Présentation

Le colloque a pour objet d’analyser les dynamiques contemporaines de diffusion et de recomposition de la tradition juridique de Common Law, en mettant en exergue les mécanismes de circulation normative, de réception et de transposition des règles juridiques au sein d’ordres juridiques nationaux hétérogènes. Il tend, en particulier, à appréhender les mutations des systèmes juridiques résultant de ces interactions, ainsi que les tensions inhérentes entre les processus d’uniformisation normative et le maintien des spécificités propres à chaque ordre juridique.

Le programme prévoit plusieurs sessions thématiques consacrées, notamment, à la globalisation du droit constitutionnel, du droit pénal et du droit de la famille, ainsi qu’aux évolutions du droit des obligations, du droit des affaires et des mécanismes de justice dans une perspective comparée et internationale. 

Programme

Scientific Director: Anthony Chamboredon (Cedag URP1516 – UFR DEG), anthony.chamboredon@u-paris.fr

Thursday 25 June 2026

8:30 am – Greetings and coffee

Opening session and keynote speech:  9:00 – 10:30 am

Endorsement speeches:

- Alain Laquièze, Dean of the school of Law, Economics and Management, Paris Cité Université

- M^e François Molinié, President of the Society of Comparative Legislation

Opening remarks:

- Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, General Administrator of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam)

- Philippe Didier, Professor of Law (Cedag), Paris Cité Université

- Pierre Berlioz, Professor of Law (Cedag), Paris Cité Université

- Anthony Chamboredon, Director of the Master programs in Comparative Law (Cedag), Paris Cité Université

Keynote Speech:

- Luc Grynbaum, Professor of Law (IDS) Luxembourg University

  “UAE contract Law, an example of hybridation between Common and Civil Law”

Session I – Anglo-American Constitutional law, Criminal law, Family law, globalised: 10:30 am  – 12:30pm

Moderators: Thierry Rambaud, Professor of Law (CMH), Paris Cité Université, & Scott Veitch Professor of Law, Hong Kong University

- Adrian Vermeule, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

“‘Common Law Courts in a Civil-Law System’ Revisited”? 

- Javier Garcia Oliva, Professor of Law, Dean of Manchester University Law school

"Somerset and Stewart, Human Rights and Common Law Rights". 

- Angioletta Sperti, Professoressa associata in Law, University of Pisa

“Globalising Judicial Communication in Common Law Systems: Constitutional Courts, Media, and Public Opinion”

- Audrey Guinchard, Professor of Law, Essex University

“English criminal law and globalisation: between dialogues and silences?”

- Ana Zelcevic-Duhamel, Lecturer in Law (IDS), Paris Cité Université

“The Contractualization of French Family Law: the Anglo-American Law influence?”

- Hellen Hall, Associate professor, Nottingham University

                  "Hyde v Hyde-Precedent, Social Change and Decolonisation within English Family Law"

Q&A: 15 minutes

Session II – English contracts, torts, property, trusts, restitution globalised: 1:30 – 4:00 pm:

Moderators: Me Frédéric Goldberg, President of the French section of the Franco-British Lawyers Association (AJFB)

- Philippe Didier, Professor of Law (Cedag), Paris Cité Université

"Caveat emptor in a global marketplace: A French perspective"

- Duncan Fairgrieve, Professor of Law, Paris-Dauphine University, Senior Fellow in Comparative Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London

“Tort vs Delict: why are common lawyers so attached to their “torticles”?

- Nada Abouelseoud, Doctor in Law, Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne

“Can the Common Law conception of Force Majeure become the Global Standard?”

- Ileana Porras, Senior Lecturer in Law, Miami University

“The common law of property and the social function of property: Encounter, adaptation or confrontation?”

- John Picton, Lecturer in Law, Manchester University

“Charity Law: Points of Departure around the Common Law Word”

- Garry Watt, Professor of Law, Warwick University

“Cultures and colonies of the English Trust”

- Eoin O’Dell, Associate Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin

“Restitution for Unjust Enrichment: where the Civil law has led, the Common law has eventually followed”.

Q&A: 15 minutes

Session III – Anglo-American Justice and Business Law globalised: 4:00 – 6:00 pm

Moderators: Caroline Kleiner, Professor of Law, Vice Dean, & Gauthier Bordeaux, Senior Lecturer in law, Vice President of Paris Cité Université (Cedag)

- Mitchel Lasser, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

“The doctrine of binding precedent”

- M^e Alexandra Van der Meulen & M^e Gabriel Fusea, Freshfields, Paris

“International Dispute Settlement”

- Olivera Boskovic, Professor of Law (Cedag), Paris Cité Université

“Globalization of the Common law in International Arbitration”

- Yasmine Sadek, Deutsche Börse

“What future for civil law in a common law dominated Corporate world?”

- Stephen Dale, Roosevelt Expertise, Paris

 “La neutralité de la TVA – ‘wherefore art thou’…: UK /EU/French Courts practice in Tax Law”

- Laura Napoli Cordes, Professor of Law, Arizona State university

“US Insolvency Law on a Global Stage: Challenges and Opportunities”

Friday 26 June 2026

Session IV – “And the Common Law in the rest of the world”: 9:00 am – 11:00 am

Moderators: Ileana Porras, Senior Lecturer in Law, Miami University & Laure de Saint Pern, Lecturer in Law (Cedag) Paris Cité Université

- Agnès Maitrepierre, Presiding judge of the Economic and Financial Regulation Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal

“The globalisation of the Common Law in the market regulation: a French Judge perspective”

- Jean-Baptiste Busaall, Senior Lecturer (IHD), Paris Cité Université

“The ‘Constitutions of England’ as a means of inventing constitution in the era of the Atlantic Revolutions. The case of the Spanish Monarchy (1809–1810)”

- Stelios Tofaris, Senior Lecturer, Cambridge University

“The Transplantation of English Contract Law to India”

- Juanita Pienaar, Professor of Law, Dean of the law school, Stellenbosch University

“South Africa: common law, civil law and the Constitution: A new era”

- David Gilles, Professor of law, Sherbrooke Univ. & Michael Coyle, Associate Professor, Western Ontario Univ.

“An evolving common law: interpretation and legal pluralism in the Canadian First Nations context”

- Scott Veitch, Professor of law, Hong Kong University

"Comparing Mixed Jurisdictions: Scotland and Hong Kong"

Q&A: 15 minutes

Closing session, and keynote speech:  11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Concluding remarks:

- Anthony Chamboredon, Scientific Director (Cedag) Paris Cité Université

Keynote speeche:  

- Igor Stramignoni, Professor of Law, LSE Law School | London School of Economics and Political Science

“The Globalisation of the Common Law: An Experiment”