The Role of Academia in Latin American Private International Law
Workshop
- Datum: 10.09.2019
- Uhrzeit: 14:30
Private international law (PIL) scholarship in Latin America (LATAM) has
traditionally been founded in thorough doctrinal analysis. Despite some
important theoretical and philosophical work by Goldschmidt and others,
socio-legal and interdisciplinary re-search is less extended than in
other regions, particularly the United States and Europe. However, PIL
scholarship in LATAM is often based in a profound understanding of the
region and on each individual country’s needs and positioning in the
global scene. As such it has had a noticeable impact in normative
developments, in the national, regional and international spheres, from
the end of the nineteenth century till our times. In particular legal
unification, where LATAM was a fore rider, was always influenced by
scholarship.
This conference aims to reflect on the role of PIL academia in
LATAM. Exploring be-yond national, regional and global developments the
panelists will venture to answer questions such as the following: How
does one becomes a PIL expert in Latin America? (i.e. access to the
profession; the duality practitioner-academic; the scarcity of full-time
academics; the lack of doctoral programs in some countries); Is PIL
LATAM academia inclusive enough? (i.e. the sociology of the ‘invisible
college’). PIL scholar-ship pathways in LATAM countries may open up
without the need for a doctorate degree, yet nowadays many scholars
would acquire a doctorate at some point in their careers. Doctoral
programs in many countries are the seeds of development of academic
research, and in many countries is that pathway that will forge a
researcher’s skills and abilities. What are the main skills of a LATAM
PIL academic and how are they acquired? What are the distinctive
features of LATAM PIL scholarship? Is the normative impact noted above
related to the common feature of practitioner-academic of many PIL LATAM
scholars? Is it related to the sociology of LATAM scholars? Or does it
respond to the openness of academia? What are the key stepping stones of
the ‘socialization’ of PIL scholars? (i.e. the role of ASADIP, the OAS
International Law courses , the Hague Academy courses, the MPI Hamburg).
Have language differences between LATAM countries had an impact in that
‘socialization’?