IVR Newsletter

July 1996-December 1996

No. 20 ISSN 0256 - 937X

Editor: Carla Faralli, University of Bologna, Italy. Associate Editors: Francesco Belvisi, University of Modena, Italy; Pierluigi Chiassoni, University of Genoa, Italy. IVR Web Master: Giovanni Ziccardi, CIRFID, University of Bologna, Italy. This issue was compiled with the help of dr. Mario Luberto and dr. Annalisa Verza.

IVR Newsletter is published twice a year in June and December to be distributed in July and January respectively. Material to be published should be sent to the Editor by 1st June for the first issue and by 1st December for the second. While every effort is made by the Editors to see that no inaccurate or misleading data appear in their contributions, they wish to make it clear that the form and content of all the other contributions are the sole responsibility of the authors.

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CONTENTS

Section One: IVR Announcements. 18th IVR World Congress (La Plata/Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 10-15, 1997), p. 1. Call for Proposals of Nominees for the Next IVR Executive Committee, p. 8. IVR Prize 1997, p. 8. 19th IVR World Congress (New York, USA, June 25-30, 1999), p. 8. 20th IVR World Congress (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 20-24, 2001), p. 9. Proceedings of 17th IVR World Congress (Bologna, June 16-21, 1995), p. 9. IVR Web Page, p. 15. Section Two: Chronological Summaries and Reminders. IVR Future Events, p. 16. Reminders, p. 16. Section Three: National Sections News, Announcements and Records. Amintaphil, p. 16. Brazil, p. 17. Bulgaria, p. 17. Canada, p. 17. Chile, p. 17. Colombia, p. 18. Denmark, p. 18. Finland, p. 18. Germany, p. 19. Greece, p. 19. Hungary, p. 20. Italy, p. 20. Japan, p. 22. Mexico, p. 23. The Netherlands, p. 23. Romania, p. 23. Russia, p. 23. Slovakia, p. 23. Sweden, p. 23. Switzerland, p. 23. United Kingdom, p. 24.

SECTION ONE: IVR ANNOUNCEMENTS

18th IVR WORLD CONGRESS (LA PLATA/BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, AUGUST 10-15, 1997)

Dates and venues

The Congress will be held from Sunday August 10 through Friday August 15. Arrival should be scheduled by Sunday 10. The official opening of the meeting will take place in the afternoon, at the Golden Lounge of the La Plata City Hall (12th St. between 51st and 53rd Sts., first floor), and a welcoming party for all participants will be held in the evening.

This Congress will have two venues where the academic program will take place: the City of Buenos Aires (August 11 and 12) and the City of La Plata (August 14 and 15).The Closing Meeting of the Eighteenth World Congress will be held on August 16 and diplomas will be delivered to all participants.

All participants will have the day off on August 13 and they will be invited to an ìasado criollo (typical Argentine barbecue) in a traditional ìestancia (cattle ranch) in the Argentine Pampas, 80 Km from the City of Buenos Aires and from the City of La Plata. On Tuesday 12, a Buenos Aires night tour will be organized to visit the historical city, the seat of national bodies and other interesting spots. Tours around the City of La Plata will also be provided.

The academic program will take place at the School of Law of Buenos Aires National University, located at 2263 Figueroa Alcorta Avenue, and at the School of Law and Social Sciences of the La Plata National University, located at 48th Street between 6th and 7th streets, First Floor.

Participants may organize their post-Congress tours, to visit the most outstanding sites in Argentina - the Iguazú Falls, the Valdés Peninsula (with its attractive whales), Bariloche, San Martín de los Andes, Usuahia, Calafate and the Northern Region - and in the Republic of Uruguay - Colonia del Sacramento or Montevideo, distant 40 minutes away from Buenos Aires by jet-foil or plane.

Academic Program

Different Types of Meetings: Three types of academic meetings have been considered:

a) Plenary Sessions, where papers will be read to all participants at the Congress, from 10.00 A.M. through 1.30 P.M., at the Assembly Hall of the Schools of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and La Plata, respectively;

b) Simultaneous Sessions, where different proponents will read invited papers and attending members will have the possibility to participate in the subsequent discussion;

c) Workshops, where all members attending the Congress may read and discuss their papers.

Simultaneous Sessions will be held in the afternoon, from 3.30 through 8.00 P.M., at both Schools of Law.

Congress Topics: a) The Legal System: i. Norm and Action; ii. Legal Language and Interpretation; iii. Sources of Law, Principle and Hierarchies; b) Argumentation and Justification: i. Reasons for Action; ii. Legal Reasoning; iii. Justification of Judicial Decisions; c) Legal Logic: i. Normative Logic; ii. Theory of Static Systems; iii. Theory of Dynamic Systems; d) Law and Computer Science: i. Theoretical Bases of Computer Sciences; ii. Databases and Change of Theories; Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems; e) Ethics, Justice and Law: i. Human Rights, Bioethics and the Environment; ii. Critical Theories of Law; iii. Justice and Natural Law; f) Political and Social Philosophy: i. State functions and Resolution of Conflicts; ii. Authority, Democracy and Representation; iii. Sovereignty, National State and Supranational Order.

Participants: Under the Honorary Presidency of Norberto Bobbio, Miguel Reale and George Henrik von Wright, the following persons, inter alia, have confirmed their participation at the IVR Eighteenth World Congress: Alvarez Gardiol (Argentina), Aulis Aarnio (Finland), Robert Alexy (Germany), Raphael Adebisi Akanmidu (Nigeria), K.B. Agrawal (India), Manuel Atienza (Spain), Abel J. Arístegui (Argentina), Ignacio Ara Pinilla (Spain), Eduardo Barcesat, Eugenio Bulygin (Argentina), Mario Castiglione, Ana Castro Cabanillas, Dante Cracogna, Miguel Ciuro Caldani, Carlos Cárcova, Julio Cueto Rúa (Argentina), Albert Calsamiglia (Spain), Paolo Comanducci (Italy), Elías Díaz (Spain), Ralf Deier (Germany), Nicolás Etcheverry (Uruguay), Carla Faralli (Italy), Martín Farrell (Argentina), Alfredo Fernández Vicente (Uruguay), Jean Louis Gardiez (France), Ernesto Garzón Valdez (Germany), Letizia Gianformaggio (Italy), Olsen Ghirardi, Ricardo Guibourg, Ricardo Guarinoni (Argentina), Riccardo Guastini (Italy), Pedro F. Hooft (Argentina), Werner Krawietz (Germany), Mikael M. Karlson (Iceland), Massimo La Torre (Italy), Lars Lindahl (Sweden), María Teresa López, Pablo López Ruf (Argentina), David Mackinson (Great Britain), Antonio Martino (Italy), Carlos Ignacio Massini (Argentina), Juan Ruiz Manero (Spain), Rex Martin (United States), Neil McCormick (Great Britain), José Juan Moreso (Spain), Daniel Mendonca (Paraguay), Javier Muguerza (Spain), Tecla Mazzarese (Italy), Vladic Nersessiant (Russia), Enrico Pattaro (Italy), Alexander Peczenick (Sweeden), Antonio Pérez Luño (Spain), Carlos Pettoruti, Mario Portela (Argentina), Gregorio Robles Morchón (Spain), Wojciech Sadowski (Australia), Tercio Sapaio Ferraz (Brazil), Agustín Squella Narducci (Chile), Héctor H. Segura (Argentina), Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Poland), Oscar Sarlo Oneto (Uruguay), Robert Summers (United States), Juan Carlos Smith (Argentina), Alice Tay (Australia), Rolando Tamayo y Salmorán (México), Roberto Vernengo (Argentina), Antal Visegrady (Hungary), Robert Walter (Austria), Ota Weinberger (Austria).

Registration Fee

Except for members of the IVR Executive Committee, all those wishing to participate should deliver the Advance Registration Form attached hereto and pay a registration fee of Two Hundred and Fifty U.S. Dollars (U.S.$ 250.00). Registration fee for accompanying persons will be One Hundred and Twenty-Five U.S. Dollars (U.S.$ 125.00).

Registration fees are payable in any of the following ways: a) By check issued to the order of Asociación Argentina de Filosofia del Derecho, Calle 37, entre 1 y 115 , CP 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina; b) By bank draft to Banco Credito Comercial, Head Office in the City of La Plata , Avenida 7 esquina 50 issued to the order of Asociación Argentina de Filosofía del Derecho, Account No. 800-20349/0; c) By Traveler Checks, to the order of Asociación Argentina de Filosofía del Derecho.

The registration fee entitles participants to:

a) request the CD-ROM with Congress communications and informative material.

b) participate, free of charge, in the Welcome Party.

c) participate, free of charge, in the Argentine barbecue, with cost-free transportation to the cattle ranch (estancia) in the Argentine Pampas.

d) participate, free of charge, in the Farewell Party.

e) free transportation between the two venues of the Congress, at the specified time and places.

Congress Information and Correspondence

All information or correspondence related to the IVR Eighteenth World Congress should be delivered to the following address:

Asociación Argentina De Filosofía Del Derecho

Calle 37, Número 268 (entre 1 y 115)

(1900) La Plata

ARGENTINA

Phone: (54) (21) 24-2503

Fax: (54) (21) 25-8816

E-Mail: aarfilde/@interprov.com

comivr97@interprov.com

csmith@ada.info.unlp.edu.ar

Web-Site Address: http://www.ivrworldcongress.com.ar

Congress Papers, Communications and Works

Participants should deliver their Papers or communications not later than May 30, 1997. A CD-ROM, that will be delivered to all and every participants at the time of registration or accreditation, will be prepared with all papers and communications received prior to such deadline.

In order to facilitate the reading of congress papers, participants will be provided with CD-ROM reading devices in the respective venues of the Congress, in the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata. In order to facilitate the CD-ROM preparation, interested parties are requested to submit their communications or papers as follows:

Recorded on two (2) 3.5 diskettes, with DOS format (FAT file system). Document formatted in any of the usual word processors (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Wordstar, Write, Wordpad, etc., in any of their different versions). Back-up Copy. The Congress organizers would appreciate it if each diskette with the original formatted document includes an unformatted copy of the text, i.e. only text.

The text should be written in any of IVRís official languages: German, Spanish, French and English.

Communications should be written for reproduction in no more than fifteen (15) A-4pages and include the authorís name and a summary of the paper which should not exceed 200 words.

Congress Venues: Buenos Aires and La Plata

The Congress will have two venues: the Cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata.

Buenos Aires is the Capital City of Argentina, seat of national bodies, the Executive, the Legislative Power and the Supreme Court of Justice. According to data obtained in the latest census, carried out in 1990, it has 2.7 million inhabitants; however, 14 million people -almost 40% of Argentinaís population - live within a range of 50 Km surrounding Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires was founded by Spanish colonizers in the XVI century, on the banks of the River Plate, the widest river in the world, that is part of its boundary with the Republic of Uruguay. It is a modern city whose architectonic styles give it a European appearance which, together with its own profile, its districts, streets and gardens, make it a particularly attractive city.

The city of Buenos Aires is the most important cultural center in Argentina; the Buenos Aires National University (U.B.A.), with 150,000 students, is the Stateís higher education center; besides, there are various confessional and non-confessional private universities. The Colon Theater, the Fine Arts Museum and the National Library are symbols of the Cityís culture.

The city has an intense cultural activity with public and private libraries, theaters, cinemas and auditoriums. It is also a financial center, the most important in the country, and leading U.S., European and Asiatic banks have branches in Buenos Aires. Subways, trains and buses, public and private cabs are its usual transportation means.

Furthermore, Buenos Aires has an intense commercial life, with outstanding stores - particularly those located on Florida and Santa Fe streets, and attractive shopping centers, such as Patio Bullrich, Galerías Pacífico, Paseo Alcorta and Alto Palermo. It also has many cafés, among which it is worth mentioning the typical ìTortoni Café on Avenida de Mayo, ìLa Biela and Café Victoria, at the elegant ìRecoleta promenade and ìClásica y Moderna, located half a block from the intersection of Córdoba and Callao avenues.

In Buenos Aires, it is worth visiting typical places where the universal ìArgentine tango is danced: Sunday afternoons at the Dorrego Plaza in the San Telmo district, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Caesar Park Hotelís lobby, and many other tango places in San Telmo and other public squares in Buenos Aires, where visitors may enjoy tango all week long.

La Plata is the Capital City of the Province of Buenos Aires. It was founded in 1882 due to the need to solve a major political problem for the country, i.e. to avoid the influence of the national authorities on the political life of the provinces belonging to the federation of states and, particularly, the Province of Buenos Aires. Its creation has been conventional in all respects.

Unlike other cities of the country, the layout of the City of La Plata has been well planned - its streets are numbered, as in New York, and there is a square or green area every six streets. Almost all its streets are lined with trees and its Civic Center, located at Plaza Moreno 12th through 14th streets, between 50th and 54th streets, comprises buildings designed by German architects (the City Hall and the Cathedral).

According to data obtained from the 1990 census, the City of La Plata has 600,000 inhabitants and it has many administrative buildings because it is the seat of the three powers of the Province of Buenos Aires. It harbors a state-university - the National La Plata University, with 35,000 students, and a private university with 6000 students. Both universities constitute La Plataís higher education centers.

La Plata has always been proud of its Natural Sciences Museum, at the Paseo del Bosque, that houses more dinosaurs than the New York Natural History Museum. The Paseo del Bosque is a particularly beautiful and attractive site which also comprises the Astronomic Observatory, the Walk of the Poets, the Zoo and the lake .

The City of La Plata has two business centers, at 8th and 12th streets. Although it is a large city, relations are still personalized and it is easy to walk from one place to another. Beer saloon bars, coffee shops and restaurants around its business centers and at the city gate, are the usual entertainment or meeting places when the working day is over. Various cinemas and two theaters offer recreation possibilities.

Traveling to Argentina

By Airplane: U.S. airlines (American and United Airlines) and European and Latin American airlines, have daily, non-stop flights from capital cities to the ìGeneral Pistarini Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires. Flying time from New York to Buenos Aires is 10 hours and from European capital cites (Madrid, Rome, Paris, London, Frankfurt) 10-12 hours.

Flying time from Montevideo (Uruguay) is 40 minutes, from Asunción (Paraguay) 1 hour, from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 2h30, from Sao Paulo (Brazil) 2 hours, from Santiago (Chile) 1h20, from La Paz (Bolivia) 2 hours, from Lima (Perú) 4 hours, from Caracas (Venezuela) 7 hours, from Bogotá (Colombia) 5 hours, from Quito (Ecuador) 6 hours, from the City of Mexico (Mexico) 8 hours.

There are also various daily flights connecting Miami, Florida (U.S.A.) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) and flying time is about 8h30.

