18 Jun 2025

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16 Jun 2025

Llamado a ponencias : Conferencia internacional en São Paulo

El departamento de derecho público de la Faculdade de Direito de la Universidade de São Paulo, y de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile, en conjunto con el Instituto Suizo de Derecho Comparado convocan a académicos, funcionarios públicos e internacionales, abogados, profesionales del sector público y privado, expertos en derecho comparado y a todas las personas interesadas en América Latina a participar en una conferencia internacional dedicada al estudio del derecho público desde una perspectiva comparada.

El encuentro busca generar una reflexión crítica e interdisciplinaria sobre los desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan los sistemas jurídicos  latinoamericanos, destacando el papel del derecho comparado en la configuración de instituciones públicas, el fortalecimiento del Estado de Derecho y la protección de los derechos fundamentales en contextos jurídicos, políticos y sociales diversos y en transformación.

12 Jun 2025

Les enjeux juridiques de la reconnaissance de la neutralité de genre

Online

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 May 2025

IEL and Subnational Governments

11 May 2025

Call for papers

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Federal Tribunal, the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (SICL) is pleased to announce its 35th Conference on Private International Law, to be held on 19–20 November 2025 in Lausanne.
The conference addresses how courts, lawyers, and litigants have shaped—and how they continue to shape—private international law. Special emphasis will be placed on how legal practice drives the development of private international law at both the national and supranational levels. Judges, through landmark rulings, have clarified conflicts of laws rules, set precedents on the recognition of foreign judgments, and adapted legal frameworks to globalization and digital commerce. Lawyers, by crafting novel arguments, have influenced judicial reasoning and contributed to evolving legal doctrines. Finally, strategic litigation, led by litigants and advocacy groups, has driven major jurisprudential shifts, particularly in fundamental rights, corporate liability, and cross-border regulation. The conference will analyse these actors' distinct but interconnected roles in shaping contemporary private international law.

CALL FOR PAPERS

11 May 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 May 2025

Droit & Eurovision

17 Mar 2025

Comparative Trade Law Workshop

05 Feb 2025

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

04 Dec 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).

17 Jun 2024

International Economic Law and the Role of the Executive

Based on the expansion of The Edward Elgar's Encyclopedia of International Economic Law to include a section on how international economic law obligations are actually implemented in domestic jurisdictions, this series of seminars aims to provide insights into the role of the different branches of government in IEL rule-making and rule-applying. Our first session will focus on the role of the executive branch, using the legal frameworks of Canada, China, Lesotho, and Liechtenstein as examples

23 Mar 2024

BiblioWeekend

A l’occasion du BiblioWeekend, l’ISDC propose un escape game pour découvrir ses locaux. Attablez-vous et résolvez une série d’énigmes qui vous mènera dans les quatre coins de notre bibliothèque !

05 Mar 2024

Outsourcing digital work under the law: The legal governance of a global workforce