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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”

Judges and comparison

Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Cambridge University Press 2021), edited by Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat

19 Feb 20218 Feb 2021
Introduction This volume introduces and critically examines a new topic in comparative constitutional law: Towering Judges. The volume discusses nineteen judges of apex and constitutional courts from fourteen jurisdictions. Within…
Comparative constitutional law…

On the power of Big Tech to shape politics and culture, and its ethical problems

12 Feb 20212 Jul 2021
Introduction Fake news on the internet and how to counter it, has been a frequently debated subject in the past years. Most governments’ strategies involve cooperation with social media platforms…
Interdisciplinarity

Dundee Law School’s New Representative – Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli – Introduces Himself to the Association’s Community

6 Feb 20217 Feb 2021
It is with great pleasure that I write this post to share with the Association’s (BACL) community my own experience as a legal comparatist and philosopher. I hope that the below…
Comparative constitutional law…

Freedom of religion during the pandemic: France and Belgium in search of consistency, by Romain Mertens

5 Feb 202119 Feb 2021
Since the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak in 2020, States have adopted stringent measures to curb the virus’s propagation. These measures include limitations of freedom of religion. On request of Governments, churches,…
Comparative constitutional law

Misunderstanding Misinformation: why most ‘fake news’ regulation is doomed to failure, by Paul Bernal

29 Jan 20212 Jul 2021
The regulation of fake news has been fraught with problems from the outset – and it is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. There are a number of…
Bell John…

Comparative Torts: Discussion around Markesinis’s German Law of Torts by B.S. Markesinis, J. Bell and A. Janssen

28 Jan 20216 Feb 2021
The British Association of Comparative Law warmly invites you to two webinars on Comparative Torts: Liability for Emerging Technologies and Comparative Torts: Liability for Ecological Harm on 29th and 30th…

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