Ezeiza-Buenos Aires Distance: There is a 30 minute drive from the ìGeneral Pistarini Ezeiza International Airport to the City of Buenos Aires and the following transportation means are provided:

a) Usually airlines provide a bus service for their passengers free of charge; it may be delayed because it is necessary to wait for all passengers to pick up their baggage. Passengers arrive at the airlineís headquarters and buses may make stops on the way, upon request.

b)A second alternative would be to request the services of a cab. In this case, there are two possibilities:

Once they have left the Migrations Office, arriving passengers see an office of the ìManuel Tienda Leon company, where they can hire a cab; maximum delay is 10 minutes. Their baggage is carried from this office to the cab and the cost of such service from Ezeiza to the heart of Buenos Aires is U.S.$ 35-45.

There are other cab services that do not have an office at the airport and the drivers invite passengers to hire them as soon as they leave the Migrations Office door; you have to negotiate prices with them and, if you come to an agreement, they will carry your baggage to the car. These cabs are slightly cheaper than the others and charge U.S.$ 30-40.

These costs include the turnpike toll but sometimes cab drivers request passengers to pay it. Therefore, it is convenient to tell cab drivers that you will not be paying the toll before you start the trip.

Ezeiza-City of La Plata Distance: The only direct transportation option is by hiring a cab. It is a 1h05-1h15 drive and the cab services are in the order of U.S.$ 60-75. It is necessary to tell the driver that he has to go by the road leading to Monte Grande or, otherwise, by Camino Negro or Camino de Cintura, through Bridge 12.

There is also an alternative to reach La Plata by train or bus. In this case, passengers should move to the City of Buenos Aires and take any of the transportation means that are mentioned below, in the ìBuenos Aires-La Plata Transportation section.

Hotel Reservations

August is a very special month in Argentina. It is the beginning of the second university semester, after the Winter holidays, and many national and international congresses and seminars are held at this time of the year. Consequently, hotel reservations by March or Aprilí 97 are advisable. Participants will have the option to stay in the City of Buenos Aires or in the City of La Plata.

The following is a list of suggested hotels in both cities, including prices and hotel reservation phone and fax numbers:

Buenos Aires

Interested parties should contact the aforementioned five-star hotels directly, stating that they will be participating at the Eighteenth World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, sixty (60) days before the Congress opening date, to the following phone or fax numbers:

CAESAR PARK HOTEL Phone (54) (1) 819-1100 Fax (54) (1) 819-1121

HYATT PARK HOTEL Phone (54) (1) 326-1234 Fax (54) (1) 326-3736

Should you decide to make a reservation in any other hotel in Buenos Aires, please contact the Congressí Travel Agent in Buenos Aires, Hispanya Viajes S.R.L., San José 21, (1076) Buenos Aires, Argentina - Phone and fax: (54) (1) 348-8011

La Plata

For La Plata hotel reservations, contact the headquarters of Asociación Argentina de Filosofía del Derecho, La Plata.

Buenos Aires-La Plata Transportation

As the Congress will have two venues - La Plata and Buenos Aires, many participants will probably stay either in Buenos Aires or La Plata. For their transportation, a daily free bus service will be leaving the School of Law and Social Sciences of La Plata (48th between 6th and 7th streets) at 8.15 A.M. and returning to La Plata, from the School of Law of Buenos Aires, at 8.30 P.M. and another free bus service will be leaving the School of Law of Buenos Aires at 8.30 A.M. and returning from the School of Law and Social Sciences of La Plata (48th between 6th and 7th streets) at 8.15 P.M.

Those willing to travel by themselves, will have the following alternatives:

a) Regular Bus Lines

Expreso Río de la Plata: Bus arrivals and departures at La Plata Terminal Station, located at 4th street between 41st and 43rd; in Buenos Aires: i) Retiro Station (Plaza de los Ingleses) (1 hour from and to La Plata), ii) Constitución Station (1h10 from and to La Plata), iii) 9 de Julio Ave. in the intersection of Corrientes, Córdoba and Santa Fe avenues (1h15-1h25 from and to La Plata) and iv) Plaza Once (1h30 from and to La Plata). Departures every 10-20 minutes from 5 A.M. to 1 P.M.

There are two types of buses : non-stop and regular buses, with intermediate stops. The above traveling times are referred to non-stop buses.

The closest destination to the Congress venue in Buenos Aires is Retiro Station, only 15 minutes walk from the School of Law.

Costera Criolla: It is the second bus company connecting La Plata with Retiro Station in Buenos Aires. Non stop or charter buses and regular buses depart every 40 minutes or 1 hour, from 5 A.M. to 1 P.M. The trip takes 1-1h10. Arrivals and departures at La Plata Terminal Station and inside the Bus Terminal Station (Retiro Station, Buenos Aires).

One-way tickets are U.S.$ 4.00 and round tickets U.S.$ 8.00. The cost of the bus to and from the Congress seats - U.S.$ 1.00 each way - should also be considered. Participants may also travel from the Bus Station in Buenos Aires and La Plata to the Congress venues by cab - considering two trips per day the cost would be U.S.$ 5.00.

b)Trains

The General Roca Railway runs regularly from La Plata to Buenos Aires and vice versa, with departures every twenty minutes. Departures and arrivals at La Plataís railway station, 1st and 44th streets, and in Buenos Aires, at Constitución Station. Traveling time is 1-1h10. The cost of a round trip is U.S.$ 3.50 and one-way tickets are U.S.$ 2.00 each.

The Constitución Station is 30 minutes away, by bus, from the Congress venue in Buenos Aires, and the daily cost for two trips is U.S.$ 3.00. Cabs take 20 minutes to reach the Congress venue and one-way fare is in the order of U.S.$ 6.00. From suggested hotels to Constitución Station there is another alternative - the subway, only 10 minutes ride, and the cost of a one-way token is U.S.$ 1.00.

c)Private and Public Cabs and Mini-Buses

Private and public cabs are available. The cost of a one-way trip is in the order of U.S.$. 40-45. Waiting time is charged U.S.$ 5.00 per hour. Consequently, the cost of hiring a cab per day would be about U.S.$ 100.00.

Mini-buses are an interesting alternative. They have a maximum capacity for 8 passengers and daily cost of a round trip is in the order of U.S.$ 90.00.

Social Events

The organizers are planning various social events to encourage relations between the participants in a pleasant atmosphere and accompanying persons are cordially invited to participate:

a) The Welcome Dinner to be held on Sunday August 10 at 9.00 P.M.

b)The Asado Criollo Argentine barbecue party, where besides enjoying the exquisite Argentine traditional barbecue, participants will have the chance to visit a Pampean ìestancia, a beautiful XIX century cattle-ranch. It will be a full-day tour, on August 13. The trip to the cattle-ranch will be 1h30 from Buenos Aires or La Plata.

c)The Farewell Dinner will be held on Saturday August 16 at 9.00 P.M..

d)A Buenos Aires night-tour (August 12, as from 8.30 P.M.) and tours in the city of La Plata will be organized, to visit the most attractive spots.

Tourist Information

Post-Congress Tours: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are very attractive destinations for post-Congress tours. In Argentina, we suggest the following tours that take 2, 3, 4 or 7 days:

a) Iguazú Falls

b) Argentine North-East Region

c) Mendoza and Santiago de Chile

d) Bariloche and San Martín de los Andes

e) Valdés Peninsula

f) Calafate, ìPerito Moreno glacier

g) Ushuaia

National tours, if combined with the purchase of the international ticket to Argentina, will have special rates including destinations within Argentina.

Airline Rates: Ticket rates from U.S.A. or Europe may be surprising due to the fact that, depending on the time of the year, it may be cheaper to buy tickets in Argentina or abroad. For comparison purposes, we list IBERIAís rates for international flights from the places of origin to Buenos Aires, if tickets are bought in Argentina:

Frankfurt (U.S.$ 1,198), Berlin (U.S.$ 1,191), Hamburg (U.S.$ 1,191), Düsseldorf (U.S.$ 1,193), Madrid (U.S.$ 1,235), Paris (U.S.$ 1,193), London (U.S.$ 1,260), Geneva (U.S.$ 1,141), Milan (U.S.$ 1,206), Rome (U.S.$ 1,205), Zurich (U.S.$ 1,417), Amsterdam (U.S.$ 1,505), Brussels (U.S.$ 1,566), Vienna (U.S.$ 1,718). These rates include taxes in the country of origin, taxes at Ezeiza airport and cost of transport.

Iberia is the company that has been awarded the privatization contract for ìAerolíneas Argentinas, the Argentine state-airline.

For post-congress tours or any other clarification concerning international ticket rates and the possibility to combine them with domestic flights, we suggest that you contact the travel agent Hyspania Viajes S.R.L., San José 21, (1076) Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fax and phone number: (54) (1) 384-8011.

Argentine Currency

The legal tender in Argentina is the Peso. One Argentine Peso ($ 1.00) is equivalent to one U.S. Dollar (U.S.$ 1.00). In Argentina, there is a peso-dollar convertibility and you may use any of them indistinctly. Most stores, restaurants and hotels accept payment in U.S. dollars.

During the last four years, the Argentine currency has been very stable with reference to the U.S. dollar and no changes were recorded. As regards foreign exchange, dollars are easily exchanged for pesos at hotels. However, banks offer a better rate of exchange for all foreign currencies.

Please find here below a copy of the Congress Registration Form.

Registration Form

Last Name: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

First Name: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Degree (Prof., Dr., Mr., Mrs., Ms):____________________________________Sex (F/M):____________________________

Institutional Affiliation: _________________________________________________________________________________

Mailing Address (Include Post Code): ______________________________________________________________________

Country: _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Telephone: _______________ Fax: _______________E-mail: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Names of Accompanying Persons: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Topic/title for a possible paper to be submitted____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Specify whether you will be attending the following social events:

I. Welcome Party Yes ..... No....

II. Asado Criollo at an Estancia Yes..... No....

III. Farewell Party Yes... No....

IV. Buenos Aires city-tour (August 12) Yes ..... No....

V. Tours in La Plata Yes ..... No....

Please confirm whether you prefer accommodation in

Buenos Aires ......

La Plata ......

I enclose herewith a money order for the amount

of ____________________________________________United States dollars, payable at bank _________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________of the city of La Plata.

I would like to make a reservation for ____single/double rooms at hotel __________________from ___/08/97 to ___/08/97.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS OF NOMINEES FOR THE NEXT IVR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Pursuant to sec. 10 of the new IVR Statute, the election of the next IVR Executive Committee in New York 1999 has to be prepared by a Nomination Committee. This Committee will be constituted at the La Plata Congress in 1997.

As provided by sec. 10 of the new IVR Statute, the Nomination Committee includes the following voting members:

a) the present members of the Executive Committee of the IVR (§ 8, Sec. 1 (a) to (e);

b) one representative of each National Section not represented by any committee member through (a.) above;

c) one representative of the members of the IVR who are not members of any National Section.

Each National Section as well as each member of the IVR is herewith requested to propose Nominees for the next Executive Committee. Proposals should include a brief curriculum vitae and reasons for the nomination of the person (e.g. important publications, merits for the IVR). They should be submitted to the President of the IVR at the following address by May 31, 1997: Prof. Enrico Pattaro, IVR President, c/o CIRFID, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Via Zamboni, 27/29, I-40126 Bologna, Italy.

The proposals of Nominees will be discussed by the Nomination Committee in Buenos Aires.

IVR PRIZE 1997

Before the 18th IVR World Congress a panel of referees appointed by the Executive Committee of the IVR in conjunction with the Editorial Board of the ARSP will meet to examine the papers received for the IVR Young Scholarsí Prize 1997. The prize winner will be awarded DM 2,000 and be given the opportunity to deliver a special ìIVR Prize Lecture at the La Plata/Buenos Aires World Congress of the IVR. His/Her paper will be published in the ARSP. The panel of referees can recommend other submitted papers for publication in the Congress Proceedings or in the ARSP.

The papers submitted are the following: Fernando Atria, Games and the Law: Two Models of Institution; Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Boundaries of Freedom of Expression before and after Prime Minister Rabinís Assasination; Maria Teresa Duque Orrego, Human Rights. From Universality to Cultural Relativism; Kay Goodall, Empirical Legal Theory and Its Implications for Modern Philosophical Theories of the Legal System; Peter Hartmann, Legal Problems of Artificial Intelligence; Nils Jansen, The Validity of Public Morality; Georgios Pavlakos, Persons and Norms: On the Normative Groundwork of Discourse-Ethics; Bernhard Schmid, Philosophy of Human Rights as ìGrundnormbegründung; Hege Stück, Subsumption and Weighing.

19th IVR WORLD CONGRESS (NEW YORK, USA, JUNE 25-30, 1999)

First Announcement

The Organizing Commitee of IVR-99 is pleased to announce that plans are well advanced for the 1999 World Congress that is to be held in New York City from the 25th to the 30th of June, 1999 at the campus of Pace University in lower Manhattan.

The theme of the Congress: The Transformation of Legal Systems and Economies in an Age of Regional and Global Interdependence.

The program tentatively includes the following sub-topics: 1.The Impact of Scientific Discovery and Technological Advances on Economic and Legal Institutions. 2. Multicultural Perspectives on Legal Reasoning, Epistemology, and Moral and Legal Norms. 3. The Transformation of Fundamental Legal Concepts: Sovereignty, Property, Personal and National Security, the Laws of War and Peace. 4. New Regional and International Alliances, the Amalgamation and Dissolution of Empires: Social, Economic, and Legal Implications. 5. International Business, Finance, and Industry: Evolving Concepts of Business Ethics and Law. 6. Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Liberal Democracy: Freedom of Speech, the Press, Assembly, and Religion, and Evolving Concepts of Due Process and Equal Protection of the Laws. 7. The World of Nature and Natural Resources: Evolving National and International Norms. 8. Juridical Models: Old and New Constitutions and Political Systems. 9. Human Population Movements: National Borders, Asylum, Refuge, and Citizenship. 10. The Impact of Customary and Religious Law. 11. The Rights of Women, Indigenous Peoples, Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities. 12. Human Rights: Individual Liberty and Government Authority; the Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights of Groups. Some of these topics will be the focus of plenary and parallel sessions.

The Program Committee invites members of the IVR and its constituent organizations to submit nominations of persons they believe should be invited to speak at plenary and parallel sessions. Such nominations should be submitted as soon as possible to the Program Committee at this address: IVR-99, 105 Dow Hall, Pace University, Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510, USA.

Phone: (914) 923-2637; Fax: (914) 923-2676; E-Mail: leiser@pacevm.dac.pace.edu

If you would like to be on the mailing list for future announcements and other correspondence, please send your name and address to the same office.

Burton M. Leiser, Chairman

IVR-99 Organizing Committee

20th IVR WORLD CONGRESS (AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, JUNE 20-24, 2001)

The 20th IVR World Congress is to be held in Amsterdam in 2001, and its topic is ìPluralism and Law. Some subthemes. (1) Justice: Human rights, Universal and local justice, Collective and minority rights, Globalizing the welfare state and pluralism; (2) The State: State, nation and world, Federalism, Relationship between international law and national law; (3) Global problems: Migration (political, economic), Development law and plurality of cultures; (4) Legal reasoning: Universal and particular aspects of legal reasoning, Legal reasoning and plurality of values, Legal expert systems.

