Call for Papers
Crossroads East and West:
Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal
Traditions
International Workshop
Turin, International University
College
4-5 February 2013
Muslim countries, and countries with
significant Muslim populations, will, in all their diversity and complexity, be
major actors in this polycentric environment, interacting with the West as well
as with the geo-political realities of the East, producing new legal developments
both regionally and on a global scale.

Divergences and convergences should
emerge from the workshop, permitting a better assessment of current
developments and of some future legal features of economies and economic
relationships in a possible multi-polar world.
The macro-theme of the event will
therefore be the economy in its largest sense, with a view to developing legal
comparative analyses of economic phenomena in the Islamic and Muslim
traditions; perspectives should include both common law and civil law, for the
West, and both Shi'a and Sunni approaches, for the East.
The main areas of law, as related to
the central theme of the event as elaborated above, and the possible specific
areas and topics for which we invite proposers to submit abstracts may include
(but are not limited to:
- General visions of the economy
- Nature and function of human economic activities
- Nature and function of money
- Economy and other human activities (religion, family, society)
- General visions of law
- Nature of law
- Fundamental legal values
- Economic analysis of law from a non-common law, non-Western perspectives
- New/different/critical approaches to Western legal-economic models
- Financial activities
- Islamic banking (but going beyond the usual descriptions of Islamic banking instruments: e.g. dealing with the hybridization/globalization of Islamic financial law and instruments)
- New/different/critical approaches to Islamic finances
- Justice in finance and protection of the weak party/ies
- Insurance
- Microfinance
- Economic governance
- Public and private sectors of the economy
- Public law and market regulation, including securities
- Competition law
- Environmental law
- Contract law
- Contractual justice: equity, protection of the weak party, proportion/disproportion in contractual obligations, change of circumstances, good faith, unjust enrichment through contract, etc
- Social function of contract, effect on third parties and on communities
All
topics may be dealt with through a focus on emerging cross-cultural best
practices and/or international standards of justice/human rights.
Paper abstracts (no more than 2-3
pages in length) should be submitted, along with a short bio of the author, no
later than Monday, December 17, 2012, to Prof. 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; Vice-President,
Juris Diversitas at ignazio@castellucci.eu, with a copy to Ms. Anna Koppel, Director of Research and
Development, The Protection Project, JHU-SAIS, at akoppel1@jhu.edu.
The authors of the abstracts selected
for full paper submission and presentaion at the workshop will be notified by Friday,
January 4, 2012. Their travel, accommodation, and meal expenses for the event
(considering arrival in Turin on February 3, 2013 and departing on February 6,
2013), will be covered by the organizers.
Extended abstracts or full papers submitted,
even in a draft form, by Monday, January 21, 2013, will be circulated at the
workshop, enriching the discussions and contributing to their completeness and
fruitfulness. Publication of final full papers, to be collected soon after the
event, is planned by the end of 2013.
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