giovedì 28 gennaio 2010

Estratte le Commissioni per i Concorsi Jus21


Sono stati effettuati i sorteggi per le commissioni di I e II fascia IUS 21
i risultati sono alla pagina http://reclutamento.murst.it/sessioni_2008/quadro_sorteggio_commissioni.php?&pub_ex=1&quadro=1&parte=1&codice=IS21&ruolo=O



Per la prima volta nelle commissioni di pubblico anche i colleghi che provengono dal diritto privato comparato :  Anna Veneziano (Sassari), Albina Candian (LUM), Anna De Vita (Roma Tre), Fabio Ziccardi (Trento), Rino Sica (Università Europea)



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mercoledì 27 gennaio 2010

Calliano and Padoa Schioppa on European Development


     CENTRO STUDI SUL FEDERALISMO




Il Centro Studi sul Federalismo è lieto di invitarla alla

PRESENTAZIONE DEL VOLUME

a cura di Dario Velo


Il governo dello sviluppo economico e
dell’innovazione in Europa
 (Giuffrè, 2009)


Il seminario si svolgerà 

Giovedì 28 gennaio 2010, alle ore 16.45


presso la Fondazione Luigi Einaudi,


via Principe Amedeo 34, Torino



Ore 16.45   Introduce e presiede:

  Antonio Padoa Schioppa, Presidente del Centro Studi sul Federalismo,
                      Università degli Studi di Milano

Discutono:      Oreste Calliano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Vicepresidente   
                                                  dell’Associazione Universitaria di Studi Europei (AUSE)

  Alfonso Iozzo, membro del Consiglio del Centro Studi sul Federalismo,
                                               Vicepresidente della Fondation Internationale Robert
                                               Triffin

  Giorgio Pellicelli, Università degli Studi di Torino                            
          



  Sarà presente il curatore del volume, Professor Dario Velo,
                       membro della Giunta del Centro Studi sul Federalismo,
                       Università degli Studi di Pavia                
           


Si prega di dare conferma della partecipazione al seguente recapito:

 Centro Studi sul Federalismo, via Real Collegio 30, 10024 Moncalieri (TO)
Tel. 011.6705024 - Fax 011.6705081 - E-mail: info@csfederalismo.it

martedì 26 gennaio 2010

Riconosciute le Ragioni dell' AIDC



Con sentenza depositata il 23 gennaio il TAR Lazio 


ha riconosciuto appieno le buone ragioni dell'AIDC nella sua querelle contro il MIUR 
che aveva respinto le nostre reiterate - negli anni - richieste di dare attuazione alla reciproca affinità  fra il Diritto privato comparato (IUS 02) e il Diritto pubblico comparato (IUS 21).


Il TAR ha confermato l'AIDC  associazione esponenziale degli studiosi della materia, come tale peraltro già riconosciuta dal MIUR,

ed  ha annullato il provvedimento del Ministero che ostava al riconoscimento dell'affinità tra questi settori disciplinari che da sempre la nostra Associazione vede riuniti.


Secondo il TAR, fra l'altro,
"la mancata comunicazione dei motivi ostativi all'accoglimento dell'istanza e la conseguente adozione del provvedimento negativo senza il previo contraddittorio procedimentale, è
omissione idonea ad inficiare l'atto impugnato, tenuto conto, per quanto
concerne la controversia in trattazione, della natura ampiamente
discrezionale dell'attività provvedimentale rimessa al Commissario e della
circostanza che se fosse stata posta nelle condizione di proporre le sue
osservazioni l'Associazione avrebbe sicuramente evidenziato l'evoluzione
degli orientamenti del CUN in ordine all'accorpamento dei raggruppamenti
disciplinari de quibus ..." continua


A tal proposito ricordiamo che con deliberazione del settembre scorso il
CUN ha proposto la creazione di un unico settore disciplinare "Diritto
comparato" che unisce sia IUS 02 che IUS 21.



Si tratta, come ognuno vede, di un importante riconoscimento delle ragioni della nostra Associazione nel portare avanti il programma che ci eravamo dati.


A tutti i soci che ci hanno sostenuto con la loro opera e le loro numerose mail di solidarietà va il nostro sentito ringraziamento per l'affetto dimostrato nei confronti della nostra Associazione che non è mai venuto meno


Potete scaricare la sentenza in formato pdf cliccando QUI


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Supreme Courts on Facebook


Facebook is going to become a forum to discuss and inform on latest Courts decisions:
visit the brand new site of the French Cour de Cassation
that devoted to the Italian Corte di Cassazione
the Italian Corte Costituzionale
and the European Court of Justice
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20 years of Antitrust in Italy

Catricalà, Rescigno, Zoppini, Zeno Zencovich, Roppo, Libertini, Denozza and many others at the
LUISS and Roma TRE Conference: 29 janary 2010
Auditorium Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
via Monteverdi, 35, ROMA



mercoledì 20 gennaio 2010

Hovenkamp on Coase, Institutionalism, and the Origins of Law and Economics


Posted by Mary L. Dudziak on the Legal History Blog

Coase, Institutionalism, and the Origins of Law and Economics has just been posted by Herbert J. Hovenkamp, University of Iowa College of Law. Here's the abstract:
Ronald Coase merged two traditions in economics, marginalism and institutionalism. Neoclassical economics in the 1930s was characterized by an abstract conception of marginalism and frictionless resource movement. Marginal analysis did not seek to uncover the source of individual human preference, but accepted preference as given. It treated the business firm in the same way, focusing on how firms make market choices, but saying little about their internal workings.