Some organizing details. Congress Venue. Amsterdam, Free University, Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 June, 2001. Daily programme. Estimated number of participants: 600. Speakers. 12 speakers for plenary sessions; 12 speakers for semi-plenary sessions. Workshops. Number: 432 (3 papers p/hour; 12 parallel-sessions; 3 hours a day; 4 days). Schedule: 9-11: plenary sessions (2 speakers); 11.30-12.30: workshops; 13.30-14.30: semi-plenary sessions (3 speakers); 14.30-16.30: workshops; 17.00-18.00: plenary session (1 speaker); Congress Dinner: Saturday; Excursions: Sunday. Organisation Committee: Arend Soeteman (President of the Committee), Ton Hol (President of the Dutch section), Roel de Lange, Cees Maris, Theo Rosier. Address: A. Soeteman, Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, tel: +31-20-4446252, fax: +31-20-4446210, E-mail: A.Soeteman@Rechten.VU.NL

PROCEEDINGS OF 17th IVR WORLD CONGRESS (BOLOGNA, JUNE 16-21, 1995)

The following are the provisional indices of papers to be published in the Proceedings of 17th IVR World Congress held in Bologna, June 16-21, 1995. The publication of all volumes is scheduled in the course of 1997.

ARSP - vol. I: RIGHTS

(edited by Rex Martin and Gerhard Sprenger)

A.Rights in General.

Kenneth Campbell, The Variety of Rights

Jan R. Sieckmann, Basic Rights in the Model of Principles

Ulrich Penski, Partikularität des Rechts und Universalisierung von Rechten

Ghita Holmström-Hintikka, Rights and Responsibilities

Carol C. Gould, Group Rights and Social Ontology

Marijanne Pavcnik, Abuse of a Right

Hiroshi Matsuo, Historical and Theoretical Intimacy Between the Concepts of Rights and Property

B. Human Rights

Robert Alexy, Discourse Theory and Human Rights

Caridad Velarde Queipo de Llano, Universalism of Human Rights. The Case of Dworkin and his Critics

Mariachiara Tallacchini, Human Right to the Environment or Rights of Nature?

Donald Galloway, Constitutions, Civil Rights and Outsiders

C. Various Rights.

Juan Ignacio Ugartemendia and Joxerramon Bengoetxea, A Right to Disobey

Thomas D. Campbell, Communication Rights: Defaming Free Speech

Roger A. Shiner and Matthew Stephens, Advertising, Free Expression, and Public Goods

Emilios A. Christodoulidis, What Re-discovery of the polis?

William L. McBride, The Rights of 'Aliens' and of Other Others

Lukas H. Meyer, Can Actual Future People Have a Right to Non-Existence?

Hendrik Ph. Visser't Hooft, On Justice Between Generation Within the Environmental Context

Wieslaw Lang, The Concepts of Rights and the Rights of the Unborn

Beatriz S. Tomás Mallén, Belonging to a Sect as a Possible Limit to the Right of Choosing the Education of One's Children

Michael Corrado, Self-Defense, Punishment, and the State's Right to Detain

Philippe Brachet, Les Droits et Obligations des Usagers des Services Publics en France

ARSP - vol. II: LAW, JUSTICE AND CULTURE

(edited by André-Jean Arnaud and Peter Koller)

A: Law and Morality

Aulis Aarnio, Aleksander Peczenik, On Values. Universal or Relative?

David B Boersema, Rights and Moral Compromise

Albert W. Musschenga, Moral Conflicts and Two Levels of Incommensurability

Guido Pincione, On the Relative Stringency of Negative and Positive Moral Duties

Wade L. Robison, Hard Cases and Natural Law

Ching-Lai Sheng, Law and Morality- Their Main Differences and Degeneration

Annalisa Verza, Law, Morality and Tolerance: Hart and After

Raymond Wacks, Law's Empire: Judges, Truth, and Moral Accountability

D.A. Wood, The Moral and Power Dimensions of Law

B: Justice

Kenneth L. Avio, Discourse Ethics, Constitutional Contract and the Problem of Implementation: Application to Aboriginal Rights

Agnes Heller, The Complexity of Justice (A Challenge to the 21st Century)

Pekka Riekkinen, The Power of the Supreme Court and the Death Sentence: "The Mystical Foundation of the Authority"

C: Culture

Fernando Galindo, Cultural Environment and the Concept of Law

Marjaana Kopperi, Social Fragmentation and Political Culture

Haraldur Ólafsson, Anthropology and the Possibility of Productive Social Dialogue

Paul van Aerschot, Juridification from the Point of View of Modernisation

ARSP - vol. IV: LEGAL SYSTEMS AND LEGAL SCIENCE

(edited by Marijanne Pavcnik and Gianfrancesco Zanetti)

Hendrik Ph. Visserít Hooft, Introduction

A: Legal Positivism and Natural Law

Vittorio Villa, A Definition of Legal Positivism

Dimitar Radev, Das Natürliche und das Positive Recht

Machiel Karskens, Law and Ground

Joaquín R.-Toubes Muniz, Is Soft Positivism a Positivism?

Adejare Oladosu, Normative Positivism and Its Modern Critics

B: Some Examples of Different Theories

Wang Zhiyong, Le Positivisme Juridique dans la Chine Ancienne

Mario Luberto, Rationalistic Doctrine of Natural Law in Protestant Reform: the Thought of Philip Melanchton

Ian Stewart, Positivist Iusnaturalism in Spencerís Social Darwinism

Cristopher Berry Gray, Legal Formalism and Metaphysical Form

C: State, Law and Political System

Giorgio Bongiovanni, Rechtstaat and Grundnorm in the Kelsenian Theory

John P. McCormick, The Dilemma of Dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and Constitutional Emergency Powers

William E. Scheuerman, The Unholy Alliance of Carl Schmitt and Friedrich A. Hayek

Marianne Constable, Beyond Legal Positivism: ìWhere the State ends

D: Social and Legal Science

Kaarlo Tuori, Legal Science as/and Social Science

Olsen A. Ghirardi, Un problema epistemologico: La Distinction entre Derecho y Ciencia del Derecho

Hannu Tolonen, Rechtswissenschaft und rechtliche Theorien: ein Beispiel

Sophie Papaefthymiou, Law, Power and Social Interaction. Toward an Operational Social Theory

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LAW, PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Vol. I: PRACTICAL REASON. HISTORY OF DEONTICS. COMPUTER LAW.

(Edited by A. Artosi, M. Atienza, H. Yoshino)

Introduction by N. MacCormick

A. Practical Reason

C. Alchourrón, On Law and Logic

Edward Blatnik, Nussbaum V. Derrida on Practical Reason

R. A. Guibourg, A Proposal on Action, Freedom and Meaning

Nancy Holland, The Theory/Practice Distinction Shows up in Practice: Some Thoughts on Epistemology and the Law

Friedrich Lachmayer, Norm und Situation

A. L. Nettel, Facts in Science and the Judicial Decision Application

Stavros Panou, Gesellschaftliche Rationalität

B. History of Deontics

C. A. Cabrera, On Contian Deontics

Alberto Artosi, Leibniz on Norms, Action and the Normative Foundation of Law

L. de Caro, Gerhard Ledigís Contribution to Deontics

Rauno Halttunen, Jörgen Jörgensen's Thesis II

A. Rossetti, Performativity in Jean-Louis Gardies

C. Computer Law

G. Finocchiaro, Network Liability in Electronic Operations

H. Gartska, Law and Information in Technology: a Philosophical Problem?

Olivier Hance and Philippe P.J. Meulders, Some Prospects about Self-regulation in the European Electronic Superhighway

R. Lind, K. Sheperd, B. Weiner-Levitt, The Abuse of Computing Facilities and the Problems Posed by Information Highways

Richard C. Turkington, Impact of Digital Technology on Personhood, Autonomy and Privacy Rights

Leo Van Der Wees and Pieter Kleve, Multimedia and Copyright

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LAW, PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Vol. II: LEGAL COMPUTER SCIENCE

(Edited by A. Artosi, M. Atienza, H. Yoshino)

Introduction by N. MacCormick

A. Legal Computer Science

P. Baldini and F. Tura, Legal Drafting and Computer Science

J. P. Ballerini, A. Capelli, M. Palmirani, G. Sartor, F. Vitali, Norma-Data Base: A Relational Data Base for Handling and Consolidating Legal Texts

Paola Benassi, Non-Classical Automated Theorem-Proving for Legal Reasoning

Marta Isabel Blaquier Ascaño, Sgml Applications to Legal Information

D. Bourcier, L'informatisation du droit

R.M. Di Giorgi, B. Inghirami and R. Nannucci, Hypermedia for the Law: New Communication Models

Elio Fameli, Models of ìIntegrated Intelligent Systems for Law

Vittorio Frosini, The Lawyer in Technological Society

Felix Gantner, Formulare und Rechtsinformatik

G. Governatori, Ideality and Subideality from a Computational Point of View

Ulrike Hahn and Carl Vogel, Note on Logicism: Formalization, Computation and Law

Michael Heather and B. Nick Rossiter, Law, Logic and Language in Legal Computer Science

Jorgen Karpf, Italian Law as a Mathematical Category

Dieter Merkl, Erich Schweighofer and Werner Winiwarter, Exploratory Data Analysis as a Means of Structuring Legal Knowledge about Concepts and Documents

Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor, Argumentation Frameworks: The Missing Link between Arguments and Procedure

Daniela Tiscornia, A Methodology for the Representation of Legal Knowledge: Formal Ontology Applied to Law

Hajime Yoshino, The Logical Structure of Legal Meta-Inference

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LAW, PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Vol. III: LAW AND POLITICS BETWEEN NATURE AND HISTORY

(Edited by R. Dreier, C. Faralli, W. S. Nercessiants)

Introduction by R. Vernengo

A. Law and Politics between Nature and History

C. Angarita Baron, Colombia: Comunidades Indigenas y Constitucion de 1991

Luigi Bagolini, David Hume on Legal Obligation and Sanction

G. Barden, Rethorics of Legitimacy

Asmund W. Born, The Catch 22 of Legal Regulation: A Communication Perspective on Law

Norbert Brieskorn, Plato's "Nomoi" - Food for Thought Again? At the Same Time a Look at H.Kelsen's "The Illusion of Justice"

C. Choi, Ancient and New Sources od Law: An East-Asian Perspective

Maria Elósegui, Communitarianism versus Liberalism on Interpreting Rights

Sirkku Hellsten, Political Liberalism: Metaphysics or Rhetoric?

Byron Kaldis, The Relation between Epicurean Physics and Law: A Hegelian Reading

D. R. Lea, The Erosion of the Liberal Identity through Communitarian Critiques

M. Mancini, Sovereignty, Law and Majority: The Contribution by F. P. G. Guizot

R. Martin and S. Griffin, Constitutional Rights and Democracy in the USA

M. P. Mittica, An Unexpected Control of Violence in the Stateless Society Represented in the Homeric Poems

Susumu Morimura, The Lockean Proviso and Libertarianism

A. Renteria Diaz, Judiciary and Society in Mexico

M. Sellers, Republican Legal Systems

Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Misleading Traditions. On Some Misunderstandings about Plato's and Aristotle's Legal Philosophy

B. National Reports

Elspeth Attwooll, The State of Legal Theory Research in the United Kingdom

T. Gizbert Studnicki and K. Pleszka, The Polish Legal Theory- An Attempt of an Overview

U. Neumann, Rechtsphilosophie in Deutschland seit 1945

Kazimierz Opalek, Legal Philosophy in Germany ater the II. World War

Baldassarre Pastore and Giuseppe Zaccaria, Italian Legal Hermeneutics

S. Popescu, Legal Philosophy in Romania: Past and Present

P. Savarese, The Philosophy of Existence and the Law in Italy

Mark Van Hoecke and François Ost, Jurisprudence in Belgium (1968-1993)

Francesco Viola, Italian Natural Law

RECHTSTHEORIE vol. I: RULE OF LAW - POLITICAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS IN TRANSITION

(edited by Werner Krawietz, Enrico Pattaro, Alice Ehr-Soon Tay)

Editorial Preface

Introduction by Ota Weinberger

I. Legal State and Legalism in a Multi-Cultural Society

Joxerramon Bengoetxa, The Withering Away of the State at the Turn of the Millenium

Jørgen Dalberg-Larsen, Legal PluraIism in a Historical Perspective

Charles James Edward, The Future of Rights and Democracy in a Multi-Cultural Society

Aleksander Molnar, Autonomous Regional Law in the Postcommunist State

Henrik Zahle, Legal Polycentricity

Klaus Alexander Ziegert, The Cultural Differentiation of Legal Systems. A Theory Design for the Assessment of Legal Change in Post-Communist Societies

II. Versions of Sovereignty in Modern Legal Systems: New and Old

William E. Conklin, The Secret Foundation of Sovereignty in Legal Positivism

Richard De George, The Many Faces of Sovereignty

Giovanna Gasparri, Vers des Nouvelles Formes de Souveraineté

Jürgen Habermas, The European Nation State - Its Achievements and Its Limitations. On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship

Anton Perenic, Must the Transition Necessarily Be an Uncritical Imitation?

Sybille Tönnies, Der basisdemokratische Diskurs und die Idee der Repräsentation

Michel Troper, Le Titulaire de la Souveraineté

III. Constitutionalism, Legalism and Rule of Law in Transition

Delf Buchwald, The Rule of Law: A Complete and Consistent Set of (Legal) Norms?

Janet M. Campbell, The Rule of Law: A Lesser of Two Evils

Sergio Cotta, Les Droits et l'État de Droit

Adam Czarnota, Meaning of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies

Eerik Lagerspetz, Political Obligation and Constitutional Self-Destruction

IV. On Membership in Legal Communities: Nationality and Citizenship in Decline

Luca Baccelli, Citizenship and Membership

Michele Borri, European Citizenship and National Identities. Some Suggestions from a Comparative Research

David E. Cooper, Citizenship and Postconventional Consciousness

Peter Koller, Immigration and Citizenship. An Outline

Massimo La Torre, Citizenship and Beyond. Remarks on Political Membership and Legal Subjectivity

Anna Makolkin, Blood Icons, Sign of Exclusion and Citizenship Law

Jose Maria Rosales and Jose Rubio Carracedo, To Govern Pluralism: Towards a Concept of Complex Citizenship

V. On Self-Reproduction in Different Legal Orders

Alexander Bröstl, Challenges to the Rechtsstaat - Model in Slovakia

Yasuo Hasebe, The August Revolution Thesis and the Making of the Constitution of Japan

James W. Harris, China, Hong Kong and Divided Sovereignty after 1997

Ivan Padjen, Constitutionalism and Democracy in the International Community: Self:-determination in Former Yugoslavia as a Test

Yanaki Stoilov, Different Aspects and Levels of the Separation of the Powers (Eastern Europe Countries Issues)

Guillermo Jorge Yacobucci, Democratic Legality and Development in Latin America. A Problematic Relationship

Yongliu Zheng, Two Challenges Facing the Chinese Legal System at the End of the Twentieth Century

RECHTSTHEORIE vol. II: CHANGING STRUCTURES IN MODERN LEGAL SYSTEMS AND THE LEGAL STATE IDEOLOGY

(edited by Eugenio Bulygin, Burton M. Leiser, Mark Van Hoecke)

Editorial Preface

Introduction by Aulis Aarnio

I. New Legal Cultures and Normative Structures in a Global Community

Percy Black, Babel of Culture: Challenge to Law in the 1990's and Beyond.

