The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), formerly the American Association for the Comparative Study of Law, is a

learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership m ...

dedicated to the study of

comparative law Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law (legal systems) of different countries. More specifically, it involves the study of the different legal "systems" (or "families") in existence in the world, including the ...

, foreign law, and

private international law Conflict of laws (also called private international law) is the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrence that has connections to more than one jurisdiction. This body of law deals with three broad t ...

. It was founded in 1951, and was admitted to American Council of Learned Societies in 1995. The ASCL is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. The ASCL publishes the ''

American Journal of Comparative Law The ''American Journal of Comparative Law'' (AJCL) () is a quarterly, peer-reviewed law journal devoted to comparative and transnational legal studies—including, among other subjects, comparative law, comparative and transnational legal history ...

'' on a quarterly basis. It was established at the

University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparative Law (MCL ...

in 1952, where ASCL Vice President and first Editor-in-Chief Hessel E. Yntema was a professor. Yntema served as Editor-in-Chief until his death in 1966. The journal moved from Michigan to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971, but returned in 2003. It is now being co-hosted by the Institute of Comparative Law (McGill University) and the

Georgetown University Law Center The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment and ...

. The Institute of Comparative Law's Director, Helge Dedek, and Georgetown University Law Center's Franz Werro, currently serve as Co-Editor-in-Chiefs.

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