IVR Newsletter


February 2001 – August 2001 Nş 27 ISSN 0256 –937X

Editor: Ricardo A. Guibourg. IVR Web Master: Giovanni Ziccardi. The printed issue was compiled with the help of Prof. Burton Leiser and Aminthaphil, U.S.A. IVR National Section.

IVR Newsletter is published twice a year in June and December to be distributed in July and January respectively. This particular issue was delayed in order to include information about the 20th World Congress. Material to be published should be sent to the Editor by 1st June for the first issue and by 1st December for the second.

IVR Newsletter is available too in Internet, at www.cirfid.unibo.it/ivr/, where present and previous issues can be consulted.

Addresses - Editor: Av. Callao 492 10 B, 1022 Buenos Aires, Argentina, tel/fax +54 11 4372 4613. E-mail: pachig@ciudad.com.ar . Web Master: ziccardi@cirfid.unibo.it

CONTENTS

Section One: IVR News – 20th IVR World Congress held in Amsterdam – Report of IVR President Eugenio Bulygin – Report of IVR Secretary General Pablo López Ruf – Report of IVR Treasurer Carlos E. Pettoruti – Executive Committee Meetings.

Section Two: IVR Announcements – 21st IVR World Congress (Lund, Sweden, August 12-17, 2003); 22nd IVR World Congress.

Section Three: National Sections News, Announcements and Records – Argentina; Austria; Canada; Chile; Denmark; France (AFPD); France (SFPJ); Germany; Hungary; Spain; Switzerland.

Section Four: Other Announcements – Junges Forum Rechtsphilosophie; European Society for Analytic Philosophy.

SECTION ONE: IVR NEWS

THE TWENTIETH IVR WORLD CONGRESS ON PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

The Twentieth IVR World Congress, June 19-23, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is over now. It is too recent to give a kind of final evaluation. Moreover, I would be the last person to be in the position to give that evaluation. But the organisers are happy with the congress, with many good and entertaining lectures, with stimulating discussions and with the many informal contacts which are as important as the formal parts of the conference. They are grateful to all participants who, giving their presentations and contributing to discussions, made the congress into a success. About 400 participants listened to 12 plenary papers and to 11 semi-plenary papers and discussed about 250 papers in more than 100 workshops.

Theme of the conference was Pluralism and Law. The organisation had selected four subthemes: Justice, The State, Global Problems and Legal Reasoning, each with different subsubthemes.

Most of the plenary and semi-plenary lectures are collected in a book, which was given to the participants upon arrival: A. Soeteman (ed.), Pluralism and Law, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London, 2001. In the Introduction, the conference theme is elaborated:

"In the past we lived on one earth, but in many different worlds. Different civilisations, in regions far apart, knew about one another (at least from about the 16th century), they competed with one another or tried to dominate the other, they influenced one another, but in many important aspects they were independent from one another.

Somewhere in the 20th century, however, this changed. There is no far apart anymore. We have lived through two European wars, which developed into world wars. Modern aeroplanes allow us to travel in only a couple of hours around the world. Instant communication between individuals who have the whole globe in between is a reality. There still exist great differences between different civilisations. But they can ignore one another only at their peril. They deeply influence one another.

Today, therefore, we live in one world. Conflicts in the Middle East, in Rwanda and Uganda or in the former Yugoslavia have their impact all over the world. Violations of human rights, no matter where, are increasingly considered to be the concern of all of us. The whims and caprices of some dictator may influence the spending possibilities of the general public far away.

The one world is organised in about 200 sovereign states. We still have no better principle of organisation. The idea of one world sovereign, if possible, would be frightening, at least for some of us. But many environmental problems (the heating of the earth, the diminishing ozone layer, the vanishing tropical woods, the extinction of many different species of plants and animals) have world scale and cannot be solved by nation states. Big companies operate world-wide and withdraw from national governance. Migration flows cannot be controlled. We have great problems, but it seems that we don’t have the organisation which is necessary to deal with them in an adequate way.

At the same time we entered the one modern world from many different traditions. We still have ideas which are greatly at odds with one another about matters as important as the political organisations of our national states, the universality of human rights, the relations between women and men, the freedom of minorities, and, of course, about what is needed for our eternal salvation and about the question whether eternal salvation is an issue at all.

