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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 constitutional law

The Language of Constitutional Comparison by Francois Venter (Edward Elgar, 2022)

18 Nov 202213 Jan 2023
1     Constitutional polysemy How constitutional lawyers communicate in the 21st Century has become a matter of concern, because their established lexicon is imbued with implications, suppositions, historical baggage, epistemic premises…
Comparative private law…

A Mixed Jurisdiction in the Middle of Europe? Poland’s Interwar Experience 1918-1939, by A Grebieniow and J Rudnicki

11 Nov 20224 Nov 2022
Introduction A ‘mixed legal jurisdiction’ is typically a legal order where the common law and civilian traditions intermingle. So says the primary comparative legal literature (H.P. Glenn, Legal Traditions of…
Comparative criminal law…

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 20223 Nov 2022
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…
Comparative administrative law…

The importance of the personal factor in the diffusion of the Austrian general law on administrative procedure, by A Ferrari Zumbini

28 Oct 20224 Nov 2022
Introduction There is one cross-jurisdictional dialogue in the interwar period to which comparative lawyers should pay more attention: the diffusion of the Austrian general law on Administrative Procedure of 1925,…
Common law world…

Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World, edited by Paula Giliker

21 Oct 202226 Sep 2022
The common law doctrine of vicarious liability in tort is both controversial and on the move. In the last 20 years, this doctrine – which holds one party (usually an…
Australia…

British Race Patriotism and Private Law: Et In Arcadia Ego?, by M Lunney

14 Oct 202214 Oct 2022
Much of my work over the past fifteen years has involved exploring a phenomenon that had long puzzled me. As an Australian, I was well aware that our legal system…

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