Institute of European and Comparative Law Annual Report for 2014-2015 For further information please contact: The Administrator Institute of European and Comparative Law St Cross Building St Cross Road Oxford OX1 3UL
[email protected] www.iecl.ox.ac.uk Introduction The academic year 2014-15 culminated with the Institute’s anniversary celebrations in late September. From its modest beginnings in 1995 the Institute has seen continuous growth over the past decades. It has established and nurtured numerous links with our continental partners, with regard to both teaching and research. Today, the Institute facilitates many of the Faculty’s research activities in European and comparative law, inter alia by organising the relevant lunchtime Discussion Groups and a raft of international conferences. Its particular focus is on the intersection of European and comparative law. This is particularly visible in the Institute’s book series published by Hart Publishing, the Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law, which will see the publication of its 20th volume later this year. A flavour of the topics that are on our research agenda is conveyed by the list of our most important events during the past academic year on p.28 below. The Institute promotes the Faculty’s teaching agenda by administering its undergraduate exchange programme, the largest of its kind in this country. The ‘Law with Law Studies in Europe’ degree (informally known as ‘Course 2’) sees 35 of our BA students take their third year away from Oxford, spending it at one of our European partner faculties in France, Germany, Italy, Spain or The Netherlands.