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Closest airport: Baton Rouge (BTR)

2016 Annual Conference: 

Unity and/or Diversity
Unité ou diversité

May 30 to June 1, 2016

Louisiana State University Law Center
Baton Rouge, USA

Theme: Comparative legal studies have long been perceived as an

 engine pulling legal traditions and systems towards 

convergence, harmonization, and unification. Today, legal pluralism 

pushes towards the recognition of human and social diversity. 

Does this mean that we have to choose between unity and 

diversity, Jus unum or juris diversitas?  To what extent do pluralistic 

societies embrace or reject harmonization and uniformity, 

or simply ignore them? Do we unify or add layers, increasing the 

complexity of legal orders? Does history reflect a move from 

diversity to unity or an ongoing conflict between the two? What 

makes unity successful or sustainable? This is an invitation to 

discuss, in an interdisciplinary way, the development of laws and 

social norms, in the dialectical tension between the ontological 

unity of human beings and mankind and the plurality of individual 

aspirations and social arrangements.

Registration fees: €200 or €125 for Juris Diversitas members paid up 

for 2016. Membership and fee payment information is available on 

the Juris Diversitas Blog (http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/). 

Note that fees don’t cover travel, accommodation, or the 

conference dinner (€50).

Contact: Prof. Olivier Moréteau at moreteau@lsu.edu

Program:
[Subject to change]

Monday, May 30

8:45—9:15          Registration & Coffee 

9:15—9:30           PLENARY—OPENING & WELCOMING ADDRESS

·         William R. Corbett, Interim Dean, Frank L. Maraist Professor of Law 

and Wex S. Malone Professor of Law, LSU Law Center

·         Olivier Moréteau, Russell B. Long Chair, LSU Law Center, 

President of Juris Diversitas

9:30—10:30        PLENARY—KEYNOTE  

·         The Problematic of Invisibility for Law in a Transnationalized World, 

Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh (United States)

10:30—11:00     Break

11:00—12:30      PARALLEL SESSIONS I

                  

I.A          Remixing Legal Traditions

·         Canada’s Legal Traditions: Sources of Unification, Diversification or Inspiration?, 

Rosalie Jukier, McGill University (Canada)

·         Unity and Diversity in Legal History of the Commonwealth Caribbean, 

Asya Ostroukh, Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (Barbados)

·         Rebuilding the Somali Legal System: Towards a New Mixed Jurisdictions?, 

Salvatore Mancuso, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

I.B           Issues in Professional Liability: A Transnational Conversation

·         Unity and Diversity in European Product Liability Law, 

Ádám Fuglinszky, Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)

·         Professional Liability in Civil Law and in Common Law, 

Domitilla Vanni Di San Vincenzo, University of Palermo (Italy)

·         Liability of Internet Service Providers for the Invasion of (Data) Privacy

Unity in Terminology, Diversity in Content, 

Lukas Heckendorn, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Switzerland)

12:30—14:00     Lunch

14:00—15:30      PARALLEL SESSIONS II

II.A         The Struggle for Legal Identity

·         An Essay on Ideology and Legal Education in Tiny Jurisdictions: The Example of Jersey, 

David Marrani, Institute of Law (Jersey)

·         Albanian Civil Code — An Example of Unity and Diversity in the Civil Law Family, 

Juliana Latifi, University of Tirana (Albania)

·         Commerce, Commonality, and Contract Law: Legal Reform in a Mixed Jurisdiction, 

Christopher K. Odinet, Southern University (United States)

II.B         L’absence de modèle unique : l’uniformisation en question

·         Entre unité et diversité : la construction d’un droit des biens transsystémique, 

Yaëll Emerich, Université McGill (Canada)

·         Harmoniser la diversité en droit des successions : oui mais avec précaution, 

Francesco Paolo Traisci, Università degli studi del Molise (Italy)

15:30—16:00      Break 

16:00—17:30      PARALLEL SESSIONS III

III.A        United in Diversity

·         Enantiosis and Comparative Law: The Case of Essentially Oxymoronic Concepts, 

