Meet our New Executive Committee

Juris Diversitas is pleased to announce the renewal of its Executive Committee. Olivier Moréteau, President, Ignazio Castellucci, Vice Presidents for Projects, and Lukas Heckendorn-Urscheler, Treasurer, are reelected in their respective positions. Anne Tercinet, Development Officer, is elected Vice President for Events to replace Salvatore Mancuso, who did not seek reelection. Gianmatteo Sabatino is elected General Secretary to replace Christa Rautenbach who did not seek reelection.

The President and Vice Presidents appointed two additional Officers: Anthony Diala, Development Officer for Africa, and Rostam Neuwirth, Development Officer for Asia.

Warm messages of thanks to Christa Rautenbach and Salvatore Mancuso for their tireless and effective activity over the past years. Emmanuel Didier, appointed Officer, helped revive our web presence and will also be missed.

A warm welcome to the new Officers Anthony Diala, Rostam Neuwirth, and Gianmatteo Sabatino, who will help developing Juris Diversitas, and congratulations to Anne Tercinet who moves from an appointed to elected Office.   

Our Executive Committee

• Olivier Moréteau, President: Chaired Professor, Director, Center of Civil Law Studies, Louisiana State University Law Center (USA): moreteau@lsu.edu
• Ignazio Castellucci, Vice President (Projects) and Book Series Editor: Professor, University of Teramo (Italy): ignazio@castellucci.eu
• Anne Tercinet, Vice President (Events), Professor, emlyon business school (Lyon, France): tercinet@em-lyon.com 
• Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler, Treasurer: Vice-Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Switzerland): lukas.heckendorn@isdc-dfjp.unil.ch
• Gianmatteo Sabatino, General Secretary: Assistant Professor, University of Trento (Italy): gianmatteo.sabatino@unitn.it
• Anthony Diala, Development Officer for Africa: Professor, Director, Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, University of the Western Cape (South Africa): adiala@uwc.ac.za 
• Rostam Neuwirth, Development Officer for Asia, Distinguished Professor, Head of Department of Global Legal Studies, University of Macau (China): rjn@um.edu.mo  

 

Louisiana Commemorates the Bicentennial of Its Civil Code

 

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Agustin Parise to Give the 44th Tucker Lecture in Civil Law

 

Bicentennial of the 1825 Louisiana Civil Code International Conference

On March 20-21, 2025, the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center will host a two-day international conference to commemorate the 1825 Louisiana Civil Code. This event is organized by the LSU Center of Civil Law Studies (CCLS), led by Director Professor Olivier Moréteau. It is the largest academic event within the statewide commemoration coordinated by the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society. Juris Diversitas is a conference partner.

Over 30 papers will be presented and discussed by leading experts on the Louisiana Civil Code, along with national and international scholars. The conference will illustrate how Louisiana, as the first jurisdiction in the world to codify its private law following the Napoleonic Code, developed a code that is not merely a replica of the French Civil Code. The relevance and content of the 1825 Civil Code, as well as its influence in the United States, the Americas, and other parts of the world, will also be explored. Additionally, the future of codification in mixed jurisdictions and the global context will be debated.

The papers presented will be of interest to the broader legal community and provide opportunities to earn Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits. The conference will also appeal to those interested in local and world history, law, languages, and social sciences.

The conference will feature the 44th Tucker Lecture in Civil Law as its keynote address on the evening of the first day. This lecture will be delivered by Professor Agustín Parise, who holds two law doctorates from the Universities of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Maastricht (The Netherlands), where he serves as a law professor.

Presentations will primarily be in English, with some in French, as laws at the time were published in both languages. The Consul General of France in New Orleans will open the event, coinciding with the Journée internationale de la francophonie on March 20.

While the Tucker Lecture is open to the public, conference attendance requires prior registration, which is free for LSU faculty and students. The program and registration forms are available on the CCLS website.

Date & Location: March 20-21, 2025, Lod Cook Alumni Center, LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (free parking available)

For more information, full program, and registration, visit https://law.lsu.edu/ccls/  

Contact: Professor Olivier Moréteau, CCLS Director (moreteau@lsu.edu) and Katie Meek, CCLS Coordinator (katiemeek@lsu.edu).

