JURIS DIVERSITAS

4^th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

30 May to June 1, 2016

LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Unity and/or Diversity

An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Comparative Law

Unité ou diversité

Colloque international et interdisciplinaire de droit comparé

Co-sponsored by

Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Center of Civil Law Studies

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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)
• 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)

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)
• 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)

11:00—11:30      Break

11:30—12:30      PLENARY—CLOSING PANEL  

• Empires as Engines of Mixed Legal Systems, Vernon V. Palmer, Tulane University (United States)
• [Participants to be announced]