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 sept. 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 sept. 2024

International Economic Law and the Role of the Legislature

16 juil. 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 juin 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 mars 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 mars 2024

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

17 janv. 2024

The Economics and Law of Space-Based Commerce

15 nov. 2023

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: EVOLUTION OR DEVOLUTION?

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

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.

15 sept. 2023

Call for Paper: Astronomics Society inaugural workshop:The Economics and Law of Space-Based Commerce

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 sept. 2023

Simposio: Los límites de la regulación económica en Latinoamérica

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 juin 2023

Problemáticas de la prescripción extintiva en America Latina y comparación

Profesor Carlos Pizarro Wilson
Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

Comentarista

Alfredo Ferrante

Universidad de Pavía, Italia

 Presentaciones en español

01 juin 2023

Personal Identity and Status Continuity - A focus on Names and Gender in the Conflict of Laws

The third session of the conference “Family Status, Identities and Private International Law

– "Personal Identity and Status Continuity
A focus on Names and Gender in the Conflict of Laws” will take place on 1 June 2023 at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

31 mai 2023

Special Event "Movie Night" : The Danish Girl

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 mai 2023

Analysing the EU Parenthood Proposal : Many Questions and Some Tentative Answers

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.

12 mai 2023

Strategies in Comparative Legal Research

PhD Workshop series

11 mai 2023

Drawing Legal Pictures: The Worldview and its Implication for the Purpose and Method of Comparative Law

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.