Perspectives on Cooperative Law

Willy TADJUDJE is a Cooperative Law Specialist with experience in teaching, research and consulting. He is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Luxembourg, a Lecturer at the University of Yaoundé II (Cameroon) and a Scientific Collaborator at the Catholic University in Louvain (Belgium).  Apart from teaching and research, he usually works with international organisations for the promotion of cooperative law and social and solidarity economy. He is also a registered mediator in Belgium and Luxembourg. As such he has been supporting apex organisations in Africa on the establishment of Alternative Disputes Mechanisms. Willy Tadjudje is a member of several expert groups, and the authors of books and articles. Ifigeneia Douvitsa is an Adjunct Professor Hellenic Open University in Greece. She is a Specialist of Cooperative Law in Europe. She provides advices to cooperative organisations in Greece and Europe. She is a member of expert groups including the Cooperative Law Committee of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA).

Foreword - The co-editors

-      Introducing Hagen Henrÿ:  Background and Contribution to the Development of Cooperative Law Around the World.

-       Content and Objectives of the Volume

Preface - Mr. Bruno Roelants,  Director of the International Cooperative Alliance

Part 1. Historical Developments in Cooperative Law

1.      Dante Cracogna (Professor, University of Buenos Aires)

Fifty Years in the Cooperative Law in America Latina

2.      Ajibola Akanji (Lecturer, Lead City University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

The Evolution of Cooperative Principles and Cooperative Law: An Appraisal of the Nigerian Situation

Part 2. Specificities and Essence of Cooperatives

3.      Peter Herrmann (Professor Law School of Central South University, Changsha, PRC)

A New stage of the Macro-Economic Development - Attempt to Develop a Realist-Optimist Perspective in Five Thesis

4.      Mario Schujman (President of the Ibero-American Association of Cooperative Law And the Social and Solidarity Economy/Co-Director of the Master in Entities of the Social Economy at the UNR)

Cooperative Organizations and the Social and Solidarity Economy, perform in praxis, Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights

5.      Antonio Fici  (Professor, University of Molise)

Social Enterprises and Social Cooperatives after the Italian Reform of the Third Sector

Are Cooperatives Part of Social and Solidarity Economy? 

7.      Hans Münkner (Professor, University of Marbourg)

          Regulating and Managing the Cooperative Difference

 Taxation of Cooperatives in Africa: A Taboo Subject?

Part 3. Cooperative Law and Sustainable Development

9.      Santosh Kumar (Legislation Coordinator, International Cooperative Alliance)

Cultural Heritage, Cooperatives and Sustainable Development

Cooperative Governance and Sustainability: An Analysis According to New Trends in European Cooperative Law

11. Yifat Solel (PhD Candidate, University of Israel)

Cooperatives and Intergenerational Solidarity

12. Leonardo Rafael De Souza (Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná - Brazil)

Evidence of Companization in Brazilan Cooperative Law

Thinking Beyond the Principle - From the Attempt to Legally Substantiate the Principle of Sustainability Using the Example of Agricultural Cooperatives

Part 4. Cooperatives' Activities and Governance

14. Emanuele Cusa (Associate Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca)

Energy Cooperatives: A Good Tool to Combine Democracy and Sustainable Development?

15. Gemma Fajardo-García (Professor, University of Valencia)

Multiactive Cooperatives and Integral Cooperatives - Characteristics and Legal Regime

16. Marina Aguilar Rubio (University of Almeri a - Spain)

A Special Type of Social Economy Company: Agricultural Processing Companies

17. Itziar Villafáñez Pérez (Associate Professor, University of the Basque Country)

Cooperatives and Transport: A Complex and Unequal Reality

18. Peter Herrmann (Professor, University of Eastern Finland)

Digitisation - A Technology that Ultimately Demands Co-ops

Part 5. Conclusions

19. Ifigeneia Douvitsa (Hellenic Open University) and Willy Tadjudje (University of Luxembourg)

Prospects of Cooperative Law