Events
2nd Annual EMERGE Workshop (22nd-23rd May 2025)
The second annual workshop of the Emerge project, hosted in May 2025 saw the team further develop their ideas presenting on a wide range of topics under the projects scope. The workshop also welcomed contributions from Prof. Raul Cârstocea of Maynooth University and Dr Gian Giacomo Fusco of the University of Kent, which helped to facilitate the continued development of the research.
1st Annual EMERGE Workshop (30th-31st May 2024)
In May 2024, the Emerge Project hosted its first annual workshop exploring the, "Avatars of Crisis: Exploring Emergency at the Nexus between Law, History and Theory" and welcoming contributions from Prof. Stephen Skinner of the University of Exeter and Prof. David Fraser of the University of Nottingham. During this workshop, the Emerge team presented some of their initial work.
Law, Culture, History: How to Compare Now (19th March 2024)
This initial workshop explored the current methodologies of legal comparison, with the aspiration of providing the needed epistemic basis for the groundwork of the EMERGE Project. The project welcomed presentations from Prof. Pierre Legrand of the Sorbonne School of Law and of Northwestern University) and Dr Alexandra Mercescu of the West University of Timisoara. These presentations initiated important reflections on the role and nature of comparison as an epistemic practice, and specifically on comparison as a point of departure for the interdisciplinary study of law.