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).…
Events and News… POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE LAW – 16-17 April 2018 19 Jan 2018 Murray Edwards College University of Cambridge CALL FOR PAPERS The POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE LAW of the BACL will be held on 16-17 April 2018 at the University…
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…
