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British Association of Comparative Law    
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF COMPARATIVE LAWYERS (In association with the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law)

Society of Legal Scholars Joint Annual Conference Session

University of Keele

Monday 7 September 2009

PROGRAMME

History and Teaching of Comparative Law

08.45: Arrival and welcome (coffee sponsored by Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law)

09.15: General Introduction: Geoffrey Samuel (Chair BACL)

09.30: Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences-Po): Why There is No (Longer) a School of Comparative Law in (Mainstream) France (read by Geoffrey Samuel)

10.00: Discussion

10.15: John Bell (Cambridge): Does Public Law Need to be Comparative? 
            (Full text available here.)

10.45: Discussion

11.00: Coffee

11.30: Phillip Hellwege (Max Planck): In Defence of the Functional Method of Comparative Law

12.00 Round Table Discussion: The Future of Comparative Law Teaching 

12.45: General observations and closing discussion 
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