“Institutionalism” historically refers to a group of economists who wrote mainly in the 1920s and 1930s.
read more ...
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Comparing Constitutions


CFP: Comparative Perspectives on Constitutions

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (The School of Advanced Study, University of London) WG Hart Legal Workshop 2010 Comparative Perspectives on Constitutions: Theory and Practice 29 June-01 July 2010 Hat tip: Comparative Law Blog.The W G Hart Legal Workshop 2010 will explore theoretical and empirical aspects of national constitutions (including instruments such as Basic Laws and ‘

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Property Law Conference (Pretoria, 28-29 October 2010)

An International Property Law Conference will be held on 28-29 October 2010 at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. My notice read:

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract of your paper to be presented at the conference.The topics (and sessions) for the conference are the following:

  1. Basic Principles of Property Law (Keynote speaker: Prof. em. Dr. Dr.h.c. H P Westermann, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
  2. Acquisition of Ownership (Keynote speaker: Mr Justice L Mpati, President, Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa)
  3. Real Security Law (Keynote speaker: Dr AJM Steven, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  4. Constitutional Property Law (Keynote speaker: Prof AJ Van der Walt, Professor of Law and South African Research Chair in Property Law, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Apart from the keynote speakers the conference will also include numerous papers from practitioners, teachers and researchers (each speaker will have twenty minutes to present his/her paper). We invite you to respond to this Call for Papers. The deadline for submission of your proposal (a title and short abstract - 350 words) is 15 February 2010. Proposals will be reviewed within two weeks of submission. Please confine your topic to one of those listed above. Conference proceedings will be published in a peer reviewed conference publication.Please submit your proposal to any member of the organizing committee (knobeim@unisa.ac.za;scottsj@unisa.ac.za; vwykama@unisa.ac.za or wiesem@unisa.ac.za).
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in the Jacaranda City (Pretoria) when it is in full bloom in October 2010! Please note that the conference organisers are not responsible for travelling costs of speakers at the conference and speakers are not exempted from the registration fee.

SISDIC Conference in Capri : Video Online

Il video del IV Congresso Nazionale della SISDIC del 16 aprile 2009 è disponibile online cliccando qui
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Mixed Jurisdictions Compared



Recent publication of Vernon Valentine Palmer and Elspeth Christie Reid (eds), Mixed jurisdictions compared: private law in Louisiana and Scotland (2009). 

As the Edinburgh University Press site explains:

Returning to a theme featured in some of the earlier volumes in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series, this volume offers an in-depth study of ‘mixed jurisdictions’ – legal systems which combine elements of the Anglo-American Common Law and the European Civil Law traditions. This new collection of essays compares key areas of private law in Scotland and Louisiana. In thirteen chapters, written by distinguished scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it explores not only legal rules but also the reasons for the rules, discussing legal history, social and cultural factors, and the law in practice, in order to account for patterns of similarity and difference. Contributions are drawn from the Law Schools of Tulane University, Louisiana State University, Loyola University New Orleans, the American University Washington DC, and the Universities of Aberdeen, Strathclyde and Edinburgh.

The contributions include:

1. Praedial Servitudes, Kenneth GC Reid
2. Title Conditions in Restraint of Trade, John A Lovett
3. Servitudes: Extinction by Non-Use, Roderick RM Paisley
4. Inheritance and the Surviving Spouse, Ronald J Scalise Jr
5. Ownership of Trust Property in Scotland and Louisiana, James Chalmers
6. The Legal Regulation of Adult Domestic Relationships, Kenneth McK Norrie
7. Impediments to Marriage in Scotland and Louisiana: An Historical - Comparative Investigation, J-R Trahan
8. Contracts of Intellectual Gratification - A Louisiana-Scotland Creation, Vernon Valentine Palmer
9. The Effect of Unexpected Circumstances on Contracts in Scots and Louisiana Law, Laura Macgregor
10. Hunting Promissory Estoppel, David V Snyder
11. Unjustified Enrichment, Subsidiarity and Contract, Hector L MacQueen
12. Causation as an Element of Delict/Tort in Scots and Louisiana Law, Martin A Hogg
13. Personality Rights: A Study in Difference, Elspeth Christie Reid.

The work should be of interest to all comparatists:

‘This is an impressive and extremely valuable contribution not only to the study of the law of mixed jurisdictions, but also of comparative law in general. Mixed jurisdictions are veritable comparative-law laboratories in continuous operation. A comparison of two such laboratories, when done with the insight, depth and sophistication that characterize this book, is a marvelous gift to comparatists and legal historians around the world.’ - Symeon C. Symeonides, Dean and Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law, President, American Society of Comparative Law

‘Fifty years ago, mixed legal systems would reach out to one another feeling embattled and lonely, as if banding together would stave off their otherwise inevitable juridical demise. Today, legal sources are increasingly recognized as mixed in nearly all jurisdictions and, as a result, places like Louisiana and Scotland are no longer seen as isolated or exotic. This book is thus doubly important: first, as comparative study of private law in Louisiana and Scotland and, second, as a work that helps explain the reconfiguration - real or imagined - of legal traditions elsewhere in this age of globalization.’ - Nicholas Kasirer, McGill University


Anyone interested in additional information on mixed legal systems should visit the website of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists.

