Postgraduate courses CALL FOR PAPERS – Postgraduate Research Workshop on Comparative Law – 11th – 12th April 2019 Lancaster University 8 Jan 20198 Jan 2019 The School of Law, Lancaster University, will host the 2019 BACL Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Law on 11th-12th April 2019. The BACL Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Law is designed for…
Comparison in Europe NEW PUBLICATION: MARY GUY, COMPETITION POLICY IN HEALTHCARE – FRONTIERS IN INSURANCE-BASED AND TAXATION-FUNDED SYSTEMS, INTERSENTIA 2019 7 Jan 2019 How does EU competition law affect national healthcare reforms? Does healthcare merit special treatment, or can competition work in the same way it does in the energy and telecommunications sectors?…
Brexit… New publication – Martin Brenncke – Judicial Law-making in English and German Courts, Intersentia, 2018 26 Nov 201826 Nov 2018 How far do contemporary English and German judges go when they interpret national legislation? Where are the limits of statutory interpretation when judges venture outside the constraints of the text?…
Comparison in Europe… Inaugural Lecture – Professor Mark Van Hoecke – Queen Mary, 2018 15 Oct 201824 Oct 2018 Mark Van Hoecke, Professor of Comparative Law, gave an insightful inaugural lecture on “Do judges reason differently on both sides of the Channel?”, at the School of Law, Queen Mary…
Human rights & comparisons… NEW PUBLICATION: Hélène Tyrrell, Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence (Hart 2018) 11 Oct 201826 Nov 2018 Human Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence sits in Hart’s ‘Studies in Comparative Public Law’ series, which includes two closely related works: The Use of Foreign…
Interdisciplinarity… Geoffrey Samuel – Cinema and Law – TEN DOUBLE BILLS FOR THE COMPARATIST (CONTINUED): IMITATING (FORMS OF) LIFE 27 Sep 201828 Jul 2025 The worlds of law and of film share a phenomenon caused by the rise of fascism in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. Law faculties (in the…
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