Rostam J. Neuwirth, University of Macau (Macau)

·         Toxic Legal Thought Patterns: Cognitive Rhetoric Explains the Need for 

a Comparative Approach to Rhetoric in Law, 

Lucy Jewel, University of Tennessee (United States)

·         Dworkin on Legal Unity and Diversity, 

Christopher D. Boom, Tulane University (United States)

III.B        Societal and Legal Tensions in Africa

·         Mapping Traditional Authority Structures in a Post-Apartheid South Africa: 

Exploring the Status and Role of Traditional Authorities in 

a Decentralised Governance Structure, 

Christa Rautenbach, North-West University (South Africa)

·         Developments in Child Custody under Customary Law in Nigeria and South Africa, 

Kagiso A. Maphalle, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

·         Judicial Protection of Women’s Matrimonial Property Rights in Nigeria, 

Anthony C. Diala, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

19:30                     Conference Dinner

Tuesday, May 31

9:15—10:30        PARALLEL SESSIONS IV

IV.A        Competition Worldwide: Legal Strategies and Challenges

·         International Fragmentation of Competition Law: 

The Actual and Expected Contribution of BRICS Countries, 

Alexandr Svetlicinii, University of Macau (Macau)

·         Legal Diversity or Unity as a Product of Economic Strategies of Lawmakers 

under Regulatory Competition, 

Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas & Frédéric Marty, ESSEC Business School (Paris-Singapore) 

& GREDEG – CNRS / University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France)

IV.B        Singular Voices in a Pluralistic Universe

·         Legal Transfers and National Traditions: 

Patterns of Modernization of the Public Administration 

in Polish Lands at the Turn of 18th and 19th Century, 

Michał Gałędek, University of Gdańsk (Poland)

·         Remedies for Trial Delay in Malta and Italy: a Laboratory for European Integration?, 

David Edward Zammit & Caroline Savvidis, University of Malta (Malta)

·         “United in One Body:” Can ‘Black Lives Matter’ be Rousseau’s ‘Best Friends,’ 

Fernin F. Eaton, Baton Rouge (United States)

10:30—11:00      Break 

11:00—12:30     PARALLEL SESSIONS V

V.A         La mondialisation et ses tensions

·         La fiducie québécoise : tensions et (r)évolution, 

Caroline Le Breton-Prévost, Université McGill (Canada)

·         Mondialisation et droit de la concurrence : 

vers une bipolarisation autant qu’une harmonisation des règles de droit ?, 

Anne M. Tercinet, EM Lyon Business School (France)

·         Comment le juriste français projette sa vision du droit dans 

le contexte de la mondialisation : une affaire d’influence ?, 

Olivier Moréteau, Louisiana State University (United States)

V.B         Diverse in Unity?

·         Anglophone and Civilian Convergence: 

The Question of Public Cultivation and Learning, 

Joseph P. Garske, (United States)

·         Global Legal Scholarship at Local Level, Bianca Gardella Tedeschi, 

University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro (Italy)

·         Good Faith, United in Diversity?, 

Olivier Beddeleem, EDHEC Business School (France)

12:30—14:30     Lunch

14:30—16:00      PARALLEL SESSION VI

VI.A       Fashion Law: Comparing Top Models

·         On Fashion: Introductory Remarks, 

Susy Inés Bello Knoll, Austral University (Argentina)

·         Intellectual Property in Argentina, Latin America and USA, 

Pamela Echeverria, Fashion Law Institute (Argentina)

·         Intellectual Property in France and the European Union, 

Alice Pezard, Conseiller honoraire à la Cour de cassation (France)

16:00—16:30     Break

16:30—17:30     Juris Diversitas General Meeting

17:30—18:00      Break

18:00—19:30      Tucker Lecture

·         The Proposed Organization of American States Model Law 

on Simplified Corporations: Perspectives and Challenges, 

Francisco Reyes, Chairman of UNCITRAL, 

Superintendent of Companies (Colombia)

