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The British Association of Comparative law (formerly the UK National Committee for Comparative Law) seeks to coordinate and encourage comparative legal research and teaching throughout the UK. We provide a forum of sustained reflection and conversation on all comparative law matters. Annual Seminars NewslettersContinue reading “Welcome”

Comparative private law…

Greening the Civil Codes: Comparative Private Law and Environmental Protection (Routledge 2023), by Sabrina Lanni

17 Nov 20237 Nov 2023
Civil Codes and the Environment In the face of the irreversible impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems produced in the Anthropocene era, scholars have been reflecting on the current…
Comparative constitutional law…

Against Methodological Factionalism in Comparative Constitutional Law, by Alex Schwartz

10 Nov 202310 Jun 2024
Ran Hirschl, in his book Comparative Matters (OUP, 2014), speaks of a “renaissance in comparative constitutional law”. This renaissance, he says, is evident in the proliferation of a more cosmopolitan…
Comparative property law…

Free the Coasts in Mauritius: Privatization, Race and Class?, by V Petkar and T Perroud

3 Nov 202325 Oct 2023
Balancing the conflicts between private rights and the broader public interest is a highly debated and crucial aspect of any legal system. This complex exercise not only sparks intense arguments…
Common law world…

Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence–Comparative Perspectives (OUP 2022) – Reflections on Methodology, by Despoina Mantzari

27 Oct 202310 Nov 2023
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…
Comparative constitutional law

Responsive Rechtsstaat: Beyond the Dutch Context, by Balázs Fekete

20 Oct 202312 Oct 2023
The modern history of the idea of Rechtsstaat has been marked with various distinctions. Historically, it originated from a distinction drawn between Polizeistaat and Rechtsstaat in order to secure the…
Book Review…

Rosalind Dixon, Tom Ginsburg & Adem Kassie Abebe (eds) Comparative Constitutional Law in Africa (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), reviewed by Francois Venter

13 Oct 202314 Jan 2024
The title of this otherwise commendable book is slightly misleading. The title suggests that it deals with the field of “comparative constitutional law” in Africa, but in fact it is…

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