Since their creation in 1965, the Jean Dabin Legal Study Days have been organized in tribute to Professor Jean Dabin (1889-1971) around themes characterized by their topicality and scientific interest for various disciplines of law.

Jean Dabin eschewed pure theory in favor of practice and reasoning. He devoted himself mainly to positive civil law, which he described in some of his works as “civilized or enlightened positivism” (“Jean Dabin, professor,” Ann. dr., 1989, pp. 231-234).

The publication in the Annales de droit de Louvain in 2022 of the issue edited by Christine Frison and entitled “Law as a tool for ecological transition” prompted the organizers to extend the questioning of law to planetary and social limits.

The aim of these 23rd Jean Dabin Legal Study Days is therefore to examine the role of law, in particular economic and corporate law, in the face of planetary and social limits, beyond which the future of the Earth can no longer be considered secure and just.

To what extent does contemporary economic and corporate law tend to confirm a conflictual relationship between humans and nature and reproduce inequalities, and does it hinder the integration of environmental and social limits into the economy?

How could this situation be corrected within a timeframe compatible with sufficient long-term ecological and social stability?

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