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 […]
The Call for Papers for the 2019 Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop is now live.
Following the closing of the XXth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL), the former President of the American Society of Comparative Law sent a message of gratitude on behalf of the ASCL to Distinguished Professor Toshiyuki Kono of the Faculty of Law of Kyushu University.
Thank you to Prof. Kono and his extraordinary team at Kyushu University and the broader Japanese comparative law community.
We attach the letter below.
We are excited to share a video from the IACL XXth Congress in Fukuoka, Japan. Thank you to everyone who participated in this engaging new format, and thank you to John Haskell (Manchester) and Richard Albert (Texas) for sharing this with the global ASCL community. […]
The latest supplement to The American Journal of Comparative Law contains United States national reports to the Twentieth International Congress of Comparative Law, currently being held in Fukuoka, Japan, from 22-28 July 2018. The reports are free to read online now.
We are excited to share the webpage we developed with information for the 2018 ASCL Annual Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan on July 22-28, 2018 (held concurrently with the XXth International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) Congress.
We hope you find it informative. As we get more information, we will update that page. We hope it can serve as a useful one-stop reference point for information relating to the meetings.
Thank you,
@ASCLConnect
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) will be held concurrently with the XXth International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) Congress from July 22 to July 28, 2018. We are honored and humbled by the openness of the city of Fukuoka, Japan, which will […]
Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce that we will be having our next annual business meeting on Wednesday July 25 in Fukuoka. Registration is open on the site of the International Academy of Comparative Law. On July 26, we will have our annual dinner. […]
@ASCLConnect is an outreach/networking project of the American Society of Comparative Law. ASCLConnect has three main goals: (1) to broaden the reach of the ASCL to a global audience of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers; (2) to disseminate news about ASCL projects and events on Twitter, Facebook, and/or YouTube; (3) to encourage societies devoted to comparative law to partner with the ASCL to collectively deepen our understanding of the world’s legal systems.
A Conversation with Richard Albert (March 2016)
A Conversation with David Gerber (February 2016)
A Conversation with Ugo Mattei (October 2015)
A Conversation with Richard Kay (October 2015)
@ASCLConnect invites you to participate in our ongoing conversation series: A Conversation with David Gerber (February 2016) A Conversation with Ugo Mattei (October 2015) A Conversation with Richard Kay (October 2015) Other Media YCC 5th Annual Conference (March 2016) Welcome Address to the YCC – […]
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