Conferences and workshops… BACL Postgraduate Workshop Thursday 11th April-Friday 12th April 2019. 5 May 20196 May 2019 Thank you to Dr Mary Guy for organising this year’s annual BACL workshop, which was kindly supported by Intersentia and hosted by Lancaster University. As in previous years, many different…
Current discussions in comparative law… Interview with Uwe Kischel on his book Comparative Law (OUP 2019) 29 Apr 201929 Apr 2019 Uwe Kischel’s comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the central tenets of comparative legal scholarship. The first part of the book is dedicated to general aspects…
Human rights & comparisons The ‘Tinkerbell moment”: why we should care about Comparative Human Rights Law 23 Apr 2019 The human rights contestations facing courts in different jurisdictions are remarkably similar. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include racist speech? What are the appropriate…
Comparative labour law… Labour Constitutions and Comparative Law 14 Apr 2019 In recent years, a debate has raged among scholars of labour law regarding the nature and scope of the discipline today, in an era when so many of the premises…
Brexit… Brexit as a secession 2 Apr 201914 Apr 2019 Unlike breach, withdrawal from an international treaty is in principle a lawful act. Article 54 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of the Treaties allows a State to withdraw…
Torts Understanding Vicarious Liability in Tort – The value of a comparative perspective 17 Feb 201917 Feb 2019 In this blog, I will discuss two recent publications which address comparatively the doctrine of vicarious liability in tort and demonstrate the value of a comparative perspective in this field. …