Purpose

The purpose of the ISCL is to encourage the comparative study of law and legal systems and to seek affiliation with individuals and organisations with complimentary aims. We were established in June 2008 and are recognised by the International Academy of Comparative Law.





Monday, September 24, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: New Voices in Comparative Law


AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW
YOUNGER COMPARATIVISTS COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: 
New Voices in Comparative Law

The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law is pleased to invite submissions for its second annual conference, to be held on April 18-19, 2013, at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana. The purpose of the conference is to highlight, develop, and promote the scholarship of new and younger comparativists.

Submissions will be accepted on any subject in public or private comparative law from scholars who have been engaged as law teachers, lecturers, fellows, or another academic capacity for no more than ten years as of June 30, 2013. We will also accept submissions from graduate students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs.

Scholars may make individual or co-authored submissions. The conference’s Program Committee will assign individual and co-authored submissions to thematic panels according to subject area. Proposals for fully formed panels will also be accepted.

To submit an entry, scholars should email an attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF containing an abstract of no more than 750 words no later than November 4, 2012, to the following address: yccsubmissions@gmail.com. Abstracts should reflect original research that will not yet have been published, though may have been accepted for publication, by the time of the conference. Abstracts should also include the author’s name, title of the paper, institutional affiliation, contact information, as well as the author’s certification that she/he qualifies as a younger scholar. Graduate students should identify themselves as such.

Panels will be announced no later than December 16, 2012. There is no cost to register for the conference but participants are responsible for securing their own funding for travel, lodging and other incidental expenses.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Comparative Analysis of Guardianship Laws in India

Abstract:
Guardianship is a concept or relationship arising from the natural incapacitates of infants and persons of unsound mind and sometimes other category of persons to manage their own affairs. A guardian is a person who has the authority and the corresponding duty to care for the personal and property interests of another person, called a ward. Usually, a person has the status of guardian because the ward is incapable of caring for his or her own interests due to infancy, incapacity, or disability. Most countries and states have laws that provide that the parents of a minor child are the legal guardians of that child, and that the parents can designate who shall become the child's legal guardian in the event of death.

Chapter one deals with introduction of the topic explaining role of Family Law, object and purpose of writing of the project, the research methodology used, the significance of the study undertaken for the project, the chapterization scheme, concept of guardianship and the powers of a guardian. Chapter two deals with Guardianship under Hindu Law, chapter three deals with Guardianship under Muslim Law and chapter four with guardianship under other laws, i.e, under Christian Law and under Parsi Law. The last chapter deals with conclusion of the project.

Srivastava, Mitali, Comparative Analysis of Guardianship Laws in India (January 10, 2012).

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Cultures of Tort Law in Europe

Abstract:

This article provides a short introduction to the present special issue of the Journal of European Tort Law, which critically investigates the cultures of tort law in four selected national or regional contexts in Europe: England, France, Germany and Scandinavia. It explains what is meant by the idea of a culture of tort law, summarises the articles that follow, and ends with some concluding reflections from a comparative perspective.

Oliphant, Ken. Cultures of Tort Law in Europe. Journal of European Tort Law. Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 147–157, ISSN (Online) 1868-9620, ISSN (Print) 1868-9612, DOI: 10.1515/jetl-2012-0147, September 2012.