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 or on another subject related to the overall theme of the Forum and dealing with cooperative law, the legal nature of the cooperative principles, development and/or the legal principle/concept of sustainable development. The following categorization of the proposed subjects must not be construed as being binding in any way.
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”?
- The encounter of a universal idea with local realities
- The weal and woe of colonial and post-colonial experiences in cooperative law-making/ “exporting” and “importing” foreign cooperative law
- 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, the 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 the 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
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