The German Law Journal is organising a Transatlantic Seminar with the student editorial board from Washington Lee University, Virginia, US. In its 25 years of existence, the journal has heavily relied on the work of the student editors (besides double-blind peer review) and considers them an integral part of the journals transatlantic research community. As such, they used to attend an annual seminar in Frankfurt that focused on comparative constitutional discourses. After Covid, we are now looking for a somewhat different format, that will enable them to discuss their own work which subsequently will be published in the journal. This year’s Transatlantic seminar will be hosted in Bristol (8-10 May). It will be organised as a research workshop. Each participant will submit a draft research paper (work in progress) and the group will discuss each of the papers for about one hour, including comments of a discussant, a response of the author and general questions/comments. In addition to our GLJ editors from the US, and academic members of the editorial board from the US and Europe we plan to involve some of the Bristol PhD students and members of staff. The call for papers was just published (see annex below). The seminar is not limited by a topic as such but we would like to encourage transatlantic discourses. We currently plan to include about 12 papers in total. Prof Julian Rivers has kindly agreed to give the pre-dinner 'key note'. 

 The transatlantic seminar furthers the school strategy of internationalisation and brings together the students and scholars from the US and Bristol. It will increase visibility of Bristol research in the US and the international GLJ community and provides an opportunity to Bristol PhD students to engage with their research and consider approaches toward publication. Indeed, the seminar can support them in their publication efforts as the GLJ is always looking out for exciting new research and supports early career researchers through out the process. The exchanges with the student editorial board from WL will provide them with real insights into the editorial work of the GLJ, which is CUP’s leading open access journal focused on European, Comparative and Transatlantic legal discourses with an international Editorial Board and authors and readers from across the world. The event will thus contribute significantly to the research environment of the school, its internationalisation, and broader reputation. It should also foster some links with Washington Lee University and the research community of the German Law Journal.

The seminar also supports participating scholars in their work-in-progress work and enhance research collaborations between the presenting scholars. Some of the minted editors of the GLJ (including myself) and Bristol scholars will present their work in progress or function as discussant. This will allow participants to foster new relationships with senior academics. Every effort will be made to publish the work in the GLJ as appropriate.

 This event will be in person and hybrid please email Jule Mulder to let her know you wish to attend. You will receive the joining link for the event closer to the time. 

 

8-10 May 2024

Wills Memorial Building, Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RJ

Wednesday 8 May 2024
12:00	WMB Law Staff Common Room	Lunch   2nd floor, next to WMB 2.13
12:30-16:00	WMB 3.33	1. Emanuel V. Towfigh ‘What Belongs Together Should Grow Together: Devising a General Law of the Corporation Beyond the Public/Private Law Divide’ Discussant: Eleanore Hickman 2. Jack Perryman ‘A Structural Comparison of Indigenous Property Jurisprudence in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and United States Federal Courts’ Discussant: Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne 3. Helena He Xiao ‘Intersecting Dimensions of Domestic Violence in China: Examining the Nexus of Gender and Generation’ Discussant: Emanuel V. Towfigh
Thursday 9 May 2024
8:30-12:00	WMB 2.13	1. Peter Dunne ‘Gender beyond the Binary: The Requirement to Identify as Male or Female'  Discussant: Jule Mulder 2. Jen Hendry ‘Socio-legal Trajectories in Germany and the UK: Cultures, Actors and Institutions’ Discussant: Russell Miller 3. Sydney Layne ‘Taking Up Space: Conceptualizing the Role of Women in Smart City Development & Personal Data Protection’ Discussant: Anamaria Santos Fonseca
12:00	WMB Law Staff Common Room	Lunch  2nd floor, next to WMB 2.13
13:00-16:30	WMB 3.30	1. Barbara Zeller ‘Formal principles in the structure of proportionality’ Discussant: Robert Greally 2. Nicolas Frank ‘Logic and the Legal Process: A Dilemma for Comparative Law’ Discussant: Beke Zwingmann 3. Michael Groome ‘EU external migration policy and coercively engineered migration’ Discussant: Emily Hancox
17:00	WMB 3.30	Pre-Dinner Keynote 'Populism and Constitutional Resilience'  Professor of Jurisprudence Julian Rivers
19:30		Dinner Aqua Bar & Restaurant Welsh Back, Bristol BS1 4RR About 20 minutes from the University and 11 minutes from Ibis Bristol Centre by foot.
Friday 10 May 2024
8:30-12:00	WMB 2.13	1. Emily Hancox ‘On retained EU law’ Discussant: Phil Syrpis 2. Anamaria Santos Fonseca ‘Asylum beyond ‘charity’: Right to work and the right to an adequate standard of living for women asylum-seekers in the UK’ Discussant: Greg Messenger 3. Yardley Borton ‘Codigo y Contigo: The Jenni Hermoso Case as a Study of Spanish Law Governing Sexual Assault’ Discussant: Helena He Xiao
12:00-13:00	WMB Law Staff Common Room	Lunch 2nd floor, next to WMB 2.13
13:00-15:00	WMB 3.30	GLJ meeting (hybrid) EiC and student editors only