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The Münkner Series

The Münkner Series is an online and open-access series of publications contributed to honour and celebrate the scholarship and contribution of Professor Hans-H. Münkner (1935 – 2023) with special reference to his work on cooperative law and development. The series will be published monthly, and at the end of the series the works will be combined to produce an e-book. Each issue in the series will include an editorial, scholarly contributions on a theme relevant to Professor Münkner’s scholarship, as well as personal tributes from those who knew him personally. It will also include extracts from a bibliography that relate to the monthly topics, a full bibliography of his works, and other items of interest to readers who wish to learn more about the extraordinary life and work of a world leading scholar on cooperative law and great humanitarian.

Our first issue in this online series in now available. You can download it here.

Cooperative Law and Sustainable Development: Past, Present and Future5th International Forum on Cooperative LawMoshi/Tanzania, 13 and 14 November 2025Call for Contributions

The International Forums on Cooperative Law bring together lawyers with an interest in international, regional and national cooperative laws. It is a platform for sharing experiences on diverse cooperative law issues. The Forum is mainly organized by Ius Cooperativum in collaboration with the International Cooperative Alliance Cooperative Law Committee (ICA-CLC). Four Forums have been organized so far since 2016. Ius Cooperativum will hold the 5th Forum November 13 and 14, 2025 jointly with the ICA-CLC and the Moshi Co-operative University (MoCU). Returning to the original idea of holding the Forum bi-annually and alternately in one of the regions of the ICA, this Forum will take place in Africa, and will be hosted in Moshi, Kilimanjaro within the United Republic of Tanzania.


The 5th Forum is part of the events marking the 2nd International Year of Cooperatives within 13 years that the United Nations General Assembly declared in 2024 (UN Doc. A/RES/78/289). The 5th Forum will explore the relationship between cooperative law and sustainable development from a juridical perspective. Related ideas, such as ‘cooperatives and development’ and ‘cooperatives and sustainable development’, as well as concepts, such as ‘cooperative law and development’, ‘law and sustainable development’ and especially the encompassing concept of ‘law and development’, have evolved throughout the history of modern cooperatives with varying intensity and weight and have received considerable attention. However, ‘cooperative law and sustainable development’ has hardly been dealt with yet.


The importance of other perspectives, especially the political, social and economic ones is not denied, but a narrower juridical approach may be justified by the following: The substance of cooperative law is now being guided by cooperative principles that are recognized by public international law and sustainable development is gradually permeating all law as a concept recognized by public international law. Despite the radical change that ‘sustainable development’ implies for the notion of development, the reflection on the subject of ‘Cooperative Law and Sustainable Development’ might benefit from embedding it in the ‘law and development’ discussion. Not only “[is] ‘law and development’ […] back” (Kennedy, Laws and developments, in: Hatchard/Perry-Kessaris (eds.), Law and Development: Facing Complexity in the 21st Century, 2003, 17 ff.), but the realities behind the concepts it encompasses subsist and lessons may be drawn from them and from their theorization for the theme of the Forum. Noticeably, the literature on cooperative law and on ‘law and development’ have not taken much notice of each other.


The theme of the Forum is multi-faceted. Its description operates with acceptations and connotations that have varied over time and in space and are still contested. Because of the narrow juridical approach, the result of the Forum cannot be more than an approximation to the subject. While this may justify a fundamental criticism the organizers nevertheless hope that the Forum will reveal the untapped potential of cooperative law for everyone who is working towards a world that embraces sustainable development.
A detailed background paper may be found at the end of this post: www.iuscooperativum.org

Contributions
Anyone interested in participating in the 5th International Forum on Cooperative Law, in person or virtually, is kindly invited to submit an abstract on one of the following subjects, or on any subject that relates to the overall theme of the Forum and deals with cooperative law, the legal nature of the cooperative principles, development and/or the legal principle/concept of sustainable development. The following are suggested topics and are not intended to be exhaustive:

  1. Cooperative law and development – lessons from the past
    – The first cooperative laws and development
    – The so-called British Indian Pattern of Cooperation and development
    – The influence of the so-called British Indian Pattern of Cooperation on cooperative law beyond India, then and now
    – Cooperative law and the development paths of China, Japan and Korea
    – Cooperative law, “home-grown” or “imported”?
    o The encounter of a universal idea with local realities
    o The ‘weal and woe’ of colonial and post-colonial experiences in cooperative law-making.
    o ‘Exporting” and ‘importing’ foreign cooperative law
    o Cooperative law and laws related to (dis)similar entities, such as, for example Ujamaa in Tanzania, fokon-olona and fokon-tany in Madagascar or tontines in Cameroun
    – Cooperative law, ILO Recommendation 127 and development
    – Cooperative law and the debate on ‘law and development’
    – Cooperative law mirrored against the various notions of development – economic and others. For example, evolution’, ‘progress’, ‘growth’, ‘degrowth’, ‘financial performance’, ‘human development’
    – Cooperative law and development – of society, the state and/or the individual?
  2. Cooperative law and development – where do we stand?
  • The legal nature of the cooperative principles
  • Cooperative law, regional and national, development and the cooperative principles, considered individually or in their interrelatedness
  • Cooperative model laws and new thoughts on cooperative principles
  • The influence of the ICA Statement and/or the ILO R. 193 on cooperative law reforms and development
  • Cooperatives, national constitutions and the legal principle of sustainable development
  • Cooperative law, regional and national, and the legal principle of sustainable development
  • Cooperative law and the legal principle of sustainable development. Is there anything special about cooperatives as compared to other enterprise types?
  • Cooperative law and the legal principle of sustainable development versus the SDGs
  • Cooperative law and the Corporate social and societal responsibility versus Cooperative social and societal responsibility

3. Cooperative law and development – views toward the future

  • Cooperative law, laws on social cooperatives, the social and/or solidarity economy laws and the legal principle of sustainable development
  • Cooperative law, the cooperative principles and the principle of sustainable development
  • Cooperative law, structural changes of enterprises and development: Data, data transferability, platforms
  • Cooperative law, new types of cooperatives, the cooperative principles and the principle of sustainable development
  • Cooperative law, value chains and development
  • Cooperative law. Regulating collectives and/or regulating connectives?
  • Cooperative law and decentralized autonomous organizations
  • Cooperative law. From organized cooperatives to networks/platforms and from organized cooperative solidarity to cooperative institutionalized solidarity
  • The notion of law in cooperative law and development: privative, relational, non-state, and/or oral law, blockchains, algorithms
  • Cooperative law in research and teaching

Abstract submission and acceptance
Abstracts in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese may be sent no later than June 10, 2025, to
[email protected]
The organizers will inform potential contributors by June 30, 2025, on whether their abstract has been accepted.
Presentations will have to be in English or French.

Organizing team:
• Alphonce Mbuya
• David Hiez
• Hagen Henrÿ
• Ifigeneia Douvitsa
• Itziar Villafañez
• Leonardo de Souza
• Mathias Nkuhi
• Santosh Kumar

Scientific committee
• Akira Kurimoto, Ann Apps (Asia Pacific)
• Akram Belhadj Rhouma (North Africa, Middle East)
• Alphonce Mbuya and Mathias Nkuhi and Willy Tadjudje (Africa).
• Dante Cracogna and Leonardo de Souza (Americas)
• David Hiez, Cynthia Ciagnocavo, Ifigeneia Douvitsa, Dominik Bierecki, Itziar Villafañez (Europe)

Follow up
Outstanding contributions to the 5th International Forum on Cooperative Law might be accepted for publication in the International Journal of Cooperative Law and/or in a book.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSFOR THE 7th ISSUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE LAW

Publication Date: December 2025
Deadline for Submissions: 31th of May 2025

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

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 six 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.

Please note that we are actively exploring the possibility of collaborating on this issue with another law journal that has a broader thematic scope. By submitting your article according to the guidelines below, you agree to have your submission considered under this potential collaboration which may include a decision making role for the other law journal. Ius Cooperativum Association shall inform you about the results of the selection of your publication in a timely manner.


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 31h of May 2025 by email under the subject: “Submission for the 7h issue of IJCL” to [email protected]

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 COOPERATIVESFOR THE 6th ISSUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE LAW

Publication Date: December 2024
Deadline for Submissions: 15th of February 2024

Memorandum of Understanding

We are pleased to inform you that IUS Cooperativum has signed an MoU with the ICA.

Perspectives of Cooperative Law Development in Europe. Legal Innovations and Obstacles for Cooperatives Advancement

The Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot kindly invites to the conference: Perspectives of Cooperative Law Development in Europe. Legal Innovations and Obstacles for Cooperatives Advancement.

The conference will take place in Warsaw, at the office of the National Cooperative Council, from 7th to 8th of March 2024. A detailed program of the conference will be made available at a later date.

Conference background and themes

Cooperatives are an important part of European countries economies and play crucial role in social economy. Througout the European countries legislations on cooperatives are differentlly organized. Cooperatives are considered either as a genus of a legal person or as a species of a company or association. Few legislations constitutionally guarantee the role of cooperatives in state’s economy. Some counties have only general law on cooperatives, other completes the general regulation with a number of laws on specific types of cooperatives. The are also legislations which only provide a number of legal acts on specific types of cooperatives. Moreover, some legislations have regulations on cooperatives which are applicable in authonomus regions. Yet another countries have codified there cooperative law. Also, EU law constantlly provides legislations with which cooperatives have to comply.

