Library News Book displays at the Institute The materials currently on display in the entrance to the immediate and obvious difference between the two volumes is Institute cover two very different subject areas. One display that of the titles. The earlier one, written while the People's contains items on the customs of 18th-century France. The two Revolutionary Government was still in power and before the items covering Parisian customs from 1762 came from the intervention of the US, has the Socialist emphasis on the People's library of Charles Huberich and were bequeathed to the Laws. In contrast the later one, written while the Governor- University of London in 1945. The third volume, on the General and temporary advisory council ran the country during customs of Normandy from 1779, was purchased from funds the occupation by US forces, emphasises the country rather provided by benefaction from the Nuffield Foundation. The than the people, being entitled Grenada Laws. Each proclamation customs which are detailed mainly concern feudal land in the 1983 volume begins 'proclamation by the People's relationships in various regions of France. This article, however, Revolutionary Government', while the later volume declares An concentrates on the items in the second display case on the laws ordinance ... enacted by the Governor-General with the advice of Grenada produced during a turbulent period of its history in and consent of the Advisory Council of Grenada'. Each the 1980s. proclamation in the 1984 volume is headed with the royal crest of an armadillo and a bird with the words 'Ever conscious of Grenada: a brief history God we aspire, build and advance'. The 1994 Laws of Grenada volume was printed in England by Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd. Discovered by Columbus in 1498 and named Concepcion, In this the crest of Grenada precedes each act and the text Grenada was originally colonised by France and ceded to Great differs from the two earlier volumes in stating 'Be it enacted by Britain by the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. It became an the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and Associated State in 1967 and an independent nation within the consent of the Senate and House of Representatives of Commonwealth on 7 February 1974. The government was Grenada'. overthrown in 1979 by the New Jewel Movement and a People's Revolutionary Government was set up. Disagreements within the PRG led to the establishment of a Revolutionary Military Council replace the government of Maurice Bishop following his death in October 1983. This prompted the intervention of Caribbean and US forces. The Governor-General installed an advisory council to act as interim The areas covered by the various laws enacted in all three government until the general election in December 1984. A volumes range from taxes, including stamp duty, to motor phased withdrawal of US forces was completed by June 1985. vehicles and petroleum, money lending and industry (Source: Whitakers 2000) ordinances. The laws of 1983 include the Christian Science Society of St George's Grenada Incorporation Law and the Carnival law which allows carnival to be celebrated between the hours of Sam on 15 August and midnight on 16 August. Others deal with amendments to the Education Act and the Terrorism Act. The 1984 volume contains amendments to various laws such as the Banana Ordinance, and those dealing with the cocoa and nutmeg industry. The subject areas covered in the 1994 volume include the Criminal Code, drug abuse and road traffic. There has been much literature covering the legal aspects of the military intervention, some of which examines the principles of international law; for example Grenada: a study in The display politics and the limits of international law by Scott Davidson The aim was to display some legal materials produced in a (Avebury, 1987), The conquest of Grenada: sovereignty in the periphery country at different stages during a time of political upheaval. It by M Shahabuddeen (University of Guyana, 1986) and The is interesting to compare the format of the laws and the subject Grenada Papers, edited by Paul Seabury and Walter A McDougall areas covered at the different times to assess the impact which a (Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1984). Secondary sources change of government had on the laws at the time. are not included in the display but are available in the library. The volumes in the cabinet are The People's Laws 1983, Grenada Laws 1984 and The Laws of Grenada 1994. All can be found in the Institute library at GN10.E. Both the 1983 and 1984 volumes were printed at the government printing office in St Georges Gillian Sands and cost $30. Both items were obtained by the library under the Book Acquisitions, IALS library terms of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office trust deed. An 14 Amicus Curiae Issue 27 May 2000 COMPARATIVE LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY Wednesday, 5 July 2000 , Comparative Public Law Tuesday 4 July - Thursday 6 July 2000 9.30am Academic Directors Professor John Bell, University of