Catalan Private Law: Any Lessons for Wales?

February 20, 2012

Sergio Nasarre Aznar, Professor in Civil Law at the University Rovira i Virgili, (Tarragona) will deliver a keynote speech at the University of Glamorgan this evening, 20th February.

A Court of Appeal Judge and Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Professor Nasarre Aznar is also a leading author and has been a visiting professor at Bremen, Valladolid, Cambridge and Duke Universities.

His speech will examine the role of Catalan private law from its emergence in the middle ages to the current Catalan civil code. It will consider the historical and the constitutional context within which Catalan law has been able to develop and to evolve.

Professor Nasarre Aznar will also consider the differences and the key institutions of Catalan civil law in relation to Spanish civil law and what are the implications of having two separate private laws within a country.

Following the lecture, attendees will have the opportunity to discuss how a distinct private law could develop in a Welsh context.

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