The School of Law – Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and Hue University of Law; two major legal education and research institutions in North and Central Vietnam, will collaborate with the School of Law – Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China, to co-organize an international conference titled "Codification of Civil Law in Asia: Achievements and Challenges.” This is the first international conference held in Vietnam dedicated wholly to researching, analyzing, and discussing the experiences of codifying civil law in Asian countries, with an emphasis on China, Vietnam, and a few other countries where civil law has recently witnessed important codification, recodification, and even de-codification projects. Taking, for example, the 2015 Civil Code of Vietnam. It is the third Civil Code that has been codified in Vietnam since just 1995. On the other hand, China recently promulgated its first Civil Code in its modern history in 2020 with many interesting provisions and characteristics. Other Asian countries have also undertaken major reforms in the field of civil law such as Japan, Cambodia, and Laos in the past decade. All these initiatives have placed Asia in the spotlight among international law communities; attracting plenty of interest, praise, and criticism. Held in this context, the conference is expected to welcome insights, elaborations, discussions, analyses, and criticisms from scholars, practitioners, lawmakers who do not only work in the field of civil law but also work in other related disciplines such as economic analysis of law, history, philosophy and so on in order to shed lights on current developments. This is also hoped to lay a foundation for a future Asian consortium of private law research. PROPOSED MAIN TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE Topic 1: General issues of civil law codification - General theory of codification, re-codification, de-codification of civil law;
- Current popular civil law codification models;
- The history of civil law codification in the world;
- Transplanting and codifying civil law in Common Law countries, and former colonial countries;
- The role and impact of civil law codification;
- Modern factors affecting civil law codification.
Topic 2: Experiences in codifying the Chinese civil code - The history of Chinese civil code codification;
- Discussing the Chinese Civil Code 2020: philosophy, structure, arrangements, overall assessment of the Code;
- Comparative approach to some institutions in the Chinese Civil Code of 2020;
- In-depth analysis and assessment of provisions in the Chinese Civil Code of 2020 (contractual provisions, marriage, and family, real rights, personality rights, guarantee of performance of obligations, etc.);
- Vision and role of China's Civil Code in the current context
Topic 3: Experiences in codifying the Vietnamese Civil code - The history of Vietnamese Civil Code codification and re-codification;
- Analysis/assessment/comparison of the content of Vietnamese Civil Code codification;
- Comparison and analysis of a number of regulations in the Vietnamese Civil Code 2015 and other civil codes;
- Lessons from the process of codifying the 2015 Vietnamese Civil Code
Topic 4: Experience in codifying civil law in other Asian jurisdictions - Experience in codifying civil law in Taiwan, Japan, Laos, and Cambodia...
- Codified content of civil law in Taiwan, Japan, Laos, Cambodia…
- Comparison and analysis of a number of regulations in the Taiwanese/Japanese/Laos/ Cambodian Civil Code and other Civil Codes;
- Lessons from the process of codifying the Taiwanese/Japanese/Laos/ Cambodian civil law
Topic 5: Codification of some important institutions - Codification of general regulations;
- Codification of property law;
- Codification of the law of obligation;
- Codification of inheritance law;
- Codification of marriage and family law;
- Codification of intellectual property law;
- Codification of commercial law;
- Codification of the law on the guarantee of performance of obligations;
- Codification of the law on compensation for non-contractual damages;
- Codification of international judicial law;
- Other issues on the codification of Civil Code (Authors, Ph.D. candidates, master students can select a specific legal issue of civil law and analyze the codification related to this issue.)
TIME AND PLACE OF THE CONFERENCE - Time: 16th September 2022;
- Place: Hue University of Law, Hue city, Vietnam;
- Expected organizational form: The conference is organized in a hybrid format utylizing both on-site and on-line through Zoom Meetings platform;
- Expected languages for the Conference: Vietnamese, Chinese, and English.
SUBMISSION DETAILS - Abstract submission date: 31st May 2022
Authors should submit a 300-400 word abstract, which includes a title of the proposed paper and his/her short biographical details (including name, email, academic appointment, and affiliations);
- Abstract selection announcement: 3rd June 2022
- Full paper submission date: 10th August 2022
Articles submitted to the Conference should not have been submitted to other publications or journals for publication. The author(s) is the article's copyright owner and is responsible for all content, as well as any material, documents, data, images, and so on used in the article. A4 paper size format; Top margin, bottom margin, right margin: 2 cm, and left margin: 2.5 cm; Font: Times New Roman, font size 13, single line, numbered in the center and bottom.
- Submit a full paper via: hoithaoluatvnu@vnu.edu.vn
- Registration date: 9th September 2022
o Link to Conference Programme: (Will be published soon) o Link to Conference Papers: (Will be published soon) - Proposed publication date: 6 to 12 months after the conference
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