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« IFITIS » Research Project (IUF – senior project – 2016-2021)

Rethinking Flow beyond Control – An Outreach Legal Essay

Online edition

In progress (Publication expected in autumn 2021)

IFITIS Research Programme on « Full Movement beyond Control and the Law »

Supported by Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) – Senior Project (2016/2021)

Hosted by GREDEG, CNRS, UCA, Nice, France (2018-2021)
Hosted by EDIEC, UJML3, Lyon, France (2016-2018)

The purpose of the IFITIS research is to bring into the law a new legal approach in order to deal with phenomena provoked by humans and called « full movement beyond control » (persons, data, capital, waste).

General presentation of the original project (October 2015 – 13 pages): 

• Available in English at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2777653 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2777653
• Available in French : http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=21308

Publications:

• Book in progress: Rethinking Flow beyond Control – An Outreach Legal Essay – Ebook – http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=26156
• Book to be published: Les situations en mouvement et le droit – Essai d’une épistémologie pragmatique – Dalloz – coll. Méthodes du droit – 350 pages – April 2021 – http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=22473
• Book published: Le sens des libertés économiques de circulation / The Sense of Economic Freedoms of Movement (ouvrage collectif sous la dir. de /collective book edited by J.-S. Bergé, G.-C. Giorgini – Bruylant – coll. Droit Economie International – 2020, 422 pages) – http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=24834
• Book published: J.-S. Bergé, S. Harnay, U. Mayrhofer, L. Obadia (eds), Global Phenomena and Social Sciences – An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approach, Springer, 2017, 126 pages – http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=21499
• Articles published or to be published (from 2016 to today): 55 (see list below)

Annual Multidisciplinary, International and Comparative Conferences and Doctoral Sessions :

• First edition: Approche pluridisciplinaire des phénomènes / Multidisciplinary approach to phenomena – Lyon, February 2017
• Second edition: Technosphère et droit / Technosphere and the Law (video) – Lyon, March 2018
• Third edition: Le sens des libertés économiques de circulation / The Meaning of Economic Freedoms of Movement – (video) – Nice, May 2019
• Fourth edition: Approches antécédentes et modales des circulations / Antecedent and Modal Approaches of Movements – Nice, March 2020

Workshops and conferences:

• Workshops and conferences in France, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, Japan, Israel,  Italy, United-States, Russia (from 2016 to today): 71 (see list below)

Next Events of the IFITIS Research Programme:

• Conference in Paris – Cour de cassation – « Insécurité juridique : émergence d’une notion ? » – Presentation on : « Réalités hors contrôle : la circulation totale » – March 2021 – http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=26087
• Article on: Ce que la circulation des objets de propriété intellectuelle nous apprend du droit – in edited book (Mélanges) – in progress
• Article on: Ce que la circulation des capitaux nous apprend du droit – in edited book (Mélanges AEDBF 2021) – in progress
• Conference in Aix-en-Provence – AMU – UMR DICE – Presentation on: « La circulation totale au-delà du contrôle : qu’est-ce que ça change en droit ? » – April 2021
• Conference in Strasbourg – U. de Strasbourg – MISHA – CNRS DRES – presentation on « Européaniser la mobilité : pour une approche antécédente et pluridisciplinaire des circulations »  – June 2021
• Conference in Rennes – SFDE – IODE CNRS – Urgence(s) écologiques : quelle(s) urgence(s) pour le droit ? – presentation on: « Sortir de l’urgence : penser autrement la perte de contrôle » – June 2021
• Conference in Nimes (Université) – presentation on « Epistémologie pragmatique de la circulation en droit de la responsabilité civile » – June 2021 – http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=25817
• Article on : Le pont, métaphore juridique des circulations internationales – in edited book on Le pont – in progress
• Article on: Ce que la circulation des agents économiques en Europe nous apprend du droit – in edited book (Mélanges) – in progress
• Article on : Le juge européen aux prises avec les situations en mouvement – in edited book (Mélanges) – in progress
• Article on : L’Union européenne ou l’avènement de la notion juridique d’espace de flux – in edited book (Mélanges) – in progress
• Conference in Nice – UCA – SFPJ – presentation on (in coll. with P.-Y. Quiviger) « La part implicite du droit : présentation et comparaison des approches antécédentes et computationnelles » – September 2021
• Conference and article (project) on : Post-vérité ou pré-fausseté totales : quand l’ensemble des acteurs nourrissent l’illusion du contrôle des flux – in interdisciplinary conference and edited book on Les post-vérités – in progress
• Conference and article (project) on : Flux et externalités : de l’économie au droit à l’économie du droit (in collaboration with an economist) – in interdisciplinary conference and edited book on L’analyse économique du droit – in progress

Deadline/date limite : 1er mars 2021

Présentation sur le thème : « Européaniser la mobilité : pour une approche antécédente et pluridisciplinaire des circulations » 

Master BOOST – UCA –  Institut Sophia Agrobiotech

Lecture on Environmental Law (Global Perspective)

2020/2021

Syllabus and readings available on https://lms.univ-cotedazur.fr

IAE Nice – Executive MBA

Lecture on Business Law : a Global Perspective

2020/2021

Syllabus and readings available on https://lms.univ-cotedazur.fr

Presentation on  « Rethinking Migration Policy on the Lost of Control »

UCA – M2 DAGD

Lecture on: Datasphere and Private International Law

2020/2021

Syllabus and readings available on https://lms.univ-cotedazur.fr

An online event titled Coordinating Brussels Ia with other Instruments of EU Law: A Roundtable on Theoretical and Practical Issues will take place on 24 September 2020, at 3 pm (CET).

