BACL Annual Seminar: 'Harmonisation of Law - Loss of Legal Culture?'

The Annual seminar of the British Association of Comparative Law, entitled 'Harmonisation of Law - Loss of legal culture?' will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on September 5, 2011

Session 1: The perspective of private international law

9.30-10.45am

Dr Pippa Rogerson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), "The Brussels 1 Regulation Reforms: An Obituary for Forum Conveniens".

Dr Christian Heinze (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg), "From the unity of the code to a patchwork of regulations - a civil law perspective on European harmonisation in international civil procedure".

Session 2: The perspective of private law

11-12.30pm

Dr Solène Rowan (Queens College, Cambridge), "Harmonising Contract Law: an Impossible Task?"

Professor Mathias Siems (Durham University), "Business Cards in Japan, David Hasselhoff in Germany and the Curious Case of Overfitting Legal Transplants".

Please address all enquiries to Jens Scherpe (jms233@cam.ac.uk) or the Secretary of BACL, Claudina Richards (c.richards@uea.ac.uk).