Call for Papers : Israel Law Review


Posted via SSRN Legal Scholarship Network                
     
     
     IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
      
     We wish to inform you of important changes in the Israel 
     Law Review and to invite you to submit a written 
     contribution to the journal, which is now published by the 
     Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of 
     Jerusalem. 
      
      
     ABOUT IS.L.R:
      
     The Israel Law Review is the oldest and most prestigious 
     law journal appearing in English in Israel, published for 
     more than 40 years under the academic auspices of the 
     Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The 
     Faculty of Law recently decided to shift the focus of the 
     journal to public law and human rights in times of tension, 
     conflict and transformation, and to place it under the 
     academic and organizational leadership of the Minerva 
     Center for Human Rights. This new focus acknowledges a 
     growing interest in the ability of public law and human 
     rights norms and institutions to meet the challenges faced 
     by societies under pressure, and is indicative of the 
     increased relevance of comparative and international 
     scholarship to existing debates in and on such societies. 
      
     The Israel Law Review will continue to publish three issues 
     per year. These issues will continue to be distributed in 
     paper and electronic form (in Lexis and HeinOnline). The 
     issues will contain, as before, long articles, shorter 
     notes and book reviews submitted to the journal by a 
     variety of authors from around the world. All submissions 
     are subject to a "double-blind review" process by two or 
     more referees, and undergo technical and style editing by 
     the student editors - supervised and assisted by the 
     journal's Academic Editor (Dr. Yael Ronen), Executive 
     Editor (Adv. Danny Evron) and Production Editor (Adv. 
     Michele Manspeizer). The general policy of the Law Review, 
     as well as overall responsibility for its contents and 
     format, will lie with the two Editors-in-Chief: Prof. Yuval 
     Shany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof. Sir Nigel 
     Rodley (University of Essex). 
     
     
     ADVISORY BOARD:
     
     In its new format, the Israel Law Review will be assisted 
     by an International Advisory Board composed of prominent 
     public law and human rights experts: 
      
     - Prof. Aharon Barak (former President of the Israeli 
       Supreme Court)
     - Prof. Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel-Aviv University)
     - Prof. Antonio Cassese (Florence University)
     - Prof. Malcolm Feeley (University of California, 
       Berkeley)
     - Prof. Jochen Frowein (Max Planck Institute for 
       Comparative Public Law and International Law, 
       Heidelberg)
     - Prof. Francoise Hampson (University of Essex)
     - Prof. Vicki Jackson (Georgetown University)
     - Prof. Michael Karayanni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
     - Prof. Eckart Klein (Potsdam University)
     - Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer (Hebrew University of 
       Jerusalem)
     - Prof. David Kretzmer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
     - Prof. Fionnuala Ni-Aolain (University of Minnesota
       University of Ulster)
     - Prof. Frances Raday (College of Management Academic 
       Studies, Rishon Le Zion)
     - Prof. William Schabas (National University of Ireland)
     - Prof. Malcolm Shaw (Leicester University)
     - Prof. Henry Steiner (Harvard University)
      
      
     PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
      
     We strongly encourage those of you interested in public law 
     and human rights issues relating to societies facing 
     tension, conflict and transition - to consider submitting 
     future work for publication in the Israel Law Review. We 
     are committed to a prompt and professional review and 
     printing process, and believe that we can offer you an 
     attractive and prestigious publication platform.  
      
     More information on the submission and publication process 
     can be found on the Israel Law Review website:
      
          http://law.huji.ac.il/eng/pirsumim.asp?cat=735
      
     The staff will gladly answer any question you may have 
     concerning the journal and publishing in it (please refer 
     any such queries to: 
      
     Email:         ilr@savion.huji.ac.il
     CONTACT:       Prof. Yuval Shany
               and  
     CONTACT:       Prof. Sir Nigel Rodley
                    Chief Co-Editors
     
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lunedì 18 gennaio 2010

Call for Papers: Empirical Legal Studies at Yale




CALL FOR PAPERS: FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES AT YALE LAW SCHOOL
November 5-6, 2010

The Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2010 of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) will be held at the Yale Law School, in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6, 2010.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
The Yale Law School and SELS work with the Social Science Research Network to provide an online paper submission system. To submit a paper for consideration, please go to the CELS 2010 Conference page on SSRN, at:
The deadline for submission of papers is July 2, 2010.

Information about the Conference, including the submission process, is available at the CELS 2010 website at:For information about the Society for Empirical Legal Studies please visit:

60 years of GrundGesetz in The German Law Journal






the new issue of the German Law Journal is now available online at: www.germanlawjournal.com.

The German Law Journal opens its 11th year of publication with a very special special issue: "The Basic Law at 60", concluding finally the year of Germany's great constitutional anniversary while setting out into a new decade, brings together a unique selection of contributions taking stock of six decades of the German Basic Law, with articles by Susanne Baer, Dieter Grimm, Juliane Kokott,Matthias Mahlmann, Hubert Rottleuthner and Brigitte Zypries.

