Assemblée générale annuelle de l’Association québécoise de droit comparé: conférence du professeur Giorgio Resta
The annual meeting of the Association québécoise de droit comparé will take place at McGill's Faculty of Law. The 30 minute meeting will be followed by a conference by visiting Professor Giorgio Resta titled "Paradigmes de la complexité: le rôle de la comparaison juridique dans l’expérience italienne."
Entry is free but registration mandatory (Nathalie.Vezina [at] USherbrooke.ca). RSVP before June 2. Refreshments will be served.
About the conference
Italy has always been a place of borders, a land of cultural
exchange and a fertile laboratory of ideas. Its law, especially its
private law, is a faithful reflection of this. Closely linked to
the French legal tradition, it was also deeply influenced by the
German academic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries) and,
recently, by U.S. law, leading to original and always evolving
results.
This has provided fertile ground in developing a comparative
sensitivity that has informed Italian legal thought, legal
education and the evolution of positive law. The dissemination of
comparative thinking has really helped de-formalize Italian
legal culture and open it to interdisciplinary modern (and
postmodern ...) critical thinking.
While legal comparitive thought has never been an ideologically
neutral undertaking, its application in Italy has always performed
a "subversive" function through its radical critique of the
fundamental postulates of legal positivism, such as coherence,
unity and wholeness: the epistemology of legal comparison in Italy
has always been an epistemology of complexity.
About the speaker
Giorgio Resta is Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Bari (Italy) and currently Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. He received his PhD from the University of Pisa in 1999 and has studied and lectured in several European and American Universities (Yale, Duke, Munich, EHESS Paris). He is author of many articles and books, including Trial by Media as a Legal Problem. A Comparative Analysis (Editoriale Scientifica: 2009), Le persone fisiche e i diritti della personalità (Utet: 2006), Autonomia privata e diritti della personalità (Jovene: 2005; Prize Club dei Giuristi, Istituto Sturzo), and editor of Diritti esclusivi e ‘nuovi’ beni immateriali (Utet: 2010); Giustizia e mass media. Quali regole per quali soggetti (Editoriale Scientifica: 2010); L’interpretazione del contratto (Giuffré: 2001).