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Nergelius, Joakim --- "Preface" [2010] ELECD 110; in Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Antonina; Nergelius, Joakim (eds), "New Directions in Comparative Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: New Directions in Comparative Law

Editor(s): Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Antonina; Nergelius, Joakim

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848443181

Section Title: Preface

Author(s): Nergelius, Joakim

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
This edited volume has its foundation in the conference `New Dynamics
in Comparative Law' which was held at the University of Örebro in May
2007. It is, almost two years after the conference, a great pleasure to be
able to present the rich material which the conference generated in book
form. While the content as well as the methodology and ideas underlying
the conference are presented elsewhere, I would here like to dwell briefly
on what this conference meant for the topic of law at the University of
Örebro.
Since this is a very young university, where the first professor of law was
installed in 2003 and the full legal education started as late as 2005, interna-
tional conferences of this kind ­ of which this was the second to be held ­ are
tremendously important, needless to say. Not only may they, hopefully,
contribute to making Örebro more well-known as a venue for high-standing
legal and scientific discussions. They will also inspire a small, young group of
scholars and teachers, who strive to establish a new, untraditional centre of
legal education and research.
In fact, legal education in Örebro has always tried to have an international
profile, paying more attention to European law, comparative law and public
international law than any other Swedish university. Still, in a situation where
resources are ever more scarce, old, well-established universities and law
faculties may have certain advantages. To put it simply, these are not the easi-
est times to put ...