19:30                     Reception

Wednesday, June 1

9:30—11:00        PARALLEL SESSIONS VII

VII.A      Beyond Universalism: Giving a Voice to the Unheard

·         The Emergence of Alternative Antidiscrimination Frameworks 

between Universality and Diversity, 

Raphaële Xenidis, European University Institute of Florence (Italy)

·         Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus: Comparative Law, Social Theory, and Dissent, 

Denis de Castro Halis, University of Macau (Macau)

·         Periodic Review of Human Rights: Does One Size Fit All in the Pacific?, 

Sue Farran, Northumbria University (United Kingdom)

VII.B      Revisiting Human Rights: What Room for Consensus and Dissent

·         Participation of Lay Citizens in the Criminal Trial in a Comparative Perspective

The Criminal Jury in France and Belgium, 

Claire M. Germain, University of Florida (United States)

·         Human Rights in National versus International Criminal Justice: 

The Gravity of Crimes as a Legitimate Source of Legal Pluralism?, 

Christophe Deprez, University of Liège (Belgium)

11:00—11:30      Break

11:30—12:30     Plenary—Closing Panel

·         Empires as Engines of Mixed Legal Systems, 

Vernon V. Palmer, Tulane University (United States)

·         Discussion, Robert Sloan, Louisiana State University (United States)

·         Conclusion, Olivier Moréteau, President of Juris Diversitas

2015 Annual Conference: 

The State of/and Comparative Law

2 June (afternoon) to 4 June 2015

School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland

Co-sponsored by

School of Law, University of Limerick and Juris Diversitas

Papers will focus on comparative law (broadly conceived), including the relationship between social and legal norms and social and legal institutions. In memory of Roderick A Macdonald (1948-2014) and H Patrick Glenn (1940-2014), both former members of our Advisory Council, particular attention will be given to the diverse themes of their scholarship: for example, ‘common laws’, ‘constitutive polyjurality’, ‘critical legal pluralism’, ‘everyday law’, and ‘legal cosmopolitanism’.

PROGRAMME

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

14:00                     Registration

14:30                     Welcoming Address

In memoriam Roderick A. Macdonald (1948-2014) and H. Patrick Glenn (1940-2014)]

14:45                     Plenary – Keynote

Chair: Seán Patrick Donlan

·         A Theoretical Basis for Comparative Legal Pluralism, Brian Z. Tamanaha, Washington University School of Law (United States)

16:00-16:30         Break

16:30-18:00         Parallel Sessions I

I.A          Legal Pluralism in Africa

·         The Dominance of Legal Pluralism in a Post-Colonial South Africa: Where do We Stand almost Three and a Half Centuries after Western Legal Transplantation?, Christa Rautenbach, North-West University (South Africa)

·         The Relevance of Comparative Jurisprudence in the Namibian Legal System, Samuel Amoo, University of Namibia (Namibia)

·         Mapping or Codifying? The Project on the Ascertainment of Customary Law in Somaliland, Salvatore Mancuso, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

I.B           Structuring Mixed Legal Systems

·         The Political Purpose of a Mixed Legal System Conception: The Case of Scotland, Andreas Rahmatian, University of Glasgow (Scotland)

·         Quebec’s “droit commun” as its Basic General Law, Matthieu Juneau, Université Laval, Québec (Canada)

I.C           New Dimensions of Constitutionalism

·         Constitutions beyond the State: a Miracle or a Mirage?, Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)

·         An Approach to Comparative Environmental Constitutionalism, Francois Venter, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus (South Africa)

·         La démocratie moderne au miroir de la pensée chinoise, Frédérique Rueda-Despouey, University of Bordeaux (France)

18:00-19:00         Reception – Juris Diversitas Book Series Launch

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

9:00-10:30           Parallel Sessions II

II.A         Law, Religion and Tradition

·         The British Religious and Secular Courts in Historical and Comparative Perspective, Martin Sychold, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Switzerland)

