Interdisciplinarity… Comparative Law & Economics: The Map is Not the Territory, by Ernesto Vargas Weil 22 Nov 202216 Nov 2022 Almost thirty years ago Ugo Mattei declared the ‘methodological wedding’ between two of the most important approaches to the law developed during the 20th century: Law & Economics and Comparative…
Interdisciplinarity… Interdisciplinary Comparative Law – a Sisyphean task? by Jaakko Husa 24 Jun 202224 Jun 2022 1. The Metaphor After reading the title, the reader might remember an image of a poor human being rolling a heavy stone up a hill. One may wonder what that…
Covid-19 - comparative perspectives… Rethinking the Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Times of Crisis, by Emilie Ghio 10 Dec 20216 Dec 2021 1. The research group 1.1 The IRC Team At the end of 2020, academics and industry professionals came together to form a research group looking at the way in which…
Comparative constitutional law… Constitutional change in the contemporary socialist world, by Bui Ngoc Son 8 Oct 202127 Aug 2021 The Socialist World in Comparative Constitutional Law The collapse of the Soviet bloc in the late twentieth century, which precipitated a massive transition from communism into constitutional democracy in Europe,…
Interdisciplinarity Dundee Law School’s New Representative – Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli – Introduces Himself to the Association’s Community 6 Feb 20217 Feb 2021 It is with great pleasure that I write this post to share with the Association’s (BACL) community my own experience as a legal comparatist and philosopher. I hope that the below…
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…
History… O.V. Kresin – COMPARATIVE LEGAL STUDIES: 1750 TO 1835. APPROACHES TO CONCEPTUALIZATION (transl. 2019) 25 Nov 2019 The history of law is a promising domain. A number of legal disciplines, such as legal theory, the philosophy of law, the sociology of law and epistemology do not have…
Interdisciplinarity… Geoffrey Samuel – Cinema and Law – TEN DOUBLE BILLS FOR THE COMPARATIST (CONTINUED): IMITATING (FORMS OF) LIFE 27 Sep 201820 Dec 2018 The worlds of law and of film share a phenomenon caused by the rise of fascism in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. Law faculties (in the…
Comparison in Europe… From the “Democratic Deficit” to a “Democratic Surplus”: Constructing Administrative Democracy in Europe 8 Jan 201817 Apr 2019 When academics, policymakers, media commentators, and citizens talk about a European Union (EU) “democratic deficit,” they often miss part of the story. My new book, From the “Democratic Deficit” to…
Interdisciplinarity… Geoffrey Samuel – Cinema and Law – Ten double Bills for the comparatist (continued) : I’d rather have the blues (than what I got) 9 Dec 201720 Dec 2018 This third blog on double bills for the comparatists comes with a very strong trigger warning – both metaphorical and literal. The two films about to be discussed will certainly…
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