The Making
of the Civil Codes
Conference
Monday, 15 February 2016
10.00 Registration of the participants 10.30 Welcome Addresses
Gianmaria Ajani, Rector, University of Torino, Instituto Confucio Laura Scomparin - Director, Law Department, University of Torino Liming Wang, Vice Rector, Renmin University,
President of China’s National Society of Civil Law
Michele Graziadei, President of the Italian Society for Research in Comparative Law
Chair: Antonio Gambaro
University of Milano 11.00 Rodolfo Sacco
Emeritus, University of Torino
La codification et l’interprète
11.30 Stefan Grundmann European University Institute
Civil Codes in the age of legal pluralism
12.00 Qiang Meng
Beijing Institute of Technology
Civil law and commercial law: unification or separation?
12.30 Debate 13.00 Lunch break
Monday, 15 February 2016
Chair: Silvia Ferreri
University of Torino 15.00 Jan Smits Maastricht University
The European codification movement and the information society
15.30 Qiping Tan
West Southern China University of Political Science and Law
Legal entities without legal personality: categorization and regulation in the Civil Code
16.00 Jiangyuan Cui Tsinghua University
New types of transactions worthy of being codified
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Antonio Gambaro University of Milano
The civil code and the problem of legal language
17.30 Debate
18.30 End of the first session
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Chair: Raffaele Caterina
University of Torino 09. 15 Liming Wang Renmin University
Personality rights in the codification of Chinese civil law
09.45 Pascal Pichonnaz University of Fribourg
The civil codes in historical and comparative perspective: reflections on the Swiss experience
10.15 Yi Wang Renmin University
Mandatory provisions in Chinese civil law and their effects: relation between public law and private law
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Marina Timoteo University of Bologna
A Civil Code for XXI century China: comparative law perspectives
11.45 Debate
12.30 End of the session 12.45 Lunch break
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Chair: Marina Timoteo
University of Bologna 15.00 Lihong Zhang
East China University of Political Science and Law
The application of customary law in contemporary Chinese civil decisions and its influence on the codification of Chinese civil law
15.30 Jiayou Shi Renmin University
Human rights and personality rights in the codification of civil law
16.00 Pietro Sirena University of Siena
The protection of fundamental rights in the domain of private law: a new horizon
16.30 Coffe break
17.00 Michele Graziadei University of Torino
Necessary but unhelpful? The Civil Codes, and their fate in times of change
17.30 Debate 18.15 Conclusions
18.30 End of the Conference
