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lunedì 18 gennaio 2010
lunedì 11 gennaio 2010
Roman Law in the House of Lords
- 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.
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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.htm; http://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
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venerdì 8 gennaio 2010
The Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
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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
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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
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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.
Portuese on the Law & Economics of Multilingualism in the EU
Portuese on the Law & Economics of Multilingualism in the EU
Aurélien Portuese (University of Paris 2 Pantheon-Assas) has posted Law and Economics of the European Multilingualismon SSRN. Here is the abstract:
- The economics of language applied to multilingualism in the European Union (EU) has only recently come to the fore. Languages economics and Law and Economics disciplines both emerged in the 1960s. However, no study has, hitherto, linked these disciplines. This paper intends to fill that void.
Language barriers are the last major remaining barriers for the EU‟s 'single' market. The lack of coordination of multilingualism in the EU stems from a taboo crystallized by a dilemma between economic efficiency and linguistic diversity – i.e., the maximization of wealth versus the maximization of utility. The EU Member States (MSs) do not hasten to coordinate their language policies at the EU level inasmuch as they overestimate the benefits of the current EU multilingualism while drastically underestimating its costs. Coordination shall will only occur when MSs evaluate the costs and benefits of the current EU multilingualism. This will uncover the aforementioned dilemma, that will only be resolved when both Law and Economics are applied. In pursuing this objective a „Linguistic Coase Theorem‟ adapted from the work of Parisi and the Nobel Prize winner, Ronald Coase is elaborated.
Having outlined the basic notions deriving from the EU Law of Languages and the Economics of Languages (Introduction), the paper scrutinizes the costs and benefits incurred by the current non-coordinated EU multilingualism (Part I). Subsequently, a 'Linguistic Coase Theorem' is elaborated in order to reach a Pareto-optimal outcome, thereby solving the dilemma – both economic efficiency and the linguistic diversity being enhanced (Part II).
Fondazione Basso sull'Utopia del Costituzionalismo Globale
Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso-Issoco Centro Studi Americani
"Globalizzazione economica e Costituzionalismo: l'utopia del costituzionalismo globale"
Roma, 12 gennaio 2010
Centro Studi Americani
Via Caetani, 32
La centralità e la complessità delle tematiche internazionali impongono lo sviluppo di una capacità critica di “anticipare” le linee prospettiche dei processi mondiali. Ciò comporta un impegnativo aggiornamento delle nostre culture, che ci consenta di leggere le nuove dinamiche delle relazioni internazionali. In questa ottica si propone una iniziativa volta a individuare le nuove prospettive delle relazioni internazionali che sembrano entrare in una nuova fase, dopo quella della “emergenza” apertasi con l’11 settembre, caratterizzata da una nuova idea dell’unità del mondo. Sembra emergere il tema di un “costituzionalismo globale”, finora considerato soltanto un’utopia.
Va tenuta presente la centralità della crisi economica, sia in termini di quantità che di qualità. Siamo infatti di fronte all’esaurimento di un modello di sviluppo, quello derivato dalle culture neoliberiste, che impone un grande sforzo di riflessione intorno alle cause effettive e alle possibili prospettive. La crisi può costituire la nuova base di una cultura cosmopolita: le urgenze economiche sollecitano nuovi studi sul nodo del costituzionalismo globale. Il convegno internazionale che si propone dovrà essere incentrato sulle risposte di tipo sopranazionale alle grandi questioni economiche, istituzionali, politiche e sociali; sulla tutela dei diritti, sul problema della democrazia.
Il problema è che si è globalizzato il capitale e si è globalizzata anche la criminalità, ma non la democrazia. Ma non solo. Il cambiamento in corso è imprevedibile e un nuovo modello di sviluppo potrebbe portare a esiti anche di carattere autoritario se non si accompagna all’estensione dei diritti e della democrazia.
Il punto critico sembra essere il tema della democrazia: va ricordato come crisi economiche abbiano contribuito al crollo di democrazie deboli.
Lo scenario globale è il giusto contesto all’interno del quale inserire il tema della crisi economica e i suoi possibili esiti, mettendo al centro della riflessione l’“eccezione europea”, da confrontare con le altre aree del mondo. L’Europa come soluzione politica e culturale, come processo di innovazione nella storia del secondo Novecento, come speranza e come modello, rispetto a una democrazia che ha vissuto in modo acritico all’ombra del capitalismo. In questo contesto l’Europa rappresenta l’unica nota di scarto, ma è fragile ed è poco attrezzata, anche sul piano intellettuale. Finisce per cercare nel diritto ciò che non riesce a risolvere con la politica.
