Civilian reflections on the Chinese Civil Code: a Dialogue between Legal Cultures

This two-day conference jointly organised by the Centre for Legal History, the School of Law, the University of Edinburgh, and the Istituto Italo-Cinese, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, focuses on the property-law provisions in the new Chinese Civil Code. The Code, enacted in 2020, is rooted both structurally and in terms of content in the civilian tradition, with extensive influence from Roman law via Swiss, German, and Japanese law. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from different jurisdictions rooted in the civilian tradition to discuss the shape and contours of the property-law provisions in the Code.

 

Provisional Programme:

Conveners:

Prof. Paul Du Plessis, Edinburgh University

Prof. Meiling Huang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

 

28 May 2022

Panel One: Foundations of Property Law (09:00–10:10)

1. The Civil Law of Virgil: Law as History of Poetics

• Dr. Francesca Iurlaro - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

2. Preferential Performance in the Suretyship Contract

• Prof. Jun Li - Zhongnan University of Economics and Law/Tor Vergata University of Rome

 

Panel Two: Limited Real Rights (10:40–12:10)

4. The Evolution of Condominium Laws: An Interplay Between Property Right and Urban Governance

• Prof. Lei Chen - Durham University

5. Servitudes in the New Chinese Civil Code: A Civilian Perspective

• Ms. Maria Jesus Ithurria - Edinburgh University/University of Chile

6. Real Rights Lesser than Ownership in the Civil Code of the PRC: How Civilian Are They?

• Dr. Asya Ostroukh - Edinburgh University/The University of the West Indies

 

29 May 2022

Panel Three: Regimes of the Disposal of Property (09:00–11:00)

7. Transfer of Ownership of Corporeal Movables in the Chinese Civil Code: A Case of Civilian Influence

• Dr. Craig Anderson - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

8. Atypical Security from the Functionalism Perspective

• Prof. Jiayong Zhang - Zhongnan University of Economics and Law/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

9. China’s Registration System for Secured Transactions in Corporeal Movables and Rights

• Prof. Hongfei Xie - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

10. Flexibility of the Transfer System Under Chinese Property Law

• Prof. Jing Zhang - Zhongnan University of Economics and Law/Leiden University

 

*Please note that all times are in BST 

 

This event is free and open to all but registration is required (link below)

 

 

 

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