Courts and judges Access to Justice in an age of digitisation – what can we learn from a comparative perspective? 7 Nov 202529 Oct 2026 BACL’s 75th Anniversary Workshop took place at King’s College, Cambridge, on 7-8 July 2025. It was an inspiring celebration of the continuing relevance of comparative law in UK legal education. We are deeply…
Constitutional… Judicial Bricolage – The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges in the 21st Century (Hart 2025), by Tania Groppi, Marie-Claire Ponthoreau and Irene Spigno 21 Mar 20252 Nov 2026 The volume presented is the follow up of the book, edited by Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau, published in 2013, titled The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges (Hart…
The common law world… The Right to Same Sex Marriage: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Constitutional Interpretation and Comparative Law, by Derek O’Brien 1 Dec 20232 Nov 2026 Introduction Over the previous two decades a consensus had been emerging amongst constitutional courts in the common law world, at both the state and national levels, that laws prohibiting same…
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…
Courts and judges… Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, and Nancy S. Marder 4 Nov 202229 Oct 2026 Introduction Most countries around the world use professional judges, but many also rely on lay citizens, untrained in the law, to decide criminal cases. What percent of the countries in…
Administrative… Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals (RECIEL 2022), by J. Michael Angstadt 20 May 20222 Nov 2026 Environmental court diffusion: mechanisms and meaning Why are specialist environmental courts proliferating around the world? In recent years, researchers have observed a steady increase in these institutions (sometimes also referred…