This special issue originates in a lecture  series  sponsored  by  the  German  civil  rights  organization  Humanist  Union  and  the  Law  and  Society  Institute  at Humbold  University's  Faculty  of  Law which  took  place  in  Berlin  throughout  2009  and  took  stock  of  six  decades  of  the  German  Basic  Law  with  commentary from  academia,  politics  and  the  media. Employing  perspectives  from  legal  doctrine,  the  humanities,  or  the  social  sciences,  the  lecture  series  attempted  to contrast  the  normative  claim  of  the  constitutional  text  ?  mirrored  in  the  current  public  law  doctrinal  debate  ?  with  empirical  or  critical  consideration  of contemporary  German  society.  The  German  Law  Journal  now proudly publishes  a  selection  of  these  lectures.

Dargo on the clash of legal traditions



The Lawbook Exchange recently published a revised edition of George Dargo, Jefferson’s Louisiana: politics and the clash of legal traditions (2009). They note:

The Purchase of all of Louisiana in 1803 brought the new American nation into contact with the French Creole population of the Lower Mississippi Basin. While the settlement in and around the city of New Orleans (the capital of the province when it was ruled by Spain) was not large, it had well established governmental and legal institutions. One of the most vexing problems that confronted the administration of Thomas Jefferson after the purchase of all of Louisiana in 1803: Which system of law would prevail in this volatile corner of the North American continent—Louisiana civil law or Anglo-American common law?

That Louisianians would remain committed to their civil law heritage was by no means certain. But the enactment of the Civil Law Digest by the territorial legislature in 1808 was a major event in the evolution of Louisiana’s increasingly complex legal regime. Jefferson’s Louisiana shows how this important moment came at a time when political forces and outside events joined together to reinforce local determination to resist total Americanization and to preserve Louisiana’s established legal culture. The book reconnects a segment of American legal history to the general history of the period. In addition to official records, it also uses archival sources that demonstrate how the struggle between civil law and common law forces affected people who were either outside of, or but marginally connected to, legal and governmental structures.


Sally Reeves, Former Chief Archivist of the New Orleans Notarial Archives and President of the Louisiana Historical Society (2003-9) called the work:

A rich and pioneering examination of the roles of Thomas Jefferson, Edward Livingston, and others in the battles between Creoles and Americans at the dawn of the American period in Louisiana. Dargo’s deft analysis sets the contest between civil and common law against the background of a larger cultural struggle. It is a major contributor to our understanding of the challenge of integrating disparate and competing traditions in a democracy.

Lesaffer on Legal History



Randall Lesaffer, Professor of Legal History and Dean of the Tilburg Law School, recently published European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective (2009). The Cambridge University Press site reads:

The rediscovery of Roman law and the emergence of classical canon law around AD 1100 marked the beginnings of the civil law tradition in Europe. Between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, a highly sophisticated legal science of a truly European dimension was developed. Since then the different European States have developed their own national legal systems, but with the exception of England and Ireland they are all heirs to this tradition of the ius commune. This historical introduction to the civil law tradition, from its original Roman roots to the present day, considers the political and cultural context of Europe’s legal history. Political, diplomatic and constitutional developments are discussed, and the impacts of major cultural movements, such as scholasticism, humanism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, on law and jurisprudence are highlighted. This contextual approach makes for a fascinating story, accessible to any reader regardless of legal or historical background.

Mahmud on Law and Geography


Tayyab Mahmud has published Law and Geography: A Commentary from the Margins of Empire


Here is the abstract

This commentary examines the relationship between law and geography through the prism of colonialism and empire. Using two novels set in the India of 19th and 21st century, respectively, it evaluates the so-called first law of geography that posits determinative valance of spatial distance upon relations between things. It is argued that the formative and enduring relationship between global systems of domination and modern law has created a geo-legal space that has a global dimension. This geo-legal space procreates norms and subjectivities that are intimately related to spatially distant forces and projects.


Download the paper from SSRN at the link

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1433449

Italian Law on Iphone

A portata di mano in una sola applicazione tutti i Codici e le Leggi speciali più importanti per la giurisprudenza italiana: dalla Costituzione al codice della strada, dai codici civile e penale fino al testo unico sulla sicurezza sul lavoro. Un prontuario completo pensato per i professionisti e ideale anche per gli studenti.
Maggiori informazioni…

lunedì 11 gennaio 2010

Roman Law in the House of Lords


James Lee (University of Birmingham - School of Law) has posted Confusio: Reference to Roman Law in the House of Lords and the Development of English Private Law(Roman Legal Tradition, Vol. 5, pp. 24-66, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
    This paper examines the use of Roman law by members of the House of Lords in three recent decisions: Fairchild vs. Glenhaven Funeral Services [2002] UKHL 22; Foskett vs. McKeown [2001] 1 AC 102; and OBG vs. Allan [2007] UKHL 21, The contrasting views of Professor Peter Birks and Professor Sir Basil Markesinis are considered, and it it argued that within the decisions can be seen the value of reference to Roman law.

