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Human rights & comparisons…

The Regulation of Hate Speech Online and its Enforcement in Comparative Perspective, by Oliver Butler

9 Nov 20219 Nov 2021
The BACL Annual Seminar at the SLS Annual Conference took place on 31st August 2021 (the recording is available by clicking here). The panel was formed following a call for…
Seminar

BACL Annual Webinar: The Regulation of Hate Speech Online and its Enforcement in a Comparative Perspective – 31 Aug 2021, 9:30 (London)

29 Jun 202116 Jul 2021
Regulators around the world are grappling with the problem of hate speech online. Regional differences in conceptions of dignity, equality, and liberty, rooted in different historical experience, are reflected in…
Environment…

2020 Annual Seminar – Climate Change and the Law: A Comparative Perspective.

9 Oct 202019 Nov 2022
The British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) held its annual seminar online this year, before the start of the SLS Conference (Exeter) on 1st September. The topic of this year…
Environment…

2020 Annual Seminar – Climate Change and Law: A Comparative Perspective

6 Jul 20208 Jul 2020
Online (joining details will be sent to registered participants by e-mail) 1st September 2020, 9.30-11.30 (UK time)   Welcome President of BACL, Annette Nordhausen Scholes, & sponsors, Intersentia.   Session…
Mixed systems…

John Cairns – The Birth of Mixed Legal Systems in the British Empire

2 Mar 20201 Mar 2020
My focus is on “mixed legal systems”, though my teacher Alan Watson, whose memory is honoured here, never seemed to me to be especially interested in “mixed systems” as an…
Samuel, Geoffrey…

2019 Annual Seminar – Legal Transplants and Mixed Jurisdictions – In Honour of the Late Prof. Alan Watson

1 Jul 201931 Jan 2020
University of Central Lancashire 3 September 2019 9.30-12.20 Welcome President of BACL, Annette Nordhausen Scholes, & sponsors, Intersentia.   Session 1 (9.45-11.00)   Prof. John Cairns (Edinburgh): The Birth of…
Brexit…

Merris Amos – Brexit led tinkering with the UK human rights machine: minor adjustment or damaging blow?

13 Sep 201811 Oct 2018
Introduction For supporters of the broadest possible reach of human rights law these are troubled times. But for the comparative law scholar these are also very interesting times. Proponents of…
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…
Events and News…

2018 Annual Seminar – Comparative Law in Troubled Times – 4th September, QMUL

25 May 201824 Oct 2018
Comparative Law in Troubled Times Annual Seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law 4 September 2018 9.30-12.20   Queen Mary University of London Colette Bowe and Martin Harris Room…
Seminar

Joint Seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law and the Irish Society of Comparative Law – ‘Comparing UK and Irish law: A special relationship?’

31 Mar 201714 Jun 2017
BACL/ISCL   ‘Comparing UK and Irish law: A special relationship?’   Joint Seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law and the Irish Society of Comparative Law   Room L248,…

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UPCOMING EVENT - 8 February 2023 at 17.00-19.00

Lady Hale Moot Court 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol and online.

The launch event will be the official book launch of Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World (Hart, 2022) edited by Professor Paula Giliker, co-director of the Centre, which examines from a comparative perspective the operation of vicarious liability in eight key jurisdictions with expert scholars setting out and critically analysing the law. The panel of speakers will be: Professor Paula Giliker (Bristol); Professor Jason Neyers (University of Western Ontario); Dr Mat Campbell (Glasgow); Dr Desmond Ryan (Trinity College Dublin); Dr Andrew Bell (Bristol).

Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite: Book Launch of Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World Tickets, Wed 8 Feb 2023 at 17:00 | Eventbrite. 

A presentation of the book by Professor Giliker is available by clicking here.

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