·         Interaction between Common Law and Islamic Law in Nigeria: a study of the application of the doctrine of Stare-Decisis in some Islamic Law cases in Northern Nigeria, Ahmed S. Garba, Bauchi State University, Gadau (Nigeria)

·         Traditio Canonica and Legal Tradition: The Role of the Canon Law in Contemporary Legal Debate, Lorenzo Cavalaglio, University of Udine (Italy)

II.B         Interaction and Convergence: Mixed Approaches

·         Liability for Losses Caused by Administrative Action in South Africa and the Netherlands, Rolien Roos, North-West University (South Africa)

·         The Convergence of Defamation in English Tort and French Criminal Law, Mathilde Groppo, King’s College London, Dickson Poon School of Law (United Kingdom)

·         Public or Private? Comparing the German and British Approaches to Enforcing Consumer Protection, Shane Patrick McNamee, University of Bayreuth (Germany)

10:30-11:00         Break

11:00-12:00         Parallel Sessions III

III.A        Legal Cosmopolitanism in Territorialized and De-Territorialized Law

·         Resorting to International Instruments for the Interpretation of European Private Law, Isabelle Rueda, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)

·         International Commercial Arbitration, lex mercatoria, UNIDROIT Principles and Models Laws: Legal Cosmopolitanism within the World of Affairs?, Matteo Dragoni, University of Pavia (Italy)

III.B        Of Elites and their Influence

·         On Legal Elites and the Legal Profession in Cyprus, Nikitas Hatzimihail, University of Cyprus (Cyprus)

·         Anglo-Phone Legality: Ciceronian, Socratic and Derridian, Joseph P. Garske (United States)

III.C        Views of Law and the Cities

·         The Interaction between Non-Judicial Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution and the State: the Case Study of Maputo, Concetta Tina Lorizzo, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

·         Plurality and the City, Julian Sidoli del Ceno, Birmingham City University (United Kingdom)

12:00-14:00         Lunch

14:00-15:30         Parallel Sessions IV

IV.A       Comparative law, Circulation and Transplants

·         Comparative Law in Russia and CIS, Irina Moutaye, Institute of Legislation & Comparative Law, Moscow (Russia)

·         Legal Transplants and European Private Law, Domitilla Vanni di San Vincenzo, University of Palermo (Italy)

·         The Circulation of Legal Arguments among Courts : The Case of Brown v. Board of Education, Maria Chiara Locchi, University of Perugia (Italy)

IV.B        Intercultural Integration: Cosmopolitism and Pluralism

·         Errant Law: Spaces and Subjects, Mario Ricca, University of Parma, (Italy)

·         Living Together in a Critical, Pluralist and Cosmopolitan State?, Emma Patrignani, University of Lapland (Finland)

·         Comparing Hybrid Legal Systems in India: Similarities in Diversity, Andrea Borroni and Marco Seghesio, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (Italy)

IV.C        Justified and Unjustified Enrichment

·         Unjustified Enrichment: Should South Africa Venture into the Thick Forest of Passing on Defence?, Aimite Jorge, University of Namibia (Namibia)

·         Unjust or Unjustified? A German-English Picture Puzzle, Nathalie Neumayer, University of Vienna (Austria)

·         Contract Formation in Context of Morality, Customs and Praxeology, Jakub Szczerbowski, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Poland)

15:30-16:00         Break

16:00-17:15         Plenary – Keynote

·         Forms of Combined Comparative Research: Synchronised or Restricted?, Katharina Boele-Woelki, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)

19:00                     Conference Dinner

Thursday, June 4, 2015

9:00-10:30           Parallel Sessions V

V.B         Indigenous Law and State Law

·         Explicit-Implicit Legal Pluralism, Elina Moustaira, University of Athens (Greece)

·         Critical Legal Pluralism in Afghanistan, Nafay Choudhury, American University of Afghanistan (Afghanistan)

·         Implications of an Adaptation Theory of Indigenous Law on Legal Pluralism in Africa, Anthony C. Diala, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

V.C         Shifts in Transmitting Property and Nationality

·         Remodeling Values Protected by the Law of Succession in the European Union, Elwira Macierzynska-Franaszczyk, Kozminski University (Poland)