9th General Conference on Convivencia, Macau, 24-25 October 2024

 

9^th General Conference

 

Macau, 24-25 October 2024

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The Theme:

‘Convivencia’: Com-paring Legal Scenarios of a Life Together in Harmony

In a seemingly dystopian present or era of post-truth, can the various dichotomous conceptions of law based on dualistic reasoning still be maintained? Or, are we no longer able to maintain the narrative of a normative universe by constantly creating and maintaining ‘a world of right and wrong, of lawful and unlawful, of valid and void’, as Robert M. Cover wrote?

In view of the apparent contradictions caused by a growing number of complex cross-cutting, cross-boundary and cross-cultural phenomena, such as artificial intelligence, climate change or zoonotic diseases, the time may have come again to rethink and transcend the dualisms that guided human thinking for a long time, creating wide gaps between not only law and law, but also between law and other scientific areas.

Juris Diversitas invites abstracts for papers that seek to not only identify different legal problems by contrasting their underlying causes but also by ‘com-paring’ them in the spirit of ‘convivencia or living together in harmony and in a way respectful of difference’. Convivencia is a term the late comparatist H. Patrick Glenn applied to explain ‘com-paring’ by describing it as ‘an enduring process of peaceful co-existence (in spite of difference in spite of potential conflict), in a way which ensures not uniformity but ongoing diversity’. While this call for papers is as open as it can be in a spirit of convivencia, we welcome proposals that apply a new legal logic aiming to break free from the ironclad shackles limiting the imaginative and creative power of the legal mind.

Dates & Venue:

24-25 October 2024

University of Macau

Faculty of Law/Department of Global Legal Studies

Avenida da Universidade E32

999078 Taipa, Macao (China)

Le thème :

« Convivencia » : comparaison des scénarios juridiques du vivre ensemble en harmonie

Dans un présent apparemment dystopique ou une ère de post-vérité, les diverses conceptions dichotomiques du droit fondées sur un raisonnement dualiste peuvent-elles encore être maintenues ? Ne sommes-nous plus capables de maintenir le récit d’un univers normatif en créant et en entretenant « un monde de bien et de mal, de licite et d’illicite, de valide et de nul », comme l’écrivait Robert M. Cover ?

Face aux contradictions apparentes causées par un nombre croissant de phénomènes transversaux, transfrontaliers et transculturels complexes, tels que l’intelligence artificielle, le changement climatique ou les maladies zoonotiques, le moment est peut-être venu de repenser et de transcender les dualismes qui ont longtemps guidé la pensée humaine, créant de grands écarts non seulement entre le droit et le droit, mais aussi entre le droit et les autres domaines scientifiques.

Juris Diversitas fait appel à des contributions qui cherchent non seulement à identifier différents problèmes juridiques en contrastant leurs causes sous-jacentes, mais également en les « comparant » dans l’esprit de « convivencia ou vivre ensemble en harmonie et dans le respect de la différence ». Convivencia est un terme que le regretté comparatiste H. Patrick Glenn a utilisé pour expliquer la « comparaison » en la décrivant comme « un processus durable de coexistence pacifique (en dépit des différences et des conflits potentiels), d'une manière qui garantit non pas l’uniformité mais une diversité dynamique ». Si cet appel à communications se veut aussi ouvert que possible dans un esprit de convivialité, nous valorisons les propositions qui appliquent une nouvelle logique juridique visant à se libérer des chaînes qui limitent le pouvoir imaginatif et créatif de l’esprit juridique.

Dates & lieu :

24-25 Octobre 2024

University of Macau

Faculty of Law/Department of Global Legal Studies

Avenida da Universidade E32

999078 Taipa, Macao (China)

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW / REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SÉMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE // Special Issue: Legal Comparison Beyond the Law in Late Rodolfo Sacco

 

Cultures and Law - Cultures et droit

 

Call For Submissions: American University Law Review, Spring 2025 Symposium, Law and Popular Culture @AmULRev

The American University Law Review has issued a Call For Papers for its annual symposium. Here is the call.

The American University Law Review is placing a call for submissions of original legal articles and scholarly commentaries for its forthcoming issue dedicated to pop culture and the law. Specifically, the Law Review seeks submissions analyzing the sports, media and entertainment, fashion, and social media industries and their effect on the law. However, other topics related to pop culture will be considered. The target publication date is slated for mid-2025.

