Searching for What (All) Common Law Jurisdictions Have in Common

What would a truly global picture of the common law look like? Once we move beyond just the most familiar jurisdictions, and adopt a comparative approach that tries to take in all common law jurisdictions found around the world, what sorts of features will emerge as genuinely shared and significant, and which are more likely to fall away? 

 In this seminar, James Fowkes, Visiting Fellow at the LSE Law School and Professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster, Germany, will give a first overview of his ongoing project on ‘The Common Law: A Global Guide’. 

Speaker:  Professor James Fowkes, LLM (Yale), Visiting Fellow, LSE Law School 

Chair: Professor Neil Duxbury, LSE Law School

Panellists: Professor Sir Ross Cranston, LSE Law School,  Assistant Professor  Rachel Leow, LSE Law School  and Professor Dame Sarah Worthington, LSE Law School