Going Beyond the Mixed
Jurisdiction Theory: the Emergence of Hybrid
Legal Systems and their
Implications for the
Comparative Lawyer
‘Negociating Boundaries: Hybrid Legal Traditions
and Comparative Lawyers’
Thursday, 10 – Friday, 11 September 2009
organised by the
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (SICL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Thursday, 10 September 2009
15:15 Annual Meeting of the Alumni and Friends of the Swiss Institute of
Comparative Law (AiSDC)
17:15 Keynote Lecture: Mixity as a Constitutive Element of the
European Legal Order and of European Law
Michael Hahn, University of Lausanne
18:00 Cocktail sponsored by the AiSDC
19:30 Opening Dinner
Friday, 11 September 2009
8:45 FIRST SESSION: LIVING HYBRIDS
8:45 Opening Remarks
Eleanor Cashin Ritaine, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
9:00‐9:20 Hybridity, Identity, Strategies and Mutation: Cyprus as a Mixed
Legal System
Nikitas Hatzimihail, University of Cyprus
9:20‐9:40 Maltese Mixing in Action: Legal Pluralism as a Weapon in Migration
Management
David E. Zammit, University of Malta
9:40‐10:00 Co‐existence of Customary Law and State Law
Martin Sychold, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
10:00‐10:30 Discussion
10:30‐11:00 Coffee Break sponsored by the AiSDC
11:00 SECOND SESSION: DEVELOPING HYBRIDS
11:00‐11:20 Chinese Law: a New Hybrid?
Ignazio Castellucci,Trento and Macau
11:20‐11:40 Informal Commerce and Legal Integration within OHADA: the Role
of African Native Law in the Development of the New African Law
Salvatore Mancuso, Macau
11:40‐12:00 Legal Cultural Politics in International Trade: Mixed Jurisdiction
Elements within the WTO
Colin Picker, Missouri‐Kansas City University, USA
12:00‐12:20 Two Dimensions of Hybridity: Legal Development in Nepal
Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
12:20‐12:50 Discussion
12:50‐14:15 Lunch
14:15 THIRD SESSION: TOWARDS A NEW THEORY OF LEGAL FAMILIES?
14:15‐14:35 ‘A Various and Motley Origin’: Legal Hybridity and Diffusion in
European Legal History
Seán Patrick Donlan, Limerick University, Ireland
14:35‐14:55 Two Hundred (200) Years of Civil Law in English: Louisiana’s Lonely
Destiny
Alain Levasseur, Louisiana State University, USA
14:55‐15:15 Comparative and Methodological Considerations
Eleanor Cashin Ritaine, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
15:15‐15:45 Discussion
15:45‐16:15 Coffee Break sponsored by the AiSDC
16:15 FOURTH SESSION: FINAL DISCUSSIONS
16:15‐17:15 Round Table and Discussion of Further Steps:
Creation of an international and interdisciplinary community focusing
on legal hybridity and diffusion
Scientific Organisation
Eleanor Cashin Ritaine, Director, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne
Seán Patrick Donlan, Law Lecturer, Limerick University, Ireland
Martin Sychold, Head of Common Law and Mixed Legal Systems, Swiss Institute of
Comparative Law, Lausanne
Information
Cécile Fornerod (cecile.fornerod@isdc‐dfjp.unil.ch)
Tel. +41(0)21 692 49 11 – Fax +41(0)21 692 49 49
www.isdc.ch
Venue
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
Dorigny, CH‐1015 Lausanne
Tel. +41(0)21 692 49 11
Fax +41(0)21 692 49 49
Access
By train: Metro m1 (tsol), UNIL‐Dorigny metro station
By car: Take the A1 or A12/A9 freeway toward Lausanne‐Sud, and exit at Université EPFL.
The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law is on the right, at the first round‐about after the
freeway exit.
Registration
With the attached registration form by 27 August 2009.
Fee proceedings included
Participants CHF 200 CHF 250
Alumni and Friends of the SICL, permanent
staff of universities and research institutes, CHF 150 CHF 200
employees of the Swiss Confederation
Assistants and students CHF 50 CHF 100
Published proceedings only CHF 70 (+ VAT and postage)
(publication autumn 2010)
Upon receipt of your registration, you will receive our confirmation and invoice together
with the payment instructions.
Cancellation
CHF 50 will be retained for any cancellation reaching us by 3 September 2009. No refund
possible as of 3 September 2009.