CUBA CON - PARA
I INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS
OF COMPARATIVE AND CONSTITUTIONAL
LAW
CONGRESS
OF COMPARATIVE AND CONSTITUTIONAL
LAW
HOTEL NACIONAL
DE CUBA
April 4 to 6
2023
DE CUBA
April 4 to 6
2023
Featured news
Professor Lucio Pegoraro is a central figure of Cuba CON-PARA
Dec. 21, 2022
Lucio Pegoraro is one of the protagonists of the First International Congress of Comparative and Constitutional Law "Cuba-CON-PARA". From the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali of the Università di Bologna, Pegoraro has been a professor of generations of European comparatists and has exerted a marked influence on the formation of a network of young comparatists in Latin America.
He defends the thesis that ideologies and hegemonic thought cannot control the method-science of comparative law, which does not tolerate that cultural bias and pre-comprehensions could influence the methodological framework of legal comparison.
Below is a reflection on the transcendence and challenges of legal comparison, leitmotiv of Cuba CON-PARA.
"Among constitutionalists there is still confusion between studying foreign law and comparative studies, which are different things. Many publications and doctoral theses ignore the instrumental link between a study of domestic (or "national") law and comparison: with the same methodological instruments, some use comparison to study their own law, others compare their system with other systems, others limit themselves to parallel research between two or more rights, as if these operations were conceptually the same.
Many legal problems are often omitted or ignored. For example, there are often problems with translation, classification, and with selecting the determining elements or the legal formants on which to base the research, the creation of a "tertium comparationis", the construction of models, etc."
Derecho constitucional comparado. La ciencia y el método.
Lucio Pegoraro y Angelo Rinella, 2016
Cuba CON-PARA dresses up with the presence of Luigi Ferrajoli, Professor Emeritus of Rome III
Nov. 1, 2022
Luigi Ferrajoli is considered one of the most influential legal philosophers of the last fifty years. He has served successfully in the judiciary (1967-1975) and in university teaching. He has been a professor of Philosophy of Law and General Theory of law at the University of Camerino and, since 2003, at the University of Rome Ill, of which he is currently Professor Emeritus.
He is the author of a vast scientific work, among which topics related to with guarantees, democracy and the theory of fundamental rights are recurrent. Since the grounds of legal positivism and analytical philosophy, Ferrajoli is currently one of the most trusted voices of legal theory worldwide.
Other news
Why has the Colombian legal community been so interested in Cuba CON-PARA?
Dec. 29, 2022
The Cuba CON-PARA congress has aroused a special interest in the Colombian legal community, especially among academics linked to the Universidad Externado de Colombia. This institution was founded on February 15, 1886 by the young jurist Nicolás Pinzón Warlosten, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious in Latin America. It is recognized for its rigor, academic excellence and pluralism. The firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) recognized Externado as one of the 100 best Latin American universities and among the 500 best in the world.
The attention that Cuba CON-PARA has achieved on Colombian lands - the second country that after Italy interacts the most with the congress website - the marked activism of Dr. Gonzalo Ramírez Cleves, who is a professor and researcher in the Department of Constitutional Law of the Externado and editor-in-chief of the Journal of State Law -alias Revista de Derecho del Estado-, has played an essential role. Professor Ramírez Cleves and Professor Magdalena Correa Henao, also from Externado, will be two of Cuba's main speakers CON-PARA, who, in addition to honoring our congress, will generate rigorous guidelines for scientific dialogue and comparison with good reason.
Four personalities from the international legal community confirmed their participation
Nov. 2, 2022
The congress secretariat has received confirmation of the participation of four great personalities of the international legal community. We will have italian professors: Tania Groppi from the University of Siena and Lucio Pegoraro from the University of Bologna. In addition, from Latin America we will count on the presence of Professor Magdalena Inés Correa Henao from the Externado University of Colombia and Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón, magistrate-president of the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Court of the Federation´s Judicial Power. In all cases, the organizing committee has planned magisterial conferences and special ones which will facilitate debate and exchange of experiences at the highest level taking into consideration the recognized scientific and professional trajectory of the confirming participants in constitutional and comparative law matters.
Undoubtedly, this excellent news constitutes a promising projection of the academic quality and international impact that Cuba CON-PARA will exhibit.