Those differences are not only between cultures. Also within cultures we still don’t see Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’. Within the Western culture we disagree fundamentally about abortion and euthanasia, about modern arms, about capital punishment, about the distribution of welfare under our population and the distribution of welfare between the different parts of the world, and about much more.

The developments in our world are a challenge for lawyers. They are a challenge for legal and social philosophers. What can we say about justice in our pluralist world? Is there some universal justice? Are there universal human rights? What is the function and vocation of the state in the one world of today? Perhaps we should rethink traditional concepts of sovereignty. But on the other hand, national autonomy and independence is not a value that should be sacrificed easily. In which way should the law deal with global problems, about environment, migration? And how could or should we argue about all this?"

Many authors responded to this theme of the conference. This started with the mayor of Amsterdam, Dr. Job Cohen, who opened the conference. Cohen presented his city as pluralist, with a tradition of tolerance, but at the same time with a strong dedication to the preservation of human rights. And it ended with Bernard Jackson (UK), who closed the conference with a brilliant presentation on analogical reasoning in secular and religious systems.

One of the surprises between these two presentations was a lecture by Albie Sachs, justice in the Constitutional Court in South Africa. His lecture replaced a lecture by Luigi Ferrajoli (who unfortunately was prevented from travelling to Amsterdam and presenting his announced paper). Sachs discussed the relations between traditional customary law and the national law in his country. He spoke with respect about customary law: "The strength of customary law lay in its organic connection with the lives and culture of the people". On the other hand, when customary law is applied mechanically, it might result in great injustice, in particular to African women, more in particular to African widows, and therefore violate the sense of right which lies at the heart of both customary law itself and the African constitution, for which the African people has fought so hard. One should try to revitalise customary law by concentrating again upon its central values: human solidarity, concern for all, responsibilities for ourselves, our family and our community, every person is part of the community.

The overwhelming impression is to me that the problems which are roughly indicated by ‘pluralism and law’ are world-wide, but that they arise in different situations asking for different solutions. Look, e.g., to the plurality of cultures. In South Africa it is, as said, the problem of the tensions between different traditional cultures and modern (state) law. In Canada and Australia there is the question about the rights of the original population (Indians, Aboriginals), who are a small minority now. In the People’s Republic of China we see, as was reported by Prof. Sun Wanzhong, executive vice-president of the China Law Society, a development of different legal systems (Hong Kong, Macao) within one sovereign state. In Western Europe there are big groups of immigrants from other cultures, which ask for recognition of their own ways of life and their own religions: should they be tolerated if they conflict with Western human right values? In The Netherlands there was a case, just before the Congress started, about a very conservative Imam who reportedly said terrible things about homosexuals for Dutch television (they were a threat for society, and so on) , in a context where he seemed to justify the use of violence against homosexuals. Is this protected by the right to free speech? In general, should democrats allow their opponents to use the democratic rights to undermine democratic values? This question is not new, but it has its new aspects in the world today.

Another impression, also overwhelming to me, is that, despite all the differences, there is a fundamental commitment under the big majority of legal and social philosophers to core values of modern democracy and human rights. There is disagreement on welfare rights, e.g., and on all kinds of elaborations, but the ideas of human dignity seem to be firmly anchored in the bones of modern legal and social philosophers.

This is not the place to summarize the different (semi-) plenary lectures: as has been said, the curious reader can find most of them in the book mentioned above. Many of the other papers, mainly presented in the workshops, will be published in the congress proceedings. A letter has been sent to all authors who presented an as yet unpublished paper, informing them about the possibility of publication. Information about publication in the proceedings can also be found on the congress website: www.rechten.vu.nl/~ivr.

One of the important points of the IVR world congresses is the stimulation of contacts between legal and social philosophers from different parts of the world. It is, therefore, good to see that the participants came from so many parts of the world. We never had so many colleagues from South-Africa on an IVR Congress. One could meet participants from Eastern Europe, from the People’s Republic of China, from India and Bangladesh. I will not mention all the countries which were represented: many are present on every IVR World Congress. But there were some gaps, as in former world congresses. The Arab world was still absent. Africa was represented this time, but by only one country. And it is still very difficult for many colleagues from Eastern Europe, more in particular from the former Soviet Union area and from Balkan countries, to find the financial means which are necessary to participate to a world congress. We might be content, but there is still work to do to make future congresses even more world-wide.