Next year, the Law Review’s Spring Symposium will be held on February 7, 2025. This symposium will explore and engage with burgeoning legal issues in pop culture. Selected authors may have the opportunity to present their work as a panelist in the Symposium, but participation is not a requirement for consideration.

Legal imaginaries across the Asia-Pacific: Vernacular laws and literatures

Thursday 5^th September

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Level 4, ANU College of Law

This event represents the first fruits of a new network that targets a specific geographic constellation and identifies, through the language of ‘the imaginary’ and ‘vernacular’, a specific set of theoretical resources. ‘Laws and literatures’ both frames the endeavour in relation to the rich field of studies in law and literature, and pluralises it in significant ways. Collaborative partners in the broader project include University of Wollongong, Hong Kong University, National University of Singapore, and University of British Columbia.

This one-day workshop would be of interest to academics and HDR students in literature, law and the humanities, legal theory, and postcolonial studies. It features new work from prominent and emerging scholars working in law and literature from right across the region -- from Australia, Aotearoa, the Pacific and Mexico to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia – showcasing new directions with what we might call a common indicazione geografica tipica, and indicazione teorica tipica. 

International Academy of Comparative Law - 2024 Congress // Académie internationale de droit comparé - Congrès 2024

CENTENAIRE DE L’AIDC et 5è CONGRÈS THÉMATIQUE, SUR LE THÈME DU DROIT COMPARÉ 
15 et 16 novembre 2024 
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 

Programme provisoire 

Vendredi, 15 novembre : 

• Bienvenue au Congrès 
• Hommage à notre ancien Secrétaire Général, le regretté Professeur Dr Jürgen Basedow
• Introduction aux thèmes du congrès et aux sessions parallèles par les Rapporteurs généraux 
• Histoire du droit comparé et de l’Académie (Helge Dedek, Université McGill) 
• L’avenir du droit comparé (Maria-Chiara Malaguti, Présidente d’Unidroit, et Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 
• L’enseignement du droit comparé (Bui Ngoc Son, Université d’Oxford, assisté de Gary F Bell, National University of Singapore)

Samedi 16 novembre ;

• Sessions parallèles sur les différents thèmes
• Table ronde avec les Rapporteurs Généraux présidée par Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Présidente de l’Académie
• Table ronde : Perspectives régionales sur le droit comparé par divers centres et institutions présidée par Gary F Bell, Secrétaire-Général de l’Académie. 
• Europe : 
• François Molinié, Société de législation comparée
• Marie Goré, Institut de droit comparé, Centre français de droit comparé 
• Michele Graziadei, Società Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato 
• Amérique du nord: 
• Hannah Buxbaum, American Society of Comparative Law 
• Afrique 
• Makane Moïse Mbengue, Société africaine de droit international 
• Asie 
• Dan Puchniak, Centre for Commercial Law in Asia à la Singapore Management University 
• Bui Ngoc Son, Oxford Programme in Asia Law 
• Amérique Latine 
• Jorge A Sánchez Cordero, Mexican Center of Uniform Law

 

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CENTENNIAL OF THE IACLAnd 5th THEMATIC CONGRESS:ON THE THEME OF COMPARATIVE LAW
15 and 16 November 2024 
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University 

Programme (subject to change) 

Friday, 15 November: 

• Welcoming to Congress
• Tribute to our former Secretary-General, the late Professor Dr Jürgen Basedow
• Introduction to the themes of the congress and the parallel sessions by the General Rapporteurs 
• History of Comparative law and of the Academy (Helge Dedek, McGill University)
• Future of Comparative Law (Maria-Chiara Malaguti, President of Unidroit, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
• Teaching of Comparative Law (Bui Ngoc Son, University of Oxford, assisted by Gary F Bell, National University of Singapore)

Saturday, 16 November:

