‘Uncertainty in Comparative Law and Legal History: Known Unknowns’

University of Bristol

Please join us for the book Launch of ‘Uncertainty in Comparative Law and Legal History: Known Unknowns’  by Andrew Bell and Joanna McCunn

Lady Hale Moot Court Room (In person for UoB members only)

<h3>Book Launch </h3><h4>‘Uncertainty in Comparative Law and Legal History: Known Unknowns’ Thursday, 13 February 2025, 17:00-19:00 GMT Lady Hale Moot Court Room, University of Bristol Law School, and online </h4><h4> </h4>17.00: Welcome Dr Gauri Pillai, Co-Director - Centre for Law and History Research, University of Bristol Prof Catherine Kelly, Head of the University of Bristol Law School 17.05: Editors’ introduction Dr Andrew Bell and Dr Joanna McCunn (University of Bristol) 17.15: Project contributors Prof Gwen Seabourne (University of Bristol) Dr David Messner-Kreuzbauer (Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz) 17.35: Discussants Prof Catharine Macmillan (King’s College London) Mr Jeffrey Thomson (City St George’s, University of London) 17.55: Closing remarks Dr Andrew Bell and Dr Joanna McCunn (University of Bristol) 18.00: Q&amp;A Chair - Dr Gauri Pillai (University of Bristol)18.15: Refreshments<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Uncertainty-in-Comparative-Law-and-Legal-History-Known-Unknowns/Bell-McCunn/p/book/9781032873756" title="https://www.routledge.com/Uncertainty-in-Comparative-Law-and-Legal-History-Known-Unknowns/Bell-McCunn/p/book/9781032873756" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Uncertainty in Comparative Law and Legal History: Known Unknowns</a>ISBN: 9781032873756 Routledge (Transforming Legal Histories series) Laws are imposed on facts. But what is the law to do when its rules for establishing facts do not— because they cannot—produce a satisfactory answer? Scenarios that raise this intractable uncertainty problem have been treated as isolated concerns, but are in fact endemic across legal systems. They can cross jurisdictional and doctrinal boundaries, have recurred throughout history, and demand creative thinking from those faced with them. This book explores the law’s understandings of and responses to such situations from a comparative historical perspective. It investigates how the law has framed these most difficult problems of uncertainty; dealt with uncertainty’s often unclear boundaries; and developed a broad range of different responses to solve or avoid it, across doctrine, time, and jurisdiction. The work examines a selection of key uncertainty problems across private law as elements of a singular uncertainty issue endemic in legal systems. This analysis will be of interest to historians and comparatists, but also to doctrinal, theoretical, and other scholars and practitioners. The analysis leaves us better informed and better equipped for dealing with future scenarios where uncertainty arises, including insights beyond national and doctrinal confines.

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