Arend Soeteman

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

August 7, 2001

REPORT OF IVR PRESIDENT EUGENIO BULYGIN

During the year June 2000 – June 2001 the Presidency kept co-ordinating the institutional activities of the IVR and supervised the fulfilment of the duties of the IVR Secretariat and the IVR Treasury (see their reports to de present E.C. meeting). Unfortunately, both the Secretary General, Prof. Pablo López Ruf, and the Treasurer, Prof. Carlos Pettoruti, were prevented – for personal reasons – from assisting to this meeting.

In co-operation with the Secretary General, the Presidency maintained contacts with several national sections, especially with those in which new authorities have been recently elected, like in the case of USA, Spain, Japan and Poland. There have been no major problems in the relations with national sections.

Together with the Treasurer, Dr. Pettoruti, the Presidency took care of sending reminders to all national sections at the end of 2000 and in May 2001. These requests have been reasonably successful, as will be seen in the report of the Treasurer.

Together with the editor-in-chief of Newsletters, Prof. Ricardo A. Guibourg, we have managed to publish the Numbers 25 and 26 of Newsletter, with have been already distributed. We decided to delay the publication of No. 27, that will appear in August-September of this year. The reason is that we had rather few news from the national sections and so it seemed reasonable to wait in order to be able to report about the 20th World Congress. This resolution is in accordance with the permanent decision No. 16 (Buenos Aires, August 12, 1997).

In co-operation with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Sprenger and the ARSP Board, the Presidency promoted the realization of the IVR Young Scholar Prize 2001, that this time was awarded to a young Brazilian scholar Claudio Michelon. I want to express my deep gratitude to Prof. Sprenger and to the members of the Jury. I must confess that I feel very proud that on two consecutive occasions the prize has been awarded to Latin American scholars.

We have been in touch with Prof. Arend Soeteman concerning the details of the organization of the 20th World Congress in Amsterdam, as well with Prof. Aleksander Peczenik in relation to the organization of the 21st World Congress in Lund. Prof. Peczenik will report about it. Prof. Atienza will report on the organization of the 22nd World Conference y Granada, Spain.

Buenos Aires, June 5, 2001.

Prof. Eugenio Bulygin

IVR President

REPORT OF THE IVR SECRETARY GENERAL PABLO LÓPEZ RUF

The Secretary General has realized the following activities during the period June 2000 to May 2001:

  1. Executive Committee Meeting, in Genoa in June 2000

    In cooperation with the IVR President, the Secretary General supervised the organization of the Executive Committee meeting in Genoa in June 2000. The Secretary General prepared and sent to each member the minutes in order to organize the debates.

  2. Minutes for the Executive Committee Meeting in Genoa 2000

    In cooperation with Prof. Pierluigi Chiassoni of Genoa University, the Secretary General took the minutes: a) of the meeting of June 18th 2000 and b) of the meeting of June 20th 2000.

  3. The Secretary General sent to each member of the Executive Committee a draft copy of the minutes asking for suggestions.

    In this way, Prof. K. Wellman’s suggestion was welcomed and incorporated into the plan.

  4. To fulfil the Executive Committee recommendation, the president of each National Section was asked to send a representative to integrate the Nomination Committee.

    As a result, the Secretary General has received the names of the representatives from the following National Sections: Australia (Prof. T. Campbell), Austria (Prof. Peter Koller), Belgium (Prof. François Ost), Finland (Prof. Kaarlo Tuori), Korea (Prof. Chongko Choi), Spain (Prof. Benito de Castro), South Africa (Prof. Karin van Marle), Switzerland (Prof. Bersier Ladavac), Poland (Prof. Lech Leszcynski).

    Concerning the communication received from Spain, the Secretary General assumed that the participation of Prof. Benito de Castro would be inconsistent with the Constitution, since that National Section has already a representative in the Executive Committee.

  5. The Secretary General has designed the Agenda for the Executive Committee Meeting that will take place in Amsterdam in June 2001. A copy was sent to each member.

    Suggestions were accepted and incorporated as an item in the Agenda, such as Prof. K. Wellman’s, about the election of some members of the Executive Committee.

  6. The Secretary General has cooperated in editing and sending the IVR Newsletter.

    The Secretary General, in collaboration with the IVR Newsletter editor-in-chief, Prof. Ricardo Guibourg, printed the January 2001 issue and delivered it to National Sections (over 3,500 copies were sent).