• Parallel sessions on the different themes (continuation) 6:00 pm 
• Round table with the General Rapporteurs presided by Giuditta Cordero-Moss, President of the Academy 3:30-4:00 pm • Coffee Break
• Round table: Regional Perspectives on comparative law from different centres and institution presided par Gary F Bell, Secretary General of the Academy. 
• Europe : 
• François Molinié, Société de législation comparée
• Marie Goré, Institut de droit comparé, Centre français de droit comparé
• Michele Graziadei, Società Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato 
• North America
• Hannah Buxbaum, American Society of Comparative Law 
• Africa
• Makane Moïse Mbengue, African Society of International Law 
• Asia 
• Dan Puchniak, Centre for Commercial Law in Asia at the Singapore Management University
• Bui Ngoc Son, Oxford Programme in Asia Law 
• Latin America
• Jorge A Sánchez Cordero, Mexican Center of Uniform Law

Rivista di diritti comparati

 Rivista di diritti comparati

Rivista quadrimestrale 

Anno VIII – N. 1/2024 

Direzione 

Andrea Buratti – Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” 

Alessandra Di Martino – Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza” 

Cristina Fasone – LUISS 

Guido Carli Giuseppe Martinico – Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa 

Anna Mastromarino – Università di Torino 

Oreste Pollicino – Università commerciale “Bocconi” di Milano 

Giorgio Repetto – Università di Perugia 

Francesco Saitto – Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza” 

Raffaele Torino – Università Roma Tre

Sommario 

Atti del IX Convegno annuale di Diritti Comparati: “Cancellazione, Spazio pubblico, Memoria” 

ANNA MASTROMARINO, Memoria, cancellazione, spazio pubblico [pp. 1-20]

SERGE NOIRET, Spazio pubblico e memorie nelle pratiche della Public History [pp. 21-45]

PASQUALE ANNICCHINO, Culture wars e potere giudiziario. Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti e Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo nel geo-diritto occidentale [pp. 46-68]

STÉPHANE PIERRÉ-CAPS, La Constitution et la mémoire historique : progrès ou régression du constitutionnalisme ? [pp. 69-77] 

GIORGIO RESTA, La memoria attraverso il processo. Tecniche risarcitorie e politiche di riparazione degli illeciti storici [pp. 78-93] 

EDUARDO BARRETO MARTÍN, Memoria y cultura: un análisis del caso audiovisual español [pp. 94-130]

MICHELE GRAZIADEI, La storia, la memoria e il diritto [pp. 131-139] 

Saggi FIORE FONTANAROSA, Law and obesity: analisi comparatistica del fenomeno obesità tra strumenti di hard law e misure di soft law [pp. 140-178] 

VITTORIA MARGHERITA SOFIA TRIFILETTI, Il Data Privacy Framework e il trasferimento dei dati personali tra Stati Uniti e Unione Europea. Appunti di una comparazione [pp. 179-199] 

Note e commenti 

CESARE PINELLI, Old and New Oligarchs. Introduction to the money-democracy issue [pp. 200-207] 

VIRGINIA LEMME, La pronuncia pregiudiziale di C-621/21: le donne come gruppo sociale, una tutela effettiva? [pp. 208-234] 

ROSA IANNACCONE, Considerazioni sul ruolo della legislazione elettorale nelle “democrazie imperfette” a partire dai casi messicano e cileno [pp. 235-253] 

CLAUDIO LASPERANZA, The Japanese pontifex: A study on State-religion separation and its criticalities [pp. 254-286] 

Fadel, Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law

 

Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Private International Law in Classical Muslim International Law

MOHAMMAD FADEL

Abstract

Scholars in recent years have shown interest in challenging the historical origins of international law and its normative claims to universality. This Article challenges the prevailing conceptions of Islamic international law (al-siyar), first set out in English-language scholarship by Majid Khadduri, as primarily an ad-hoc response to the failed aspiration of a universal Muslim commonwealth. It shows that Islamic international law, in its classical phase (eighth–thirteenth centuries), as first formulated by Iraqi, and later, Central Asian, scholars (who together later came to be known as Ḥanafīs), understood all legal order as being rooted in sovereignty and territoriality, with shared religion a secondary concern. This theory of legal order arose out of an understanding of political order as emerging from a natural and universal condition of war that is incidental to the individual’s natural sovereignty. I trace the genealogy of this conception to the founding moment of the Muslim commonwealth and describe its manifestation in classical Ḥanafī solutions to a series of cases in “private international law.”