The purpose of the event, organised by the Universities of Genoa, Nice, Valencia, and Tirana, is to present the first results of the investigation conducted under the EU co-funded research project En2Bria – Enhancing Enforcement under Brussels Ia, which aims to shed light on the terms whereby the relationship between the Brussels I bis Regulation and other EU law instruments is to be handled.

The conference will be chaired by Chiara E. Tuo (Univ. Genoa). Speakers include Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Univ. Nice), Guillermo Palao Moreno (Univ. Valencia), Giulio Cesare Giorgini (Univ. Nice), Rosario Espinosa Calabuig (Univ. Valencia), Rosa Lapiedra Alcami (Univ. Valencia), Isabel Reig Fabado (Univ. Valencia), and Stefano Dominelli (Univ. Genoa).

See here for further information.

Those interested in attending the conference are invited to write an e-mail to Stefano Dominelli at stefano.dominelli@unige.it.

Droit et objets connectés / The Law and Connected Objects

Dir./ Eds I. Parachkévova-Racine, J.-B. Racine, Th. Marteu

Larcier, 2020, 269 p.

Contributions :

• Objets connectés et risque de fascination technologico-juridique / Connected objects and the risk of techno-legal fascination
• Objets connectés et le modèle juridique des « systèmes complexes » / Connected objects and the legal model of “complex systems”

Lecture on « Advanced Introduction to Global Law »

Master degree in « Business Law » – 1rst year

Academic year: 2020/2021

Syllabus and readings available on https://lms.univ-cotedazur.fr

A FUNÇÃO MODERNIZADORA DO DIREITO COMPARADO – 250 anos da Lei da Boa Razão

Edited by Claudia Lima Marques and Gustavo Cerqueira

YK Editora, 2020.

Contribution on: Modernização do direito e comparação jurídica: os desafios da circulação total em três atos

(*) On the Wire… of the IFITIS Research Programme (IUF senior 2016-2021) on « Full Movement beyond Control and the Law » (http://www.universitates.eu/jsberge/?p=21027)

COVID-19: a Matter of Flow and the Illusion of Control

We can see the COVID-19 pandemic as the manifestation of what I call “full movement beyond control.”

This phenomenon is the focus of an international and multidisciplinary research project: IFITIS.

So what’s it all about?

Master international de Droit de la Coopération Economique et des Affaires Internationales

Visiting professor

Lecture on: Operating Intellectual Property Law in a Global Context

By video, March-April 2020

Bibliographie : Lectures d’ici et d’ailleurs

La fin du droit

D. McIlroy, The End of Law – How Law’s Claims Relate to Law’s Aims, Elgar Publishing, 2019, 189 p.

LPA 16 janv. 2020, n° 12, p. 17.

Master BOOST – UCA –  Institut Sophia Agrobiotech

Lecture on Environmental Law (Global Perspective)

2019/2020

Syllabus and readings available on https://lms.univ-cotedazur.fr/login/index.php

UCA – M2 DAGD

Lecture on: Datasphere and Private International Law

2019/2020

Syllabus and readings available on https://lms.univ-cotedazur.fr

IAE Nice – Executive MBA

Lecture on Business Law : a Global Perspective

2019/2020

Syllabus and readings available on https://lms.univ-cotedazur.fr

Challenges and Perspectives of Data Protection Authorities

International Conference

Organization : Grupos de Pesquisa em Direito e Internet

Dir. Cíntia Rosa Pereira de Lima (USP – Ribeirão Preto)

November 7-9, 2019 – Faculdade de Direito de Ribeirão Preto – Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Programme

Contribution on « Full Movement Beyond Control of Data: The Structure and Challenges Faced by the CNIL »

Séminaire doctoral pluriannuel : Approches pluridisciplinaires et comparées des phénomènes dans la globalisation

Speakers : Prof Toshiko Takenaka (University of Washington and Keio University) and Prof Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Université Côte d’Azur and Institut universitaire de France)

Direito e Internet IV – Quartier Latin/ Atlântico Pacífico (São Paulo), 2019, 652 p.

Ed. by Newton de Lucca, Adalberto Simão Filho, Cíntia Rosa Pereira de Lima; Renata Mota Maciel

Contribution on : Droit et circulation des données sur Internet : plaidoyer pour un double renouvellement des approches / Direito e Circulação de Dados na Internet : Apello por uma Dupla Renovação das Abordagens – pp. 585-628.

The Meaning of Free Trade Law in Four Acts

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3459927

Aix-Marseille Université

Soft Law Research Network (Solar)

Final Event – Aix, October 17-18, 2019

Chair of the first round-table on national reports

Bergé, Jean-Sylvestre, The Circulation of People and Their Status in a Globalized World: What Circulation? (September 5, 2019).

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3448425