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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”

Judicial Creativity and the Law of Obligations

Nothing New under the Sun? New Codifications and Old Questions, by Marcus Galdia

8 Nov 2024
Creativeness in Law and Judicial Creativeness Creativeness in law as a topic of academic inquiry is challenging in many respects. Law, unlike some other forms of communication, avoids subjectiveness, which…
Research methods and perspectives…

A Research Agenda for Comparative Law?, by Jaakko Husa

1 Nov 202431 Oct 2024
Introduction Anyone who tries to get a hold of comparative law of today notices quickly that the field has diversified and expanded remarkably. Contemporary textbooks on comparative law’s theory and…
Judicial Creativity and the Law of Obligations

South African Statutory Consumer Law and the Courts: The Curious Case of the Dog That Did Not Bark, by Jacques du Plessis

25 Oct 2024
1 Statutory Reform: the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 The South African law of obligations is ‘mixed’, albeit in rather unequal parts. Most of its general principles derive from…
Comparison in Europe…

Low-income energy consumers in France, Germany and the UK – Protection of vulnerable customers versus self-responsibility,By Prof. Dr. Peter Rott

25 Oct 202414 Nov 2024
Vulnerability of consumers can have many causes. One is poverty, or low income. One of the most tangible problems of low-income consumers is energy poverty, which the EU Commission has…
Judicial Creativity and the Law of Obligations

Paternalism in Private Law: The Indian Supreme Court’s Evolving Interpretation of Section 11 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996, by Abhijnan Jha and Natasha Singh

25 Oct 202428 Nov 2024
Introduction Where does judicial creativity end and judicial activism begin? The scholarly debate around the question remains unsettled, even as it assumes an increasing practical significance. In theory, judicial creativity…
Interwar Dialogue

Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi and the Draft for a Pan-European Pact, by Anita Ziegerhofer

18 Oct 202420 Oct 2024
Introduction After the end of the “grand guerre”, continental Europe lost its position as a world power in favour of the USA and the newly established Soviet Union. Richard Nikolaus…

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