Robert D'Amico, Three Kinds of Argument in Modern Political Philosophy: The Example of Populism

James F. Doyle, Legal Accomodation of Social Diversity

Kevin T. Jackson, Sovereignty, Citizenship and the Global Community: When Domestic Courts Adjudicate International Human Rights

Gerhard Sprenger, Collective Morality and the Legitimation of Law

Antonio Tarantino, Person, Nature of Institution and Sovereignty

II. Rule of Law in National and International Communities

Erwin Bader, Theoretical Problems of Democracy and Law with Austriaís Joining the EU

Uta U. Bindreiter, Motivating the Direct Applicability of Community Law

Anna N. Georgiadou, Nouvelles Formes de la Souvéraineté et l'Union Européenne

Roberta Kevelson, Crises in International Law: Signs and Symptoms

Lech Morawski, The Rule of Law in the Welfare State

Bert van Roermund, Jurisprudential Dilemmas of European Law

III. Law and Economics

Theodore Benditt, Rights: Civil and Economic

Pililippe Gérard, Fairness, Consent and Political Obligation

Peter Lewisch, Doorkeepers of Justice? The Legal Services of Judges and Lawyers in an Economic Perspective

William N. R. Lucy and Catherine Mitchell, The Case for Stewardship - beyond Private Rights

Christian Schmidt, The Distinction between "Public" and "Private". An Economic Perspective

Herbert Wagner, Some Observations on the Relation of Law and Economy

Ross Zucker, Democracy and Economic Justice: Egalitarian Property in a Democratic Order

IV. Community Consensus and Individual Rights

Gustavo Gozzi, Fundamental Rights and Democratic Constitution. Trends in the Contemporary Debate in the FederaI Republic of Germany

Leszek Leszczynski, Social Rights in Central and East European Constitutions: A Problem of Method of Regulation

Bente Puntervold Bø, Law and Asylum. The Use of Legal Means to Limit the Responsibility of the Nation State towards Refugees

Rosemary C. Salomone, Individual Rights, Community Consensus, and National Goals: The Challenge for Education in a Pluralist Society

Roman Andrzej Tokarczyk, The Paradigm of Social Contract

Guodong Xu, Freedom of Emigration and the Gap between Urban and Rural Areas

V. Conformity and Deviance in Legal Behaviour - Legal Change in Criminal Law

Mario Cattaneo, Punishment and Human Rights

Wesley Cragg, Mens Rea and Its Twentieth Century Critics

Patrick. J. Hurley, American Criminal Defense in the Next Millennium

Hendrik Kaptein, Jumping to Conclusions in Criminal Law. Facts, Offenses and the Logic of Loose Ends in Between

Vincent Luizzi, New Technologies, New Punishments, and New Thoughts about Punishment

Lorenz Schulz, Time and Law. How Life-World Acceleration Affects Imputation in Criminal law

Barbara Weiner-Levitt, The Abuse of Computing Facilities and the Problems Posed by Information Highway: Case Studies of Abusers Inside and Outside Academe

RECHTSTHEORIE vol. III: CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNITY IN CONTEMPORARY

LEGAL THEORY

(edited by Eugene E. Dais, Roberta Kevelson, Jan M. Van Dunné)

Editorial Preface

Introduction by Dieter Wyduckel

I. Religious and Secularized Forms of Democratic Communities

Vincente De Paulo Barretto, On Tolerance and the Rule of Law

Yadh Ben Achour, Nature, Raison et Revelation dans la Philosophie du Droit des Auteurs Sunnites

Raimund Jakob, On Everyday Corruption in Politics. Legal-Psychological Considerations Concerning a Problem of Modern Political Culture

Angel Juffras and Oscar Mohl, Democracy versus Theocracy in Israel

Burton M. Leiser, On the Evil Influence Religion Exerts upon the Law, and the Benign of Custom in Talmudic Jurisprudence

José de Sousa e Brito, Ethics, Democratic Reason, and Law

Elizabeth H. Wolgast, Democracy: The Message from Athens

II. Modernity of Legal Post-Modernism

Ana Julia Bozo De Carmona, Postmodernism, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law

Miguel Angel Ciuro Caldani, Iusphilosophical Understanding of Postmodernity

Brendan Joseph Edgeworth, Legal Postmodernization

David Nelken, Postmodernism and Regionalism: The New Frontiers of Law and the Nation-State

Ota Weinberger, Information and Human Liberty

III. Modern Law and Post-Modern Legal Theories

Simona Andrini, Post Modernism and Sociological-Juridical Theories

André-Jean Arnaud, Some Challenges to Law through Post-Modern Thought

Silvana Castignone / Carla Faralli, On Contemporary Normative Legal ReaIism and Philosophy of Law in Italy

Françoise Michaut, Deconstruction and Legal Theory

Alfred Neely, Law and Science of Chaos at the End of the 20th Century and beyond

Mark Parascandola, Singular Probabilistic Causation in the Law.

IV. Genetic Evolution, Bioethics, and the Law

Patrizia Borsellino, La Bioéthique: Un Domaine de Confrontation et d'Opposition entre "Modernité" et "Post-Modernité"

Richard A. L. Gambitta, Genetic Evolution, Technological Advancement, and the Foundation and Fate of the Law

Jakob D, Rentdorff, Legislation, Bioethics, Judgement

François Ost, Law, Technology and the Environment. A Challenge to the Great Dichotomies in Western Rationality

Juha Räikkä, On Global Environmental Ethics. The Uneasy Case for International Preservation of the Rainforest

Michael A. Simon, Law, Technology, and the Environment

Mark Van Hoecke, Men, Nature, and World View

V. Post-Modern Identity and Colonization of the Life-World

Wanda De Lemos Capeller, (Dé)Colonisation Culturelle ou "l'Habitude de Signer tout ce qui Est Étranger": Réflexions sur le Post-Modernisme dans un pays tropical

Miguel Angel Herrera Zgaib, Typologies of Access to Justice in Colombia

Valentin Petev, Shall We Need a New Law for the 21st Century?

Luis Villar Borda, New Regional and Territorial Arrangement Policy in Colombia

VI. On Feminist Jurisprudence in a Postmodern Age

Letizia Gianformaggio, Time and Work - Private and Public

Marjet J. Gunning, In the Right Time: The End of the Woman-Identity in Law or Equality as the Right to Differ

Virginia Held, Feminist Morality and Rights

Barbara Ann Hocking and Alison Smith, Poetic (In)Justice: Women, Relationships, and Nervous Shock Law

Sybil Ann Schwarzenbach, On Civic Friendship

Patricia Smith, Motherhood, Equality, and Legal Change

Alina Zvinkliene, Womenís Rights in the Lithuanian Constitution

IVR WEB PAGE

As already announced in the last issue of the IVR Newsletter, the IVR Web Server and relative IVR Home Page have been set up and are now working at the following Internet address: http://www_ivr.cirfid.unibo.it/ivr/

The first Web section is devoted to setting up a file of all present and future IVR Newsletters to be consulted on line. From now on‚ the newsletters will be available not only in the traditional hard copy format, but also as an electronic file. National Sections will be able to access IVR Newsletters on Internet, print them or store them in file format for the most widely used word processing programmes.

The second section of the IVR Web Page lists each IVR National Section and their relative Home Pages.

I have the pleasure of informing members that some National Sections (e.g. Japan and Germany) have already started to update their own Home Pages. All members technically equipped to use Internet (and its own Web page) are warmly invited to supply news and updates, or simply to contact other countries on line.

Let me remind readers that each National Section has been supplied with an electronic mailbox: the respective e-mail addresses have already been sent to the national representatives by post. All National Section e-mail addresses are available on the IVR Web page.

Last but not least, following repeated requests, the instructions on how to update National Section Web Pages published in the last issue of the Newsletter are listed again below for readers' convenience.

A Web page devoted to the IVR has been set up on Internet at the URL: http://www_ivr.cirfid.unibo.it/ivr/

The format of the IVR page is by now identical to the IVR Newsletter hard copy and is therefore divided into two main areas: (a) "IVR News", "IVR Announcements" and "IVR Chronological Summaries and Reminders", (b) "National Sections", divided in alphabetical order into as many Web pages as there are IVR National Sections and containing the three items "News", "Announcements" and "Records" to be run directly by each National Section.

Each National Section will be allotted (i) its own page on Web and (ii) an account, i.e., the possibility of constant access to the server via the network (using the Telnet or ftp protocols) to allow each National Section to set up its own page, update it and transfer the same to the IVR Web server; (iii) an e-mail address. Should the National Section already have its own e-mail address, all messages sent to the new address can be automatically redirected to the existing address on request.

Each National Section shall update its own page as follows: (1) If the national representative is familiar with the HTML programming and network file transfer techniques, he/she shall create three HTML pages in the directory corresponding to his/her country (entitled "news.htm", "annou.htm", "records.htm"), update them as instructed below and transfer the pages to the IVR server. (2) If the national representative is familiar with the HTML language and hence able to set up to pages, but unable to transfer the files via the network, he/she can send the pages to the IVR Web Master either (a) as an attachment to an e-mail message to www-maint@cirfid.unibo.it, or (b) on disk. In either case the Web Master will insert the pages in the network. (3) If the national representative has no access to network technology, he/she can still send the pages to be inserted on a disk in Word or RTF formats.

Please note that the Web Master cannot transcribe hard copy for the Web pages.

National Sections Web page update. On updating the National Sections pages each national representative shall only add information and not cancel data so that the Web Master can make regular two-monthly check on back-up information. When the back-up is completed, each National Section will be informed by e-mail that its information can be updated and the old pages cancelled. This back-up operation will serve to create an electronic IVR file alongside the traditional hard copy file.

Future programmes. The IVR Web page will evolve from being a simple framework for the IVR Newsletter into an electronic back-up file of each issue published. In addition, following the suggestions we hope to receive from the various National Sections we will be able to create a myriad of future possibilities offered by the Internet network (discussion lists, useful addresses and links, multimedial fora).

Any comments and/or suggestions on changing the format of the IVR Web page are welcome.

Giovanni Ziccardi

IVR Web Master

SECTION TWO: IVR CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARIES AND REMINDERS

IVR FUTURE EVENTS

REMINDERS

SECTION THREE: NATIONAL SECTIONS NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND RECORDS

We print below the news, announcements and records (including the lists of the members) we received from the National Sections by December 31, 1996. The national sections of IVR are urged to send regular information which should be divided into the three categories "News", "Announcements" and "Records" in line with the format of the IVR Web page.

AMINTAPHIL

Records. Current Officials: President: Diana Tietjens Meyers. Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269-2054-USA, tel: 860-486-3587, fax: 860-486-0387, E-mail: dmeyers@uconnvm.uconn.edu . Executive Director: Robert Moffat. Law School, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611-7625-USA, tel: 352-392-2245, fax: 352-392-3005, E-mail: moffat@law.ufl.edu

Members of the national section: Jacob Adler, Lawrence Alexander, Eric Anderson, Sidney Axinn, Randy E. Barnett, Margaret P. Battin, Raymond A. Belliotti, Theodore Benditt, Edward Blatnik, David B. Boersema, George G. Brenkert, John Brigham, Denis J. Brion, Joan C. Callahan, Robert Paul Churchill, David Copp, Michael L. Corrado, Wesley Cragg, Ann Cudd, Randall R. Curren, John R. Danley, Kendall D'Andrade, Richard DeGeorge, Thomas Donaldson, David Duquette, Gerald Dworkin, Abraham Edel, William Edmundson, Joseph S. Ellin, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Leslie P. Francis, R. G. Frey, Marilyn Friedman, Alan E. Fuchs, John H. Garvey, Sidney Gendin, Rolf George, Emily R. Gill, Martin Golding, Carol C. Gould, Christopher Gray, Leslie Green, Benjamin Gregg, Stephen M. Griffin, William S. Hamrick, H. Hamner Hill, David A Hoekema, Laurence D. Houlgate, Fumihiko Ishiyama, Bernard E. Jacob, Andrew Janiak, Deborah Johnson, David Kahane, Johann Klassen, Sherryl Kuhlman, Hugh LaFollette, Bruce M. Landesmann, Steven Lee, Win-Chiat Lee, Burton M. Leiser, Barbara Baum Levenbook, Douglas Lind, J. Ralph Lindgren, Loren E. Lomasky, Neil R. Luebke, Vincent Luizzi, Alistair M. Macleod, Robin Paul Malloy, Rex Martin, Larry May, William L. McBride, Michael McDonald, Joan McGregor, Diana Tietjens Meyers, Robert C.L. Moffat, Jan Narveson, Bill Nelson, Joel Newman, Jim Nickel, Richard Nunan, John B. Oakley, Hans F. Oberdiek, Andrew Oldenquist, Daniel R. Ortiz, Eric W. Orts, Guang Wei Ouyang, Richard Parker, Lucinda Joy Peach, Raymond Pfeiffer, Jerry Postema, Betsy Postow, Walter Probert, Laura M. Purdy, George Rainbolt, Noel B. Reynolds, Rodney C. Roberts, Michael Robins, Wade Robison, John P. Rooney, John T. Sanders, Lyman Tower Sargent, Mary L. Shanley, Frederick Schauer, Mark Sheldon, Roger Shiner, Michael Arthur Simon, Thomas W. Simon, Patricia Smith, James Sterba, Robert A. Strikwerda, Alan Strudler, L. Wayne Sumner, Nicolaus Tideman, Robert N. Van Wyk, Sheldon Wein, Carl Wellman, Patricia H. Werhane, Stephen W. White, Elizabeth H. Wolgast, Arnulf Zweig.

BRAZIL

Records. Current Officials. President: Miguel Reale. Av. 9 de Julho, 3. 147 - 6. andar, 01407-000 - São Paulo - SP - Brasil, fax: (005511) 885-9397. Secretary: Tércio Sampaio Ferraz Júnior. Rua Armando Penteado, 304. 01242-010 - São Paulo - SP - Brasil, fax: (005511) 825-8695. Treasurer: Celso Lafer. Rua Santa Isabel, 160 - c/23, 01221-010 - São Paulo - SP - Brasil, fax: (005511) 825-8695.

Members of the national section. João Mauricio Adeodato, Vincente Barreto, Alaor Caffé Alves, José Eduardo Campos de Oliveira Faria, Vamireh Chacon, Renato Cirel Czerna, Luiz Fernando Coelho, Paulo Condorcet, Goffredo da Silva Telles Júnior, Cláudio de Cicco, Paulo de Freitas Mercadante, Paulo Dourado de Guzmão, Tarcício de Miranda Burity, Evaristo de Moraes Filho, Luis Tinto Ferreira, Celso Lafer, Luis Luisi, Silvio Macedo, A. Machado Pauperio, André Franco Montoro, Paulo Nader, Marcelo Neves, Miguel Reale, Nelson Saldanha, Joaquim Carlos Salgado, Têrcio Sanpaio Ferraz Jr., Claudio Souto, Gláucio Veiga, Lourival Vilanova, Luis Alberto Warat.