Giuseppe Franco Ferrari sullo status costituzionale del non-cittadino


Reperibile su Ethica  il testo della relazione di Giuseppe Franco Ferrari che ha concluso il Congresso Annuale 2009 dell’Associazioni Italiana Costituzionalisti: non-cittadino-161109.doc
Questo l’indice:
1. La condizione del non cittadino nell’età delle migrazioni globali; 2. Identità e integrazione tra individualismo liberale e comunitarismo; 3. Lo straniero tra legislazione e dottrina pubblicistica nel diritto italiano: la tradizione; 4. Segue: le tensioni del momento attuale; 5. Cenni di diritto comparato.
Si tratta di un testo realmente esemplare e da cui non si potrà prescindere per ogni ulteriore ricerca sul tema.
Fonte della foto.
Maggiori informazioni…
Posted by Azzoni
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Constitutional Law in Hong Kong


Chen on the Internalization of Constitutional Law in Hong Kong

Albert H.Y. Chen (Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong) has posted International Human Rights Law and Domestic Constitutional Law: Internationalisation of Constitutional Law in Hong Kongon SSRN. Here is the abstract:
    The case of Hong Kong, a former British colony which since 1997 has become a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, provides an interesting case study of the interaction of international human rights law and domestic constitutional law and the internationalisation of constitutional law. Hong Kong has, since 1991, introduced constitutional and legislative arrangements to enable the human rights norms in International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to have constitutional force in Hong Kong, to be justiciable before the Hong Kong courts and to be used as yardsticks for constitutional judicial review of legislative and governmental actions. This system has continued to operate effectively after the handover in 1997 under the new constitutional regime established by the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region enacted by the PRC. Part II of this article provides an overview of the application of the norms of international human rights in the domestic law of the HKSAR. Part III consists of several case studies of major court cases in recent years that illustrate the internationalisation of constitutional law in Hong Kong. Part IV seeks to locate the case of Hong Kong in the international and global context, and to develop a conceptual framework for the study of the internationalisation of constitutional law. It seeks an understanding or explanation of the internationalisation of constitutional law in the HKSAR in terms of the lack of an indigenous constitutional tradition in Hong Kong and the peculiar mentality of the people of Hong Kong living under “one country, two systems”, particularly their anxiety regarding the “mainlandization” of Hong Kong and their aspirations for the preservation of civil liberties and the maintenance of their cherished way of life.

Comparative Legal History on the Law of Presuptions


Essays in comparative legal history

Duncker & Humblot - Berlin have recently published a new title in their Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History series.

The work is RH Helmholz and W David H Sellar (eds), The law of presumptions: essays in comparative legal history. The book contains the following:

  • RH Helmholz and WDH Sellar, 'Presumptions in Comparative Legal History'

Part One: Continental Traditions:

  • A Giuliani, 'Civilian Treatises on Presumptions, 1580-1620'
  • KW Nörr, 'On the Early History of prima facie Evidence in German Law'
  • CH van Rhee, 'Presumptions in Dutch Private Law (19th and 20th Centuries) within a European Context'
  • F Migliorino, 'The Night Bird of Minerva. On to Truth and Evidence in the Turning Point of Modernity'

Part Two: English Traditions:

  • DJ Seipp, 'Presumptions in Early English Common Law'
  • RH Helmholz, 'The Law of Presumptions and the English Ecclesiastical Courts'
  • B Shapiro, 'Presumptions and Circumstantial Evidence in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition, 1500-1900'
  • TP Gallanis, 'Death by Disaster: Anglo-American Presumptions, 1766-2006'

Part Three: Mixed Systems:

  • WDH Sellar, 'Presumptions in Scots Law'
  • J du Plessis, 'Presumptions in South African Law: An Historical Perspective'

The Duncker and Humblot website explains:

The law of presumptions has never been popular among commentators. It has attracted few scholars, and most of the few who have ventured into the subject have come away as critics rather than admirers. Certainly, there are plausible reasons for this bad reputation. Presumptions are evidently inferior to more direct forms of proof; indeed they may not be forms of proof at all. They raise difficulties of definition and classification. Some presumptions also seem quite artificial, hard to defend as reliable indicators of the truth.

Despite their poor reputation, they have long been accepted and applied in practice. Legal presumptions play a part in virtually all Western legal systems. It is hard to image a workable law of proof without them, and their acceptance has been a fact of life for many centuries. Even in England, where the use of juries in the common law might seem to have excluded any need for legal presumptions, they took hold from an early date. They thus seem to be a natural candidate for comparative historical treatment. The essays in this volume seek to address this gap in scholarship.

The essays do not set out directly to rehabilitate the law of presumptions. They seek rather to explore the process by which presumptions worked their way into Western law and to examine the links that have existed between legal systems. The essays embrace not only English common law and Continental systems, but also 'mixed systems' like the law of Scotland and of Southern Africa. By examining the subject from an historical point of view, they seek to help explain the acceptance and persistence of a law of presumptions in Western law.

This appears to be yet another important work in an important series, a must-read for those interested in comparative legal history or legal hybrids.

7th ASLI conference in Kuala Lumpur, 25-26 May 2010


7th ASLI conference in Kuala Lumpur, 25-26 May 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS (SHORT DEADLINE!)

