Past Events
26 Sep 2024
Contrats de mariage d’ici et d’ailleurs
- FR
- EN
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
Online (Zoom)
- EN
16 Jul 2024
The Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Financial Markets: a Legal Viewpoint
Lausanne & Zoom
- EN
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
Online (Zoom)
- EN
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
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Krista Nadakavukaren
Introduction
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Anthony Van Duzer
Canada
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Sheng Zhang
China
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Malebakeng Forere
Lesotho
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Georges Baur
Liechtenstein
23 Mar 2024
BiblioWeekend
ISDC
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
Online (Zoom)
- EN
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Mira Burri and Kholofelo Kugler, Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Digital Work under Global Trade Law
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Funda Ustek Spilda, Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford, England
Regulating Platform Work: Conversation Stoppers and Deepeners?
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Shelley Marshall, Business and Human Rights Centre of the RMIT University, Australia
Ensuring outsourced digital work is decent work: the Draft EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and the alternatives
17 Jan 2024
The Economics and Law of Space-Based Commerce
Bern, World Trade Institute
- EN
15 Nov 2023
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: EVOLUTION OR DEVOLUTION?
Washington DC (USA)
- EN
Technology, social transformations, politicalupheaval, environmental degradation, and shiftingeconomic priorities require that arbitration and, morebroadly, dispute resolution re-invent themselves.
Challenges are everywhere in this field ofarbitration: Investment arbitration faces challengesby states proposing alternatives to avoid subjectingtheir measures to international arbitral review. Incommercial arbitration, the increasing complexityand quantity of the matters to be resolved, theimpact these cases have beyond the individual parties in dispute, and raising geopolitical tensionsrequire innovative scholarship to offer potentialsolutions.
During the Symposium on November 15 and 16, wewill critically assess where arbitration is headed: isarbitration evolving toward more sophisticated formsor are there setbacks?
Are all current developments increasing efficiency inarbitration proceedings? Does arbitration still offer asuitable solution to business disputes everywhere?
26 Oct 2023
The Changing Concept of National Security and the International Economic Law System
ISDC (Lausanne) & Online (Zoom)
- EN
The recent past has witnessed a growth in national security concerns. The debates about how to address national security have become both deeper and broader as risks having seemingly little to do with military capabilities are labeled “security” threats. From terrorist networks and organized crime to pandemics and climate change, the term “security” has been extended beyond clearly definable bounds. Human security and global security are by now commonly used and interlink with the multiple others. The reemergence of war on European soil and the growing tension in the Asian Pacific, however, offers good cause to look more carefully at what states need to ensure their existence as sovereign entities – that is, at core national security. It has also demonstrated the critical link between core national security and economic power.
This one-day conference takes up an inquiry into the changing views on the concept of national security as revealed in the international economic law system. Over the course of four sessions, it will investigate what governments characterize as “national security” issues, what economic measures they are taking to reduce national security threats, and how international trade and investment decisionmakers see such measures. Drawing on experts from Europe (including Switzerland) and the United States, the discussion will also address the fundamental balance-of-power question of who should decide what is an issue of national security. Finally, the speakers will consider how an expanding view of national security will impact states that are committed to maintaining neutrality.
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Introductory session
15 Sep 2023
Call for Paper: Astronomics Society inaugural workshop:The Economics and Law of Space-Based Commerce
Berne
- EN
Call for Papers
Astronomics Society inaugural workshop: The Economics and Law of Space-Based Commerce
University of Bern, 17-19 January 2024
This workshop will focus on the economics and governance of commercialization in outer-space. It will look at the applicability of economic concepts, the concepts of international economic law, and the concepts of economic governance to space-based commerce.
06 Sep 2023
Simposio: Los límites de la regulación económica en Latinoamérica
Santiago, Chile
- ES
- PT
Simposio: Los límites de la regulación económica en Latinoamérica
6 de Septiembre, 2023
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile,
Pío Nono 1, Santiago, Chile
Organizan: Instituto Suizo de Derecho Comparado, Departamento de Derecho Económico y Centro de Regulación y Competencia de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile.
22 Jun 2023
Problemáticas de la prescripción extintiva en America Latina y comparación
online
- ES
Profesor Carlos Pizarro Wilson
Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Comentarista
Alfredo Ferrante
Universidad de Pavía, Italia
Presentaciones en español
01 Jun 2023
A Critical Assessment in the Light of Fundamental Rights
ISDC
third session of the conference
Family Status, Identities and Private International Law
– A Critical Assessment in the Light of Fundamental Rights.
The conference will take place at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
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Rapport du Conseil fédéral sur l'introduction d’un troisième sexe ou abandon de la mention du sexe dans le registre de l’état civil – Conditions et conséquences pour l’ordre juridique suisse
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The French authorities’ refusal to replace the term “male” by the term “neutral” or “intersex” on the applicant’s birth certificate does not breach Article 8 of the ECHR
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The Commission’s Parenthood Proposal
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Relevant documents on Swiss Law and Practice
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CJEU decision on Garcia Avello
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CJEU decision on Coman
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CJEU decision on Pancharevo
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Programme with abstracts
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Elena Bargelli/Ilaria Pretelli
A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT IN THE LIGHT OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
31 May 2023
Special Event "Movie Night" : The Danish Girl
ISDC, Lausanne
- EN
The law is constantly intervening in the search of our identities, including our gender identity. It protects them, but it also defines and regulates them. Is the law part of the solution for the Danish Girl’s plight, or part of the problem?