BULGARIA

Records. Current Officials. President: Neno Nenovsky. Insitut du Droit, 4, rue Serdica, 1000 - Sofia, Bulgarie. Vice-President: Gueorgui Boytchev. Secretary: Daniel Valtchev. Université de Sofia "S. Climent d'Ohrid", 15, blv. "Tsar Osvoboditel", 1000 - Sofia, Bulgarie, tel: +359 281 5577, fax: +359 2 81 38 81. Treasurer: Valentin Gueorguiev.

Members of the national section: Gueorgui Boytchev, Michail Guenovsky, Valentin Gueorguiev, Michailina Michailova, Dimitrina Milkova, Neno Nenovski, Dimitar Radev, Ianaki Stoilov, Rossen Tachev, Evgueni Tantchev, Lubka Tsenova, Daniel Valtchev, Vladimir Zaharov.

CANADA

News. The IVR Canadian section 1996 meeting took place as planned at Brock University in conjunction with the Learned Societies meetings last spring. Well over 20 people participated. The sessions were lively and productive.

Announcements.The next annual meeting will be held in St. Johns in connection with the Learneds in 1997. Information about those meetings will circulated by Michael Milde as his first act as a Executive Director.

Records. Current Officials. President: Brenda M. Baker. Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, 2500 University dr. n.w., t2n 1n4 Calgary, Alberta- Canada, tel: (403) 220-5532, fax: (403) 289-5698, e-mail: bmbaker@acs.ucalgary.ca. Vice President Sheldon Wein. Executive Director and Treasurer: Michael Milde. Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada n6a 3k7, tel. (519) 679-2111, ext. 5375, fax: 519-661-3922, e-mail: mmilde@julian.uwo.ca.

Members of the national section: Páll S. Ardal, J.B. Ayoub, Kenneth L. Avio, G. Blaine Baker, Brenda Baker, Richard W. Bauman, Anne Bayefsky, Marie-France Bich, J.E. Bickenbach, William W. Black, Elisabeth Boetzkes, Samantha Brennan, Nathan Brett, Charles Blattberg, Richard Bronaugh, D.G. Brown, Alan Brudner, Steven. A.M. Burns, Lorenne M.G. Clark, Judge Maxwell Cohen, William E. Conklin, David Copp, Pierre-André Coté, Tony Couture, Wesley Cragg, Keith Culver, Eugene E. Dais, Edith Deleury, Wendy Donner, Ralf Dreier, Alan R. Drengson, David Dyzenhaus, Joseph S. Ellin, Bruce P. Feldthusen, P. Fitzgerald, Richard Gervais, Patrick H. Glenn, Marc Gold, Andre Gombay, Christopher B. Gray, Mane Hajdin, Michael Hartney, William Harvey, Lawrence Haworth, Barry Hoffmaster, William Hughes, Jack Iwanicki, Cornelius Kampe, Patricia Kazan, Dennis Klimchuk, Robert A. Kominar, Guy Lafrance, Fred A. Laux, Georges A. LeBel, Danièle Letocha, Ann Levey, John U. Lewis, Peter Loptson, Jim MacAdam, R.A. MacDonald, Alistair MacLeod, Donald MacNiven, Randal Marlin, Michael MacDonald, D. Jeff McLaughlin, Bjarne Melkevik, Michael Milde, André Mineau, Robert Moffat, J. W. Mohr, Jan Narveson, Eugene O'Sullivan, Guang Wei Ouyang, Henri Pallard, Raymond Pfeiffer, Adrian Popovici, Dominique Rondi, Lyman Tower Sargent, Stephen Sharzer, Roger A. Shiner, Brian Slattery, G.A. Smith, J.C. Smith, John T. Stevenson, Carole Stewart, L. Wayne Sumner, William Sweet, Claude Thomasset, Mark Thornton, Elizabeth Trott, Catherine Valcke, Paul Viminitz, Wilfrid J. Waluchow, Dorothy Wayand, Sheldon Wein, Alex Wellington, Sheldon Wein, John D. Whyte, Ian Winchester.

CHILE

News: 1996, September 27, Symposium about Pure Theory of Law and presentation of the book Studies about Kelsen, Edeval: Valparaiso, edited by Claudio Oliva. IVR National Sections can apply for a copy of this book to Agustin Squella, Casilla 123-V, Valparaiso, Chile.

1996, December, presentation of the Anuario de Filosofia Juridica y Social, n°13, edited by Chile National Section of IVR. IVR National Sections could ask of this volume to A. Squella, Casilla 123-V, Valparaiso, Chile.

Records. Current Officials. President: Agustin Squella Narducci, Errazuriz 2190, Valparaiso, tel. 250792. Vice-President: Antonio Bascuñan Valdes, Moneda 920 piso 6, Oficina 602, Santiago, tel. 698 2121. General Secretary: Nelson Reyes Soto, Av. Brasil 2950, Valparaiso, tel. 252193. Treasurer: Aldo Valle Acevedo, Bellavista 168 piso 18, Edificio Centenario, Valparaiso, tel. 212187.

Members of the national section: Jorge Acevedo Guerra, Enrique Aimone, Miguel Amunategui, Alvaro Anriquez, Pedro Ballacey, Enrique Barros, Antonio Bascuñan Valdes, Susana Bonta, Bernardino Bravo, Crisologo Bustos, Ismael Bustos, Patricio Carvajal, Hector Carvallo, Jose Luis Cea, Mario Cerda, Sergio Contardo, Marcelo Contreras, Jorge Correa Sutil, Andres Cuneo, Gabriel Del Favero, Manuel De Rivacoba, Crescente Donoso, Percy Ecclefield, Jesus Escandon, Roberto Escobar, Alfredo Etcheverry, Ricardo Ferrada, Rodolfo Figueroa, Hugo Fruhling, Edmundo Fuenzalida, Pedro Gandolfo, Abel Gonzalez, Felipe Gonzalez, Jose Luis Guzman, Luis Hernandez, Jorge Hubner, Joaquin Garcia Huidobro, Gonzalo Ibañez, Hernan Larrain, Raúl Madrid Ramirez, Manuel Manson, Kurt Mardorff, Carlos Miranda, Marcelo Montero, Eduardo Muñoz, Claudio Oliva E., Maximo Pacheco, Antonio Pedrals, Carlos Peña, Jorge Peña Vial, Luis Lizama Portal, Fernando Quintana Bravo, Nelson Reyes, Pablo Ruiz - Tagle, Jaime Sepulveda, Juan Enrique Serra, Agustín Squella Narducci, Hugo Tagle, Marcelo Toro, Jorge Ugarte, Fernando Valenzuela, Aldo Valle Acevedo, Jose Miguel Vera, Carlos Verdugo, Jaime Williams, Hugo Zepeda.

COLOMBIA

Records. Current Officials. President: Luis Villar Borda. Universidad Externado de Colombia, Calle 12 N° 1-17, este piso 6 bloque A, Bogotá - Colombia. Secretary: Hernán A. Ortíz Rivas. Calle 12 No. 8-11, Piso 2°, Bogotá - Colombia.

Members of the national section: Jose Ignacio Abello, Dario Arizala Posso, Dario Botero Uribe, Jorge Carranza Pino, Rafael Carrillo Luquez, Libardo Fuertes Morales, Numas A. Gil Olivera, Luis F. Gomez Duque, Oscar Julian Guerrero Peralta, Ruben Jaramillo Velez, Hernan A. Ortiz Rivas, De Hernando Plaza, Guillermo Suarez Morines, Richard Tovar, Tomas Vasquez, Luis Villar Borda.

DENMARK

Records. Current Officials: Secretary responsible: Finn Collin. Department of Education, Philosophy and Rhetoric, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, DK 2300 Copenhagen S. Denmark, tel: Int. code +45 35 32 88 69, fax: Int. code +45 35 32 88 50. Treasurer: Jes Bjarup, Juridisk Institut, Afdelingen for Retslære, University of Århus, Jurabygning 340, DK-8000.

Members of the national section: Jes Bjarup, Mogens Blegvad, Peter Blume, Asmund W. Born, Finn Collin, Jørgen Dalberg-Larsen, Inger Dübeck, Hans Fink, Urban Forell, Nicolai Juul Foss, Lis Frost, Peter Germer, Peter Høilund, Henrik Gade Jensen, Stig Jørgensen, Jørgen Karpf, Øjvind Knudsen, Noe Munch, Hanne Petersen, Sverre Raffnsøe, Anette Storgaard, Niels Waage, Per Walsøe, Henrik Zahle, Ulf Østergaard-Nielsen.

FINLAND

News. One of the main events of 1996 was the spring meeting of the Finnish National Section in March when the famous Italian philosopher, professor Gianni Vattimo (Turin), addressed the public with a presentation entitled The Reconstruction of Rationality. Professor Vattimo had attracted a considerable crowd of listeners, and so the meeting also turned out to be a success for the National Section in informing the general public about its activities. Later in June, professor David M. Rasmussen (Boston College, USA) delivered a presentation on current debates about justice entitled Rawls, Habermas and the Idea of Public Reason. In September, researcher Marina Calloni (LSE, UK) presented a feminist critique of Habermas under the title Gender, Justice and Public Sphere.

Most of the resources of the National Section have this year been devoted to two national projects. The University of Helsinki hosts a monthly lecture series entitled The Law of the Philosophers, organised in collaboration with the law students' association and the Institute for Legal Theory. The series is mainly directed for students of law and philosophy as the official quota of the philosophy of law within the curriculum has diminished drastically during the past few decades. With the series, the National Section also wishes to secure its continuity by contributing to the education of a new generation of philosophers of law. This year the individual lectures are devoted to classics: Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Locke, Rousseau, Kant and Hegel.

At the same time, the Finnish National Section and the Faculty of Law at the University of Turku have put together a lecture series entitled "Ius Humanum" the life and work of Otto Brusiin, the "founding father" of Finnish philosophy of law. The lecturers include professor Aulis Aarnio and professor Hannu Tolonen.

Recent and upcoming publications. Aulis Aarnio, Reason and Authority, Dartmouth, 1997. An anthology of Finnish philosophy of law, edited by Aulis Aarnio, Ernesto Garzón Valdés and Jyrki Uusitalo, will be published in Spanish under the title La normatividad del derecho (Gedisa, 1997). Also the Otto Brusiin memorial lectures, including contributions by, e.g., Neil MacCormick and Carl Wellman, will be published by Duncker & Humblot in 1997. The first issue of the review Associations will be out in March 1997.

Announcements. 26-28 September 1997, the Finnish National Section will organise together with the research project Domintern of the University of Turku an interdisciplinary, Nordic symposium in Turku. The symposium is entitled Carl Schmitt- Philosophy, Law, Controversy, and another famous Italian philosopher, professor Giorgio Agamben (Verona), is expected to deliver the key note address. Scandinavian colleagues wishing for more details should communicate with the secretary of the Finnish National Section.

Records. Current Officials. President: Kevät Nousiainen. Faculty of Law, P. O. Box 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, tel: +358 0 19122684, fax: +358 0 19123108, E-mail: kevat.nousiainen@helsinki.fi. Vice-President: L. L. Lic. Kimmo Nuotio. Faculty of Law, P.O. Box 4 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, tel: +358 0 19122654, fax: +358 0 19123090, E-mail: kimmo.nuotio@helsinki.fi. Secretary: Panu Minkkinen. Faculty of Law, P.O. Box 4 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, tel: +358 (9)0 19122442, fax: +358 (9)0 19123090, E-mail: ivr-sofy@helsinki.fi

Members of the national section: Aulis Aarnio, Mika Ainola, Kristina Andström, Eero Backman, Johan Bärlund, Aaron Bell, Niklas Bruun, Lars D. Eriksson, Dan Frände, Juha-Matti Haarti, Juha Häyhä, Markku Helin, Sirkku Hellsten, Ari Hirvonen, Samuli Hurri, Niilo Jääskinen, Johanna Jauho, Marjatta Juntura, Antero Jyränki, Urpo Kangas, Jukka Kekkonen, L.L.Lic. Kimmo Nuotio, Hannu Kiuru, Antti Kivivuori, Timo Korpiola , Martti Koskenniemi, Pekka Koskinen, Pirkko K. Koskinen, Rolf Koskinen, Jukka Kultalahti, Seppo Laasko, Eerik Lagerspetz, Raimo Lahti, Pia Letto-Vanamo, Olli Mäenpää, Martti Majanen, Heikki Mattila, Panu Minkkinen, Gustav Möller, Teuvo Muttilainen, Liisa Nieminen, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Kevät Nousiainen, Pekka Nyholm, Olof Olsson, Päivi Paasto, Väinö Partanen, Tarja Pellinen, Juhani Pietarinen, Juha Pöyhönen, Juha Räikkä, Juha-Pekka Rentto, Kirsti Rissanen, Raimo Siltala, Martti Simola, Kauko Sipponen, Matti Suontausta, Outi Suviranta, Tapio Takki, Jyrki Tala, Kari S. Tikka, Hannu Tolonen, Jarkko Tontti, Patrik Törnudd, Kaarlo Tuori, Terttu Utriainen, Jyrki Uusitalo, Liisa Uusitalo, Paul Van Aerschot, Marcus Walhberg, Antti-Juhani Wihuri, Kauko Wikström, Thomas Wilhelmsson, Juhani Wirilander, Simo Zitting.

GERMANY

News. Recent Publications: A. Kaufmann, Recht, Person, Gerechtigkeit (Originalausgabe in japanischer Sprache), Kyoto: Showado-Verlag, 1996; K. A. Schachtschneider, Res publica res populi. Grundlegung einer Allgemeinen Republiklehre, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1995; W. Schweidler, Geistesmacht und Menschenrecht, Freiburg/Munchen: Alber, 1994; C. Vulpius, Gustav Radbruch in Oxford. Zur Aufarbeitung eines Kapitels länderübergreifender Rechtsphilosophie, Heidelberg: C.F. Muller, 1995.

Announcements. The General Assembly in Jena, 28.9.1996, decided that the next IVR conference of the German IVR section shall take place in Frankfurt/Main 1998.

Records. Current Officials. President: Robert Alexy. Juristisches Seminar der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Olshausenstraße 40-60, D-24118 Kiel, tel: 0431-880 3543, fax: 0431-880 4329. Vice-President and Treasurer: Jan-R. Sieckmann. Juristisches Seminar der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Olshausenstraße 40-60, D-24118 Kiel, tel: 0431-880 3550, fax: 0431-880 4329.