·         Comparative Analyses of Testamentary Capacity, Linda Schoeman, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

10:30-11:00         Break

11:00-12:00         Parallel Sessions VI

VI.A       Challenging Legal Traditions

·         Socio-Cultural Challenges to Comparative Legal Studies in Mixed Legal Systems, Esin Örücü, University of Glasgow (Scotland)

·         From Law as a Legal Tradition to Traditions Invented Through Law: a European Perspective, Lorenzo Bairati, University of Pollenzo (Italy)

VI.B        Pluralistic Views on Land Issues in Indonesia

·         Controversies on the Existences of Indigenous Lands in Indonesia, Rina Shahriyani Shahrullah and Elza Syarief, Universitas Internasional Batam (Indonesia)

·         Legal Pluralism and Land Administration in West Sumatra: The Implementation of the Regulations of both Local and Nagari Governments on Communal Land Tenure, Hilaire Tegnan, Andalas University, Padang (Indonesia)

VI.C        Clash or Balance? Cyber Security v. Privacy, DNA v. Presumption of Innocence

·         A Vague Balance between Cyber Security and Right of Privacy: Israeli, International and Italian Law in a Comparative Perspective, Paola Aurucci, University of Milan (Italy)

·         A Clash of Icons? Is DNA Evidence Posing Threats to Presumption of Innocence in Ireland and France?, Michelle-Thérèse Stevenson, University of Limerick (Ireland)

12:00-14:00         Lunch

14:00-15:30         Parallel Sessions VII

VII.A      Panel – Buddhist Legal Traditions

·         Buddhist Tradition(s) on Law and Governance, Ignazio Castellucci, University of Trento (Italy)

·         Tibetan Epiphanies of Buddhist Law, Andrea Serafino, Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italy)

·         Tort Law in Buddhist Legal Traditions, Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Switzerland)

VII.B      Everyday Life, Gender and Happiness

·         Cryptotypes and Implicits in Gender Issues, Barbara Pasa (paper prepared with Lucia Morra), University of Turin (Italy)

·         Ethnographic Study of the Everyday Legal Pluralism in India, Karine Bates, University of Montreal (Canada)

·         Love and Happiness in Law, Angelo Parisi, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)

15:30-16:00         Break

16:00-17:00         Juris Diversitas General Meeting

17:00-17:30         Plenary – Closing Panel

2014 Annual Conference: COMPARATIVE LAW AND …

17-19 July 2014, Aix-en-Provence, France

Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law and Political Science – Aix-Marseille University

Inherently interdisciplinary, the conference’s primary focus will be comparative law’s links to a wide variety of other disciplines and themes (e.g., anthropology, economics, feminism, history, the humanities, legal education, legal philosophy, literature, politics …). Proposals may be theoretical analyses or case studies on the past or present, North or South, East or West …

With keynote addresses by Jan Smits (opening), Duncan Fairgrieve and François Lichère, over sixty presentations, and two panels, this is a great opportunity to reflect and interact with scholars, from around the world, working at the edge of comparative law and other disciplines.

2013 Annual Conference: DIFFUSION

3-4 June 2013, Lausanne, Switzerland 

Co-Sponsored with the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

The conference's primary theme is the diffusion (transplantation, reception, migration, contamination, etc) of both laws and law-like norms, past and present and around the globe. A critical element in the creation of all legal and normative traditions, diffusion takes many forms. It may be overt or covert, voluntary or involuntary, concentrated or diffuse, colonial or neo-colonial, etc.  

Presentations may be case studies or theoretical analyses of diffusion; they may be general (at the level of legal traditions) or specific (trusts, family law, etc.). Participants might analyse, among other topics, entangled legal histories, the diffusion of Western legal models outside of the West, the dominance and rationale for the present diffusion of Anglo-American legal forms, the relevance of legal origins and traditions on contemporary structures, practices, the place of ‘mixed’ and ‘micro’ legal systems, etc.