Quoting from the website of the Asian Law Institute:

the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) and the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University, Malaysia are holding the 7th Annual ASLI conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 25th and 26th May 2010.
The conference format remains broadly the same as last year: there will be five rounds of six parallel sessions over two days. The broad theme of the conference is "Law in a Pluralist Asia: Challenges and Prospects." Asia is arguably the most pluralist region in the world and law has a critical role in accommodating and managing this plurality, which exists at so many levels.
Within the broad conference theme of "Law in a Pluralist Asia: Challenges and Prospects", five of the parallel sessions will focus on selected sub-themes: (1) religion/religious laws (studying aspects of various religious laws, for example, Islamic(Shariah), Jewish, Hindu, Biblical in their historical contexts and application to modern life, as well as examining the place of religion in national legal systems); (2) norms, values and law (exploring competing social, cultural, religious, traditional norms as well as the balancing of minority and majority interests in society); (3) legal pluralism (examining the historical and contemporary phenomenon of the coexistence of different legal systems within various jurisdictions in Asia ); (4) law and economic development (examining different models of economic development in Asia and how law has a role to play in facilitating economic development and international trade taking into account the different stages of social and political development in Asia; (5) regionalization and law (looking at the role of law in developing regional institutions and common standards as well as the harmonization of legal and regulatory regimes. Session (6) will be a general one to include presentations that address the broad theme but may not fit comfortably within the subthemes, or may cut across subthemes, for example, conflict of law or comparative law.
Call for papers
There will be four papers per panel to give presenters and discussants adequate time for fruitful engagement. We encourage participants to focus their papers and address the conference theme and sub-themes. In addition to the general call for individual papers, we would also like to encourage individuals to organise their own panels by coordinating with colleagues, preferably from other ASLI institutions. This will allow for the panels to be more cohesive and will also foster greater collaboration between academics, which is one of the key aims of ASLI.
Deadline for submission of an abstract or panel is 8 January 2010
for more information: http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/asli_journal.htmhttp://www.iium.edu.my/laws/journal.php

May the new year – both 2010 and the coming Chinese year of the Tiger – be peaceful, happy and fruitful for all!

Call for Papers at McGill on International and Domestic Law


Dean Maxwell and Isle Cohen Doctoral Seminar in International Law

“Implementing International Law in the Domestic Legal Order”

Monday, 28 June, 2010
                                                                                                                   

The Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law and the Faculty of Law, McGill University, together with the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, are pleased to announce the first Dean Maxwell and Isle Cohen Doctoral Seminar in International Law to take place on Monday 28 June 2010, at the Faculty of Law of McGill University, in Montreal.

The Dean Maxwell and Isle Cohen Doctoral Seminar in International Law offers twelve doctoral and post-doctoral researchers with a keen interest in international law, the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow researchers and professors from the Faculty.

The aim of the first seminar is to advance the understanding of theoretical and practical dimensions of the interaction between international treaty law, international customary law and other international obligations with the domestic legal order, with due regard to the constitutional setting in federal and unitary states.

To address these issues, the first Dean Maxwell and Isle Cohen Doctoral Seminar in International Law will encourage a comprehensive discussion of the issue of the domestic implementation of international law, and will welcome papers covering diverse topics exploring the nexus between international law and domestic law, in any relevant field of law (from trade law to criminal law through the law of the sea or labour law, to take only a few examples), such as:
·      Substantive consistency between international law and domestic law,
·      Political authority and domestic legal status:  the idea of a constitutional dialogue,
·      Judges as norm entrepreneurs,
·      Domestic foundation of a global legal order,
·      Private actors as subjects of international law.

The twelve participants selected will be expected to prepare in advance a paper in pre-publication work-in-progress form. Participants may also prepare a PowerPoint presentation and/or a hand-out to be distributed to other participants. All the papers (with the PowerPoint presentations and/or hand-outs, where applicable) will be posted on the website of the Oppenheimer Chair, in a specific working papers series.
                                                                              
The Oppenheimer Chair will pay for the accommodation of the selected participants on 24 and 25 June 2010. Transportation will be the responsibility of the participants.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT/PAPER SUBMISSION

Doctoral and post-doctoral researchers wishing to participate in the conference must electronically submit an abstract, by January 15, 2010, to Professor François Crépeau at: francois.crepeau@mcgill.ca
                                                     
Abstract submissions MUST include the following:
1.         Name and contact details of the presenter,
2.         Title of the presentation,
3.         Abstract of the presentation (600 words),
4.         A short biographical profile of the presenter for dissemination (not more than 5 lines).
5.         A one-page bio of the presenter

The papers must be sent for posting on the website on 20 June 2010 at the latest.

For information, please contact Professor Crépeau, or visit: www.oppenheimer.mcgill.ca
AIDC WebSite Comparative Law News

venerdì 8 gennaio 2010

The Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration



Talks and papers by Guido Alpa, Simon Greenberg, Mauro Ferrante, Francesca Mazza, Sergio Carbone ... read more and download the program here
Posted by Diego Corapi
AIDC WebSite Comparative Law News

15th January at the CNF: Guido Calabresi on The Future of Torts



MASTER UNIVERSITARIO DI II LIVELLO IN DIRITTO PRIVATO EUROPEO
anno accademico 2009/2010

