13 Nov 2025

Los desafíos del derecho comparado en el ámbito del derecho público en Latinoamérica

Los desafíos del derecho comparado en el ámbito del derecho público en Latinoamérica
13 y 14 de noviembre, 2025
Faculdade de Direito - Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

Programa em português: 
Os desafios do direito comparado no âmbito do direito público na América Latina
13 e 14 de novembro de 2025
Faculdade de Direito – Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

12 Nov 2025

IEL and Regional Economic Integration Organizations

In this webinar, we will discuss the role of regional economic integration organizations (REIOs) in the creation, development, and reception of international economic law (IEL) by their member states. We will examine case studies from the Common Southern Market (Mercosur), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), taking the point of view of some of their member states, namely, Argentina, Ghana, and Kazakhstan. 

01 Okt 2025

IEL and Non-Governmental Actors

25 Sep 2025

Contrats de mariage d’ici et d’ailleurs

Cette conférence propose un aperçu de la fonction et de l’effet d’un contrat de mariage dans plusieurs ordres juridiques étrangers. Destinée aux praticien.ne.s du droit, elle précise dans quelles conditions ces accords sont contraignants et exécutoires.

18 Jun 2025

Compare to Connect - Summer Edition 2025

12 Jun 2025

Les enjeux juridiques de la reconnaissance de la neutralité de genre

Conférence en ligne

11 Jun 2025

Neurotechnological Advances, Human Rights and the Elderly

Neurotechnology encompasses an array of devices and techniques concerning the central nervous system. Increasingly, these tools are developed for neurological conditions related to ageing. While an aging population can certainly benefit from these technological advances, it is the elderly who are also at a risk of being exploited or even coerced into relying on them. The opportunity to weigh the risks and benefits of this technology is therefore of crucial importance.

This conference explores the need for, and challenges associated with, the development of a legal framework concerned with neurotechnology and the elderly. A variety of different perspectives must be borne in mind when addressing this topic, and three round tables will therefore address the challenges specific to each perspective. A first roundtable will discuss the issue of interdisciplinarity as an inherent challenge in the regulation of medicine as well as new technologies. A second-round table will, from an international law perspective, discuss the different emerging issues, and the third-round table will approach the topic from a comparative angle.

Program in English

28 Mai 2025

IEL and Subnational Governments

11 Mai 2025

Call for Papers

Anlässlich des 150-jährigen Bestehens des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts lädt das Schweizerische Institut für Rechtsvergleichung (SIR) zum 35. Tag des Internationalen Privatrechts ein. Die Tagung findet am 19. und 20. November 2025 in Lausanne statt.
Im Zentrum der Konferenz steht die Frage, wie die Gerichte, die Anwaltschaft und die Prozessparteien das internationale Privatrecht geprägt haben – und weiterhin prägen. Wegweisende Urteile haben Kollisionsnormen konkretisiert, Standards für die Anerkennung ausländischer Entscheidungen gesetzt und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen an Globalisierung und Digitalisierung angepasst. Die Anwaltschaft hat durch innovative Argumentationen Impulse für die Auslegung gesetzt und so zur Rechtsentwicklung beigetragen. Auch strategische Prozessführung – durch Einzelpersonen, Unternehmen oder Interessenvertretungen – hat die Rechtsprechung nachhaltig beeinflusst, etwa im Grundrechtsschutz, bei Unternehmenshaftung und bei verschiedenen Themen grenzüberschreitender Regulierung.
Die Konferenz nimmt die jeweils eigenständigen, aber eng verflochtenen Rollen der verschiedenen Akteure in den Blick und analysiert rechtsvergleichend ihren Beitrag zur Entwicklung des internationalen Privatrechts.
Wir laden etablierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler wie Nachwuchsforschende, Praktikerinnen und Praktiker sowie politische Entscheidungsträgerinnen und Entscheidungsträger ein, Beiträge einzureichen.

CALL FOR PAPERS

11 Mai 2025

Call for Participants: Workshop in Comparative Law Methods

Call for Participants: Workshop in Comparative Law Methods

Conveners: Prof. Dr. Philipp Renninger (University of Arizona/Seattle University); Prof. Dr.
Odile Ammann (Ecole de droit, Faculté de droit, des sciences criminelles et d’administration
publique, Université de Lausanne); Dr. Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler (Vice Director of the Swiss
Institute of Comparative Law). This workshop is a cooperation between the École de droit of the
University of Lausanne and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law.

Location: Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Dorigny, CH-1015 Lausanne.

Date and time: Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 9:00am – 5:00pm.
Target group: PhD candidates; postdocs; advanced master students; any researcher interested in
comparative law (not necessarily at the early-career stage).

Languages: While the conveners’ presentations will be in English, participants are welcome to
speak and participate in English, French, and German.

08 Mai 2025

Droit & Eurovision

17 Mär 2025

Comparative Trade Law Workshop

05 Feb 2025

Shaping Tomorrow’s Law on the Strength of Tradition : A joint celebration

04 Dez 2024

International Economic Law and the Role of the Judiciary

19 Nov 2024

The challenges of comparative law in Latin America: methodologies and interdisciplinarity

Conference

The challenges of comparative law in Latin America: methodologies and interdisciplinarity

18 and 19 November 2024

19 Nov 2024

Global Perspectives on Judging: AI and other challenges

06 Nov 2024

Stability and Change in International Investment Law: Assessing the Risks and Challenges for the Next 25 Years

Three round tables with thought leaders from around the world to assess the future of international investment law and dispute resolution

October 23 & 30, and November 6, 2024

Organized jointly by the AUWCL Center on International Commercial Arbitration (Washington, D.C.) and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Lausanne, Switzerland)

26 Sep 2024

Contrats de mariage d’ici et d’ailleurs

Cette conférence explore les points suivants concernant les contrats de mariage :

• La formation, la fonction et les effets selon le droit de différents ordres juridiques (Allemagne, Angleterre, Russie, Suède et Suisse)
• Les particularités du droit des pays arabes
• Les questions de droit international privé suisse

La conférence sera suivie d’un cocktail.

18 Sep 2024

International Economic Law and the Role of the Legislature

16 Jul 2024

The Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Financial Markets: a Legal Viewpoint

Guest Lecture by Dr Lucia Satragno 

Sovereign Wealth Funds (“SWFs”) as a group of diverse government-owned investment vehicles have changed considerably since their inception to become key players in the global financial markets. Improvements to their institutional and governance arrangements during the past decade have helped SWFs overcome certain concerns over their purposes and the quality of their investments. During this presentation Dr Satragno analyses the evolution of SWFs’ governance arrangements from a multi-level governance perspective. In doing so, she examines how SWFs—as investment vehicles primarily focused on foreign investments—have taken on expanded roles and become invaluable domestic policy tools that their home countries can rely on to deal with crises. In particular, this presentation offers a study of the different regulatory approaches to SWFs with a special mention to the special case of Singapore’s two funds (GIC Private Limited and Temasek Holdings).