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WEBINAR: Law & Cooperatives – Friend or foe? Exploring the legal landscape about, for, and against co-ops.

Date & Time: Oct 24, 2024 07:00 PM in Athens

Description: This webinar will begin with a showcase of the experience of participants from the Co-operative Law Summer School held in Pula, Croatia in 2023. This international group will share their experience of working intensively for 10 days in a multicultural environment under the leadership of celebrated co-operative legal expert Dr. Hagen Henry, with support from Dr. Sonja Novkovic, Mr. Santosh Kumar and Dr. Ifigeneia Douvitsa.

Participants will reflect on critical insights from their learning and describe the implementation of their knowledge in various roles intersecting with co-operative law (new perspectives, collaborations and paths).

Following these reflections and vignettes, additional speakers from academia and the global co-operative sector will interrogate the intersection of co-operation and law. They will:
(1) contemplate the role of law in co-ops’ development,
(2) identify major drawbacks and achievements of the co-operative legal landscape of their country,
(3) compare their experience with that of their peers.

This event is designed to inspire and equip you with actionable insights and – why not – incite you to join us in the next Co-operative Law Summer School in August 2025 in Croatia!

Whether you are a student, alumnus, legal professional, co-operative practitioner or an advocate for co-ops, this event promises to be a source of inspiration and reflection.

Registrants will be sent further details on the speakers. We look forward to your participation!

This event is organized collectively by the International Cooperative Alliance, IUS Cooperativum and the International Centre for Co-operative Management.

Meeting registration: https://smu-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcuqvpz8pH92y6VW-a2VfAYn7ZqKXcEVC#/registration

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ON GENERAL TOPICS OF COOPERATIVE LAW & ON SPECIAL LEGAL ISSUES ON HOUSING COOPERATIVES FOR THE 6th ISSUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE LAW

Publication Date: April 2024
Deadline for Submissions: 30th of June 2023

Submission Requirements:

  • Language: English
  • No length limitation
  • Submitted File Format: Word Document
  • Submitted File Name: “SURNAME, FIRST NAME – TITLE OF CONTRIBUTION”

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      Detailed instructions below
The International Journal of Cooperative Law (IJCL), edited by Ius Cooperativum Association (an international group of cooperative lawyers), is the first ever academic, peer reviewed, online, open access journal explicitly focused on cooperative law.
The previous four issues have been published and are available at the following link <https://iuscooperativum.org/issues/>
 
The focus of the IJCL is cooperative law, broadly defined all those legal rules – laws, administrative acts, court decisions, jurisprudence, cooperative bylaws/statutes or any other source of law – which regulate the structure and/or the operations of cooperatives as enterprises in the economic sense and as institutions in the legal sense, including provisions from other areas of law, applicable to cooperatives (such as tax law, labor law, competition law). Its purpose is to stimulate the development of an international thinking in cooperative law and to include cooperative law into the major academic debates about the future of business law or the regulation of enterprises.


IJCL publishes articles, reviews, case studies, case-law commentaries, empirical research pieces or book reviews for a wider audience on topics related to national, regional or international cooperative law, including transnational and comparative perspectives. The IJCL has no geographical limitation nor one by legal traditions; it seeks to cover cooperative law worldwide. Contributions through the lens of law per se will be complemented with other approaches, such as the approaches of law and economics, political and social sciences. The IJCL is mainly addressed to legal scholars and academics, without excluding practitioners and professionals with an interest in the field.
 
Part of the 6th issue of IJCL will be dedicated to housing cooperatives and whether and how they are regulated by law, as the growing interest on this specific cooperative type brings to the fore key relevant legal questions to be investigated and addressed.
 
For this reason, we wish to invite authors to submit their contribution either on general topics of cooperative law or focused on particular aspects of housing cooperative law.
 
LANGUAGE
The language of the journal is English. Nevertheless, contributions may also be submitted in French, German or Spanish. If accepted, the author will be invited to translate the manuscript into English.
 
PROCESS
The contributions will be subject to an anonymous peer-reviewing process, during which the article will be evaluated, and a decision will be made for the article’s acceptance, revision or rejection.  
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES


Structure of contribution: 
 
At the first page, please write down the title of your contribution, your surname, first name and affiliation. Please also include an abstract. A bibliography shall be at the end of the contribution.
 
File to be send:
 
Please send your contribution before the 30th of June 2023 by email under the subject: “Submission for the 6th issue of IJCL” to [email protected] 

Call for Abstracts 4th International Forum on Cooperative Law “The cooperation among cooperatives: a principle of the past or for the future?” From 29/11 to 01/12 2023, San Sebastian, Basque Country

Background on the International Forum on Cooperative Law

After the first International Forum on Cooperative Law, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2016, the second such event in Athens, Greece, in 2018, and the third forum, in Seoul, South Korea, in 2021, on cooperative identity and harmonization of Cooperative Law, the fourth International Forum of Cooperative Law will take place in San Sebastian, Basque Country, in 2023, on the principle of cooperation among cooperatives.
The Ius Cooperativum is an international association of cooperative lawyers, which publishes the International Journal of Cooperative Law. The international forums have been organized by Ius Cooperativum since 2016, meeting every two years. The forums bring together lawyers who are interested in cooperative law on a worldwide basis, and cooperative law in different countries and continents.

The 4th International Forum of Cooperative Law is organized with the support of GEZKI (Gizarte Ekonomia eta Zuzenbide Kooperatiboaren Institutua / Institute of Social Economy and Cooperative Law), the Faculty of Law of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). The theme of this Forum is: “The principle of cooperation among cooperatives: a principle of the past or for the future?”

“The principle of cooperation among cooperatives: a principle of the past or for the future?”

Cooperation among cooperatives has been a key feature since the very beginning of cooperative history. On the one hand, the first step of the development of the consumer cooperatives was the establishment of wholesale firms, as an expression of economic cooperation. On the other hand, in 1895, the ICA was established as a tool for international political cooperation. These are the two pillars on which the cooperative movement was built in the 20th Century. This arangement could find proximities with some political thinking, such as federalism, communalism, or autogestion. The sixth principle of the Declaration on the cooperative identity, adopted by the ICA, in 1995, reads: “Cooperatives serve most effectively and strengthen the cooperative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures.”

But the context has changed: globalisation, financialisation, virtualisation, and the emergence of environmental problems…The cooperation among cooperatives has adopted new forms, has been challenged by new practices, and shall go on creating new solutions. It is important not only to deepen the various existing forms of that cooperation, but also to elaborate on its future.

Cooperative Law is concerned by these two directions. On the one hand, cooperative law can facilitate or put some constraints on the establishment of cooperation, either generally or to some specific cooperation. This may explain, at least partly, the successes and fails of inter-cooperation. On the other hand, cooperative law is also evidence of the deeper essence of cooperatives and, in that sense, it may reveal some specificities compared to companies. This may help to better understand what is the essence of a cooperative. This is particularly useful when the cooperative model may be used to elaborate a social and solidarity economy law, and, more generally, an alternative model for business. To investigate the way cooperative law treats inter-cooperation, and can do so in the future, it is proposed to the forum speakers to focus on one of these sub-topics:

● Different formulas for economic or political cooperation among cooperatives;
● The adaptation of regulation to secondary cooperatives ;
● The transactions between a secondary cooperative and cooperative members ;
● The impediments to cooperatives to provide financial services ;
● The cooperation among cooperatives of a different nature ;
● The competition law opposed to cooperation ;
● The creation of subsidiaries as an alternative to cooperation;
● The interrelation of cooperation among cooperatives, and cooperative principles; ● The management of conflicts within structures of cooperation, especially in cooperative groups (conflicts of interests).

Proposals for communications on other aspects of Cooperative Law will also be considered.

Details for submissions
Participants interested in presenting a paper are kindly invited to send an abstract of a maximum of 300 words, in English, before the 31st of March 2023 to [email protected]

Scientific committee
Douvitsa, Ifigeneia (Greece); Hiez, David (Luxembourg); Cracogna, Dante (Argentina); Fajardo, Gemma (Spain); Kurimoto, Akira (Japan); Meira, Deolinda (Portugal); Henrÿ, Hagen (Finland); Prasad, Bhagwati (India), Tadjudje, Willy (Africa); Van der Sangen, Ger (Netherlands); Otxoa-Errarte Goikoetxea, Rosa (Spain). Organizing committee Villafáñez Pérez, Itziar (GEZKI, Ius Cooperativum); Bengoetxea Alkorta, Aitor (GEZKI, Ius Cooperativum); Hiez, David (Université du Luxembourg, Ius Cooperativum); Emparanza Sobejano, Alberto (Faculty of Law UPV/EHU); Etxebarria Rubio, Ane (GEZKI); Ruiz Martínez, Aingeru (GEZKI); Kumar, Santosh (ICA Cooperative Law Commitee); Agirre, Ana (ICA youth network).

Notification of acceptance of the abstract
Participants will be notified by the beginning of May 2023 about the acceptance or rejection of their abstract. There is no travel or allowance provided to the selected presenters.

Date and place of the Forum
The 4th International Forum on Cooperative Law will take place on 29th November to 1st December 2023, in San Sebastian, Basque Country.

Conference language
English, Spanish and Basque

2nd Webinar on Asian Pacific Co-operative Laws, IUS Cooperativum Association

Date: July 15, 2021

Time: 18:00 Seoul (11:00 Brussel)

Moderator: Ann Apps

First presentation: Prof. Song Jae-il, Myongji University

Title: Legal System of Cooperative Laws in South Korea 

Second presentation: Mr. P. Santosh Kumar, Director of Legislation, ICA

Title: Cooperative law and policy in India: recent developments 

The webinar will take place via the platform zoom. Here is the link for the event: https://uonewcastle.zoom.us/j/82003179495

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CURRICULUM VITAE OF PRESENTORS:

Prof. Song Jae-il

PERSONAL DATA

Born: 1969 in Seoul, Korea

Work Address: Myongji University College of Law, 34 Geobukgol-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03674, Republic of Korea

E-mail Address: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Mar. 2005 – Feb. 2010  Doctor of Law, Seoul National University in Seoul(Major: Civil Law, Agriculture and Food Law)

Mar. 2002 – Feb. 2005  Master of Law, Seoul National University in Seoul(Major: Civil Law, Agriculture and Food Law)

Mar. 1988 – Feb. 1993  Bachelor of Law, Seoul National University in Seoul

POSITIONS HELD

Sep. 2016 – present       Associate Professor, Myongji University College of Law

Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2016   Assistant Professor, Myongji University College of Law  Researcher, Feb. 2012 – Aug. 2012   Researcher, Korean Legislation Research Institute,

Mar. 2011 – Jan. 2012   Post-Doctoral Course, Yonsei University Law School in Seoul

Jan. 1998 – Jan. 2011    Full-time Researcher, NHRI(NH Bank Research Institute) in Seoul

PUBLICATIONS (Recently)

1. “Legal Status of Small & Medium Business for Korean Small and Medium Business Cooperative,” Korean Journal of Cooperative Studies, Vol.39 No.1, Apr. 2021. pp. 189-223.

2. “Definition & Objectives of Cooperatives Under the PECOL: Focusing on the Legal Improvement for Identity and Role of Cooperative in Korea”, Korean Journal of Cooperative Studies, Vol.38 No.3, Dec. 2020. pp. 177-205.

3. “Legal Study on Reform of the Regulations for the Cooperative Finance: Focusing on Korean Credit Unions“, Korean Journal of Cooperative Studies, Vol.35 No.2, Aug. 2017. pp. 127-155.

4. “Constitution of Board of Directors for Good Cooperative Governance-Focusing on the Cases of Consumers’ Cooperatives Act-, Myongji Law Review vol.15 no.1, Jul. 2016. pp. 37-63.

5. “UN SDGs and Korean Cooperatives: In addition to the Reform of Korean Cooperative Laws”, Korean Journal of Cooperative Studies, Vol.34 No.3, Dec. 2016. pp. 143-167.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Sep. 2019-present    Member of Committee for Seoul General Assembly, 2021, ICA

2021 – present         Editor in Chief, The Korean Journal of Cooperative Studies, The Korean Society for Cooperative Studies

Mr. P. Santosh Kumar

Born in Hyderabad and raised in Delhi (India), Santosh is a qualified lawyer with honours degree from Delhi’s Indraprashtha University and post graduate diplomas in Public and Private International Law as well as Cyber Laws. He completed his LL.M from the University of Turin, Italy in 2015 with specialization in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Contracts. He holds a license to practice law at the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India. 

He spent a summer working at the Supreme Justice Commission, Tibetan Government in Exile in drafting the Evidence code meant for Tibetan settlements in India and worked in top Indian law firms in the area of constitutional law, IPR, and human rights law, before joining the ICA-AP in 2010 where he worked until 2019, where he contributed to the publication of the 4th Critical Study on cooperative laws and policies in the AP, and the 1st study on by laws of primary cooperatives in the AP. He was employed as Legislation Coordinator at the ICA Global Office from Apri 2019 until March 2021 whereupon he was appointed as Director to liaise better with ICA bodies such as ICA regions and sectors. He has undertaken specific certification courses in Cooperative Laws and Management, and Platform Cooperatives in 2020. Currently, he is undertaking a course in Public and Private international law from the Hague Academy of International Law. 

SOCOOP Webinar. Cooperative Law in Africa: Reflections on the OHADA Uniform Act

SOCOOP Webinar. Cooperative Law in Africa: Reflections on the OHADA Uniform Act 

Duration: (10-15h30 CET)

Date: Saturday July 3, 2021

Location: virtual (zoom)

SOCOOP is pleased to invite you to a seminar on cooperative law in Africa, reflections on the OHADA Uniform Act ten years after its entry into force.
This webinar will be based on the reflections capitalized on in a book coordinated by Willy Tadjudje, Cooperative Law in Africa. Reflections on the OHADA Uniform Act. 
In this link you will find detailed information about the book, as well as the registration form: https://www.socoop.coop/ohada-webinar/ 

There will be English-French interpretation available. 

On the eve of the webinar, all registrants will receive the ZOOM link to participate. 

Please feel free to share the information with others who may be interested in the webinar. 

Cooperative regards,

Willy Tadjudje

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

FOR THE 5th ISSUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE LAW

Publication Date: NOVEMBER 2022

Deadline for Submissions: 15  JANUARY 2022

Submission Requirements:

  • Language: English
  • No length limitation
  • Submitted File Format: Word Document
  • Submitted File Name: “SURNAME, FIRST NAME – TITLE OF CONTRIBUTION”

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      Detailed instructions below

The International Journal of Cooperative Law (IJCL), edited by Ius Cooperativum Association (an international group of cooperative lawyers), is the first ever academic, peer reviewed, online, open access journal explicitly focused on cooperative law.

The previous four issues have been published and are available at the following link <https://iuscooperativum.org/issues/>

The focus of the IJCL is cooperative law, broadly defined all those legal rules – laws, administrative acts, court decisions, jurisprudence, cooperative bylaws/statutes or any other source of law – which regulate the structure and/or the operations of cooperatives as enterprises in the economic sense and as institutions in the legal sense, including provisions from other areas of law, applicable to cooperatives (such as tax law, labor law, competition law). Its purpose is to stimulate the development of an international thinking in cooperative law and to include cooperative law into the major academic debates about the future of business law or the regulation of enterprises.

