Comparative law institutes compared during a conference in Lausanne

2019-07-02

On 27 June 2019, a delegation of the Institute of Justice went to Lausanne, Switzerland to participate in an international conference of law institutes entitled Comparing Comparative Law Institutes. The conference was organised by the Lausanne-based Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in (Institut suisse de droit compare). The Conference was designed to serve as a forum promoting cooperation in academic studies and the international dissemination of their outcomes.

The conference was attended by representatives of law institutes from Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Republic of Korea, as well as experts from the Comparative Law Library Unit of the European Parliament and the Library of Congress of the United States. The conference participants discussed the possibility of creating a collaborative network of legal research institutes from different countries.