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Category: Judges and comparison

Comparative criminal law…

Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, and Nancy S. Marder

4 Nov 20223 Nov 2022
Introduction Most countries around the world use professional judges, but many also rely on lay citizens, untrained in the law, to decide criminal cases. What percent of the countries in…
Comparative administrative law…

Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals (RECIEL 2022), by J. Michael Angstadt

20 May 202218 May 2022
Environmental court diffusion: mechanisms and meaning Why are specialist environmental courts proliferating around the world? In recent years, researchers have observed a steady increase in these institutions (sometimes also referred…
Comparative constitutional law…

Judicial Law-Making in European Constitutional Courts (Routledge 2020), edited by Monika Florczak-Wątor

11 Mar 20228 Feb 2022
Research aims and hypothesis Constitutional courts determine the shape of the legal order, not only by derogating unconstitutional norms but also by modifying and supplementing those norms that remain as…
Judges and comparison

Disciplining Judges: Contemporary Challenges and Controversies (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021), by Richard Devlin & Sheila Wildeman (eds)

21 Jan 20225 Jan 2022
Governance of the judiciary has long been marked by a level of public impenetrability that is reinforced by judicial independence. However, the institution is also premised on a political criterion:…
Comparison in Europe…

New Project on cross-citations between Supreme Courts in Europe, by Mathias Siems

24 Sep 202127 Aug 2021
Recent years have seen a growing volume of research on citations between courts from different countries (in the following: cross-citations) and other forms of judicial dialogue. For example, books by…
Comparative constitutional law…

Guillaume Tusseau, Contentieux constitutionnel comparé. Une introduction critique au droit processuel constitutionnel, Paris La Défense, Lextenso, 2021, 1452 p.

27 Jul 202119 Jul 2021
In the last few months, several constitutional judges have made the headlines. Among others, the German Federal Constitutional Court has opposed the European Central Bank’s Public Sector Purchase Programme, leading…
Environment…

Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives, by Ivano ALOGNA

25 Jun 202114 Jun 2021
The title refers both to our presentation during the last BACL Annual Seminar and our newly published edited volume (I. Alogna, C. Bakker and J.-P. Gauci (eds), Climate Change Litigation:…
Comparative constitutional law…

Social Media, Fundamental Rights and Courts in Europe, by Evangelia Psychogiopoulou and Federica Casarosa

18 Jun 20212 Jul 2021
Social media has become the means of communication of our time: it is the means through which online users interact, express their opinions, get information and even find jobs. Social…
Comparative administrative law…

Online discussion – Cases, materials and texts on judicial review of administrative action – 13 July 2021, 2pm (UCT + 2)

15 Jun 20219 Oct 2022
REALaw (Review of European Administrative Law) warmly invites you to an online discussion on the edited collection Cases, materials and texts on judicial review of administrative action (Hart 2019) on 13rd…
Covid-19 - comparative perspectives…

Civil Courts Coping with Covid-19, by Bart Krans and Anna Nylund

11 Jun 202111 Jun 2021
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in civil courts - experiences in 23 countries Reports from 23 countries across the globe The unforeseen Covid-19 pandemic has propelled unprecedented transformations in civil…

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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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