Jens Scherpe Elected Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law

Dr Jens Scherpe has been elected to an Associate Membership of l'Académie internationale de droit comparé.

The International Academy of Comparative Law was founded at The Hague on 13 September 1924. The date itself is significant because it coincides with the prodigious movement towards a renaissance of law which followed World War I. That the Academy was founded in The Hague is also notable because it had earlier been designated as the seat of the Permanent Court of International Justice and, in addition, was the place at which the Academy of International Law was founded.

The names of Roscoe Pound, Louis Milliot, Baron Frédericq, C.J. Hamson, Imre Szabo, John Hazard, Paul Crépeau, who have served as presidents of the organization, are indicative of the prestige that the Academy has always enjoyed. The International Academy of Comparative Law is a corps of scholars the principal aim of which is, according to article 2 of its By-laws, "the comparative study of legal systems".

Dr Scherpe is a University Senior Lecturer in Law, and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong and at the Global Law School, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Belgium, as well as Academic Door Tenant at Queen Elizabeth Building (Chambers of Lewis Marks QC).

In Cambridge Dr Scherpe lectures in Family Law and Comparative Family Law and Policy. His book on Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative Perspective was published by Hart Publishing in 2012.

To find out more about the International Academy of Comparative Law, please refer to the Academy website.