Members of the national section: Hans Albert, Nikitas Aliprantis, Karin Althaus-Grewe, Michael Anderheiden, Kerstin Apel, Ottmar Ballweg, Werner Becker, Frank Benseler, Norbert Bernhardi, Michael Bolowich, Theo Bomm, Annette Brockmöller-Dressel, Winfried Brugger, Delf Buchwald, B. Sharon Byrd, Chang Chih Ming, Yen Chueh-an, Sönke Clausen, Wolfgang Däubler, Gundula Deipenbrock, Erhard Denninger, Otto Depenheuer, Volker Dieckmann, Uwe Diederichsen, Malte Dießelhorst, Franz Dimbeck, Ute Döpfer, Horst Dreier, Ralf Dreier, Ingwer Ebsen, Wolfgang Eichhorn, Horst Eidenmüller, Günther Ellscheid, Josef Esser, Dirk Fabricius, Djavad Falaturi, Urs Fazis, Thomas Fleiner, Paul Flitsch, Horst Folkers, Christian-Holger Folz, Friedrich Fölske, Markus Förster, Günther Frankenberg, Holger Freund, Bruno Baron von Freytag-Löringhoff, Constantin Frick, Monika Frommel, Gerhard Funke, Friedrich Fürstenberg, Andreas Gängel, Heino Garrn, Susanne Gaschke, Hans-Jürgen Gartska, Jürgen Gasper, Wolfgang Gast, Thomas Gawron, Harry J. von Gebhardt, Heinrich Geddert, Georg Geitzhaus, Volker Gerhardt, Ioannis Giannides, Rainer Gollnick, Manfred Grigo, Klaus Grimmer, Rolf Gröschner, Dieter Gunst, Klaus Günther, Thomas Gutmann, Peter Häberle, Agnes E. Hach, Fritjof Haft, Willmar Hager, Hansjochen Hancke, Gerhard Haney, Peter Hartmann, Regina Harzer, Winfried Hassemer, Josef Häußling, Dagmar Heikaus, Karl Eckhard Heinz, Klaus Helberg, Achim Hengsbach, Armin Herb, Manfred Herbert, Felix Herzog, Erk-Volkmar Heyen, Eric Hilgendorf, Manfred O. Hinz, Fritz von Hippel, Hans-Joachim Hirsch, Norbert Hoerster, Hasso Hofmann, Ralf Hohmann, Alexander Hollerbach, Andrea Holtwick-Mainzer, Ulrich Hommes, Andreas Homuth, Werner Hoppe, Dieter Horn, Hans-Rudolf Horn, Norbert Horn, Joachim Hruschka, Heinz Hübner, Stefan Huster, Jan Joerden, Detlef Joseph, Fritz Jost, Stefan Kadelbach, Michael Kahlo, Joseph H. Kaiser, A. Kaissis, Markus Kaltenborn, Arthur Kaufmann, Erhard Kausch, Brigitte Kelker, Christof Kellmann, Jürgen von Kempski, Walter Kerber, Wolfgang Kilian, Young-Whan Kim, Harald Kindermann, Hermann Klenner, Diethelm Klesczewski, Eberhard Klingenberg, Diethelm Klippel, Ulrich Klug, Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Köhler, Klaus König, Pia-Alexandra König, Walter Korn, Andreas Kranig, Werner Krawietz, Martin Kriele, Arno Krüger, Michael Krugmann, Erich Küchenhoff, Kristian Kühl, Georg Küpper, Markus Kuner, Karl Ludwig Kunz, Sören Kusch, Ernst-Joachim Lampe, Peter Landau, Joachim Lege, Guido Leidig, F.-W. Lepiorz, Jens Leuer, K. Liebl, Jutta Limbach, Shing-I Liu, Ulrich Lohmann, Mario Losano, H. Lübbe, Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, Klaus Lüdersen, Andrea Maihofer, Werner Maihofer, Manfred Maiwald, Holger Matt, Ingeborg Maus, Reinhard May, P. C. Mayer-Tasch, Per Mazurek, Etienne-Richard Mbaya, Josef Meran, Reinhard Merkel, Wolfgang Mincke, Ingo Mittenzwei, Martin Morlok, Jörg Paul Müller, Ulfrid Neumann, Erich Neuy, Helmut Nicolaus, Christel Nölle, Harro Otto, Alexander Papshart, Christian Papshart, Stefan Papshart, Fritz Pardon, Michel Paroussis, Frederik Paul, Wolf Paul, Marijan Pavcnik, Hans-Martin Pawlowski, Ulrich Penski, Valentin Petev, Dietmar von der Pfordten, Lothar Philipps, Helmut Pieper, Rosemarie Pohlmann, Christine Pott, Jens-Michael Priester, Wilhelm Prinzing, A. Puplick, Kathrin Quade, Helmut Quaritsch, Helma Quaritsch-Fricke, Eckhard Rabeneik, Thilo Ramm, Filippo Ranieri, Joachim Renzikowski, Bärbel Richter, R. Richer, Gerhard Robbers, Hubert Rodingen, Gerd Roellecke, Klaus-F. Röhl, Peter Römer, Thorolf Rosin, Hubert Rottleuthner, Joachim Rückert, Werner Runge, Helmut Rüßmann, Bernd Rüthers, Frank Saliger, Edin Sarcevic, Martin Sattler, Eike von Savigny, Rolf Schaarschmidt, Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider, Jan Schapp, Michael Schaumburg, Christoph Schefold, Wolfgang Schild, Heiko van Schindel, W. H. Schirmacher, Thomas Schlapp, Christian Schmid, Thomas Schmidt, H. Schneider, Hans-Helmut Schneider, Jochen Schneider, Peter Schneider, Roman Schnur, Erich Schönleben, Heinrich Scholler, Waldemar Schreckenberger, Hans-Ludwig Schreiber, Rupert N. Schreiber, Jan Schröder, Ulrich Schroth, Hans Schulte, Ingo Schultz, Lorenz Schulz, Carola Schulze, Ekkehard Schumann, Bernd Schünemann, Johannes Schwartländer, W. Schwarz-Liebermann, F.-G. Schwegmann, Hans-Peter Schwintowski, Thomas-M. Seibert, W. Seiffert, Jan-Reinard Sieckmann, Angelika Siehr, Spiros Simitis, Norbert Simon, Heinz Sladeczek, Katharina Sobota, Gerhard Sprenger, Christian Starck, Wilhelm Steinmüller, J. Strangas, Günter Stratenwerth, Gerhard Struck, Gerhard Stuby, Hege Stück, Gerald Süchting, Roswitha Svensson, Thilo Tetzlaff, E. J. Thul, W. Tilly, Sibylle Tönnies, Ilse Tönnis, Friedrich Toepel, Harald Topel, Paul Trappe, Hans-Erich Troje, Dimitris Tsatsos, Gerwin Udke, Eva-Maria Viehweg, Rüdiger Voigt, Carola Vulpius, Michael Wätcher, Manfred Walther, Michael Walz, R. Weimar, Ota Weinberger, S. O. Welding, Edgar Michael Wenz, Steffen Wesche, H. Westerath, Christoph Westermann, Wolfgang Westermann, Ellen Westphal, Meinolf Wewel, Harry Willekens, Heiner Wilms, Anette Wittkau, Roland Wittmann, Ernst Amadeus Wolff, Dieter Wyduckel, Zai-Wang Yoon, Hahjime Yoshino, Rainer Zaczyk, Erich Zalten, K. Zwingenberger.

GREECE

News. 9.10.1996. "Round table" topic: What does centre-left mean? (Prof. S. Panou, Prof. G. Bozonis, Prof. N. Breda and Prof. D. Georgiadi). 13-14.11.1996. "Symposium" The Future of Democracy (Prof. N. Konstantinidis, Prof. A. Panagos, Dr. Th. Theodosiou, Prof. G. Gerhard, Prof. S. Panou).

Recent Publications: S. Panou (Ed). Europe Dialogue for Maastricht, Athens 1995, 208 pp. (Texts by K. Simitis, S. Panou, E. Benizelos, A. Tsoukalis, A. Tsochatzopoulos et al.) K. Despotopoulos, Dialectics and History, Athens 1995, 234 pp.; S. Panou, Russia Today. From Gorbatsov to Yeltsin, Athens 1996, 110 pp.; S. Panou,Theorie der Geschichte, Mùnchen 1995, 164 pp.

Records. Current Officials. President: Stavros Panou. The Greek Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), P. Kalliga 21-23, 114 73 Athens-Greece, tel: 0030-1-6423270. Secretary: Nicolas Philippidis. P. Kalliga 21-23, 114 73 Athens-Greece. Treasurer: Eleni Ioannidi. Nikis 3 13484, Athens.

Members of the national section: Petrou Athanasios, George Bozonis, Konstantin Despotopoulos, Panagiotis Dimitriadis, Basilios Gaitanis, Demetrios Georgas, Santas George, Anna N. Georgiadou, Ioannis Giannides, Eleni Ioannidi, Nikolaos Intzessiloglou, Eleni Kakoulidi, Theophilos Karageorgiou, Eleni Karampatzaki-Perdiki, Apostolos Lampropoulos, Christa Manta, Georg Michailidis-Nouaros, Christos Nasofidis, Maria Niavi, Pavlos Nicas, Aristidis Panos, Stavros Panou, Georg Papakostantinou, Nicolas Philippidis, Agelos Photiou, Konstantinos Poulios, Maria Spyridaki, Dimitrios Tsatsos.

HUNGARY

News. Recent Publications: Csaba Varga, Law and Philosophy. Selected Papers in Legal Theory (Budapest; Lorand Eötvös University Faculty of Law Project on Comparative Legal Cultures 1994) xv-530 pp.; Csaba Varga, Etudes en philosophe du droit/Eudios de filosofia del derecho (Budapest: Loránd Eötvös University Faculty of Law Project on Comparative Legal Cultures 194) xii - 332 pp.; Csaba Varga, Rechtsphilosophische Aufsätze (Budapest: Loránd Eötvös University Faculty of Law Project on Comparative Legal Cultures 1994) 29 pp.; Csaba Varga, Pravo:Teoriia i filossofiia (Law: theory and philosophy) (Budapest: Loránd Eötvös University Faculty of Law Project on Comparative Legal Cultures 1994) xv-281 pp.; Csaba Varga, Transition to Rule of Law. On the Democratic Transformation in Hungary (Budapest: Loránd Eötvös University Faculty of Law Project Comparative Legal Culture 1995) 190 pp.; Csaba Varga, ed., Aus dem Nachlass von Julius Moór (Budapest: Lorand Eötvös University Faculty of Law Project on Comparative Legal Culture 1995) xvi + 158 pp.; Csaba Varga, ed., Coming to Terms with the Past under the Rule of Law, The German and thee Czech Models (Budapest 1994) xxvii-176 pp. Available from the Academic Bookshop at thc Central European University (Mr.Tony Lang, Manager), H-lO5l Budapest, Nádor utca 9, tel.(361) 327 30 96, fax (361) 312 12 95, Posatabank Account No. 119 91 102 021 11 924.

Announcements. Tempus Structural Joint European Project No. 09090-95 organizes the first Comparative Legal Cultures Symposium on transition to rule of law. March 17-19, 1997, Budapest VIII Szentkirályi u 28 Festivity Hall.

The debate will focus on main topics to be elaborated within the project, with special regard to transitions to rule of law in Central & Eastern Europe compared with transitions in Western & Southern Europe after WWII (Germany and Italy) and recently (Greece, Portugal, Spain) and democratic transformations in the Far East post-WWII (Japan or recent prospects in Hong Kong), Latin America or elsewhere from the point of view of any new formulation or theoretical message of the study of transitions and transformations, especially related to the domains of 1. Rule of Law (particularly in a transition period), 2. Constitutional Philosophy (Allgemeine Staatslehre) (Particularly of the Central European New Democracies), 3. Legal Borrowing (having in view particularly the experience of Central Europe), 4. Law and Morals and 5. Natural Law (particularly their features in transformation), as well as 6. Legal Anthropology (particularly after and in explanation of transformations). Speakers include Professors Gianmaria Ajani (Trento), Zenon Bankowski (Edinburgh), Johannes Feest (Oñati), John Griffiths (Groningen), Werner Krawietz (Münster), Nikolas Lopez Calera (Granada), Pablo de Lora (Madrid) and Nikolas M. Roos (Maastricht). Official language of the symposium is English. Everyone interested is welcome on a self-financing basis.The proceedings of the Symposium are planned to be published in a future Beiheft to the outstanding international German professional journal Rechtstheorie.

Further proposals of presentation may be considered. Please contact: Prof. Dr. Csaba Varga, Director of the Institute for Legal Philosophy, or Ms. Emese Gáll, assistant. Address: Péter Pázmány Catholic University of Hungary, Faculty of Law, H-1428 Budapest 8, P.O.B. 6. Telephone: +36-1-138-4640; 138-4440. Fax: +36-1-118-0507.

Records. Members of the national section: Attila Badó, Mátyás Bódig, András Bragyova, Tarnás Gy_rfi, Kálmán Kulcsár, Sándor Loss, Tamás Nagy, Vilmos Peschka, Zoltán Péteri, András Sajó, József Szabadfalvy, Miklós Szabó, Péter Szilágyi, Tibor Szlovák, Péter Takács, Csaba Varga, Antal Visegrády, Agnes Zsidai.

ITALY

News.The 20th Congress of the Italian Society of Legal and Political Philosophy took place in Verona and at Hotel Residence Poiano, Poiano del Garda, on October 3, 4, and 5, 1996. The subject, however, was apparently the least ìcelebratory and academic as possible, being ìCriminal Law, Rationality Control, and the Legal Protection of Citizens. Furthermore, legal and political philosophers choose to invite experts in criminal law, criminal procedure, civil procedure, and general theory of legal procedure, to get as much information and insight as possibile from ìinsiders. Among the non-philosophers experts who lectured: Michele Taruffo (civil procedure, University of Pavia and Cornell University), Giovanni Fiandaca (criminal law, University of Palermo, member of the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura, the self-governing body of the Italian Judiciary), Gaetano Pecorella (President of the Italian Association of Criminal Lawyers and legal counsel in many ìclean hands trials), Enzo Albano (judge, Court of Naples), Alessandro Margara (judge, Court of Florence). Among the professional legal and political philosophers, presentations were held by Luigi Alfieri (University of Urbino), Francesco Cavalla (University of Padua, who also organized the meeting together with Giuseppe Zaccaria, University of Padua), Paolo Comanducci and Riccardo Guastini (University of Genoa), Mario Jori (University of Milan), Bruno Montanari (University of Catania), Anna Pintore (University of Cagliari), and Danilo Zolo (University of Florence).

The ìinsider-side of the speakers focussed on criminal legal theory and the basic problems of the Italian criminal legal system. Particular attention was paid to the reality of criminal trials, prisons and punishment, and some suggested ways-out from the ìclean hands experience: the huge judicial campaign against political and economic criminality which turned the old Italian political establishment upside down, and is still afoot.

The ìoutsider-side of the speakers, by contrast, focussed on judicial reasoning, legal syllogism, and the nature of legal discourse. The presentations, however, were not academic at all (in the usual, derogatory, sense of the word). On the contrary, they were finely tuned to the insidersí presentations, to provide participants with a real example of ìcommitted legal and political philosophy.

