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The Commodification of Personality Rights: A Comparative Perspective

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 12:30to14:00
Chancellor Day Hall 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

A Civil Law workshop by Invited Professor Giorgio Resta, University of Bari, Italy. (bio [.pdf])

This workshop will explore the legal issues surrounding the increasingly important problem of the commodification of personal identity. What are the historical roots of the category of "personality rights" that appear, for example, in Title 2, Book One of the Civil Code of Québec? Does the English word "personality" represent a perfect equivalent of the French DzԲԲé, of the German ʱöԱ𾱳, or of the Portuguese personalidade?

And what is the relationship with the competing notion of "privacy", not only in terms of conceptual taxonomies, but also with regard to the operational rules? The most recent scholarship in this area has suggested that there is a “transatlantic clash” between two western cultures of privacy, one rooted in the idea of liberty and the other in the idea of dignity. Has this difference in approach led to two (or more) different models of regulation?

Part of the Civil Law Workshop series, whose theme this year is "Law’s intraduisibles", which are those elements or aspects that lie beyond translation.

The Civil Law Workshops are presented with financial assistance from the Support Fund for Access to Justice in Both Official Languages at Justice Canada.

Bring your lunch.

This activity provides 1.5 hours of continuing legal education to members of the Quebec Bar, as per its mandatory professional training requirements. Barreau activity no. 10032223. 

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