Common law world… Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence–Comparative Perspectives (OUP 2022) – Reflections on Methodology, by Despoina Mantzari 27 Oct 202310 Nov 2023 Introduction One of the principal motives when embarking on this book was to shed light on the challenges expert economic evidence and analysis presents for judicial review in a neighbouring…
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…
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…
Comparative administrative law… Outsourcing Rulemaking Powers, by C Jenart 1 Jul 20221 Jul 2022 Introduction Imagine a statute that confers powers on an independent regulator to decide on technicalities related to electricity and gas. Imagine a statute or statutory instrument that incorporates articles of…
Book Review… Towards future-proof comparative administrative law?, by Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel 18 Mar 202224 Feb 2022 A review of Susan Rose-Ackerman’s Democracy and executive power : Policymaking accountability in the US, the UK, Germany and France (Yale University Press, 2021) It cannot be denied that executive power…
Comparative administrative law… Judging regulators: The political economy of Anglo-American Administrative Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020), by Eric C. Ip 5 Nov 202127 Aug 2021 We tend to think of administrative law as an external constraint on politics, regulation, and public administration, and forget the fact that administrative law actually rests upon political foundations and…
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