Bell John… Reasons and Context in Comparative Law: Workshop to mark the retirement of Professor John Bell 7 Oct 2019 The Centre for European Legal Studies (Cambridge) kindly sponsored a Comparative law workshop in honour of John Bell, who is retiring in September 2019. The workshop, which was organised by…
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…
Comparative constitutional law… Catalonian Independence: Unbounding a Blood and Belonging Constitutional System 27 Jan 20192 Feb 2019 Last November, the Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would ask for long-term prison sentences for the Catalonian politicians who organised and supported the illegal referendum on the 1st…
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…
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