Anciens événements

18 juin 2025
Compare to Connect - Summer Edition 2025
ISDC

16 juin 2025
Llamado a ponencias : Conferencia internacional en São Paulo
São Paulo (Brazil)
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- ES
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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 juin 2025
Les enjeux juridiques de la reconnaissance de la neutralité de genre
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Conférence en ligne
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AiSDC
Vidéo de la conférence en ligne

11 juin 2025
Avancées neurotechnologiques, droits de l'homme et personnes âgées
ISDC (Lausanne) + Zoom
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- EN
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.

28 mai 2025
IEL and Subnational Governments
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SICL
Online Webinar
Fichiers

11 mai 2025
Appel à contributions
ISDC
À l'occasion du 150e anniversaire du Tribunal fédéral suisse, l'Institut suisse de droit comparé (ISDC) a le plaisir d'annoncer sa 35e Journée de droit international privé, qui se tiendra les 19 et 20 novembre 2025 à Lausanne.
La conférence a pour objectif d’élucider le rôle et l’importance de juges et des avocats dans l’évolution du droit international privé. Un accent particulier sera mis sur l’influence de la pratique judiciaire dans la construction de nouvelles solutions aux problèmes de droit international privé à la fois au niveau national et international. Les juges, par des décisions historiques, ont clarifié les règles de conflit de lois, créé des précédents sur la reconnaissance des jugements étrangers et adapté les cadres juridiques à la mondialisation et au commerce numérique. Les avocats, en élaborant des arguments novateurs, ont influencé le raisonnement judiciaire et contribué à l'évolution des doctrines juridiques. Enfin, les litiges stratégiques, menés par les plaideurs et les défenseurs, ont entraîné des changements juridiques majeurs, notamment en ce qui concerne les droits fondamentaux, la responsabilité des entreprises et la réglementation transfrontalière. La conférence analysera les rôles distincts mais interconnectés de ces acteurs dans l'élaboration du droit international privé contemporain.
Nous invitons les universitaires (chercheurs confirmés ou en début de carrière), les praticiens du droit et les législateurs à soumettre des documents traitant de ces questions.

11 mai 2025
Call for Participants: Workshop in Comparative Law Methods
Lausanne
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- FR
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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
ISDC, Lausanne
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- EN

17 mars 2025
Comparative Trade Law Workshop
Washington DC
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05 févr. 2025
Shaping Tomorrow’s Law on the Strength of Tradition : A joint celebration
Lausanne & Online
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04 déc. 2024
International Economic Law and the Role of the Judiciary
Online (Zoom)
- EN

19 nov. 2024
The challenges of comparative law in Latin America: methodologies and interdisciplinarity
Bogota, Colombia
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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
Lausanne
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- FR

06 nov. 2024
Stability and Change in International Investment Law: Assessing the Risks and Challenges for the Next 25 Years
Online - Zoom
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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 sept. 2024
Contrats de mariage d’ici et d’ailleurs
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- 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 sept. 2024
International Economic Law and the Role of the Legislature
Online (Zoom)
- EN

16 juil. 2024
The Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Global Financial Markets: a Legal Viewpoint
Lausanne & Zoom
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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 juin 2024
International Economic Law and the Role of the Executive
Online (Zoom)
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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 mars 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 mars 2024
Outsourcing digital work under the law: The legal governance of a global workforce
Online (Zoom)
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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