  7. Other subjects.

A letter from the Spanish National Section to the Secretary General confirmed that the 22nd IVR World Congress will take place in Granada in 2005. Prof. Nicolás López Calera is in charge of its organization as a member of the Spanish Society of Law Philosophy.

Contacts with the National Sections of Central America and South America helped to spread the plans on the 20th IVR World Congress in Amsterdam.

The Mexican Association for Law Philosophy elected its authorities and became IVR National Section. This way, Prof. Rolando Tamayo fulfilled the task requested by the Executive Committee during the Genoa meeting in 2000.

The Chilean National Section plans the next academic meeting to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The Secretary General met its president, Prof. Agustín Squella.

In addition, interesting conversations were held with professors from Uruguay, especially Prof. Oscar Sarlo, in order to encourage the creation of a National Section, and Brazilian scholars were invited to academic events.

Buenos Aires, June 2001.

Pablo López Ruf

IVR Secretary General

REPORT OF THE IVR TREASURER CARLOS ENRIQUE PETTORUTI

As the last year, the Treasury has sent reminders to the national sections, but there have not been many income funds during the term June 2000 to May 2001. We only received payments from the national sections of Chile (616.50), Switzerland (496.77), Austria (298.29), Germany (1050.00), France (Société pour la Philosophie du Droit, 1394.00), China (135.00), Korea (383.50), Finland (183.50), Italy (1030.00), Mexico (401.50) and U.S.A. (1731,50), bank commissions already discounted.

We encourage then national sections treasurers to calculate the transfer commissions in order to avoid receiving less amounts than the owed sum.

The payments may be sent by a tested cable to our special account: BANKBOSTON (Mass. U.S.A.): ABA 11000390, credit for BANKBOSTON - BUENOS AIRES (FNBB ARBA). Holders: Eugenio Bulygin and Carlos Enrique Pettoruti. Acount No. 9543/11002727/09.

Only eight national sections paid their dues until 2000 (France – Société pour la Phil. du Droit), Iceland, Austria, Germany, Finland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Sweden Switzerland and U.S.A.). Other sections have paid until 1995 to 1999. The Treasury has no proof of any payment from the following national sections: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Federal Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia, India, Israel, Russia, South Africa (except for the IVR Congress of New York) and Venezuela.

The financial situation is very hard. The outgoing expenses (Newsletter, post and bank commissions) are high. That is why it is very important to maintain the commitment of each national section to pay their dues yearly as the only way to edit and send the Newsletter, which is the main way of academic communication of the IVR.

The general balance has been attached to this report.

Buenos Aires, June 2001.

Carlos E. Pettoruti

IVR Treasurer

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS (AMSTERDAM)

The IVR Executive Committee met twice at Amsterdam, during the 20th World Congress. Although the minutes have to be approved next year, the outstanding results of those meetings can be summarized as follows.

IVR Newsletter. As the President, Prof. Eugenio Bulygin, emphasized the dramatic financial situation of IVR, several initiatives were expressed to lower some expenses, especially those related with the printing and the distribution of IVR Newsletter. Prof. Burton Leiser offered to print the Newsletter in the United States and to send the copies from there. This offer was generally accepted and the Editor-in-chief Prof. Guibourg will be in contact with Prof. Leiser in order to carry out the idea.

Young Scholar Prize. Carlos Michelon, from Brazil, was this year the winner of the IVR Young Scholar Prize. For the next edition of the same award, the deadline will be October 2002. The Jury will be composed of Yasutomo Morigiwa, Patricia Smith and Kaarlo Tuori.

Publications. After the reports of Prof. Leiser and Krawietz, Prof. Soeteman stated that material from Amsterdam congress will be published in the Netherlands. For that purpose, authors have been asked to submit the last version of their papers by November, 2001. Prof. Tamayo offers Mexican "Isonomía" to publish some material.

Mid-term Meeting. On a proposal for the President, it is agreed that the mid-term EC meeting in 2002 will be held in Paris. Prof. Michel Troper is asked to organize this event and the corresponding symposium about the end of June, 2002.

SECTION TWO: IVR ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE TWENTY-FIRST IVR WORLD CONGRESS (LUND, SWEDEN)

"LAW AND POLITICS – IN SEARCH OF BALANCE"

Organization of the Congress

5 working days, 1 special session, 18 plenary lectures, 15 working groups, 15 special workshops, meeting continually the 5 days. One excursion day. Approximate number of participants.

