SEMINAR: "A legal cultural take on comparative law" - Professor Sören Koch - The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law, 26 November 2021 - 16:30-18:00 (on Zoom)

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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)