Book Talk: Comparative Law

Book Talk

Comparative Law

1 February 2023

This book presents a fresh contextualized and cosmopolitan perspective on comparative law. It critically discusses established approaches to comparative law, but also presents more modern ones, such as socio-legal and empirical comparative law. Special emphasis is given to the impact of globalization on legal systems. It also explains how other disciplines make comparative law richer by using new methods and extending it to new questions. More information about the book is available HERE.

AUTHOR
Mathias Siems is Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He previously taught at Durham University, the University of East Anglia, the University of Edinburgh and the Riga Graduate School of Law. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI. He is graduate of the universities of Munich and Edinburgh. His publications cover a wide range of topics in the fields of corporate and securities Law, comparative law, European private law, private international law, law & economics, and empirical legal studies.

DISCUSSANT
Dr Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor and Deputy Director
Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

CHAIR
Dr Emily Lee, Associate Professor and Director
Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

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