Registration fees, deadlines and organization details will be announced later.

Language

The official language of the Congress will be English.

Working Groups and Call for Papers

The papers sent by other means will be accepted in exceptional cases only.

If a paper is received after 30 May, 2003, there is no guarantee that it will be presented during the Congress.

The topic of the Congress must be very general to allow for the diversity of interests within a global organization. Yet, the main idea of the whole Congress is tension and balance between law and politics as regards philosophical assumptions, basic values, argumentation and decision-making. The following are the main problem areas of the Congress. Papers sent to the Congress should preferably deal with such topics.

  1. Reality, Truth and Knowledge in the Normative Sphere

    Ontological and epistemological aspects on law, state and politics. Values, norms, truth and objectivity. The logic of norms. Value conflicts. The character of normative argumentation.

  2. Different Societies: Diversity and Common Ground

    Politics, plural values and the law. Value pluralism, cultural diversity and claims of universality.

  3. Political Legitimacy and the Just Society

    The goals of social organization. Principles of justice, freedom, human rights, democracy, rule of law, welfare, as components of the good society.

  4. Political Power, Legal Authority and Morality

    Problem area: Normativity of morality and law. The rule of law as a component of the good society. Legal authority. Law and politics as the implementation of values and the place of legal research.

  5. Injustice, Power and the Law

Obstacles to realizing the good society. What constitutes misuse of power?

See further in "Topics for Working Groups".

Special Workshops

Special Workshops will be prepared. The chairman of each workshop will organize a coherent series of interrelated papers, distributed in advance to all the active participants of the workshop and commented in advance. There is no open call for papers to the special workshops.

See more in "Topics for Working Groups".

Plenary Lectures and Other Events

See "Overview Calendar".

Addresses

Papers and questions concerning the scientific topics of the congress should be directed to Professor Aleksander Peczenik, Peczenik@ivr2003.net

From the beginning of 2003, questions concerning administrative matters should be directed to Lunds Turistbyra

Box 41 22100 Lund, Sweden

Agneta.Abelson@lund.se

About Lund

Lund itself has a sufficient capacity for the congress. There is a big lecture hall for 450 persons. It is also possible to hire an even bigger hall, for 700 persons, if necessary. In addition to it, there is the main hall of the university, and two other lecture halls, each for ca. 200 persons. Of course, there is also a sufficient number of smaller rooms for working groups. The hotel capacity is also sufficient. Most facilities are within short walking distance.

Information on IVR

The IVR held international congresses in Saarbrücken in 1957, in Vienna in 1959, in Istanbul in 1963, in Milan/Gardone Riviera in 1967, in Brussels in 1971, in Madrid in 1973, in St. Louis in 1975, in Sidney and Canberra in 1977, in Basel in 1979, in Mexico City in 1981, in Helsinki in 1983, in Athens in 1985, in Kobe in 1987, in Edinburgh in 1989, in Göttingen in 1991, in Reykjavik in 1993, in Bologna in 1995, in Buenos Aires – La Plata in 1997, in New York in 1999 and in Amsterdam in 2001.

Preliminary Overview Calendar

Tuesday, 12 August

To 3.00 pm Registration

3.00 pm Opening ceremony. President of the University of Lund, Dean of the Faculty of Law, IVR President Eugenio Bulygin, Aleksander Peczenik, Stig Strömholm.

4.30 pm Special session. A prominent politician. Invitation sent to Mikhail Gorbachev.

Wednesday, 13 August

9 am – 12.39 pm 3 plenary lectures on Law, Politics and Culture

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin (Canada): topic to be decided later.

Gerald Postema (USA): Political Legitimacy and Normativity of the Law.

Philip Petit (Australia): Taking Politics Out of Democracy?

2 pm – 5 pm Parallel meetings: all special workshops and working groups. Executive Committee.

Thursday, 14 August

9 am – 12.30 pm 3 plenary lectures on Comparative Politics and Legal Cultures.

Jare Oladosu (Nigeria): Choosing a Legal Theory on Cultural Grounds.

Lech Morawski (Poland): The Rise of the Democratic State of Law in Middle and Eastern Europe after the Wall.

Tatsuo Inoue (Japan): A Paradox of Liberal Democracy: How to Reconcile Demos and Hercules.

