Programme

5 May

10.00 : Welcome
Franz Werro, President of the SICL's Council
Christiane Wenderhorst, ELI's Scientific Director

10.15 : Introduction
Elena Bargelli, Università di Pisa

Session I - Legal Developments in the Recognition of Filiation

Chair : Jens Scherpe, University of Cambridge

10.30 : The Surrogacy Project of the Hague Conference
Yuko Nishitani, Kyoto University Graduate School of Law

11.00 : The EU between Spain and Bulgaria
Cristina Gonzales Beilfuss, Universitat de Barcelona

11.30 : Filiation between Law, Language and Society
Ilaria Pretelli, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

12.00 : Q&A

12.30 : Lunch

Session II - The Use of Private International Law by European and National Courts

Chair : Andrea Büchler, Universität Zurich

13.40 : Pathways in National Case Law after the ECHR Decisions on Surrogacy
Joaquin Bayo Delgado, Former Senior Judge at the Appellate Court of Barcelona

14.00 : Debate and Closing Remarks on the Day's Findings
Susanne Gössl, CAU Kiel, Universität Bonn

15.00 : End

12 May

Session III - Same-sex Marriage after Coman

Chair : Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

10.00 : Welcome and Introduction to the Day's topic

10.20 : Same-sex Couples in Private International Law
Máire Ní Shúilleabháin, Sutherland School of Law

10.40 : Free Movement of Same-sex Spouses in the EU
Maria Caterina Baruffi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

11.00 : Coffee Break

11.10 : Recognition of Family Status and Same-sex Couples in China
Yin Liu, Huaqiao University

11.30 : Discussion

12.15 : Lunch Break

Session IV - Diversity in Family Laws and the Fundamental Rights of Couples

Chair : Alfonso Luis Calvo Caravaca, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

13.30 : Comparative Overviews on the Closing Gap between Same-sex Marriage and Partnerships
Francisco Javier Jiménez Muñoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

13.50 : Unmarried Couples in Private International Law
Guillaume Kessler, Université Savoie Mont Blanc

14.00 : Legal Rules of European Unmarried Couples : Unification or Harmonization ?
Antonio Legerén, Universidade da Coruña

14.10 : Discussion and Closing Keynote Speech
Elena Bargelli, Università di Pisa
Ilaria Pretelli, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

15.00 : End

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