Research methods and perspectives… WHY ARE ‘NUTSHELLS’ SO IMPORTANT? – Geoffrey Samuel 28 Oct 201928 Jul 2025 Alan Watson published an enormous number of books and articles during his long career, but one that proves of particular interest to comparative lawyers looks at first sight a relatively…
Research methods and perspectives… 2019 Annual Seminar – Legal Transplants and Mixed Jurisdictions – In Honour of the Late Prof. Alan Watson 1 Jul 201928 Jul 2025 University of Central Lancashire 3 September 2019 9.30-12.20 Welcome President of BACL, Annette Nordhausen Scholes, & sponsors, Intersentia. Session 1 (9.45-11.00) Prof. John Cairns (Edinburgh): The Birth of…
Conferences and workshops… BACL Postgraduate Workshop Thursday 11th April-Friday 12th April 2019. 5 May 20196 May 2019 Thank you to Dr Mary Guy for organising this year’s annual BACL workshop, which was kindly supported by Intersentia and hosted by Lancaster University. As in previous years, many different…
Current discussions in comparative law… Interview with Uwe Kischel on his book Comparative Law (OUP 2019) 29 Apr 201929 Apr 2019 Uwe Kischel’s comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the central tenets of comparative legal scholarship. The first part of the book is dedicated to general aspects…
Comparative criminal law… Albin Eser – Comparative Criminal Law. Development – Aims – Methods. C.H.BECK HART – NOMOS, 2017 4 Feb 2019 Comparative Criminal Law seems to be on the rise, at least in terms of standing on its own feet. However, this was not always the case. When looking into traditional…
Legal reasoning… NEW TITLE: GEOFFREY SAMUEL, RETHINKING LEGAL REASONING, Edward Elgard, 2018 20 Jan 201928 Jul 2025 A book claiming to rethink legal reasoning would seem to be one making a very bold, if not arrogant, claim. And so the first observation to be made about my…
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