The final part of the meeting was devoted to the election of the new President of the Italian Society of Legal and Political Philosophy. Luigi Lombardi Vallauri (University of Florence), the newly elected President, addressed the assembly with an inauguration speech, remarkable indeed for the ambitious cultural targets which were openly pointed out for accomplishment. (report by P. Chiassoni).

Announcements. International Congress on Justice and Procedure - S. Remo (IM), 12-13-14 June 1997, organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Law, University of Genoa, Via Balbi 30, 16126 Genoa (Italy) under the patronage of the IVR Italian section. Lectures will be given by: Juan Carlos Bàyon (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Bruno Celano (Università di Palermo), Francisco Laporta (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Valeria Ottonelli (Università di Genova), Michel Rosenfeld (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York). The Congress will be commence with a round table discussion by Ernesto Garzón Valdés (Mainz Univesität), José Juan Moreso (Universidad de Gerona), Michele Taruffo (Università di Pavia and Cornell University), Philippe Van Parjis (Université Catholique de Louvain), Carlo Augusto Viano (Università di Torino).

The XXI National Congress of the Italian Society of Legal and Political Philosophy will be held in Salerno or another venue along the Amalfi coast in the first ten days of October 1998. The general theme of the Congress will be: Concepts of Law and Human Rights. An East-West Comparison.

Recent publications: Albert M., Alfieri L., Baccelli L., Ordine, conflitto e libertà nei grandi mutamenti del nostro tempo, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Amato Mangiameli Agata, ìDesiderai essere un cittadino. Oltre il retaggio simbolico della moderna sovranità, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Armellini Serenella, Le due mani della giustizia. La premialità del diritto come problema filosofico, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Bagolini Luigi, Justice et société, Ed. Bière, Bordeaux 1995. Basciu Maurizio (a cura di), Il conflitto.Profili giuridici e politici, Atti del Convegno della Società di Filosofia Giuridica e Politica, Giuffrè, Milan 1995. Bazzicalupo Laura, Hannah Arendt. La storia per la politica, ESI, Naples 1996. Carcaterra Gaetano, Corso di filosofia del diritto 1995/1996, Bulzoni, Rome 1996. Cascavilla Michele, Colpa e infelicità. Giustizia e pena in Rosmini, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Castellano D., La decadenza della Repubblica e líassenza del politico, Monduzzi, Bologna 1995. Castignone Silvana, Diritto, linguaggio, realtà. Saggi sul realismo giuridico, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Castignone Silvana, Nuovi diritti e nuovi soggetti. Appunti di bioetica e biodiritto, ECIG, Genoa 1996. Catania Alfonso, Manuale di filosofia del diritto, ESI, Naples 1995. Catania Alfonso, Riconoscimento e potere. Studi di filosofia del diritto, ESI, Naples 1996. Catania Alfonso, Lo stato moderno. Sovranità e giuridicità, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Catania Alfonso, Fimiani M., Neokantismo, diritto e sociologia, ESI, Naples 1995. Cavalla Francesco, La verità dimenticata., Cedam, Verona, 1996. Attualità dei Presocratici dopo la secolarizzazione. Comanducci Paolo, Guastini Riccardo eds., Struttura e dinamica dei sistemi giuridici, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Comanducci Paolo, Guastini Riccardo eds., "Analisi e diritto 1995, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Comanducci Paolo, Guastini Riccardo eds., "Analisi e diritto 1996", Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Cotta Sergio ed., Conoscenza e normatività. Il normativo tra decisione e fondazione, Giuffrè, Milan 1995. Cottino A., Sarzotti Claudio eds., Diritto, uguaglianza e giustizia penale, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. DíAgostino Francesco, Filosofia del diritto, II ed. enlarged, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. DíAgostino Francesco, Bioetica, nella prospettiva della filosofia del diritto, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. DíAgostino Francesco ed., Ontologia e fenomenologia del giuridico. Studi in onore di Sergio Cotta, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. DíAgostino Francesco editor, Pluralità delle culture e universalità dei diritti, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. De Giacomo Claudio, Identità e soggetti nella teoria dei diritti, ESI, Naples, 1996. Ferrajoli Luigi, La sovranità nel mondo moderno, Anabasi, Milan 1995. Fiorot Dino, ed., Ordine, conflitto e libertà nei grandi mutamenti del nostro tempo, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Frosini Vittorio, Gesetzgebung und Auslegung, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden 1995. Frosini Vittorio, La lettera e lo spirito della legge, 2nd enlarged version., Giuffrè, Milan 1995. Frosini Vittorio, La letra y el espiritu de la ley. Prologo de C. Alarcòn Cabrera, Ariel, Barcelona 1995. Frosini Vittorio, Law and Liberty in the Computer Age, Institutt for Rettsinformatik, Tano, Oslo 1995. Gianformaggio Letizia, Filosofia e critica del diritto, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Gianformaggio Letizia, ed., Equality Principle in Legal Reasoning, Siena 1995. Gianformaggio Letizia, Paulson S., Cognition and interpretation of Law, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Guastini Riccardo, Il giudice e la legge, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Jellamo Anna, Quale liberalismo? Saggi su J. S. Mill, Clueb, Bologna, 1996. Jori Mario, Pintore Anna, Manuale di teoria generale del diritto, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Marra R., La libertà degli ultimi uomini. Studi sul pensiero giuridico e politico di Max Weber, Giappichelli, Turin 1995. Montanari Bruno, Itinerario di filosofia del diritto. Per una lettura critica dellíesperienza giuridica, Cedam, Padua 1995. Palazzani Laura, Il concetto di persona tra bioetica e diritto, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Pastore Baldassare, Giudizio, prova, ragion pratica. Un approccio ermeneutico, Giuffrè, Milan 1996. Romano Bruno, Critica della ragione procedurale, Bulzoni, Rome 1995. Romano Bruno, La società post-moderna come sistema di universale dipendenza, Bulzoni, Rome 1995. Romano Bruno, Filosofia e diritto dopo Luhmann, Bulzoni, Rome 1995. Sartor Giovanni, Intelligenza artificiale e diritto. Uníintroduzione, Giuffrè, Milan 1996. Sarzotti Claudio, Jean Domat. Fondamento e metodo della scienza giuriridica. Savarese Paolo, Schelling filosofo del diritto. Introduzione alla lettura e commento di testi fondamentali, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Scillitani Lorenzo, Studi di antropologia giuridica, Jovene, Naples 1996. Serra Teresa, Realtà e virtualità delle istituzioni. Ermeneutica, diritto e politica in Hannah Arendt, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Sorgi Giuseppe, Angelo Camillo De Meis, Dal principio ordinatore alla concezione del diritto e dello stato, ESI, Naples 1996. Tallacchini Mariachiara, Diritto per la natura. Ecologia e filosofia del diritto, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Tarantino Antonio (a cura di), Per una dichiarazione dei diritti del nascituro, Giuffrè, Milan 1996. Triolo Lucia, Primato del diritto e giustizia. Costituzione e diritti fondamentali, Giappichelli, Turin 1996. Troncarelli Barbara, Diritto e filosofia della Pratica in Benedetto Croce, Giuffrè, Milan 1996. Viola Francesco, Stato e natura, Anabasi, Milan 1995.

In 1996 was published the first issue of Ars Interpretandi. Annuario di ermeneutica giuridica (Journal of Legal Hermeneutics): ìErmeneutica e applicazione (Hermeneutics and Application), Cedam, Padua. Eds.: M. Kriele, F. Viola, F. Volpi, G. Zaccaria.

Records. Current Officials. President: Luigi Lombardi Vallauri, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di teoria e storia del diritto, Piazza Indipendenza n°9, 50129, Firenze-Italy, tel. 055-474403/496610/496533, fax: 055-474756. Secretary: Maurizio Basciu. Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185, Roma-Italy, tel: 06-490489, fax: 06-49910951.

Members of the national section: Luigi Alfieri, Agata Amato Mangiameli, Salvatore Amato, Elvio Ancona, Alberto Andreatta, Daniela Andreatta, Alessandro Argiroffi, Serenella Armellini, Salvatore Azzaro, Giampaolo Azzoni, Luigi Bagolini, Giuseppe Barbaccia, Mauro Barberis, Laura Bazzicalupo, Germano Bellussi, Francesco Belvisi, Gianni Bernardini, Norberto Bobbio, Patrizia Borsellino, Giampietro Calabrò, Annamaria Campanale, Marco Cangiotti, Franco Alberto Cappelletti, Antonio Caracciolo, Gaetano Carcaterra, Federico Casa, Michele Cascavilla, Danilo Castellano, Emanuele Castrucci, Alfonso Catania, Mario Cattaneo, Francesco Cavalla, Giovanna Cavallaro, Bruno Celano, Furio Cerutti, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Giulio Chiodi, Claudio Guido Cimarella, Paolo Comanducci, Daria Coppa, Franco Cordopatri, Giovanni Cosi, Marco Cossutta, Gabriella Cotta, Antonino Cremona, Raimondo Cubeddu, Franco Antonio Cusimano, Francesco DíAgostino, Alessandro Dal Brollo, Francesco Dal Pozzo, Adriana DíAuria, Lorenzo DíAvack, Claudio De Giacomo , Enrico Diciotti, Enrico Di Robilant, Maria Gabrielli Esposito, Alessandra Facchi, Carla Faralli, Luigi Ferrajoli, Marta Ferronato, Giovanni Fiaschi, Angela Filipponio, Vincenzo Filosa, Giusella Finocchiaro, Dino Fiorot, Maria Antonietta Foddai, Marcello Fracanzani, Lucio Franzese, Vittorio Frosini, Giovanna Gasparri, Letizia Gianformaggio, Francesco Gentile, Riccardo Guastini, Paolo Iagulli, Antonio Iannuzzi, Giovanni Incorvati, Anna Jellamo, Mario Jori, Anna Maria Lisitano, Luigi Lombardi Vallauri, Giuseppe Lumia, Filiberto Lupi, Claudio Luzzati, Sebastiano Maffettone, Massimo Mancini, Maurizio Manzin, Gaetano Marini, Giuliano Marini, Giovanni Marino, Realino Marra, Antonio Martino, Giuseppe Melis, Domenico Menorello, Paolo Moro, Enrico Moroni, Michele Nicoletti, Damiano Nocilla, Angiolina Motroni Onorato, Enrico Opocher, Federico Oriana, Giovanni Orrù, Ugo Pagallo, Laura Palazzani, Elena Pariotti, Baldassarre Pastore, Enrico Pattaro, Anna Pintore, Avelino Quintas, Francesco Riccobono, Bruno Romano, Arialdo Salemi, Salvatore Sammartino, Giovanni Sartor, Claudio Sarzotti, Paolo Savarese, Aristide Savignano, Alberto Scerbo, Lorenzo Scillitani, Achille Sfragaro, Giuseppe Sorgi, Giuliana Stella, Giancarlo Taddei Elmi, M. Chiara Tallacchini, Franco Tamassia, Antonio Tarantino, Torquato Tasso, Lucia Triolo, Barbara Troncarelli, Vittorio Villa, Francesco Viola, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Antonio Zanfarino, Francesca Zanuso, Miranda Zerlotin.

JAPAN

News. The annual conference of the Japan Association of Philosophy of Law (JALP) took place 8-9 November, 1996, at Meiji University, Tokyo, on the topic The Multicultural Age and the Legal Order. The organiser of the discussion was Hasegawa Ko. The papers read were: Multiculturalism in Europe (Kajita T.) and Asia (Tsuboi Y.); Liberalism in the Multicultural Environment (Ishiyama F.); The Legal Order in the Multicultural Age (Llompart, J.); Multiculturalism and Public Dialogue (Sakoh I.). Katsuragi T., Tsunoda T., Imai H. and Imafuku R. were the discussants. Papers independent of the topic were also read: Derrida and the Philosophy of Law (Katada K.); The Ideo-Historical Significance of the Institutes of Gaius (Hasegawa S.); Natural Law and Bonum Commune (Yamada, H.); Hereditary Information and Self-Determination (SaitoY.); Freedom of Man as Self Interpreting Animal (Ueki, K.); Law,Freedom and the Other (Sugita S.).

IVR Japan, with JALP and the Egusa Foundation for International Cooperation in the Social Sciences, held the 4th Kobe Lecture from 10 to 12 October, 1996. Instead of having a single speaker, this lecture was organised as the First Asia Symposium in Jurisprudence, held at the universities of Tokyo (Tokyo) and Doshisha (Kyoto), on the topic Law in a Changing World: Asian Alternatives. In the Tokyo session, after opening speeches by JALP president Tanaka S. (Kyoto), Egusa Foundation president Matsuo K. (Sophia) and Organising Committee president Imai H.(Hokkaido), the following papers were read, followed by comments. Kim Chang Rok (Pusan, Korea), Where is the Korean Legal System Going?, comments by Choi Chong Ko (Seoul, Korea); Guo Daohui (Chinese Legal Science, China), The Democratization of Law: Rights in Contemporary Chinese Lawmaking, comments by Zhang Wenxian (Jilin, China); Bell, Daniel (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), A Confucian Democracy for the Twenty-First Century, comments by Yasuda N. (Nagoya); and Inoue T. (Tokyo), Liberal Democracy and ìAsian Values," comments by Yang Seung Doo (Yonsei, Korea). Discussion of the papers ensued the comments. IVR Executive Committee member Sato S. (Aoyama) gave the concluding remarks followed by a reception. In the Kyoto session, after an opening speech by IVR Japan president Fukada M. (Doshisha), the following papers were read: Mizoguchi Y. (Daito Bunka), The Li System and Revolutionary China, comments by Terada H. (Tohoku); Yusuf, Adijaya (Indonesia, Indonesia), Integrating the Country through Legal Reform: The Indonesian Experience, comments by Lindsey, Timothy (Melbourne, Australia); Liang Zhiping (Chinese Academy of Art, China), State and Society: From a Perspective of Chinese Legal History, comments by Zhang Wenxian; and Hahm Chai Bong (Yonsei, Korea), The Post-Confucian State and Economic Development, comments by Kim Byung Kook (Korea, Korea). Imai H., IVR Korea president Yang Seung Doo, and Tanaka S. gave the closing speeches followed by a reception. IVR Korea pledged its effort to bring about the second Asia symposium in jurisprudence to be held in Korea in 1998.

Records. Current Officials. President: Morigiwa Yasutomo. Faculty of Law, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-01, Japan, tel: 0081-52-789-4908, fax: 0081-52-789-4900. E-Mail: morigiwa@nomolog.nagoya-u.ac.jp Secretary: Yasuji Yamazaki. Faculty of Cross-cultural Studies, Kobe University, Tsurukabuto 1-2-1, Nada Ku, 657 Kobe-Japan, tel: 0081-78-8030766, fax: 0081-78-8030766.

