University of Wisconsin Law School and the Global Legal Studies Center are pleased to host the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) Conference alongside the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) annual conference.

Please note that due to the increasing numbers of the Delta variant, the ASCL executive board decided to hold the conference virtually.

YCC Board

Professor Antonia Baraggia, University of Milan Law School
Professor Vera Korzun, University of Akron School of Law
Dr. Valentina Rita Scotti, Koç University School of Law, Turkey
Professor Sara Ross, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law, Canada
Professor Claudia Haupt, School of Law, Northeastern University

Coordinator from UW Law School

Professor Joshua Braver

Conference Details

Schedule

Younger Comparativists Committee Conference will take place on Saturday, October 23, 2021.

The main ASCL conference will start on Thursday morning October 21st, and end on Friday afternoon.

We invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be held online, as a Zoom conference, February 3 – February 5, 2022, and hosted by the University of Illinois College of Law (with Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School co-hosting.) 

We invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop Each of the seven selected presenters will be allocated a 75-minute session to get feedback on their work. These sessions will be scattered over the three-day period and will be scheduled to accommodate the presenters’ and commentators’ time zones. Each selected presenter will be expected to attend all of the other presenters’ sessions where time zone permits. 

Interested authors should submit papers to Jacqueline Ross at jeross1@illinois.edu. We ask for papers to be submitted by December 1, 2021. We will inform authors of our decision by December 18, 2021. The conference will run from Thursday, February 3 until Saturday afternoon, February 5, and will be held entirely online. 

The annual workshop continues to be an important forum in which comparative law work in progress can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough manner that will be truly helpful to the authors. “Work in progress” means scholarship that has reached a stage at which it is substantial enough to merit serious discussion and critique but that has not yet appeared in print (and can still be revised after the workshop, if already accepted for publication.) It includes law review articles, book chapters, and other appropriate genres. All fields of law and all jurisdictions are fair game. 

We ask for one contribution per author, limited to a maximum of 15,000 words (including notes), or, if the paper (or book chapter) is longer, to indicate which 15,000-word portion they would like to have read and discussed. Shorter papers are, of course, eagerly welcomed. 

Our objective is not only to provide an opportunity for the discussion of scholarly work but also to create an opportunity for comparative lawyers to meet and discuss comparative law in the company of sympathetic others, both in the sessions and outside (as Zoom permits). We hope that this will create synergy that fosters more dialogue, cooperation, and an increased sense of coherence for the discipline of comparative law. 

Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law), Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University), and Jacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School) 

Co-sponsored by the University of Illinois College of Law, Princeton University’s Center for Human Values, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the American Society of Comparative Law 

Internationalizing Comparative Law 

UW Law School and the Global Legal Studies Center are pleased to host the 2021 Annual Conference of the American Society of Comparative Law and the ASCL Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) Conference.

This year’s theme is “Internationalizing Comparative Law.”

Conference Details

Please note that due to the increasing numbers of the Delta variant, the ASCL executive board decided to hold the conference virtually.

Schedule

Conference events will be on Thursday, October 21st and Friday, October 22nd:

• The main conference will start on Thursday morning  and end on Friday evening.
• Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) Conference will take place on Saturday, October 23rd.

Planning Committee

Conference planning committee (UW Law School):

• Professor Jason Yackee
• Professor Alexandra Huneeus 
• Dr. Sumudu Atapattu

Plenary

We are pleased to announce the plenary session comprising renowned scholars in the field. It will be chaired by Professor Jason Yackee and Professor Alexandra Huneeus will be the commentator.

Plenary comprises of:

• Professor Richard Albert, University of Texas at Austin
• Professor Mila Versteeg, University of Virginia
• Professor Elizabeth Trujillo, University of Houston Law Center
• Professor Curt Bradley, Duke Law School

Program

View the PDF Program here.

Registration

Register for the American Society of Comparative Law conference

Deadline for registration is October 10, 2021.

Registration Fees

Because the conference will be held virtually now, no registration fee will be charged. However, you need to register in order to receive the link to join the event.

Sponsors

Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School, American Society of Comparative Law, and East Asian Legal Studies Center

Questions?

Global Please send an email to: ASCLannualmeeting@law.ucla.edu or gls@law.wisc.edu