USA… Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence–Comparative Perspectives (OUP 2022) – Reflections on Methodology, by Despoina Mantzari 27 Oct 202329 Oct 2026 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…
Italy… 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…
Criminal law and justice… Explaining Tort and Crime (CUP 2022), by M Dyson 20 Jan 202329 Oct 2026 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…
Interwar Dialogue… Actors, Institutes, and Journals as Cornerstones for the Interwar Development of Comparative Law in Ibero-America, by A Parise 25 Nov 20222 Nov 2026 Law is rarely shaped after one single occurrence. Multiple actors, institutes, and journals, for example, can trigger different mutations, even motivating paradigmatic shifts. Occurrences are indeed tesserae of a mosaic.…
Constitutional… Social Rights and the Constitutional Moment: Learning from Chile and International Experiences (Hart 2022), edited by Koldo Casla, Magdalena Sepúlveda, Vicente Silva and Valentina Contreras 22 Jul 20222 Nov 2026 In the 1990s, Bruce Ackerman defined ‘constitutional moments’ as historic milestones of intense deliberation and change in a country’s politics, change that reflects in the country’s constitutional settlement. Since October 2019, Chile…
Canada… Structure and Rulemaking in English, Japanese and Quebec Trusts, by Joyman Lee 8 Jul 202230 Oct 2026 I have recently defended my PhD thesis at UCL, which focuses on trusts law in Japan as well as Quebec from an English legal perspective. The thesis has two parts:…
