell John… Academic Global Trotters: Comparison of the Italian and French Public Law Academics in the UK, by Marie-Claire Ponthoreau 6 May 20226 May 2022 The United Kingdom is a land of welcome for European academics and this is also true for public law specialists. But for how much longer? Among those who have settled…
Bell John… COMMENTS ON PAUL DALY, Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World, by John Bell 29 Apr 202227 Apr 2022 This is the first piece in a series of comments offered on Paul Daly's book Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (OUP 2021) at a meeting hosted by…
Edouard Lambert… Modern Law and Otherness – The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Comparative Legal Thought (Edward Elgar 2019), by Veronica Corcodel 1 Apr 202224 Feb 2022 Traditional comparative law has been subject to a variety of critiques and, by now, has been surpassed by new and eclectic approaches. Indeed, over the past two decades or so, the…
Transnational perspectives Conflict of Laws – A Comparative Approach – Text and Cases (Edward Elgar, 2nd ed 2022), by Gilles Cuniberti 25 Mar 202224 Feb 2022 This book is the second edition of a casebook which aims at being a teaching tool for a class of comparative private international law (otherwise known as conflict of laws).…
Book Review… Towards future-proof comparative administrative law?, by Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel 18 Mar 202224 Feb 2022 A review of Susan Rose-Ackerman’s Democracy and executive power : Policymaking accountability in the US, the UK, Germany and France (Yale University Press, 2021) It cannot be denied that executive power…
Comparative constitutional law… Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts (Routledge 2020), edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor 11 Mar 20228 Feb 2022 Research aims and hypothesis Constitutional courts determine the shape of the legal order, not only by derogating unconstitutional norms but also by modifying and supplementing those norms that remain as…