Juris Diversitas Annual Conference May 30-June 1, Baton Rouge

Annual Conference Registration

Registration Fee w/ Dinner €250.00 EUR Members Registration Fee w/ Dinner €175.00 EUR Registration Fee Only €200.00 EUR Members Registration Only €125.00 EUR

Links to Conference Hotels ($119 per night plus tax; book by May 8):

SpringHill Suites Baton Rouge South

Fairfield Inn & Suites Baton Rouge South

Complimentary bus service will be provided  morning and evening

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

8:30—9:15           Registration & Coffee

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

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)

·         Towards a New Paradigm of Medical Liability: A Cultural Perspective

Elena Grasso, University of Genoa (Italy)

·         Professional Liability in Civil Law and in Common Law

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

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

·         Construction d’une démocratie multi-cultuelle au Bénin: 

Accommodements entre religion chrétienne et culte traditionnel vodou

Eric Ngango Youmbi, Université de Maroua (Cameroun)

·         Harmoniser la diversité en droit des successions : 

oui mais avec précaution

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

·         Un droit au salaire minimum : l’impossible unité ?

Alexis Bugada, Aix-Marseille Université (France)

15:30—16:00      Break

16:00—17:30      PARALLEL SESSIONS III  

III.A        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)

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)

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 la doctrine économique américaine a participé à 

l’harmonisation des règles de droit antitrust en Europe ?

Jean-Christophe Roda, Université de Toulon (France)

V.B         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)

12:30—14:30      Lunch

14:30—16:00      PARALLEL SESSIONS 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)

VI.B        Of Land, Blood and Race

·         Race and Nation. On Ius Sanguinis and the Origins of 
a Racist National Perspective

Carlos Amunátegui Perelló, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile)

·         Land Reform and the Restructuring of Post-Apartheid Namibia 

with Specific Reference to Informal Settlements

Sam Kwesi Amoo, University of Namibia (Namibia)

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

Fernin F. Eaton, Baton Rouge (United States)

VI.C        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)

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, University of Northumbria (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)

·         The Ambiguous Role of Comparative Law 

in the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law: 

Unity and Diversity in Succession Law

Filippo Viglione & Giovanni Cinà, University of Padua (Italy)

·         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)

11:10—11:30      Break

11:30—12:30      Plenary—Closing Panel  

·         Empires as Engines of Mixed Legal Systems

Vernon V. Palmer, Tulane University (United States)

·         [Other participants to be announced]

Juris Diversitas 2016 Annual Conference CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

JURIS DIVERSITAS

ANNUAL CONFERENCE  

May 30 - June 1, 2016

Louisiana State University

Law Center, Baton Rouge, USA

Unity and/or Diversity

An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Comparative Law

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.

Submissions: Panel proposals and interdisciplinary presentations are strongly encouraged, as is the participation of doctoral students and scholars from outside of the discipline of law. While parallel sessions of three twenty-minute presentations will be used, we encourage more original session structures.

Proposals should be in English or in French. Proposals of circa 250 words (or 1000 words for panel proposals) should be submitted to Professor Salvatore Mancuso at JDLSU2016@gmail.comJDLSU2016@gmail.com by December 6, 2015, with a short biography listing major or relevant publications. Make this a single Word document with minimal formatting, so that proposal and biography can be copied easily into the conference program.

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/http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/). Note that fees don’t cover travel, accommodation, or the conference dinner (€50).

Call for Papers, Human Rights in Translation, St. Louis, March 31--April 1, 2016

"Human Rights in Translation: Intercultural Pathways" conference at Saint Louis University's Center for Intercultural Studies, St. Louis, March 31--April 1, 2016. 

When defining human rights, we often invoke certain beliefs--deemed to be universal--on which such rights are based: dignity inherent to every person, common humanity, and natural state of liberty. However, the norms and values of many cultures are incommensurable, or even incompatible, with these "universal" principles.

One way out of this quandary, rooted in the concept of organic wholeness of humanity, has been to call for a convergence of world cultures around the universal idea of human rights, presumed to be shared by all people at a "deeper" level. The problem with this view is that homogenizing world cultures implies eradicating their diversity, in itself a denial of the right to uphold one's culture. Another solution has been to acknowledge the cultural differences in interpreting human rights, and to treat them as mere variations of the basic, universal set of standards. This approach necessitates drawing a line beyond which the universal would be invalidated by the local, a problematic undertaking at best. Both methods tend to assume timeless universality, and thus run the risk of ahistoricism.

The goal of this conference is to encourage reflection on the intercultural translation of human rights. Instead of using such rights as yardsticks to measure diverse cultures on compliance with them, we welcome papers that translate the differences between cultures through the prism of human rights, illuminating different cognitive contexts that produce different meanings of rights, identifying spaces of intercultural crossing where differences can coexist, and offering usable narratives and metaphors that could serve as interfaces between distinct cultures. Ideally, these translations should view human rights not as an integral and finite goal but as a dynamic process of trying to achieve them.

Proposals should include: a one-page abstract of the paper, with a title and name of the author; the author's brief curriculum vitae; postal address; email address; and phone number.  Complete proposals should be emailed as attachments in MS Word to: Mary Bokern at bokernmp@slu.edu with a subject line "Human Rights in Translation"." The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2015.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: 5th Global Conference: Space and Place

5th Global Conference: Space and Place Wednesday 3rd September - Friday 5th September 2014 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom  Call for Presentations Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other" constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology, architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate.