Books and publications… Comparative Enterprise Foundation Law, edited by Anne Sanders & Steen Thomsen 10 Mar 202329 Oct 2026 With our book “Enterprise Foundation Law in Comparative Perspective”, published on March 7th 2023 by Intersentia, (also available open access) we wish to provide comparative insights into the economic importance…
Asia… Contract Law in Changing Times: Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda (Routledge, 2023), by Normann Witzleb 3 Mar 202329 Oct 2026 Pacta sunt servanda, the principle that contractual commitments need to be honoured, is an axiom of contract law recognised throughout the world. Yet, like other legal principles, it is not…
Books and publications… Public Policy and Private International Law – A Comparative Guide (Elgar Comparative Guides, 2022), edited by Olaf Meyer 10 Feb 202329 Oct 2026 “Public Policy and Private International Law” seeks to shed some light on a difficult and sometimes highly controversial area of the conflict of laws. Private international law proceeds from the…
Books and publications… The surprising Indian influence on English contractual remoteness rules, by Katy Barnett 27 Jan 202329 Oct 2026 The English case Hadley v Baxendale, which established the fundamental rules governing contractual remoteness in common law countries, seems quintessentially British, an offshoot of the English Industrial Revolution. Hadley’s mill…
Criminal law and justice… Explaining Tort and Crime (CUP 2022), by M Dyson 20 Jan 202329 Oct 2026 Explaining Tort and Crime describes how English examples of the relationship between tort and crime have developed over the last 170 years, testing those explanations against examples from other legal…
The common law world… Event – Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World 13 Jan 202329 Oct 2026 The new University of Bristol Centre for Private and Commercial Law will be formally launched on 8 February 2023 starting at 17.00-19.00 in the Lady Hale Moot Court 8-10 Berkeley…
