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Centre for Comparative Law

About the Centre for Comparative Law

Comparative law plays a vital role in promoting legal development, coherence, and justice in an increasingly interconnected world. Comparative approaches allows legal scholars, policymakers and practitioners to understand how different legal systems approach similar issues, offering valuable insights and help to identify best practices, gaps and areas for improvement in legal systems.

The Centre for Comparative Law (CCL) is committed to promoting cross-cultural knowledge exchange and fostering the exchange of ideas to drive legal innovation and adaptation to changing social dynamics. Through independent research, expert discussions, and training initiatives, CCL aims to enhance legal understanding and knowledge across national borders. CCL's scope encompasses diverse areas such as civil and commercial law, conflict resolution, and dispute resolution. Collaborating with universities, distinguished scholars, and research institutions in the UK and globally, CCL actively seeks to advance its mission on a broad scale.

Below are the current areas of research for the centre

Latest Developments

Forthcoming: Protection and Post-Pandemic Recovery for Vulnerable Groups: European and Asian Approaches (Edward Edgar Publishing)

 As part of the ongoing JSPS-UKRI funded project  on the Covid-19 pandemic's effect on vulnerable individuals and groups, Protection and Post-Pandemic Recovery for Vulnerable Groups: European and Asian Approaches will be published in 2024. Co-edited by Professors Eva Lein & Yuko Nishitani, the volume draws on a wide range of different sectors, and contributions from academics and practitioners. The content meticulously curated to cover a wide range of topics such as business and human rights, contract law, family law, dispute resolution and access to justice, labour law as well as immigration law in European, Asian, Middle Eastern and African jurisdictions.

The volume is specifically tailored to meet the requirements of governments, legislators, and legal practitioners. Its primary objective is to furnish key actors with a comprehensive understanding of the pandemic's effect on vulnerable groups across different areas as well as the necessary tools to handle forthcoming crises. Legal practitioners will find the volume especially beneficial in discerning the most effective measures and legal tools for safeguarding vulnerable parties during crises and proactively preventing potential issues. The volume will equally appeal to scholars of comparative law in general, as well as those with specific interests in the specific areas covered.
A conference will be held in Autumn 2024 in Kyoto, Japan co-organised by BIICL and Kyoto University.

Study Contact Point Dr Sara Razai 

Mapping Third Party Litigation Funding in the European Union

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law will carry out the European Commission study on "Mapping Third Party Litigation Funding in the European Union", in collaboration with Civic Consulting, the Asser Institute and Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA). Over 30 National Experts from the EU Member States and selected non-EU jurisdictions, alongside external highly regarded experts in the field, will contribute to the study and analyse the legal framework and practical operation of TPLF in the European Union.
Study contact point: Constance Bonzé  

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