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Online: Videos of the Annual Conference of the German-Colombian Lawyers Association (DKJV/ACAJ)
On Youtube you can find the videos of the Annual Conference of the German-Colombian Lawyers Association (DKJV/ACAJ). The conference took place digitally from 29 to 30 October 2020. It dealt with current legal developments in Germany and Colombia with a special focus on Covid-19.
The presentations are in Spanish. They are not only interesting from a comparative point of view. They also they deal with private international law and international procedural law matters.
The program was the following:
- Saludos y bienvenida a los participantes
del Embajador de Colombia en Alemania Hans-Peter Knudsen Quevedo
- Ponencia 1:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Martin Ibler, Universität Konstanz (Alemania): Últimos límites constitucionales que protegen los Derechos Fundamentales en la lucha contra Covid19
- Ponencia 2:
Prof. Dr. Christian Wolffhügel, Ministerio de Justicia (Colombia): Valoración de las medidas de la Administración Colombiana durante la pandemia Covid19
- Ponencia 3:
Prof. Dr. Bernd Marquardt, Universidad Nacional (Bogotá, Colombia): Corona y el derecho constitucional: Colombia en el contexto latinoamericano
- Ponencia 4:
Prof. Dr. María Julia Ochoa Jiménez, LL.M., Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia): El Derecho Internacional Privado en el proyecto de reforma del Código Civil de Colombia
- Ponencia 5:
Prof. Gabriel Barreto Ferro, LL.M., Universidad Santo Tomás; Barreto, Torres & Puig (Bogotá, Colombia): La digitalización de la justicia bajo la influencia de la crisis del Covid19
- Ponencia 6:
Prof. Mauricio Torres Guarnizo, LL.M., Universidad Santo Tomás, Barreto, Torres & Puig (Bogotá, Colombia): Los efectos de la crisis del Covid19 en el Derecho Económico en Colombia
- Ponencia 7:
Prof. Dr. John Zuluaga Taborda, LL.M., Universidad Sergio Arboleda (Bogotá, Colombia): La cooptación del sistema sanitario por parte del poder punitivo. Un análisis del caso colombiano
- Ponencia 8:
Prof. John Jairo Morales Alzate, LL.M., Arbitro Lista A Cámara de Comercio; Conjuez Sección 2 Consejo de Estado y Sala Disciplinaria (Bogotá, Colombia): El arbitraje en Colombia en tiempos de Covid19
- Ponencia 9:
Prof. Dr. Susanne Gössl, LL.M., Universität zu Kiel (Alemania): La legislación de Covid19 en materia civil en Alemania
- Ponencia 10:
Dr. Katharina König, Editorial Nomos (Alemania/Colombia): La admisión de juristas extranjeros como abogados en Colombia de la perspectiva alemana
- Ponencia 10:
Magistrado Prof. Milton Chaves García, Consejo de Estado (Colombia): La Fiscalidad ante la Crisis del Covid19
- Ponencia 11:
Prof. Dr. Michael Stöber, Universität zu Kiel (Alemania): Evolución reciente del Derecho Tributario Alemán con especial atención a las medidas Covid19
- Ponencia 12:
Elisabeth Hincapié Hincapié, LL.M., Harsco Rail Europe GmbH (Alemania): Actuales preguntas sobre el Cumplimiento
The University of Zurich is seeking applications for a Professorship in civil procedure and private law
The University of Zurich, Switzerland, has asked CoL to publish the following:
The University of Zurich is seeking applications for a Professorship in civil procedure and private law to take effect from the beginning of the Fall Semester 2021 (1 August 2021), or by arrangement.
We are seeking a candidate with an excellent legal track record who is committed to carrying out teaching and research across the whole spectrum of civil procedure law, including from an international and comparative law perspective. Experience in arbitration as well as restructuring and insolvency law is an advantage. This should be reflected in an outstanding dissertation, a habilitation thesis (or equivalent academic achievement) that is complete or at an advanced stage, and additional publications. Depending on the successful candidate’s qualifications, the professorship will take the form of a full or associate professorship. A temporary position as assistant professor with tenure track is possible provided that the candidate’s habilitation thesis is at an advanced stage. In all cases, the professorship will be a full-time position. If an excellent application is submitted, particularly from countries or regions (such as French-speaking Switzerland) that do not require a habilitation thesis to be completed, the requirement for habilitation can be waived if comparable achievements are demonstrated. Applicants must be able to teach in English and, ideally, in French. Applicants without a Swiss background must be willing to familiarise themselves with Swiss civil procedure and private law within a reasonable amount of time and, if necessary, attain the level of German required for teaching and examination. The University of Zurich strives to increase the proportion of under-represented groups – in particular women – in its teaching and research staff, and therefore explicitly encourages applications from these candidates. Further information relating to this job profile can be found below. Please submit your application documents as specified in the following job profile by 9 December 2020 via www.recruiting.ius.uzh.ch. You may be requested to submit hard-copy documents separately at a later point. The relevant member of the appointment committee, Professor Tanja Domej (tanja.domej@rwi.uzh.ch), is available to answer any questions and provide further information.
Further information is here.
Kareem Olatoye and Abubakri Yekini publish a new article
Kareem Olatoye and Abubakri Yekini, both lecturers at Lagos State University, Nigeria, recently published an article titled: “Islamic Law in Southern Nigerian Courts: Constitutional Law and Conflicts of Laws Perspectives” (2019/2020) 6 Benin Journal of Public Law 120. The abstract reads as follows:
This article challenges the prevailing views that Islamic law is not applicable in southern part of Nigeria and that the civil courts do not have jurisdiction over matters bordering on Islamic personal law. It argues that these views are wrong as litigants are denied access to justice since no state in the southern part of Nigeria has established Islamic courts. The article further argues that the existing legal frameworks – the Constitution, High Court Laws and Evidence Act – support the recognition and application of Islamic law either as a lex fori or lex causae. Thus, there ought to be no distinction between north and south because Islamic law is not a territorial law. The article suggests a paradigm shift in the Nigerian courts’ approach to Islamic law in Southern Nigeria, particularly, the Southwest which has a near-majority Muslim population. It further suggests the establishment of Islamic law courts or the creation of divisions in the existing civil courts for Islamic law matters to ensure that litigants have access to justice, and Islamic law questions are determined by those learned in that law.