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Upcoming Events

  • Conference: Adversarial CrimPro in Italy, Mexico & United States January 21, 2019 – January 23, 2019 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA https://ascl.org/conference-adversarial-crimpro-in-italy-mexico-united-states/
  • Deadline for YCC 8th Annual Conference February 1, 2019 at 5:00 am – 6:00 am
  • ASCL Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop - Illinois February 1, 2019 at 5:00 am – February 2, 2019 at 6:00 am https://ascl.org/cfp-2019-comparative-law-work-in-progress/

News@ASCL

January 13, 2019

CFP: YCC’s 8th Annual Conference

The deadline for submitting proposals to the 8th Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the ASCL is fast approaching — January 31, 2019.

We encourage everyone to spread the CFP.

YCC Global Conference 2019 Call for PapersDownload

ASCL Forum

Conference: Adversarial CrimPro in Italy, Mexico & United States

From January 21 to January 23, 2019, the University of Illinois, College of Law and the ASCL will co-host a conference, Adversarial Criminal Procedure in Italy, Mexico, and the United States. The conference program is attached.


January 16, 2019

Website Advisory Committee

The ASCL continues to grow its global outreach efforts. Under the guidance of ASCL President Richard Kay, the ASCL has constituted a new Website Advisory Committee, comprised of the following members: Richard Albert Shawn Boyne Josh Karton Boris Mamlyuk (ex officio) Fernanda Nicola Yaniv Roznai […]


January 13, 2019

CFP: YCC’s 8th Annual Conference

The deadline for submitting proposals to the 8th Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the ASCL is fast approaching — January 31, 2019. We encourage everyone to spread the CFP.


January 13, 2019

Remembering Alan Watson

The Society notes with sadness the passing on November 7, 2018, of Professor Alan Watson at the age of 85. He was a giant in the fields of Roman and comparative law, as the Society recognized when it awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award in […]


December 3, 2018

CFP: 2019 Comparative Law Work-in-Progress

The Call for Papers for the 2019 Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop is now live. 


November 14, 2018
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