The final program has been announced for:
Mixed Legal Systems, East and West:
Newest
Trends and Developments
Parliament of Malta; Main Parliamentary Chamber;
House of Representatives
Republic
Street; The Palace; Valletta, Malta
May 14-15,
2012
The conference is co-organised by The Protection Project at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction
Jurists, and the Tulane University Law School Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law.
For additional information, contact Ms Anna Koppell at akoppel1@jhu.edu.
Speakers
include:
·
“The Influence of Philippine Indigenous Law in the
Development of New Concepts of Social Justice” - Pacifico Agabin, Professor
II, Chairman, Constitutional Law Department, Philippine Judicial Academy (Unit
of the Supreme Court), Manila, Philippines
·
“’As Slippery as an Eel,’ or How May
One Seize the Inner Logic of Mixed Legal Systems?” - Biagio Andó, Professor of
Law, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
·
“The Sources and Nature of the Maltese Legal System” - Kevin
Aquilina, Dean, Faculty
of Laws, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta
·
“Reception of Islamic Law in Sri Lanka and Its Interplay with
Western Legal Traditions” - Anton Cooray, Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, City
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
·
“Legal Aversion to Usury: A Peculiarity of Islamic Law or a
Euromediterranean Archetype?” - Ignazio Castellucci, Professor of
Asian Legal Traditions and Chinese Law, University of Trento, Trento, Italy;
Professor of Comparative Legal Systems, University of Macau, Macau, China
·
“To Hybridity and Beyond… Reflections on Legal and Normative
Complexity” - Seán Donlan, Professor, University of Limerick, Limerick,
Ireland; Secretary General, World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists;
European Society for Comparative Legal History
·
“Pacific Punch: Tropical Flavours of Mixedness in the Island
Republic of Vanuatu” - Sue
Farran, Professor
of Law, Northumbria University, Northumbria, UK; Adjunct Professor, University
of the South Pacific, Vanuatu
·
“Managing Legal Diversity: Cameroonian Bi-Juralism at a
Critical Crossroad” - Charles Fombad, Professor
of Law, Head, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria;
Head, Constitutional Law Unit, Institute for International and Comparative Law
in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
·
“Impact of Religion on Law in the Iranian Legal System” - Naser Ghorbannia, Professor
of Law, Mofid University, Qom, Iran
·
“The Making of a Mixed
Legal System: Family Law in Cyprus and its Transformation from a Personal Laws
Regime to a Civilian Enclave in a Common-Law Environment?” - Nikitas Hatzimihail, Assistant
Professor of Private Law, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
·
“I’m in the East but My Law is from the West: The East-West Dilemma in
the Israeli Mixed Legal System” - Nir Kedar, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer)
of law and legal history, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan,
Israel
·
“Challenges of Legal Education in a Mixed Jurisdiction:
McGill University in Quebec as a Case Study” - Catherine Klein, Professor of
Law; Director, Columbus Legal Services, Catholic University, Washington, DC,
USA
·
“The Role of Language in the Endurance of Mixed Jurisdictions” [provisional title] - Michael McAuley, Counsel,
Carey Olsen, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
·
“Mixed Legal Jurisdictions and Clinical Legal Education:
Latest Trends” - David McQuoid-Mason, Professor of
Law, Acting Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of
KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
·
“Patterns of Legal Mixing in Eritrea: Examining the Impact of
Colonialism, Customary Law, Islamic Law, and Authoritarian Revolutionary Dogma”
- Daniel Mekonnen, Georg
Forster Post-Doctoral Fellow, Felsberg Institute for Education and Academic
Research (FIBW), Felsberg, Germany
·
“A Study of the Consolidation of Islamic Law and Modern
Western Law in the Iranian Penal Code” - Hossein Mohammadsadeghi, Professor of
Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
·
“Islamic Law and International Law in the Islamic Republic of
Iran’s Constitution” - Seyed
Mostafa Mirmohammadi Azizi, Professor of Law; Director, Center for
Comparative Legal Studies, Mofid University, Qom, Iran
·
“Mixed Jurisdictions: The Roads Ahead” - Luis Muñiz-Argüelles, Professor
of Law, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA
·
“Turkey’s Civilian Tradition in a ‘Covert’ Mix with Islam and
Tradition: A Novel Hybridity” - Esin Orücü, Professor Emerita of Comparative Law,
University of Glasgow, School of Law, Glasgow, UK
·
“The Contribution of the Courts in the Integration of Muslim
Law into the Mixed Fabric of South African Law”
- Christa Rautenbach, Professor of Law, North-West
University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
·
“Integration of Islamic Law in the Fabric of Legal Thought in
Egypt and Jordan” - Mohamed Serag, Professor of Law, American
University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
·
“The Mixing of Common Law and Civil
Law Systems in the Seychelles” - Mathilda Twomey, Judge,
Seychelles Court of Appeals, Victoria, Seychelles
·
“Cross-Country Analysis of Islamic Finance Dispute
Resolution: Malaysia and Saudi Arabia” - Mohd Zakhiri Md Nor, Law Lecturer
(Islamic Banking & Finance), College of Law, Government & International
Studies, Universiti Utara, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia
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