24 May 2023
Analysing the EU Parenthood Proposal : Many Questions and Some Tentative Answers
Online
- EN
The European Commission has published in December 2022 an ambitious Proposal for a new Regulation dealing with the private international law of parenthood (COM (2022) 695 final).
With this Proposal, the EU could for the first time adopt a private international law instrument dealing with the creation (and not only the effects) of a family status. While both the CJEU and the ECtHR have somewhat limited the freedom enjoyed by States faced with parenthood established abroad, there is not yet any precedent of an international instrument dealing with all issues arising when parenthood crosses national borders.
The Proposal is currently being discussed in the Council, with the assistance of the Commission. There is no guarantee that a Regulation will effectively be adopted. Nor is it possible to tell at this stage how much a future Regulation will deviate from the Proposal.
The Proposal raises, however, many intriguing questions which are likely to trigger an intense debate. It offers a unique opportunity to discuss the private international law treatment of parenthood with a special focus on the proposal.
During four sessions in May, experts from various (Member) States will discuss the main elements of the Proposal, find weaknesses and possibilities of improvement. Each webinar will focus on two topics. Every topic will be presented by one expert, who will focus on the content of the Proposal and on the questions and possibilities of improvement it raises. Each webinar will provide ample room for debate and discussion.
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Prof. Susanne Gössl
The EU Proposal and primary EU law:a match made in heaven?
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Prof. Tobías Helms
The law governing parenthood: are you my father?
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Prof. Alina Tryfonidou
The mutual recognition of decisions under the EU Proposal: much ado about nothing?
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Prof. Maria Caterina Baruffi
Who decides on parenthood? The rules of jurisdiction
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Prof. Patrick Wautelet
Authentic documents and parenthood: between recognition and acceptance
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Dr. Ilaria Pretelli
The European certificate of Parenthood: A passport for parents and children?
12 May 2023
Strategies in Comparative Legal Research
Lausanne & Online
- EN
PhD Workshop series
11 May 2023
Drawing Legal Pictures: The Worldview and its Implication for the Purpose and Method of Comparative Law
Lausanne and Online
- EN
Every discipline perceives and constructs the world in its own way: it conceptualizes and structures an aspect or a fragment of (perceived) reality and develops a research program and method(s) that are apt to develop this construction process having in mind a specific vision or mission. One can call such disciplinary perception and construction a “special world picture” of a discipline. Depending on different modes of scientific rationality, this world picture can be seen as the object, subject, or aim of a scientific discipline. In any case, even if not explicitly stated, this construction is a core question of a discipline. In law, various (sub)disciplines such as legal philosophy, legal theory and comparative law have developed different (albeit often mutually influenced) interpretations of the world. One could even argue that there has been competition between the (sub)disciplines for the right or the possibility to define a world picture generally valid for discourse about law.
This symposium intends to create an awareness of the fundamental experience and potential that comparative law possesses when constructing the legal; that is, when conceptualizing the “legal”. Relying on its rich experience, comparative law is well positioned to take into account current developments in the field when (re-)defining its world picture, in order to conceptualize perceptions of law in a truly global perspective. The symposium invites its participants to discuss the dialectics of the Individual/unit (national and/or other legal systems), the Particular/common and the (in)existence of the General/global in the legal world as the material basis of a comparative law world picture.
09 May 2023
Early Comparative Law: A Treasure Map
Lausanne & Zoom
- EN
By Prof. Oleksiy Kresin, University of Lausanne / Koretsky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Tuesday 9 May 2023, 12am (CEST) : Lausanne & Zoom
23 Mar 2023
Freeports
ISDC, Lausanne
- EN
Recent years have seen growing attention on the impacts of tax havens. However, far less attention has been given to freeports, despite some similarities. This may in part be because of the difficulty in defining the term “Freeport”. The term is generally used to refer to deregulated space, but such spaces can be of various kinds and used for various interests. Comparing how the terms are used is in itself interesting - the UK government has announced its ambition for the country to be a world leader in freeports but defines the facilities differently to its European peers. Other aspects of freeports are also worthy of more study. In light of the growth of freeports and other kinds of 'libertarian architecture', Mr. O’Farrell will both examine the definition and uses of freeports and explain his research in considering the local effects and urban design implications of these facilities. His current examination of Geneva’s freeports form a background to his reflections.
16 Feb 2023
Collective dismissals: Can the law cope?
Online (zoom)
- EN
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Short bios
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Krista Nakavukaren
Welcome slides
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Mathias Wouters
Introduction
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Mariya Aleksynska, Research and Policy Economist, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The Regulation of Collective dismissals: Economic Rationale and Legal Practice
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Angelika Muller Head of RELOFF, International Labour Organization (ILO)
The Regulation of Collective dismissals: Economic Rationale and Legal Practice
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