Comparative constitutional law… Comments on Irini Katsirea, Press Freedom & Regulation in a Digital Age (OUP 2024) by Thomas Gibbons 11 Jul 202511 Jul 2025 Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Age is an excellent documentation and critical analysis of the way that a set of technological path dependencies has dominated regulatory approaches in…
Canada… The Spectre of Canada: What Parliament Fears—and Misunderstands, by Chay Burt 23 May 202523 May 2025 In the UK Parliament’s recent Second Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, Canada was repeatedly referenced—often with unease. Several MPs were keen to distance the UK’s…
Comparative constitutional law Judicial Bricolage – The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges in the 21st Century (Hart 2025), by Tania Groppi, Marie-Claire Ponthoreau and Irene Spigno 21 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 The volume presented is the follow up of the book, edited by Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau, published in 2013, titled The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges (Hart…
Comparative constitutional law Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study 16 Mar 202513 May 2025 Book discussion on 29 April 2025 (12:30-14:00) (webinar recording now available) On 29 April 2025, the British Association of Comparative Law hosted a discussion of Dr Irini Katsirea’s book, Press…
Comparative constitutional law… Parliamentary practices: a study of comparative constitutional law in France and the United Kingdom, by ME BOGGIO – MOTHERON 7 Mar 2025 A comparison of the incomparable : developing a theory of unwritten parliamentary sources The use of comparison in the study of parliamentary law is not an uncommon occurrence. Indeed, several studies…
Comparative constitutional law The Accountability of Executive Power: New Paths into a Constitutional Black Box, by G Tusseau 28 Feb 202528 Feb 2025 Is there anything new to say about such a classic subject as executive power? Two books, Comparative Executive Power in Europe: Perspectives on Accountability from Law, History and Political Science and…
Comparative constitutional law Book Review – Leah Trueblood’s Referendums as Representative Democracy, by Joel I- Colón-Ríos 21 Feb 202514 Mar 2025 Leah Trueblood has written an important book about the relationship between referendums and constitutional change. Referendums as Representative Democracy(Hart 2024) challenges the way in which referendums have been generally conceived…
Comparative constitutional law Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study (OUP, 2024) by Irini Katsirea 14 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study aims to explore the changed environment in which the press operates and the regulatory challenges it faces in the…
Comparative constitutional law… Frede Castberg (1893–1977): A Call for Moderate Constructivism in Nordic and International law, by Sören Koch 21 Jun 202421 Jun 2024 Introduction Despite having a separate legal system and jurisdiction which has roots back to the medieval period, traditionally, Norway was highly impacted by discourses on legal developments taking place outside…
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