2 pm – 5 pm Parallel meetings: all special workshops and working groups.

6 pm – 7 pm Plenary lecture

Roger Cotterell (UK): Law in Culture.

Friday, 15 August

9 am – 12.30 pm 3 plenary lectures on Objectivity in the Law

Enrico Pattaro (Italy): A Realist Approach to the Objectivity of Norms and of Law.

Cristina Laffont (USA): Objectivity of Normative Judgements.

Wlodek Rabinowicz (Sweden): Practical Rationality.

2 pm – 5 pm Parallel meetings: all special workshops and working groups.

6 pm – 7 pm Plenaryu Lecture by the IVR Young Author Prize Winner

Michael Moore (USA): Ontology of Law.

Saturday, 16 August

9 am – 12.30 pm 3 plenary lectures on Conceptions of Legal Philosophy

Justice Richard Posner (USA): Law and Economics

Robert Alexy (Germany): The Nature of Legal Philosophy

John Gardner (UK): topic to be decided.

2 pm – 5 pm Parallel meetings: all special workshops and working groups

6 pm – 7 pm General Assembly

Sunday, 17 August

9 am – 12.30 pm 3 plenary lectures on Legal Reasoning

Cristina Redondo (Argentina): Legal Reasons.

Giovanni Sartor (Italy) and Jaap Hage (the Netherlands): Law, Morality, Politics and Defeasible Reasoning.

Lars Lindahl (Sweden): Concept Formation and Normativity.

2 pm – 5 pm Parallel meetings: all special workshops and working groups. Executive Committee.

6 pm – 7 pm Plenary Lecture

Eerik Lagerspets (Finland): Conventions and Institutions.

8 pm Banquet.

Monday, 18 August

Excursion, etc.

 

Preliminary list of Special Workshops

Special Workshop Titles Chairpersons

The Law in the Political System – Hayek’s Reinhard Zintl (Germany)

Provocation

  • The role of particular interests and general Judgements in legislation

  • The connection between Hayek’s and Rousseau’s thinking

  • Law and Justice

  • Rule of Law and the Moral Order

  • Law and Power

  • Evolution vs. Construction of Law

  • Law and People’s Sovereignty, Constitution and Democracy

  • Division of Powers

  • The Political Role of the Courts

Individual and Society – The Scandinavian Way. Aulis Aarnio (Finland)

Law and Politics in Scandinavia

Indigenous and Transplanted Legal Values in the Kjell Ake Modéer (Sweden)

Post-colonial World

Practical and Theoretical Problems in Legislation. Luc Wintgens (Belgium)

Research in Legisprudence

Division of Powers, including Independence of Joakim Nergelius (Sweden)

Court stressing Judicial Decisions Krzyszof Palecki (Poland) and Christoffer Wong

(Sweden)

Analysis of Rights – New Approaches Lars Lindahl will approach a person

Law Scholarship and Law Teaching: Technical or Svein Eng (Norway)

Theoretical?

  • The purpose should be to investigate the role and value of general theories, in particular legal theory and legal philosophy, in the presentation and teaching of the law.

Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship Horacio M. Spector

  • The purpose should be to investigate the economic (Argentina) paradigm of legal scholarship as compared with other approaches.

Some topics

  • Philosophy of Law and Economics

  • Law and Economics and Legal Philosophy

  • Law and Economics and Other Approaches to Legal Scholarship

  • Efficiency and Fairness in Legal Scholarship

Law, Morality, Politics, Defeasibility Jaap Hage (the Netherlands)

  • The nature of legal logic and Giovanni Sartor (Italy)

  • Defeasible reasoning in the law

  • Legal reasoning and artificial intelligence

  • The logic of case law

  • Logical relations between law, morality and Policies

  • Logical theories of legal coherence and theory formation

  • Deontic logic and the analysis of normative positions

  • The ingredients of legal reasoning: factors, rules, principles and goals

Artificial Intelligence in the Law. Efficient Tools Hajime Yoshino (Japan)

for Politicians and Lawyers

Scandinavian Realism in Theory and Practice Jes Bjarup (Sweden)

Legal Reasoning Marek Zirk-Sadowski

(Poland)

Legal Positivism 1 Stanley L. Paulson (USA)

  • Normative Legal Positivism – A Contradiction in Terms?

