Matthew Dyson elected Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law

Dr Matthew Dyson has also 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 Matthew Dyson is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and specialises in the comparative and historical understanding of the relationship between tort and crime. His recent publications include editing and contributing to two CUP volumes on that relationship: Unravelling Tort and Crime (2014) and Comparing Tort and Crime (2015). He is also Secretary-General of the European Society for Comparative Legal History and a Research Fellow at the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law.

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