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Date/time: Friday 26 November 2021, 16:30-18:00
The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law presents: "A legal cultural take on comparative law" - Professor Sören Koch, University of Bergen
ABOUT THE SEMINAR
Courts, legislators and legal scholars increasingly depend on comparative analysis when applying, refining or reforming the law. In a constantly more pluralistic legal world, comparison has become a valuable tool to navigate between international, transnational and national legal orders. However, law needs still to be regarded a product of its cultural preconditions. Recognising the cultural embeddedness of legal rules, principles and institutions is therefore essential. In my paper, I will present an approach to legal comparison based on an operationalised concept of legal culture transformed into a dialectical tool. This allows us to identify, characterize and evaluate central features of legal cultures with the aim of providing an institutional and intellectual basis for conducting a comparison regardless of its purpose and objects.
This event is free and open to all but registration is required (available here)
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