  • Hans Kelsen’s Theory: what is the relation between the two key conceptual elements, namelyhe peculiarly normative category of imputation and the basic norm?

Legal Positivism after Hart and Dworkin Brian Leiter (USA)

Coherence Theory of Law and Analogy Zenon Bankowski (UK)

Politics of Human Rights Göran Melander (Sweden)

Legal Research in the Past, Now and in Future Rolf Nygren (Sweden) – Not yet confirmed

The Actuality of Conceptual Jurisprudence Claes Peterson (Sweden)

Criminal Responsibility R. A. Duff (UK)

  • What is to be a responsible agent?

  • What must be true of a person, if we are to see

and treat her as a (criminally) responsible agent?

  • What is it to be responsible for a particular action or outcome
  • Do we have, or can we (re)construct, a coherent conception of criminal responsibility?

Preliminary Topics of Working Groups

Note: As opposed to special workshops – which involve continuous research – working groups will be organized some months before the Congress, and all participants are invited to send papers on the following topics.

LAW AND POLITICS

  1. Reality, Truth and Knowledge in the Normative Sphere

Problem area: Ontological and epistemological aspects on law, state and politics. Values, norms, truth and objectivity. The logic of norms. Value conflicts. The character of normative argumentation.

Various specific problems within the area:

  • Law and logic. Logical reconstruction of normative systems, of right positions, of concept formation, of chains of arguments. Deontic logic and deontology.

  • Conflicts of goals and values. The role of decision theory for reconstruction of such conflicts. Are there rational methods for resolutions of goal conflicts?

  • Political v. legal reasoning. Philosophy of law and politics in a historical perspective. Types of arguments in law and politics. Arguments from principle and arguments from policy. Law, politics and morality in legal argumentation.

  • Logical structure of legal argumentation. Weighing in political and in legal argumentation. Logic and rhetoric in legal and political argumentation. The semiotic approach to legal and political argumentation.  Artificial intelligence and the method of legal and political argumentation.

  • Kinds and levels of legal research.  Case studies and legal dogmatics.  Jurisprudence (legal theory) and legal dogmatics.  Moral-philosophical doctrines in legal dogmatics.  Basic philosophical positions behind jurisprudence and legal dogmatics.  Legal dogmatics—descriptive or normative?  Tension between legal research and politics.

  • Objectivity claim of legal research.  A review of the twentieth century: some main positions.  The present situation.  The legacy of legal realism.  Criticism of legal realism.  Foundations and coherence in legal argumentation.  Value pluralism v. objectivity claim.

  • Objectivity claim in normative ethics.  Objectivity claim in politics.  Objectivity claim v. political legitimacy.  Material correctness v. procedural legitimacy of legal opinion.  Compromise and conflict solution mechanisms v. objectivity claim.

  • Legal knowledge—of what?  Validity and reality.  Legal rules and legal principles.  Conventions, institutional facts.  Interests, needs, rights.  Objective values, moral realism.

  1. Different Societies: Diversity and Common Ground

Problem area: Politics, plural values and the law.  Value pluralism, cultural diversity and claims of universality.

Various specific problems within the area:

  • Cultural, historical and religious differences between societies.

  • Are there fundamental universal concepts in law, politics and ethics?  The concept of universalizability?  Contested concepts.  Are the concepts of equality and justice universal?

  • Conflicts of value systems.  The game-theoretical approach to the description and resolution of conflicts.  Evolution theory and the emergence of common norms.  The concept of tolerance.

  • Law, morality, justice, religion and politics in different legal cultures.

  • Unity or diversity of legal systems.  Polycentricity of the law.

  • Internationalization of the law.  International and supra-national organizations.  The United Nations.  Problems of the European Union.  Minorities and the idea of sovereignty.  Regionalism and Subsidiarity.  The idea of globalization.

  1. Political Legitimacy and the Just Society

Problem area: The goals of social organization.  Principles of justice, freedom, human rights, democracy, rules of law and welfare as components of the good society.

Various specific problems within the area:

  • Human rights and principles of justice.  Utilitarianism, non-utilitarianism (deontology).  Virtues.

  • The concept of politics.  Political authority or politics and law in relation to political science.  Democracy and political ideologies: liberalism, conservatism, the welfare state and nationalism.

  • Liberal democracy.  Notions of freedom.

