Bell John… Basil Markesinis: An Appreciation, by John Bell 23 May 202328 Jul 2025 Professor Sir Basil Markesinis QC, FBA, Doctor honoris causa (mult.) died on 23 April 2023 at the age of 78. Markesinis was a distinguished comparative lawyer whose career spanned forty…
Comparative private law… Basil Markesinis KC FBA (1944-2023): A tribute by Professor Roy Goode 17 May 202328 Jul 2025 With the death of Sir Basil (Vassili) Markesinis, who sadly passed away at his home on 23 April aged 78 after a long illness, we have lost not only an…
FRance… Justifying Strict Liability: A Comparative Perspective, by Marco Cappelletti 31 Mar 202330 Mar 2023 The imposition of strict liability in tort law is controversial, and its theoretical foundations are the object of vigorous debate. Why do or should we impose strict liability on employers…
Comparative private law Public Policy and Private International Law – A Comparative Guide (Elgar Comparative Guides, 2022), edited by Olaf Meyer 10 Feb 20239 Feb 2023 “Public Policy and Private International Law” seeks to shed some light on a difficult and sometimes highly controversial area of the conflict of laws. Private international law proceeds from the…
Comparative Obligations… Unifying European Private Law in the Interwar Period: The Case of the Franco-Italian Draft Code of Obligations and the Polish Code of Obligations, by K. Kryla-Cudna 3 Feb 20232 Feb 2023 Introduction In a previous post, Aleksander Grebieniow and Jan Rudnicki discussed the process of unification of the Polish law of obligations in the interwar period. As explained by the authors,…
Australia… Explaining Tort and Crime (CUP 2022), by M Dyson 20 Jan 202314 Jan 2023 Explaining Tort and Crime describes how English examples of the relationship between tort and crime have developed over the last 170 years, testing those explanations against examples from other legal…
Common law world… Event – Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World 13 Jan 202312 Jan 2023 The new University of Bristol Centre for Private and Commercial Law will be formally launched on 8 February 2023 starting at 17.00-19.00 in the Lady Hale Moot Court 8-10 Berkeley…
Seminar… Comparative Torts – Liability for AI, by Emmanuelle Lemaire 9 Dec 202228 Jul 2023 The BACL Annual Seminar, chaired by Professor TT Arvind (York University), took place online on 6th September 2022 at the start of Society of Legal Scholar’s Annual Conference at King’s…
Comparative private law… A Mixed Jurisdiction in the Middle of Europe? Poland’s Interwar Experience 1918-1939, by A Grebieniow and J Rudnicki 11 Nov 20224 Nov 2022 Introduction A ‘mixed legal jurisdiction’ is typically a legal order where the common law and civilian traditions intermingle. So says the primary comparative legal literature (H.P. Glenn, Legal Traditions of…
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