2023 Annual Meeting: Comparative Comparative Law

October 26–28, 2023

Florida International University College of Law

The theme of this year’s Annual Meeting is Comparative Comparative Law. Comparative law is an effective tool of political struggle – a source of authority for some positions as well as a basis of resistance for others – although not always perceived this way. Its particularities across the domains where it is practiced transcend differences of method. They involve different images of comparative law itself, specific distributive stakes, and particular understandings often reproducing hierarchies between the Global North and the Global South, Western and Asian values, modernity and tradition.  As such, an apt description of comparative law’s many varieties may be best captured by the reference to comparative comparative law. That is, varieties of legal comparativism in different arenas – and not simply a unified transnational field – better signifies its multiple valences and uses in different political economies. This conference is dedicated to exploring those multiple forms of comparative law that appear as neutral techniques across various sites of contestation.

Preliminary Program Schedule

(Meeting Rooms TBD)

Thursday, October 26th

5:00-7:00pm Reception

7:00-9:00pm Meeting Executive Committee

Friday, October 27th

9:00-10:30am Plenary Panel

11:00-12:30pm Concurrent Panels

1:30-2:45pm Hot Topic Plenary Panel

3:00-4:30pm Concurrent Panels

4:45-6:00pm Plenary Panel

7:00-9:00pm Conference Dinner (TBD)

Saturday, October 28^th

8:30-10:30am Concurrent Panels

10:45-12:15pm Society Business Meeting

1:00-4:00pm Young Comparativists Program

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