In this mosaic of legislations it is crucial for the development of cooperatives to identify legal institutions that give them perspectives to grow and those that are obstacles in cooperatives advancement. It is essential that cooperatives’ regulation comply with the Cooperative Principles, since they are the mostly tested provisions for a cooperative and guarantee preservation of their identity. The legislations address Cooperative Principles either directly or inderectly and it is not yet determined which way provides better solutions for preserving a cooperative identity.

Also, specific types of cooperatives are subject to states supervision which can interfere with cooperative governence and capital requirements. This concerns esspecially financial cooperatives: credit unions and cooperative banks. Sometimes legislation allows cooperatives to conduct supervision by second tier cooperatives and therefore preserves their authonomy and independence.

In Poland, cooperative movement developed since 1816 and first Polish regulation on cooperatives was introduced in 1919 followed by an Cooperative law of 1920. After World War II cooperatives were subject to controle by the Soviet influenced comunnist regime. Yet numerus housing and agricultural cooperatives were operating. It is since the fall of communist regime that cooperatives experience rebirth, esspecially it the field of financial services (credit unions), social economy (esspecially social cooperatives) and states infuenced housing development programs which also concern housing cooperatives. However, cooperatives are also subject to inadequacy in supervision and lack of understanding by the legislator and jurisprudence.

The papers presented at the conference may concern:

  1. Cooperative Principles and its implementation by the legislator.
  2. Social economy and cooperatives role in its development.
  3. New regulations on cooperative governence and audit.
  4. Regulations and essential of cooperative transactions.
  5. Members role in cooperative development and control.
  6. Formulas of cooperation between cooperatives.
  7. Financing the cooperative with preserving its authonomy.
  8. State role in pursuing cooperative development.
  9. Cooperatives under competition and consumers law.
  10. Bankruptcy and dissolution of the cooperative.

Conference language

Conference language is English. Simultaneously translation will be provided.

Abstract and sessions proposals submissions

Abstract submission opens 1st of September 2023 and is open until 30th of October 2023.

Abstracts should be submitted in the following form:

• Title (maximum 20 words)

  • Body of the abstract (maximum 1000 words, including references) that should follow the following structure: Background, Aims, Methods, Results and discussion, Contributions and implications, Key references
  • Keywords (1 to 5)

Session proposals should be submitted in the following form:

  • Title of the proposed session (maximum 20 words)
  • Description of the proposed session (maximum 1000 words) that should follow thefollowing structure: Name and affiliation of the participants, Motivation for the session,Content of the session, Proposed format.
  • Keywords (1 to 5)

Abstracts and session proposals should be submitted at: [email protected] Notification of acceptence of the abstract or session proposal: 15th of November 2023.

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Postconference publication

Spółdzielczy Instytut Naukowy w Sopocie, ul. Władysława IV 22, 81-743 Sopot www.sin.edu.plwww.prawoiwiez.edu.pl

The authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to develop them in to full papers (maximum of 30,000 words, including references). The papers will be published in Law and Social Bonds
joural (online ISSN 2719-3594) which is included in Scopus and ERIH Plus.

Registration deadline and fees
Registration is open until 22nd of February 2024.

Registation form with the fee payment confirmation should be send at:

[email protected]

Early bird registration (deadline 31st of December 2024):

Conference, 8 – 9 of February 2024: 100 Euro + VAT; 440 PLN + VAT

Registation fee (deadline 22nd of February 2024):

Conference, 8 – 9 of February 2024: 150 Euro + VAT; 660 PLN + VAT. Conference dinner, 8 of February 2024: 80 Euro + VAT; 350 PLN + VAT.

  • Please note the respective registration fees shall only be valid if registration is submitted and full payment is received by us by the respective deadline. If payment of the registration fee is received later than the early deadline registration, the respective next higher fee shall be due.
  • Your registration is effective upon the receipt of full payment of the registration fee by us, i.e. only those participants having fully paid their registration fees will be entitled to participate in the conference.
  • The conference registration fee includes: (1) access to all conference lectures; (2) conference programme and materials; (3) lunches and coffee breaks.

Scientific Committee

prof. Dominik Bierecki, PhD – Chair (Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot and IUS Cooperativum)
prof. Piotr Pałka, PhD (Sopot Academy of Applied Science, Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot)

prof. David Hiez, PhD (University of Luxemburg and IUS Cooperativum) Jacek Skoczek, PhD (Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot)
Joanna Mędrzecka (Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot)
Ewa Derc (Cooperative Research Institute in Sopot)

Conference format

Hybrid: in person and online participation

Conference Address

National Cooperative Council office: Jasna 1, 00-013 Warsaw, Poland „Dom pod Orłami”

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Spółdzielczy Instytut Naukowy w Sopocie, ul. Władysława IV 22, 81-743 Sopot www.sin.edu.plwww.prawoiwiez.edu.pl

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. 

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