This book contributes to the development of literature on cooperative law while paying tribute to Hagen Henrÿ's significant impact on this field at a global scale. Hagen Henrÿ is one of the most influential scholars in the field of cooperative law. His primary contribution has been in the area of public international cooperative law. His other areas of scientific interest include development law and comparative law. This honorary volume is focused on two main axes -- the essence of cooperatives as well as their activities and their governance. The contributions throw light on how these two axes are addressed by cooperative legislation across countries, regions and continents. In the varied perspectives that the contributions put together, both a theoretical and practical approach, the authors address central, current and crucial issues for the development of cooperative law. The book is a great resource for researcher scholars, as well as policy makers and industry players interested in the topic.

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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).

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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

  6. David Hiez (Professor, University of Luxembourg)

  Are Cooperatives Part of Social and Solidarity Economy?

  7. Hans Münkner (Professor, University of Marbourg)

  Regulating and Managing the Cooperative Difference

  8. Willy Tadjudje (Professor, University of Luxembourg)

  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

  10. Deolinda Meira (Professor, Polytechnic of Oporto)

  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

  13. Georg Miribung (Professor, University of Milano)

  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