Brexit… Merris Amos – Brexit led tinkering with the UK human rights machine: minor adjustment or damaging blow? 13 Sep 201811 Oct 2018 Introduction For supporters of the broadest possible reach of human rights law these are troubled times. But for the comparative law scholar these are also very interesting times. Proponents of…
Current discussions in comparative law… Catherine Valcke – Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 25th October 2018) 30 Aug 201817 Apr 2019 Traditional comparative law is doing just fine. At any rate much better than has been claimed. It is not theoretically random, scientifically aimless and/or methodologically void, thus an intellectually empty…
Comparison in Europe… Publication of papers from BACL Annual Seminar 2017: Comparing UK and Irish law: A special relationship? – Common Law World Review 2018; 47(1): 3–102 1 Jul 2018 The latest edition of the 2018 Common Law World Review is dedicated to papers first delivered at a joint seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law and the Irish…
Comparison in Europe… Inaugural lecture – Comparative Law – QMUL – 3 September 2018 23 Jun 2018 On Monday, September 3rd, 2018, at 5.30 p.m., Mark Van Hoecke, Professor of Comparative Law at Queen Mary University of London, will deliver his inaugural lecture in the G.O.Jones building…
Current discussions in comparative law… New Publication: Mathias Siems, Comparative Law, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press 2018) 28 May 201817 Apr 2019 According to the late John Henry Merryman ‘lawyers are professionally parochial. Comparative law is our effort to be cosmopolitan’. This statement may seem exaggerated, but there is also a good…
Events and News… 2018 Annual Seminar – Comparative Law in Troubled Times – 4th September, QMUL 25 May 201824 Oct 2018 Comparative Law in Troubled Times Annual Seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law 4 September 2018 9.30-12.20 Queen Mary University of London Colette Bowe and Martin Harris Room…
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