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A. Legal Practitioner’s Need of Reflective Application of Legal Philosophy The workshop will include a panel debate of members of Supreme courts from different countries |
Chair: Henrik Zahle (Denmark)
The Right Honorable Beverly McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada |
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B. Criminal Responsibility
See special web-page. |
Chair: R.A. Duff (UK) |
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C. Legal Positivism After Hart and Dworkin Scheduled for 13 and 14 August |
Chair: Leslie Green (Canada) Jules
Coleman |
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D. Law and Objectivity - Legal Positivism, Critical Theory and the New Wave of Natural Law • To what extent is the positivistic ideal of a "non-evaluative legal science" possible and desirable? • Does it matter for legal theory if morality is objective or subjective? • Are facts and values inseparable in legal argumentation? • Can legal Ought be independent from moral Ought? |
Chair: Christian Dahlman (Sweden) Invited speaker: Stanley Paulson (USA)
Eugenio
Bulygin
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E. Tampere Club meeting The Tampere Club will discuss Democracy and Rule of Law. Scholars that are interested in this topic are welcome to contact Professor Aulis Aarnio, Scheduled for 13 and 14 August |
Chair: Aulis Aarnio (Finland)
Philip Pettit |
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F. Law Scholarship and Law Teaching: Technical or Theoretical? The purpose should be to investigate the role and value of general theories, in particular legal theory and legal philosophy, in the presentation and teaching of the law Scheduled for 13 and 14 August |
Chair: Svein Eng (Norway)
John Bell |
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G. Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship The purpose should be to investigate the economic paradigm of legal scholarship as compared with other approaches Some topics
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Chair: Horacio M. Spector (Argentina) |
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H. Cognitive Science, Ethics and Law Recent years have seen a considerable deepening in the understanding of the working of the human mind due to the development of cognitive science. Most importantly, linguistic research has lead to mentalist research perspectives with considerable explanatory power. The workshop hopes to contribute to answering the question whether the great questions of the philosophical tradition of the origin and nature of practical reason might be answered in a new and illuminating way due to the modern theory of the human mind. Invited paper by Richard Posner: Remarks on the Relevance of Cognitive Science and Ethics to Law |
Chair: Matthias Mahlmann (Germany) and John Mikhail (USA)
Richard Posner
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I. Law, Morality, Politics, Defeasibility
See more information about this workshop Scheduled for 13, 14 and 15 August. Integrated with Workshop L. Artificial Intelligence in the Law which is scheduled on 16 August. |
Chair: Jaap Hage (the Netherlands) and Giovanni Sartor (Italy) L.
Åqvist |
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J. Stressing Legal Decisions Stressing implies that premises are added to the legal norm and facts of the case. The additional premises are not normative in the sense of positive law, yet they affect the content and the legitimacy of the normative conclusion. These normative effects must be explained and justified. Examples of stressing factors:
In particular
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Chair: Krzysztof Palecki (Poland) and Christoffer Wong (Sweden)
Zenon
Bankowski |
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K. East Asian Jurisprudence
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Chair: Chongko Choi (Korea) and Nobuhiko TAKASE (Japan) |
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L. Artificial Intelligence in the Law Efficient Tools for Legal Practice, Education and Theory Hajime Yoshino: Workshop description Scheduled for 16 August. Integrated with Workshop I. Law, Morality, Politics, Defeasibility which is scheduled on 13, 14 and 15 August. Call for papers and participants [ New] Special web site [ New ]
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Chair: Hajime YOSHINO (Japan) |
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M. Electronic Government and Philosophy of Law It is undeniable that the increasing expansion of the so-called Knowledge Society has deeply affected the legal structures of modern democracies. It is a challenge for the Philosophy of Law to set forth legal-theoretical approaches which are able to handle the changes caused by this new situation. In this regard, Electronic Government might be defined as a both theoretical and practical complex aimed to establish correct criteria for dealing with legal activities in interconnected environments. The workshop looks to develop fruitful legal-philosophical perspectives to face the emerging interconnected world. This workshop has a special schedule, two days only: 16 August, 2-5 PM and 17 August 9-12.30. Participants in this workshop need not attend the rest of the IVR Congress. But they are fully entitled to participate in the Congress and they must register in the ordinary manner and pay the registration fee. See also Center for Legal Informatics - University of Zaragoza
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Chair: Fernando Galindo (Spain) |
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N. Coherence Theory of Law and Analogy |
Chair: Zenon Bankowski (UK)
Stefano Bertea |
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O. Law and Social Theory This workshop explores different perspectives on the relationship between law and social theory and investigates how ideas and analytic resources from different social theoretical traditions can be employed in studying law, legal institutions and legal behaviour. Scholars with interest across the range of areas in law and social theory are invited to submit proposals for individual paper presentations to Reza Banakar, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK. Email: reza.banakar@csls.ox.ac.uk. |
Chair: Reza Banakar (UK)
Thom Brooks
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P. The new European Ius Commune and Legal Theory This workshop has been cancelled.
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Chair: Jan M. Smits (The Netherlands) |
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Q. Scandinavian Realism in Theory and Practice Scandinavian Realism survives “only in the museums of jurisprudential archaeology”, thus Frederick Schauer and Virginia J. Wise claim in a recent article, Legal Positivism as Legal Information, Cornell Law Review, vol. 82, 1996-1997, pp. 1080-1110, at p. 1081. But it is worthwhile to visit museums not only in order to learn about the past but also as a source of inspiration for the future. Thus Scandinavian Realism can be addressed from the perspective of what is dead and what is living in their philosophical views concerning the place of law in society. This is the topic of the workshop, having the aim to discuss the Scandinavian realists, the Swedes Axel Hägerström, Karl Olivecrona, A. Vilhelm Lundstedt and the Dane Alf Ross mentioned by Schauer and Wise, although there is also room for other authors such as Anders Wedberg, Per Olof Ekelöf, Tore Strömberg, and Jan Hellner. Since the conference is held in Lund, it is perhaps fitting that the writings of Karl Olivecrona, holding the chair of procedural law in the University of Lund from 1934 to 1964, should be especially considered. Another topic for consideration is to consider the relationship, if any, between Scandinavian Legal Realism and American Legal Realism.
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Chair: Jes Bjarup (Sweden) Carla
Faralli |
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R. Material Review of Constitutionality of Statutes For further information about participants, programme etc. please see separate web-page. Scholars with interest in this topic are invited to submit proposals for individual paper presentations to Pasquale Policastro, Email: ppolic@kul.lublin.pl |
Chair: Joakim Nergelius (Sweden), Pasquale Policastro (Italy) and Kenji URATA (Japan) |
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S. Legal Institutions and Economic Policies Access to justice and poverty See Rolando Tamayo: Rights, Distribution, and Access to Justice. FULL PAPER |
Chair: Rolando Tamayo (Mexico) |
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T. Practical and Theoretical Problems in Legislation. Research in Legisprudence
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Chair: Luc Wintgens (Belgium)
Maurice Adams |
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U. Politics of Human Rights The workshop includes two special sessions 1) A session on August 13 and 14, focused on John Rawls's recent book Law of Peoples (1999). A variety of topics will be raised here: (i) human rights, (ii) international distributive economic justice, (iii) the tolerance of nonliberal, nondemocratic societies, (iv) the forcible enforcement of human rights, (v) just war theory, (vi) states/nations/peoples/persons, and (vii) the emerging international order. The session will be opened by the invited speaker, Rex Martin (USA) Programme for special sessions on Rawls's Law of Peoples 2) A session on August 15. The session will be opened by the invited speaker, Gregor Noll (Sweden) |
Chair: Rex Martin (USA) and Göran Melander (Sweden) Rawls's session:
Chris Brown, |
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V. Indigenous and Transplanted Legal Values in the Post-colonial World The workshop will discuss: the concepts of legal culture and legal tradition in late-modern discourses; their importance for legal/judicial identity in contemporary societies; and the impact of globalization (Americanization) and multiculturalism for the cognitive structures of lawyers. |
Chair: Kjell Åke Modéer (Sweden) |
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W. The Actuality of Legal Dogmatics See Claes Peterson and Marie Sandström: Workshop description |
Chair: Claes Peterson (Sweden) Marie Sandström |
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X. European Citizenship in the New EU Member States For further information about programme and participants please see separate web-page.
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Chair: Alexander Bröstl (Slovakia) and Ola Zetterquist (Sweden) |
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