This seminar on ‘Comparative law in domestic court’ is an extension of Professor Mads Andenas work and publications on the topic, see Courts and Comparative Law, Oxford University Press 2015, and numerous articles with Professor Duncan Faigrieve, BIICL and Paris Dauphine. He has also investigated the systemic consequences of cross citation in A Farewell to Fragmentation Reassertion and Convergence in International Law (with Professor Eirik Bjorge, Bristol), Cambridge University Press 2015, and ‘The Systemic Relevance of "Judicial Decisions" in Article 38 of the ICJ Statute’ (with Professor Johann Leiss), 2018 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht 907–972.
The main guest is Professor Matthias Siems, the European University Institute in Florence. He is one of the leading comparativists and leads a project on ‘Cross-Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe’ see http://cross-citations.blogspot.com/p/2021-project.html (for instance the Appendix for the AJCL paper)
Programme
09.30-10.00 Opening and introduction, Professor Mads Andenas.
10.00-10.45 ‘Cross-Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe’: objectives and methodological challenges, Professor Matthias Siems
10.45-11.30 Two Oslo projects on comparative law and citations of foreign courts in the Norwegian Supreme Court. Dr Johannes Meyer, Odd Syse and Mads Andenas
11.30-12.00 Cross citations between international courts: the ICJ, Professor Johann Leiss.
12.00-13.00 Leave to appeal to the Norwegian Supreme Court, an Oslo project and possible comparative perspectives and further applications
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.15 Round table on methodological challenges in cross citation research
15.15-16.00 Round table on systemic consequences of cross citations in supreme courts and international courts