Il tema della crisi economica, se visto isolatamente, rischia di portare fuori strada. Il punto centrale è quello politico: l’economia e la guerra in questi anni hanno “parlato” in assenza della politica. Si tratta di riportare in gioco e al centro la politica. Il tema è quello dei “dilemmi della democrazia”, dilemmi che non sono solo il frutto della economia (il liberismo ha prodotto anche ampio consenso), ma riguardano il ruolo e la sconfitta dei partiti e dei sindacati: la vera debolezza dell’Europa. Occorre domandarsi se la crisi della democrazia derivi da un limite soggettivo della politica o anche da un suo dato strutturale.
Programma
Saluti
Elena Paciotti (Presidente Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso)
Introduzione Giuliano Amato (Presidente Centro Studi Americani)
ore 10.00 I Panel
Economia e Global Governance: tendenze e sviluppi auspicabili
Presiede e introduce
Giorgio Ruffolo (CER)
Intervengono
Marcello De Cecco (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Paolo Leon (Università di Roma Tre)
Ferdinando Targetti (Università di Trento)
dibattito
ore 13.00-14.00 Buffet
ore 14.15 II panel
Crisi della democrazia e prospettive del Costituzionalismo Globale
Presiede e introduce
Valerio Onida (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Intervengono
Maria Rosaria Ferrarese (Università di Cagliari)
Maurizio Fioravanti (Università di Firenze)
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Peters on Global Constitutionalism
Peters on Global Constitutionalism
Anne Peters (University of Basel - Faculty of Law) has posted The Merits of Global Constitutionalism(Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
- Global constitutionalism is an agenda that identifies and advocates for the application of constitutionalist principles in the international legal sphere. Global constitutionalization is the gradual emergence of constitutionalist features in international law. Critics of global constitutionalism doubt the empirical reality of constitutionalization, call into question the analytic value of constitutionalism as an academic approach, and fear that the discourse is normatively dangerous because it is anti-pluralist, artificially creates a false legitimacy, and promises an unrealistic end of politics. This article addresses these objections. I argue that global constitutionalization is likely to compensate for globalization induced constitutionalist deficits on the national level, that a constitutionalist reading of international law can serve as a hermeneutic device, and that the constitutionalist vocabulary uncovers legitimacy deficits of international law and suggests remedies. Global constitutionalism, therefore, has a responsibilizing and much needed critical potential.
Kuo on Kingsbury on Global Administrative Law
Kuo on Kingsbury on Global Administrative Law
Ming-Sung Kuo (Yale University - Law School) has posted Inter-Public Legality or Post-Public Legitimacy? A Response to Professor Kingsbury’s Conception of Global Administrative ‘Law’(European Journal of International Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
- Departing from the Westphalian tradition, global administrative law is seen as arising from the pragmatic needs of transboundary regulation underpinned by a normative aspiration to rule of law beyond national boundaries. Unhinged from state consent, however, it faces a twofold challenge: legality and legitimacy. The former centers on the distinction between law and non-law; the latter is concerned with the legitimacy of global administrative law. Benedict Kingsbury’s "The Concept of ‘Law’ in Global Administrative Law" (20 EJIL 23 (2009)) attempts to answer this twofold challenge by centering the new paradigm of international law, as epitomized by global administrative law, on the notion of publicness. First, he pins its solution on the substantive concept of publicness. Second, he portrays global administrative law as an inter-public law, governing the relationship among regulatory regimes in accordance with the value of publicness. This Response argues that Kingsbury’s publicness-centered conception of international law does not resolve the challenges facing global administrative law. Rather, his version of global administrative law does not so much correspond to an inter-public law as points to a post-public conception of legitimacy, reflecting the trend of addressing the issue of fragmentation by tacitly adopting the strategy of privatization in global administrative law scholarship.
Farnsworth, Guzior, and Malani on Legal Interpretation
Farnsworth, Guzior, and Malani on Legal Interpretation
Ward Farnsworth, Dustin F. Guzior and Anup Malani (Boston University School of Law, Boston University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Ambiguity About Ambiguity: An Empirical Inquiry into Legal Interpretation(The Journal of Legal Analysis, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
- Most scholarship on statutory interpretation discusses what courts should do with ambiguous statutes. This paper investigates the crucial and analytically prior question of what ambiguity in law is. Does a claim that a text is ambiguous mean the judge is uncertain about its meaning? Or is it a claim that ordinary readers of English, as a group, would disagree about what the text means? This distinction is of considerable theoretical interest. It also turns out to be highly consequential as a practical matter. To demonstrate, we developed a survey instrument for exploring determinations of ambiguity and administered it to nearly 1,000 law students. We find that asking respondents whether a statute is “ambiguous” in their own minds produces answers that are strongly biased by their policy preferences. But asking respondents whether the text would likely be read the same way by ordinary readers of English does not produce answers biased in this way. This discrepancy leads to important questions about which of those two ways of thinking about ambiguity is more legally relevant. It also has potential implications for how cases are decided and for how law is taught.This is the new version of a "highly recommended" paper.
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