Speakers

We’re delighted to welcome Geoffrey Samuel as the keynote speaker on Day 2 of the Symposium.

Geoffrey Samuel is Professor Emeritus at the Kent Law School UK and formerly a Professor affilié at the École de droit, Sciences Po, Paris. His keynote address is entitled “How Should a Comparative Lawyer Engage With Animal Law?”

He received his legal education at the University of Cambridge and holds doctoral degrees from the Universities of Cambridge, Maastricht and Nancy 2 (honoris causa). He has also held many visiting posts in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. He is the author of a considerable number of books, chapters and articles on contract, tort, remedies, legal reasoning, comparative law theory and method and legal epistemology.

Professor Samuel’s more recent books are Rethinking Legal Reasoning (Edward Elgar, 2018), Rethinking Comparative Law (with Simone Glanert and Alexandra Mercescu) (Edward Elgar, 2021), Rethinking Historical Jurisprudence (Edward Elgar, 2022) and Principia Iuris (Edward Elgar, 2025). Two books to be published in 2026 are Producing Legal Knowledge: Comparative Methods, Models and Schemes (with Horatia Muir Watt) (Edward Elgar) and A Critical Approach to Introductions to Law (Edward Elgar).