Seminario

I NUOVI CONFINI DELLA RESPONSABILITA’ CIVILE

Introduzione
Guido Alpa

Lectio magistralis
Guido Calabresi

Interventi di:
Giuseppe Conte
Universita di Firenze
Enrico Del Prato
Università degli Studi “RomaTre”
Valentina Di Gregorio
Università degli Studi del Molise
Raffaele Di Raimo
Università del Salento
Alberto Gambino
Università Europea di Roma
Aurelio Gentili
Università degli Studi “RomaTre”
Pier Giuseppe Monateri
Universita’ di Torino
Salvatore Patti
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Vincenzo Ricciuto
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Liliana Rossi Carleo
Università degli Studi “RomaTre”
Saverio Ruperto
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Claudio Scognamiglio
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Michele Tamponi
Università Luiss Guido Carli di Roma

Conclusioni
Pietro Rescigno



Venerdì 15 gennaio 2010, ore 15
Consiglio Nazionale Forense – Roma, via del Governo Vecchio n. 3


giovedì 7 gennaio 2010

CUN : Nuovi Settori Scientifico Disciplinari


Come avevamo già annunciato ricordiamo che è disponibile sul sito del CUN l'elenco dei Nuovi Settori Scientifico Disciplinari in Base al Parere Generale espresso dal Cun in data 4 novembre 2009, n. 7.
Per comodità il file è scaricabile anche dai nostri downloads cliccando qui.
L'area giuridica è la 12 a p. 22.
La Macro Area di Diritto Internazionale, dell'Unione Europea e Comparato è la 12/F
comprensiva dell'Area 12/F1 : Diritto Internazionale e dell'Unione Europea, e
12/F2 Diritto comparato
che riunisce tanto il pubblico che il privato comparato

martedì 5 gennaio 2010

Giuseppe De Vergottini, Luciano Violante, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich et alii on the Judiciary in Italy


Dove va la magistratura? 
Presentazione del n. 2/2009 della rivista
Percorsi costituzionali 
Quadrimestrale di diritti e libertà 
della
fondazione MAGNA CARTA

18 gennaio 2010, ore 16.00

Ore 16.00
Apertura dei lavori
Giuseppe de VERGOTTINI

Ore 16.15
Indipendenza ed autogoverno della magistratura: quali prospettive?
Carlo GUARNIERI  
Discussant
Luciano VIOLANTE
Alfredo MANTOVANO

Ore 16.45
Prospettive comunitarie in tema di amministrazione della giustizia
Vincenzo ZENO-ZENCOVICH
Discussant
Andrea ORLANDO (da confermare)
Filippo BERSELLI

Ore 17. 30
Una forma ragionevole di immunità parlamentare
Nicolò ZANON
Discussant
Anna FINOCCHIARO 
Gaetano QUAGLIARIELLO 


Senato della Repubblica
Sala Capitolare
Chiostro del Convento di S. Maria sopra Minerva
Piazza Minerva, 38 – Roma

É necessario confermare la presenza
TEL. 06/4880102 – 06/42014442
Obbligo di giacca e cravatta                                  E-MAIL: edizioni@magna-carta.it 

POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS IN QUEBEC


POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS: The Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law/Le Centre de recherche en droit privé et comparé du Québec

The Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law invites applications for three postgraduate scholarship opportunities.

1. FQRSC Scholarship in Transsystemic Legal Studies

With significant financial support from the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture, the QRCPCL has launched a wide-ranging research program on transsystemic legal education and how it affects our understanding of the discipline of law. Funds are available for one graduate student, either at the doctoral or the master's level (up to $15,000), to participate in this program. The selected student will be one whose proposed research relates to aspects of transsystemic legal education or legal epistemology. This could include (but is not limited to): comparative law as applied in legal education; methodology or philosophy of comparative law; methodology or philosophy of legal education; interdisciplinary perspectives on comparative law or legal education. The student will participate in the activities of the research program, including the organization of conferences on transsystemic legal education, the publication of conference proceedings, and the publication of scholarship on transsystemic legal thought.

The successful student may be granted a renewable or a non-renewable scholarship. This scholarship is now offered for 2010-11. Priority will be given to students applying to postgraduate programs at McGill University's Faculty of Law. Such candidates should indicate in their application to the Faculty of Law that they wish to be considered for this scholarship. If a suitable candidate is not found in that group, applications will be invited at a later date from other students who will be able to participate in the program of research.

2. MDEIE Scholarships in Civil Law Trusts

With significant financial support from the Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation, the QRCPCL has launched an ambitious research program on the institution of the trust in civil law. Funds are available for one doctoral student (up to $15,000) and one masters' student (up to $12,000) to participate in this program. The selected students will be ones whose proposed research relates to aspects of the trust in the civilian tradition, or in a comparative perspective. The students will participate in the organization of a large international conference on the law of trusts, the publication of the proceedings, and in other activities related to the program of research.

The successful students may be granted renewable or non-renewable scholarships. These scholarships are now offered for 2010-11; it is expected that they will also be available, subject to the renewal of existing scholarships, in 2011-12. Priority will be given to students applying to postgraduate programs at McGill University's Faculty of Law. Such candidates should indicate in their application to the Faculty of Law that they wish to be considered for these scholarships. If a suitable candidate is not found in that group, applications will be invited at a later date from other students who will be able to participate in the program of research.

Le Centre de recherche en droit privé et comparé du Québec sollicite des candidatures pour trois bourses d'études supérieures.

