Comparison in Europe… Inaugural Lecture – Professor Mark Van Hoecke – Queen Mary, 2018 15 Oct 201824 Oct 2018 Mark Van Hoecke, Professor of Comparative Law, gave an insightful inaugural lecture on “Do judges reason differently on both sides of the Channel?”, at the School of Law, Queen Mary…
Interdisciplinarity… Geoffrey Samuel – Cinema and Law – TEN DOUBLE BILLS FOR THE COMPARATIST (CONTINUED): IMITATING (FORMS OF) LIFE 27 Sep 201828 Jul 2025 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…
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…
Current discussions in comparative law… Catherine Valcke – Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 25th October 2018) 30 Aug 201817 Apr 2019 Traditional comparative law is doing just fine. At any rate much better than has been claimed. It is not theoretically random, scientifically aimless and/or methodologically void, thus an intellectually empty…
Current discussions in comparative law… New Publication: Mathias Siems, Comparative Law, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press 2018) 28 May 201817 Apr 2019 According to the late John Henry Merryman ‘lawyers are professionally parochial. Comparative law is our effort to be cosmopolitan’. This statement may seem exaggerated, but there is also a good…
Postgraduate courses… PhD workshop 2018 – Cambridge 30 Apr 201830 Apr 2018 On 16th-17th April 2018, Dr Sophie Turenne kindly organized the annual BACL PhD workshop, at Murray Edwards College (Cambridge), supported by Intersentia and the Centre for European legal studies (CELS).…
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