Members of the national section: Yoshikazu Aihara, Hideo Aoi, Junichi Aomi, Haruki Aoyama, Seiichi Anan, Kazuo Amano, Makoto Arai, Masaji Chiba, Shigemitsu Dando, Yasuhiro Ikadatsu, Hiroatsu Ishibashi, Yoshiyuki Ishimae, Heihachiro Itoh, Norio Itoh, Tatsuo Inoue, Naoshige Imai, Hiromichi Imai, Masahiro Iwakura, Yukio Uehara, Hideo Uematsu, Makoto Usami, Shin Oikawa, Yoshizo Okubo, Shigeru Otsuka, Tatsuzi Ono, Yasuaki Onuma, Nagayasu Ohara, Tomonosuke Ohashi, Shozo Ogura, Tatsuo Kagawa, Takao Katsuragi, Shinpei Kato, Tsutomu Kawada, Yoshimitsu Kannari, Harushi Kishigami, Munenori Kitahara, Gosuke Kimura, Takeo Kuwahara, Minori Konishi, Isao Kobayashi, Humio Komori, Katusmi Koyano, Yasuko Goto, Ichiro Sako, Tetsu Sakurai, Hideo Sasakura, Setsuko Sato, Ryuichi Sato, Tamio Sato, Itaru Shimazu, Hidesato Shimazu, Kiyoshi Shimokawa, Kazuo Shirakawa, Takeo Suzuki, Tokan So, Shuji Takahashi, Fumihiko Takahashi, Kazuya Takemura, Ken Takeshita, Shigeaki Tanaka, Shigeki Tanaka, Ichimasa Tsuda, Takeshi Tsunoda, Tadakatsu Demizu, Koji Tonami, Hiroo Nakagawa, Koji Nakamura, Koji Nakamura, Terunori Nakamura, Naomi Nakamura, Ryuichi Nakayama, Mototsugu Nishino, Hiroshi Noguchi, Ko Hasegawa, Takahiro Hattori, Shin-ichiro Hama, Toru Hijikata, Yoshinori Hiraki, Hitohiko Hirano, Mitsunori Fukada, Reiko Fukawa, Yuichi Funakoe, Iwao Funayama, Eiichi Hoshino, Yutaka Masuda, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Hiroshi Matsuo, Makoto Matsuoka, Teruo Matsushita, Mitsuhisa Matsudaira, Eisaku Matsubara, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Arata Miki, Yoshiomi Mishima, Akira Mizunami, Jitaro Mizuno, Shigeaki Miyazaki, Masa-aki Miyaji, Naoshi Miyajama, Junshiro Miyokawa, Toshihiro Miyoshi, Susumu Morimura, Yasutomo Morigiwa, Nobuyuki Morisue, Masamichi Moriya, Tetsuo Yagi, Mitsukuni Yazaki, Kenji Yanagisawa, Michihiko Yamaguchi, Yasuji Yamazaki, Yachiko Yamada, Yoshio Yonou, Yoshimichi Yoshida, Hajime Yoshino, José Llompart, Koyata Washida, Shizuo Watanabe, Tsunayoshi Watanabe.

MEXICO

Records. Current officials. President: María Elodia Robles Sotomayor. Treasurer: Carlos Vigil Lagarde. Lago Victoria, 80, Colonja Granada, 11550 México D. F., tel: 545 34 54.

THE NETHERLANDS

Records. Current Officials. President: Ton M. Hol. Faculty of Law, Department of Legal Theory, Boothstraat 1 c, 3512 BT Utrecht-Netherlands, tel: 31-30-2537072, fax: 31-30-2538408, E-mail: A.Hol@rgl.ruu.nl.. Secretary: Theo E. Rosier. Harddraverslaan 12, 2082 HM Santpoort Zuid, The Netherlands, tel: 31 23 5386352/31 20 4446325, E-mail: t.e.rosier@rechten.vu.nl. Treasurer: Marlies Galenkamp. Linker Rottekade, 54730 31 WE Rotterdam- The Netherlands, tel: 31 10 4082649/31 10 4049703, E-mail: Galenkamp@alg.frg.eur.nl.

Members of the national section: E. Andre de la Porte, A.M. Bos, Hendrik J. M. Boukema, P.W. Brouwer, E.L.H. Brugmans, P.B. Cliteur, G. W. B. Dreesmann, Jan M. van Dunné, Marlies Galenkamp, J.F. Groen, Anton G. G. De Groot, H.R. van Gunsteren, R.A.V. van Hearsolte, Govert A. Den Hartogh, E.M.H. Hirsch Ballin, A.M. Hol, Ton M. Hol, P.J. van den Hoven, Frans C.L.M. Jacobs, O.W.M. Kamstra, Hendrik Kaptein, Bart C. Labuschagne, R. de Lange, R. van Liefland, E. Lukacs, H.J.L.M. van den Luytgaarden, C.W. Maris, E. Poortinga, Bert van Roermund, Theo E. Rosier, Arend Soeteman, W.G. van den Velden, M. Verhorst, Hendrik Ph. Visser't Hooft, L.K. van Zaltbommel.

ROMANIA

Records. Current Officials. President: Paul-Mircea Cosmovici. Institute of Legal research of the Romanian Academy, Casa Academiei Romane, calea 13 Septembrie n° 13, Bucaresti-Rumania, tel: 401-410. 40.59 and 401-410.32.00 / 410.38.46. Secretary: Gheorghe Emil Moroianu. Institutul de Cercetari Juridice, B-dul. Mihail Kogálniceanu 33, 70602 Bucaresti-Romania.

RUSSIA

Records. Current Officials. President: Vladik S. Nersessiants. Institute of State and Law Russian Academy of Sciences-ISL RAS, Znamenka st. 10, 119841 Moscow-Russia, tel: 007-095-2913490/3187, fax: 007-095-2918574, E-mail: post.mast@isl.msk.su. Secretary: Lyudmila Lapteva. Institute of State and Law Russian Academy of Sciences-ISL RAS, Znamenka st. 10, 119841 Moscow-Russia.

Members of the national section: Nikolai N. Deev, Alexander L. Dobrokhotov, S.A. Egorov, Anisim I. Ekimov, Valentin I. Ershov, Vladimir G. Grafsky, Eugeni W. Guliev, Igor A. Issaev, P.F. Jankevitch, Vladimir P. Kazimirtchouk, Djanguir A. Kerimow, Anatoli I. Kovler, Jaroslav J. Kozlikhin, Nina A. Krasheninnikova, V.I. Laiman, Lyudmila Lapteva, Valery V. Lasarev, Roman Z. Livshits, Elena A. Loukasheva, Ginevra I. Loukovskaya, Gennady V. Maltsev, Leonid Mamout, A.S. Molodzov, Gennady I. Mouromtsev, G.M. Naismoundinov, Vladik S. Nersessiants, Alexander V. Obolonsky, Leonid R. Siukiainen, Erik J. Soloviev, Nina V. Stherbakova, Vladimir A. Tchetvernin, L.G. Titova, Boris N. Topornin, Vladimir A. Toumanov, Oleg A. Zhidkov, Natalia M. Zolotoukhina.

SLOVAKIA

Records. Current Officials. President: Alexander Bröstl. Faculty of Law, Safárik-University, Kovácska c. 26, 040 01 Kosice-Slovakia, tel: 0042-95-6227104, fax: 0042-9562-25365, e-mail: BROSTL@PRAVO.UPJS.SK. Vice-President: Jozef Prusák. School of Law, Comenius University, Safárikovo nám. 6, 818 06 Bratislava, Slovakia, tel: 0042 7 340 111, fax: 004 7 562 34.

Members of the national section: Eduard Bárány, Alexander Bröstl, Jarmila Chovancová, Peter Colotka, Ján Cipkár, Gabriela Dobrovicová, Ludovít Hohos, Pavel Holländer, Imrich Kanárik, Alexandra Krsková, Eva Malcevová - Ottová, Jozef Prusák, Milos Rehurek, Tomás Valent, Katarína Zavaká.

SWEDEN

Records. Current Officials. President: Åke Fränberg, Uppsala University, Faculty of Law. Secretary: Gunnar Bergholtz. University of Lund, Juridiska Institutionen Juridicum, Box 207, 22100 Lund-Sweden, tel: 0046-44-104444. Treasurer: Torben Spaak. Department of Law, University of Uppsala, Box 512, 75120 Uppsala-Sweden, tel: 0046-18-182607, fax: 0046-18-187666.

Members of the national section: Gunnar Bergholtz, Uta Ulrike Bindreiter, Michael Cervin, Åke Frändberg, Mats Glavå, Sven Ove Hannson, Jan Hellner, Nils Jareborg, Lars Lindahl, Joakim Nergelius, Aleksander Peczenik, Jan Persell, Ulf Petrusson, Torben Spaak, Leif Stille, Stig Strömholm, Jacob W.F. Sundberg, Eva-Maria Svensson, Dennis Töllborg.

SWITZERLAND

Records. Current Officials. President: Jörg-Paul Müller. Seminar für öffentliches Recht, Universität Bern, Ochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Bern, tel: +41 (0)31 6318894, fax: +41 (0)31 6313883. Secretary: Thomas Mastronardi. Grauholtzsrtasse 54, 3063 Ittigen.

Members of the national section: Gertrud Balig-Junker, Nicoletta Bersier Ladavac, Olivier Berthoud, Heinrich Bortis, Gerald Bourquin, Felix U. Bretschger, Daniel Brühlmeier, Michel Bürgisser, Francis Cheneval, Fritz Dolder, Hans Dubs, Alfred Dufour, Martin Dumermuth, David Dürr, Willi Egloff, Christoph Frei, Andrea Gianini, Christian Giordano, Peter Häberle, Gerard Hertig, Helmut Holzhey, Gerard Huber, José Hurtado, Judith Janoska-Bendl, Catherine Josephide-Dunand, Walter Kälin, Franz Kanz, Martin Kilias, Heinz Kleger, Roland Kley, Georg Kohler, Walter Lesch, Dominique Manai, J.-J. Martin, Michael Marugg, Philippe Mastronardi, Thomas Mastronardi, Claudio Möhr, Hans Moser, Hans-Jakob Mosimann, Jörg-Paul Müller, Erwin Murer, Ada Neschke, Marcel Alexander Niggli, Walter Ott, François Paychère, Jean-François Perrin, Annemarie Pieper, Ivo Rens, Claude Reymond, René Rhinow, Alois Riklin, Robert Roth, Rene Schaffhauser, Walter Schluep, Gerhard Schmid, Daniel Schulthess, Martin Schwartz, Gerhard Seel, Kurt Seelmann, Marcel Senn, Günter Stratenwerth, Paul Trappe, Arthur F. Utz, Michel Vermot, Benoit Winiger, Roger Zäch, Simone Zurbuchen.

UNITED KINGDOM

News. Avebury Press are publishing the 1996 ALSP Conference papers under the title Justice, Property and the Environment: Social and Legal Perspectives. The volume will be jointly edited by John OíNeill and Tim Hayward. It will contain selected papers from the conference; a table of contents is nearly ready and will be publicised in the next Newsletter.

As from volume 3, no 1 (March 1997) the Associationís journal, Res Publica, is going from 112 to 128 pages, experimentally, largely in order to expand the reviews section. The editor would welcome comments from members, and also contributions. Please contact Bob Brecher, the managing editor of the Journal, for any queries, suggestions or submissions, at the School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton, 10-11 Pavilion Parade, Brighton BN2 1RA (tel 01273 643309).

Announcements. The 1997 Conference will take place in Edinburgh from Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th April on the theme of Communitarianism and Citizenship. The various sessions will be held at the Law Faculty, which is situated in the Old College in the Old Town of Edinburgh. The theme of the Conference is broad and it is expected that contributions will be wide-ranging. The Austin Lecture is planned for the Thursday evening; it will be given by Professor Philip Selznick of the University of California at Berkeley and will address themes developed in his recent The Moral Commonwealth. The Organisers will arrange the other papers, with panels of speakers and respondents, in parallel sessions. Papers should last about 30 minutes. To facilitate organisation, abstracts (one side of A4) should be sent to Emilios Christodoulidis or Liz Kingdom as soon as possible and no later than February the 28th. A booklet of abstracts will be circulated to participants in the Conference packs.

It is likely that a selection of conference papers will be published after the Conference.

The 1998 Conference will be organised by Barry Holden & Tony Coates at the University of Reading on the theme of ëInternational Justiceí in April. Exact dates and more information on this to follow, but in the meantime please address suggestions and queries to the Conferece Organisers at the Dept of Politics, University of Reading, RG6 2AA.

Records. Current Officials. President: Elizabeth Kingdom, Dept of Sociology, University of Liverpool, Myrtle St., Liverpool L69 3BX, E-mail: E.F.Kingdom@liverpool.ac.uk. Secretary: Emilios Christodoulidis, Centre for Law and Society, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, E-mail: Emilios.Christodoulidis@ed.ac.uk

Members of the national section: J. N. Adams, T. R. S. Allan, P.W. Alldridge, David W. Archard, A. Ashworth, Elspeth Attwooll, Zenon Bankowski, J. S. Bell, R. Bellamy, A. Bousfield, W.S. B. Bowring, A. Bradney, Robert Brecher, R. Brownsword Esq., W. Cairns, Kenneth Campbell, T. D. Campbell, R. Cere, Ruth Chadwick, Emilios A. Christodoulidis, Michael Clark, Hugh Collins, D. John S. Creasey, M. T. Dalgarno, H. Davies Esq., J. P. Day, Richard de Friend, R. Anthony Duff, A. I. Dunlop, Alison Dunn, D. J. Feldman, Pamela R. Ferguson, Pat Fitzgerald, D . W. Fleming, L. Flynn, Michael D. A. Freeman, Rolando Gaete, Denis Galligan, D. Goldberg, B. L. Goodwin, J. L. Gorman, Ian Gregory, Stephen Guest, J. J. Haldane, Andrew Halpin, James W. Harris, T. R. Harrison, A. R. Harvey, Hilary Hiram, Lord Justice Hoffman, A. Honoré, S. Ishiyama, J. D. Jackson, Bernard S. Jackson, Susan James, Peter Jones, J. Kaler, Elizabeth Kingdom, Stanley S. Kleinberg, Nicola Lacey, David Leal, William N. R. Lucy, D. Neil MacCormick, M. R. T. Macnair, Gerry Maher, Sandra E. Marshall, Geoffrey Marshall, H. Mccoubrey, J.C. Mccrudden, S. Mclean, Susan Mendus, M. Menlowe, D. R. Miers, Alan J. M. Milne, D. Morgan, J. W. E. Morison, Thomas T. Mullen, G. Newey, P. P. Nicholson, Katherine O'Donovan, C. M. G. Ockelton, A. Esir Orücü, G. J. Pitt, P. Reynolds, A.J. Rivers, O.F. Robinson, M. Rodney, Irwin Semel, Ann Sherlock, A. P. Simester, N.E. Simmonds, Hillel Steiner, R. T. H. Stone, Carl Stychin, John Tasioulas, William L. Twining, Ursula Vogel, A. Ward, Ian Ward, Celia Wells, S. Wilkinson, I. J. H. Williams.