Bridging the ideological legal gap between civil law and common law

Aim and Objectives

After Brexit, the historical sponsoring member of Common Law in Europe is no longer a State Member of the EU. There is a real opportunity for Irish law to become the jurisdiction of choice for large international contracts. The Irish legal system has even a greater prospect: an Irish common law system adopting and incorporating certain civil law principles.
The primary aim of this lecture is to provide legal professionals with an overview of comparable but dissimilar civil law and common law key features in a contractual context.  

The objective of this lecture is to equip the participants with: 

• insights of civil law contractual principles with historical legacies from Roman law  (including bona fides, iura novit curia and prescriptio) 
  
• a multi-jurisdictional comparative analysis involving Irish, EU, German, Swiss, and Italian law contractual principles 
• a further understanding of civil/common law similarities for a prospective reform of Irish contract law. 
  

This online course is suitable for solicitors, barristers and all legal practitioners. 

Learning Outcome
Upon completing this online course, participants will be able to identify and understand the comparable but dissimilar civil law and common law key features in a contractual context. 

Speaker
Dom Fargnoli, Solicitor, Uisce Éireann
Dom Fargnoli, is a solicitor (2011) and a civil law qualified lawyer (2003) with almost twenty years’ experience of advising in the area of procurement and contract law. He practices as an in-house solicitor in Cork and he’s currently a member of UISCE ÉIREANN legal department. He’s authored Common Law v Civil Law (libreriauniversitaria.it 2018  ) and co-authored Iudex (Kimerik 2022). 

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