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…
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…
Comparison in Europe… From the “Democratic Deficit” to a “Democratic Surplus”: Constructing Administrative Democracy in Europe 8 Jan 201817 Apr 2019 When academics, policymakers, media commentators, and citizens talk about a European Union (EU) “democratic deficit,” they often miss part of the story. My new book, From the “Democratic Deficit” to…