IJCL publishes articles, reviews, case studies, case-law commentaries, empirical research pieces or book reviews for a wider audience on topics related to national, regional or international cooperative law, including transnational and comparative perspectives. The IJCL has no geographical limitation nor one by legal traditions; it seeks to cover cooperative law worldwide. Contributions through the lens of law per se will be complemented with other approaches, such as the approaches of law and economics, political and social sciences. The IJCL is mainly addressed to legal scholars and academics, without excluding practitioners and professionals with an interest in the field.

Part of this issue of the IJCL will be dedicated to the cooperative legislation in Asia, which presents some particular traits that are of interest for the scientific community.

We wish to invite authors to submit their contribution either on general topics of cooperative legislation or focused on the cooperative legislation in Asia.

LANGUAGE
The language of the journal is English. Nevertheless, contributions may also be submitted in French, German or Spanish. If accepted, the author will be invited to translate the manuscript into English.

PROCESS
The contributions will be subject to an anonymous peer-reviewing process, during which the article will be evaluated, and a decision will be made for the article’s acceptance, revision or rejection.  

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Structure of contribution:

At the first page, please write down the title of your contribution, your surname, first name and affiliation. Please also include an abstract. A bibliography shall be at the end of the contribution.

File to be send:

Please send your contribution by email under the subject: “Submission for the 5rd issue of IJCL” to [email protected]

European action plan for social economy: Better regulation for social economy : the fruitful inspiration of the experience of cooperative law

For Ius Cooperativum feedback to the above call, please download the file here

Reminder! 3rd International Forum on Cooperative Law, 29-30 November 2021, Seoul, Republic of Korea

The extended deadline to submit  abstracts  of papers  for the  3rd International Forum on Cooperative Law  that will be organized on 29 and 30 November 2021 in Seoul as a pre- event of  the 33rd ICA World Cooperative Congress, is the 5th of April 2021

Those whose abstract was submitted and accepted by the scientific committee in 2020, should send their full paper as early as possible, latest by July 31, 2021

Please note that the email address for submissions and questions related to the forum  is  [email protected]

International Online Conference on Cooperative Law Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law, Russia 06-07 April 2021 11.00 (GTM+3) Platform Zoom

Dear colleagues and friends,

We are delighted to invite you at an international online conference on cooperative law on the topic “The evolution of cooperative law in the era of globalization in the countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and other countries of the world” organized bythe Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law and the International Association of Cooperative Lawyers “IUS Cooperativum”.

Conference languages:
Russian and English

To participate at the Conference please register at the following address: www.confcooplaw.bukep.ru

Full information about the conference will be posted on the conference website www.confcooplaw.bukep.ru

For questions regarding the conference, contact:

Tarasova Elizaveta Evgenievna, Doctor of Economics, Professor, First Vice-Rector for Research, Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law tel. +7 (4722) 26-07-47
Gomonko Evelina Anatolyevna, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Head of the International Department, Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law tel. +7 (4722) 31-12-92 WhatsApp: +79107417568
e-mail: [email protected]

Webinar on Asian Pacific Co-operative Law, 1st March at 7pm JST (11am Paris time)

Dear colleagues,

We would be grateful if you could pass on this information to your networks regarding a zoom webinar that will be held on Monday 1st March at 7pm JST (11am Paris time). The topic is Asian Pacific Co-operative Law. Mr Akira Kurimoto will present a webinar providing an overview of co-operative laws in Japan and the new Workers Co-operatives Act will be covered. Ms Ann Apps will present a webinar providing an overview of co-operative law in Oceania including Australia, NZ, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Fiji. Both speakers were regional or sub-regional experts for the ICA-EU Legal Frameworks Analysis project as part of the #coops4dev project.

You will find details about the content of the webinar and can register for the event at this link, : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ius-cooperativum-asian-pacific-co-operative-law-webinar-tickets-142409276981 . You will receive an automatic email once registered that includes the Zoom details at he very bottom of the page.

We would be very grateful if you would circulate this email to those who you think might be interested in attending. The event is free.

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