Conference on Comparative Regional Law
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This international conference forms part of the activities to celebrate 30 years of the Institute for European and Comparative Law (IECL). It builds upon existing research into comparative integration studies and develops it into comparative regional law.
There is very little global comparison of regional law in the existing scholarship. This conference provides a platform for collaboration to develop this exciting area of scholarship. Themes for regional comparison span private and public law to include non-discrimination, human rights, contract law, trade, employment, environment, finance and banking, the judiciary and legal consequences of colonialism. Such a broad area of study would be of interest and relevance to legal academics across private/public and common/civil law as well as practitioners around the globe active in regional and transnational law.
We plan multiple events on this topic over a series of years. The theme of this launch conference is
Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Regional Law
Convened by Iyiola Solanke and Ngoc Son Bui, the conference brings together leading scholars to compare the laws of various regional entities such as the EU, ASEAN, the African Union, MERCOSUR, CARICOM and others. Speakers will explore the key concepts underlying comparative regional law.
We intend to submit a proposal for an edited volume of conference papers to appear in 2028 as part of the IECL series with Hart Publishing.
Programme
| DAY 1 Thursday Sept 10 | Venue: Flora Andersen Hall (FAH), Somerville College |
| 9.30 am | Registration and Welcome Coffee/ Tea |
| 10-11.30 | PANEL 1: Theory and Methodology |
| Iyiola Solanke and Ngoc Son Bui: EU Law and ASEAN Law in Comparative Regional Law Matthias Siems: Comparative Law as a Method of Analysing Regional Laws | |
| 11.30-11.45 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 11.45 - 13.15 | PANEL 2: Regional Constitutionalism and Human Rights |
| Ronnie Yearwood: Towards A Decolonial Method in Caribbean Constitutionalism Basak Cali: What We Do/Should Compare When We Compare Regional Human Rights Regimes Laura Carlsson: Human Rights and Access to Justice from the Nordic Perspective | |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch at Somerville College |
| 14.30 - 16.00 | PANEL 3: Regional Integration |
| P Armin Cuyvers: Escaping EU gravity: light and lean legal constructs for sufficiently effective regional co-operation. Pasha L. Hsieh: Comparative Green Regionalism. Ada Ordor: Regional Integration and the Social Contract in Africa. | |
| 18:15 – 19.00 | Keynote Lecture by Gerhard Dannemann: Comparative Regional Law: (Re-)Thinking Comparative Methodology? |
| DAY 2 Friday Sept 11 | Venue: Flora Andersen Hall (FAH), Somerville College |
| 9.30 | Coffee/Tea |
| 10.00- 11.00 | PANEL 4: Regional Integration (continued) |
| Adelle Blackett: Comparative Regional Law and the Transnational: A Few Reflections through Labour Law in an Era of Discontent Damian Chalmers: Law, Security and Regional Integration. | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 11.30-12.15 | Iyiola Solanke and Ngoc Son Bui: Summing Up/ Next Steps/ Book Project. |
| 12.15 | Lunch at Somerville College |
Speakers:
Adelle Blackett, Professor of Law and the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Ngoc Son Bui, Professor of Asian Laws, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Başak Çalı, Head of Research and Professor of International Law, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Laura Carlsson, Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Stockholm University
Damian Chalmers, Geoffrey Bartholomew Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Armin Cuyvers, Professor of European Law, Europa Institute, Leiden University
Gerhard Dannemann, Professor of English Law, British Economy and Politics and Director of the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
Pasha L. Hsieh, Lee Kong Chian Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
Ada Ordor, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town
Mathias Siems, Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation, European University Institute
Iyiola Solanke, Jacques Delors Professor in European Union Law, Director of the Institute for European and Comparative Law (IECL), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Ronnie R. F. Yearwood, Senior Lecturer, and the Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies.
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