Two-day International Conference on Comparative Law- 2024 organized by Amity Law School…

Amity Law School Noida organized the fifth International Conference on Comparative Law in collaboration with School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Australia, from ninth -Tenth February 2024. The two-day Conference comprised of six themes- Modalities of Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Criminal Law and Human Rights, Comparative IPR, Technology Law and Emerging Legal Domains and Comparative Business Law and Comparative Family Law.

Addressing the regulation college students of Amity, Chief Guest Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dipak Misra, Chief Justice of India (Retd), mentioned, “The emergence of Comparative Law is attributable to a number of historic and authorized developments, instilling a way of belongingness and interconnectedness amongst the authorized professionals from completely different elements of the world. There is a rising sense of urgency to know and examine the legal guidelines, for the reason that world is altering at a sooner tempo and due to this fact learning Comparative Law shall be instrumental in influencing the policymakers of the Indian Judicial System to use new ideas and ideologies to make it higher.”

Introducing the Conference, Dr. Joshua N Aston, Associate Dean & Conference Co-Chair, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, averred, “The Conference is a testomony to collaboration and pursuit of information throughout borders. It stands as a shining instance of educational endeavours to boost and develop the talents and information of future regulation professionals. The collaboration is certain to foster cooperation and progress of assorted authorized methods the world over and can encourage many generations of authorized students.”

Emphasizing upon the importance of learning Comparative Law, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Rajesh Tandon, Judge (Retd.), Uttarakhand High Court, asserted, “The goal of learning Comparative Law is to be taught from different judicial methods of the world. There is at all times scope for enchancment and Comparative Law offers an perception on how the opposite authorized methods of the world operate. The convention will permit authorized professionals, realized members of the academia, analysis students and college students to discover, assess and examine the authorized order of any two or extra international locations.”

Guest of Honour Mrs. Cecilia Inés Silberberg, Embassy Counselor and Consul Argentina Embassy, mentioned, “Comparative regulation is useful in understanding, analyzing and evaluating the authorized methods, encompassing the spirit globalization. During the pandemic, know-how was used extra for information theft in the course of the pandemic and authorities tips had been ignored, due to this fact, being conscious of worldwide cyber legal guidelines is extraordinarily essential for cyber safety.”

Prof. (Dr.) Manoj Kumar Sinha, Vice-Chancellor, Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, “Global developments, transnational governance, and sophisticated financial interdependence, aided by the event of latest communication and knowledge applied sciences, have contributed to creating the authorized occupation extra advanced and modern. Therefore, Comparative Law has turn out to be of large significance for the expansion of recent authorized societies and the Conference shall be extremely useful for regulation college students in understanding the judicial methods of different international locations and influencing the policymakers of the Indian Judicial System to use new ideas and ideologies to make it higher.”

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Chairperson, Law Commission of India, said, “Constitutional Comparative Law permits for a broader perspective by embracing novel ideas and concepts and incorporating them into the judicial system, selling a extra sturdy method. Constitutional Comparative Law helps authorized practitioners to know completely different authorized constructions and facilitates change of concepts. Legal professionals ought to draw inspiration from profitable authorized methods of the world and derive new ideas from them.”

Prof. (Dr.) Balvinder Shukla, Vice -Chancellor, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, mentioned, “It is vital for the scholars to review and examine the legal guidelines of various international locations because it makes them conscious in regards to the judicial methods of various international locations, thereby widening their horizon and growing their understanding of the authorized methods. The two-day convention won’t solely deliver new insights but additionally hep in collaboration in numerous areas comparable to scholar change programme, school change programme and cross-cultural change.”

Highlighting the importance of the Conference, Dr. D. Ok. Bandopadhyay, Chairman, Amity Law School, mentioned, “Adopting a comparative method helps to delve deep into one’s authorized system to evaluate and recognize the similarities and divergences amongst legislations, authorized establishments, political frameworks, social ideologies, insurance policies and guidelines in corresponding jurisdictions. With the development of commerce, commerce and know-how, the authorized system have witnessed enormous transformations, due to this fact it’s pertinent to have information of the perfect practices and undertake new methodologies for sooner decision of authorized disputes.”

Also current in the course of the Inaugural Session had been Dr. Aditya Tomer and Dr. Shefali Raizada, Additional Directors, Amity Law School and a Conference Abstract Book was launched on the event.

During the two-day Conference, greater than 230 analysis papers had been introduced and representatives from completely different international locations together with Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Macedonia, Indonesia, Canada, Finland, USA, Germany, Sri Lanka, and International Universities comparable to Harvard Law School, USA, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, USA, Universitat autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, SciencesPo Law School, Paris, France, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, amongst many others, participated within the Conference.