Programme

Thursday, September 10

9:30 - 18:00 - Registration

10:30 - Welcome and Opening
António Agostinho Guedes (Dean of the Portuguese Catholic University Law School)
Maria João Vaz Tomé (Convenor)

11:00 - 11:30
Family Solidarity and Social Solidarity
Moderator: Masha Antokolskaia (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
J. M. Eekelaar (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Discussion

11:30 - 12:00 - Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00
Moderator: J. M. Eekelaar (Oxford, United Kingdom)

1. Balancing social welfare and private maintenance: the alleviation of poverty in South Africa
June Sinclair (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

2. Finality v. Fairness in ancillary relief cases
Andrew Pote (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Discussion

13:00 - 14: 30  - Lunch Break (University Restaurant)

14: 30 - 16:00
Moderator: June Sinclair (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

1. What the Romans have to tell us
David S. Rosettenstein (Quinnipiac University, USA)

2. From de crisis of the family to the need of the family: the search for a new balance between social solidarity and family solidarity within family law
Rosa Martins (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

3. Family law and social and technological developments
Raimondo Cammalleri (University of Palermo, Italy)

Discussion

16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00
Moderator: Andrew Pote (Oxford, United Kingdom)

1. L’addenda introduite par la loi espagnole 15/2005 dans la régulation des droits et devoirs des époux
Gabriel García Cantero (University of ZARAGOZA, Portugal)

2. Nonmarital cohabitation and the vulnerable party: Why does marriage enjoy a privileged status?
Maria Clara Sottomayor (Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal)

3. A Brazilian view of family solidarity as warranty of social solidarity
Lydia Neves Bastos Telles Nunes (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Discussion

20:00 Welcome Dinner (University Restaurant)

Friday, September 11

9:30 - 11:00
Moderator: David S. Rosettenstein (Quinnipiac University, USA)

1. Family and social solidarity in the field of maintenance obligation
Olga Cvejić Jančić (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)

2. Maintenance of former spouses, registered partners and cohabitants in Hungary – lex lata and lege ferenda
Orsolya Szeibert (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

3. Family Solidarity and the Principle of self-sufficiency – the role played by the obligation of spousal maintenance in contemporary marriages
Rute Pedro (Porto University, Portugal)

Discussion

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00
Moderator: Olga Cvejić Jančić (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)

1. Regulating ownership of matrimonial property – task of state or spouse?
Liis Hallik (University of Tartu, Estonia)

2. Property Distribution, ‘Pre-habitation’ Agreements: Better Contract than Trust?
Alice Diver/Brian Collins (University of Ulster, N Ireland)

Discussion

13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch Break (University Restaurant)

14:30 - 16:00
Moderator: Orsolya Szeibert (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

1. Prevailing disadvantages of female headed families - a cross national analysis
Barbara Willenbacher (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)

2. Young European’s prolonged adolescence and dependency on parents: an "exclusive" burden for divorced women?
Rita Lobo Xavier (Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal)

Discussion

16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00
Moderator: Liis Hallik (University of Tartu, Estonia)

1. ‘The Right to Health as ‘Family Policy’: Equality of Opportunity as the Pathway to Justiciability’
Jacinta Miller (University of Ulster, N Ireland)

2. Les soins aux personnes dépendantes en Italie : entre loi et contrat
Joëlle Long (University of Turin, Italy)

3. The Elderly Between Social Solidarity and Familial Solidarity – New Mechanisms in the Portuguese System
Paula Távora Vítor (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Discussion

Saturday, September 12

9:00 - 11:00
Moderator: Alice Diver (University of Ulster, N Ireland)

1. Solidarity with children  – refusing visiting rights as risk factor for the best interest of the child
Adelheid Kühne (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

2. Children in Need of a Permanent Family: Current Status and Future Directions of the Japanese Foster Care System
Ayako Harada (Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law, Japan)

3. Child Support Reform in the UK
Christian Dadomo (University of the West of England, United Kingdom)

4. The Practices of Solidarity and the Exercise of Parental Authority in Brazilian Families: Notes on family law in an era of globalization
Cláudia Pozzi/Patrícia Branco (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

5. The institution of foster care for minors in Greece
Penelope Agallopoulou (University of Piraeus, Greece): paper available

Discussion

11:00 - 11: 30 - Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00
Moderator: Barbara Willenbacher (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)

1. Deprivation of the right to a compulsory share –When family solidarity comes to an end
Jordi Ribot (University of Girona, Spain)

2. Family solidarity and social solidarity in Azerbaijan Republic
Mahabbat Damirchiyeva (Baku State University, Republic of Azerbaijan)

3. Some notes on the “Family solidarity versus social solidarity in an era of planetary crisis” conference
Maria João Vaz Tomé (Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal)

Discussion

16:30 - Meeting at the University Entrance

16:45 - Sight seeing

19:30 - Visit to the “Palácio da Bolsa”

20:00 - Banquet at “Palácio da Bolsa, sala dourada” – Rua Ferreira Borges - Porto
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