Carta marina, a wallmap of Scandinavia. The caption reads:Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels, most carefully drawn up at Venice in the year 1539 through the generous assistance of the Most Honourable Lord Hieronymo Quirino
Program:
Wednesday 31st May
Participants arriving in Bergen recommended Hotels Scandic City
17.00-18.00 Pre-registration (Entrance Hall Law Faculty, Bergen)
18:00-21:00 Get together
Thursday 1st June
08:30-09:00 Coffee and registration
09:00-09:15 Words of welcome by
Dean Karl Harald Søvig, Milos Novovic, President of the Norwegian Association for Comparative law (BI), Prof. Anna Nylund, University of Bergen and Ass. Prof. Johann Ruben Leiss (INN/UiO) – for the organising team.
09:15-09:30 Introduction by Ass. Prof. Ingvill Helland: ”Putting the North on the map of comparative law.”
9:30-11:15 Session 1: Legal culture as an analytical and theoretical tool,
chaired by Professor Barbara Pozzo, Università dell’Insubria – Como; President of the Italian Society for Research in Comparative Law(SIRD)
9:30-10:00 Keynote by Professor David Nelken, King’s College London, UK: “The concept of legal culture and its uses.”
Comments by Prof. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, University of Oslo; Prof. Mark Van Hoecke, Queen Mary University London & Ghent University, Prof. Ralf Michaels LL.M. (Cambridge), Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg & Queen Mary University of London)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30 Open Discussion (including students’ questions padlet)
11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00Session 2: Employing legal culture in comparative research, and legal teaching
chaired by Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. mult. Kathrina Boele-Woelki (Bucerius Law School, Germany)
13:00-13:20 Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki: “Legal culture: critical remarks on the concept and its use.”
13:20-13:40 Prof. Jaakko Husa, University of Helsinki: “Legal culture and comparative law, experience from research and teaching.”
13.40-14.00 Prof. Mathias Siems, European University Institute, Florence: “Legal Culture and Empirical Legal Studies: A Match Made in Heaven?”
14:00-14:15 Break
14:15-14:45 Open Discussion
14:45-15.00 Break
15:00-16:30 Session 3: Ph.D. presentations
15:00-16:30 Ph.D. presentations Pecha Kucha style moderated and chaired by Professor Sören Koch
16:00 Q&A / Discussions
17:00-19:00 Guided tour through Bergen, and the Hanseatic Kontor (Brage Thunestvedt Hatløy, University of Bergen)
20:00 Dinner
Friday 2 June, Law Faculty, University of Bergen, Magnus Lagabøtesplass 1
08:30-09:00 Coffee
Session 4: Nordic legal culture – a myth or reality? Auditorium 2
Chaired by prof. Giuditta Cordero-Moss, University of Oslo and President of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL),
09:00-09:30 Prof. Mads Andenæs, UiO and former director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law : “Nordic legal culture – a perspective from abroad.”
09:30-10:00: Prof. Helle Krunke, Head of Centre, Professor Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies, University of Copenhagen: ”European and Comparative Studies ”Nordic legal culture – a Scandinavian perspective .” (TBC)
10:00-10.15: Break
10:15-10:45 Prof. Anna Nylund, Head of the Research Group for Civil procedure, University of Bergen: “Borders of a Nordic Legal Culture– Is Finland part of the Nordic Legal Culture?”
10:45-11:15 Prof. Iris Nguyen Duy University of Agder: “An inside-out view on the Nordic Countries.”
11:00-11:45 Discussion led by Ass. Prof. Johann Ruben Leiss, INN/University of Oslo.
11:45-12:30 Lunch
Session 5: Nordic procedural culture in a global context
12:30-14:00 Panel discussion: Supreme Court Judges from the Nordic countries and Judges from Scotland, England, France, and Germany (prof Andreas Paulus).
14:00-14:15 Closing remarks by Prof. Sören Koch and Prof. Anna Nylund
The official end of the conference
15:00-16:30 Book launch event at The Faculty of Law Library, by Marius Mikkel Kjølstad and Sören Koch: New Publications in Comparative law, Springer Handbook for Legal Cultures.
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