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…
Comparative constitutional law… Social Media Bans: What Platforms Can Learn From National Courts, by Edoardo Celeste 21 May 20212 Jul 2021 The recent decision by Facebook and Twitter to deplatform former US President Trump after the January 6th Capitol Hill events has generated much public attention. However, social media bans as…
Health care… Sabrina Germain – Justice and Profit in Health Care Law: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and United Kingdom (Hart Publishing 2019) 22 Jan 202113 Jan 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has provided us with yet another example of the moral significance of health care resources in our societies. The indisputable seriousness of health care needs makes the…
Australia… Divided We Fall? – Division and Coordination in Federal Systems During a Time of Crisis 25 May 202024 May 2020 Federal systems divide power between a federal government and subsidiary state governments. One of the animating purposes of dividing power in this way is to protect individual liberty against the…
Comparative constitutional law… The Three Methodologies in Comparative Constitutional Theory (Edward Elgar 2018) 17 Feb 202016 Feb 2020 The term methodology is conventionally defined as the set of principles that illuminate inquiry in a field. Scholars, moreover, seek to be parsimonious in discussing methodology. We prefer, however, to…
Comparative constitutional law… Ian Cram – Travel Bans and the US Constitution: Executive Orders in the Federal Courts 24 May 2017 Based on his research on comparative constitutional law, Professor Ian Cram (Leeds) gives here an analysis of the travel ban orders issued by President Trump. His analysis charters some of…
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