1. Bourse d'étude FQRSC portant sur le transsystémisme

Avec une subvention importante du Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture, le CRDPCQ a lancé un vaste programme de recherche sur l'enseignement transsystémique et la manière dont il affecte notre compréhension du droit comme objet d'étude. Des fonds sont disponibles pour permettre à un(e) étudiant(e) des cycles supérieurs, soit au doctorat ou à la maîtrise (jusqu'à 15,000$), de participer à ce programme de recherche. Le projet de recherche de l'étudiant(e) sélectionné(e) devra être lié à l'étude d'un ou plusieurs aspects de l'enseignement transsystémique ou de l'épistémologie juridique. Cela pourrait notamment inclure des projets touchant au droit comparé appliqué à l'éducation juridique, à la méthodologie ou à la philosophie du droit comparé, à la méthodologie ou de la philosophie de l'éducation juridique, ou à des perspectives interdisciplinaires sur le droit comparé ou l'éducation juridique. L'étudiant participera aux activités du programme de recherche, y compris l'organisation de conférences sur l'enseignement transsystémique, la publication des actes de ces conférences et à la publication d'études sur la pensée juridique transsystémique.

La bourse attribuée pourra être renouvelable ou non. Cette bourse est offerte dès maintenant pour l'année académique 2010-11. La bourse sera attribuée en priorité aux étudiants posant leur candidature en vue d'être admis à un programme d'études supérieures de la Faculté de droit de l'Université McGill. Ces étudiants doivent faire part de leur intérêt pour cette bourse dans leur demande d'admission à la Faculté de droit. Si aucun candidat n'est retenu parmi les étudiants posant leur candidature à l'Université McGill, les candidats de l'extérieur susceptibles de prendre part au programme de recherche seront invités à présenter une demande à une date ultérieure.

2. Bourses d'études MDEIE sur la fiducie en droit civil

Avec une subvention importante du ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation, le CRDPCQ a lancé un ambitieux programme de recherche sur l'institution de la fiducie en droit civil. Des fonds sont disponibles pour un étudiant au doctorat (jusqu'à 15,000 $) et un étudiant à la maîtrise (jusqu'à 12,000 $) pour prendre part à ce programme de recherche. Le projet de recherche des étudiants sélectionnés devra porter sur des aspects de la fiducie au sein de la tradition civiliste ou adopter une perspective comparative. Les étudiants sélectionnés participeront à l'organisation d'une importante conférence internationale sur le droit de la fiducie, à la publication des actes de cette conférence ainsi qu'à d'autres activités liées au programme de recherche.

Les bourses attribuées pourront être renouvelables ou non. Ces bourses sont offertes dès maintenant pour l'année académique 2010-11 et il est prévu qu'elles seront également disponibles, sous réserve du renouvellement des bourses existantes, en 2011-12. Les bourses seront attribuées en priorité aux étudiants posant leur candidature en vue d'être admis à un programme d'études supérieures de la Faculté de droit de l'Université McGill. Ces étudiants doivent faire part de leur intérêt pour ces bourses dans leur demande d'admission à la Faculté de droit. Si aucun candidat n'est retenu parmi les étudiants posant leur candidature à l'Université McGill, les candidats de l'extérieur susceptibles de prendre part au programme de recherche seront invités à présenter une demande à une date ultérieure

Hesselink on the the Principles in Common Frame of Reference for European Private Law


Hesselink on the the Principles in Common Frame of Reference for European Private Law

Martijn W. Hesselink (University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law) has posted 'If You Don’t Like our Principles We Have Others'; On Core Values and Underlying Principles in European Private Law: A Critical Discussion of the New ‘Principles’ Section in the Draft CFRon SSRN. Here is the abstract:
    In March 2009 the Outline Edition of the ‘academic’ draft Common Frame of Reference (CFR) was published. The draft CFR is meant to play a key role in the further development of European private law, both as a ‘tool box’ for the European legislator and judiciary and as a basis for a possible optional code. The Outline Edition is very similar to the Interim Outline Edition that was published a year earlier. There is one important difference, however. In addition to the part on Model Rules, which form the bulk of the DCFR, and the part dedicated to Definitions, the latest edition contains a new part called ‘Principles’. The content of this new part is quite different from what the Introduction in the Interim Outline Edition had to say about ‘principles, aims and values’. Whereas the Interim Outline Edition contained an open-ended list of fifteen core aims and values of equal standing, the new Principles section in the Outline Edition contains only four ‘underlying principles’ of freedom, security, justice and efficiency which, however, are assigned an important task in the interpretation and development of de model rules. The remaining principles that still were mentioned in the 2008 edition as core aims and values of European private law, such as ‘solidarity and social responsibility’, are now said to be ‘generally of a rather high political nature’ and, therefore, primarily relevant to an assessment from the outside of the draft CFR as a whole. In other words, a reduction from fifteen to four and a transformation from values into underlying principles in a year’s time. The new ‘Principles’ section in the draft CFR raises several questions. This paper addresses three of them. First, are these ‘principles’ really principles in the usual sense or are they better understood as being values? Secondly, does Europe need a limited set of private law principles or values? And, thirdly, how can the 2009 version of the draft CFR be so different from the 2008 version on such a fundamental subject? In doing so, this paper also relates the 'Principles' section in the DCFR to the ‘general principles of civil law’ that the European Court of Justice has referred to in a number of recent cases, and to the values on which the Union is founded, according to the Lisbon Treaty.

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