Leeds Andrew Harding, Department of Law, School of Professor /5 public law different from private law in its evolution and culture? Oriental and African Studies Professor Esin Oriicu, School of Law, University of Glasgow 10.00am Professor Jeffrey Jowell, University College London The evolution of public law in South Africa 10.30am Dr Robert Thomas, University of Manchester Continental principles in English administrative law Registration and Coffee 10.00am O 10.30am Introduction 11.00am Coffee Professor Barry Rider, Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 11.30am University of North London Professor Andrew Harding, Department of Law, School of Peter Leyland, Oriental and African Studies Privatisation and public law/private law 11.00am 12noon Lord Goff of Chieveley Professor Andrew Harding, School of Oriental and African Studies Comparative public law: a South East Asian perspective Transmigrations and Transferability of Legal Ideas and Institutions 12.30pm Chair: Professor Esin Orucii, University of Glasgow John Hatchard, General Secretary, Commonwealth Legal Education Association 11.45am Comparing constitutions in Southern Africa Professor Jan Smits, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Worrying about the' integrity of private legal systems: legal transplants Comparative Law and the 'Religious System of Law' and 'ius commune' 2.00pm Professor Calum Carmichael, Faculty of Comparative 12.15pm Literature, Cornell University, USA Catherine Dupre, University of Birmingham Christianity as a religious legal system The logic of importing law: the Hungarian experience 2.20pm 12.45pm Lunch Professor Bernard Jackson, Centre for Jewish Studies, 2.00pm University of Manchester University of Aberdeen Professor David Carey-Miller, Judaism as a religious legal system South Africa: a world in one country on the long road to reality 2.40pm 2.30pm Dr Werner Menski, School of Oriental and African Studies Coralie Rafrenne, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Hinduism as a religious legal system Lessons to be drawn from the failed transmigration of the trust into French law 3.00pm Andrew Huxley, School of Oriental and African Studies 3.00pm Buddhism as a religious legal system Nick Foster, School of Oriental and African Studies Transmigration and transferability of commercial law in a globalised 3.20pm Tea world 4pm 3.30pm Tea Dr Joshua Getzler, St Hugh's College, Oxford a religious legal system 4.00pm Roman Law as Peter De Cruz, University of Staffordshire 4.20pm in comparative family law Legal transplants: principles and pragmatism Dr Lynn Welchman, School of Oriental and African Studies 6pm Reception Islam as a religious legal system Amicus Curiae Issue 27 May 2000 4.40pm 12 noon Professor Randall Peerenboom, UCLA Law School, USA Dr Efstathios Banakas, University of East Anglia Chinese Law as a religious legal system The contribution of comparative law to the harmonisation oj European private law 5.00pm Professor Silvio Ferrari, University of Milan, Italy 12.30pm Canon Law as a religious legal system Angus Macdonald, University of Staffordshire A constitution jor Europe? 6pm Reception 1 pm Lunch Thursday, 6 July 2000 Closing Session Comparative Law: The European Dimension 2pm 9.30am Professor Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary and Westfield Professor Walter Van Gerven, University of Leuven, Belgium College The use of comparative law as a tooljbr developing the European Union Comparative law, state and communities: some reflections on socio-legal 10.00am change Professor Janet Dine and Dr Frederique Dahan, 2.30pm University of Lssex Professor David Nelken, Cardiff Law School, University of The benefits and limits of comparative law in the drafting legislative Wales process of transition economies Methaphors oj legal adaptation 10.30am 3pm Dr Melanie Lathani, Manchester Metropolitan University Professor Esin Orucii, University of Glasgow European bio-ethical legislation: is consensus possible? 'Unde venit, quo tendit' comparative law? 11.00am Coffee 3.30pm Tea 11.30am 4pm Dr Wendy Kennett, University of Keele General discussion » Enforcement of civil judgements and regulation of enforcement agents 5.30pm Close 13-14 July 2000 A two-day conference on 'The Role of Regulation in Global of the Securities and Investments Board and Financial Services Financial Markets' has been organised by the Anglo-Japanese Authority Centre for Financial Regulation at City University Business Welcome addresses School and the International Financial Regulation Unit at Sir Paul NewaU, Pro-Chancellor, City University, London; the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, in association with Senior Adviser, Lehman Brothers; former Lord Mayor oj London International Journal of Banking Regulation, European Financial Professor David Rhind, Vice-Chancellor, City University, Law Review, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, London International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, the British Keynote Address Institute of Securities Laws and the Society for Advanced Legal The Rt Hon Clare Short PC, MP, Secretary oj State Studies.