  • Theory and history of democracy.  Viability of democracy, especially after the cold war.  Problems of transition in new democracies.

  • The notions of common good and of volonté générale.  Material rightness v. procedural legitimacy in political philosophy.

  • Division of powers, checks and balances.  Judicial review and judicial activism—good or bad?

  • Compromise and conflict resolution in the political process.  Objectivity standards in politics.  The role of legal experts in liberal democracy.  Elites in democracy.

  • The role of law, bureaucracy and political power in different cultures.  Legal limitations of political power.  Different kinds of government.  History of the term 'state'.

  • Theory and history of the welfare state.  Interests, needs, equality.  Justice for future generations.  Environmental problems and sustainable development.  Adjustment to technological change.  Bioethical problems.

  1. Political Power, Legal Authority and Morality

Problem area: Normativity of morality and law.  The rule of law as a component of the good society.  Legal authority.  Law and politics as the implementation of values and the position of legal research.

Various specific problems within the area:

  • Rationality of legislation.  Objectivity and legitimacy.  Legisprudence and techniques of legislation.  De lege ferenda and legal politics.

  • Legal authority, law and politics as institutional structure.  State, sovereignty, rule of law/Rechtsstaat, constitutionalism.

  • The role of legal research, especially legal dogmatics.  To what extent is legal research a servant of the judiciary?

  • Theory and history of the RechtsstaatRechtsstaat, Rechtssicherheit, rule of law.  The legal implementation of rights.  Moral and legal rights.  Legal institution in a democratic RechtsstaatRechtsstaat vs. Wohlfahrtsstaat.  The American and European models.

  • Legal positivism.  Pure theory of law.  The criticisms raised against legal positivism.  Natural law.  Power and reason in different legal contexts: citizenship, property, contract, torts, punishment, environment etc.

  • Distinction between private and public law.

  • Politics within the framework constructed by legal scholars.

  • Political philosophy behind decision-making—Formalism, decisionism, moralism, constitutionalisim.

  • Rechtsstaat and Wohlfahrtsstaat.  The limits of law.  State and civil society.  Regulation—Deregulation.

  • The role of law according to law and economics.  The role of law according to the theory of public choice.
  1. Injustice, Power and the Law

Problem area: Obstacles to realizing the good society.  What constitutes misuse of power?

Various specific problems within the area:

  • Clashes between enacted legal rules and principles of justice.  Oppression of minorities.  Discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity and gender.  Cultural blindness for specific forms of oppression.  Traditional inequalities between groups within a society.  The feministic theory of male-dominated cultures.  Political decisions and the influence of power groups.  Injustice inflicted to weak and powerless groups.

  • Legal rules, justice and politics.  Political disregard for traditional legal principles of justice.  To what extent are judges the servants of politicians?

  • Are traditional principles of justice incoherent?  Marxism.  Critical legal studies.  Feminism.  Post-modernism in relation to law.

  • Inefficient implementation of the law.  The erosion of trust, and "lawless" societies.  Obstacles to transition in new democracies.

  • Do we have an obligation to obey the law?  Civil disobedience.

22nd IVR WORLD CONGRESS

The 22nd IVR World Congress will be held in Granada, Spain. Further information is still to be confirmed.

SECTION THREE: NATIONAL SECTIONS NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND RECORDS

ARGENTINA

(Asociación Argentina de Filosofía del Derecho)

NEWS

In May 18-19, 2001, a Preliminary Meeting for the IVR 20th World Congress was held in Buenos Aires, hosted by the School of Law in the University of Buenos Aires. The meeting was chaired by AAFD Vice President, Prof. Rodolfo L. Vigo, and its purpose was to allow the members of AAFD a local, preliminary presentation of papers submitted to the World Congress or a participation in according debates even for scholars or students who were not planning to attend the Amsterdam meeting.

In July 2001 the founder, first President of AAFD and currently its Honorary President, Prof. Juan Carlos Smith, died at 81. The IVR Argentine National Section expresses its deep sorrow for the loss of a man who could keep the philosophical dialogue between different trends in very difficult times.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

In October 25-27, 2001, the XV Argentine Conference on Legal and Social Philosophy will take place in Rosario, province of Santa Fe.

RECORDS

Since June 1998, the Board of Directors of the AAFD is composed by:

President: Ricardo A. Guibourg

Vice president: Rodolfo L. Vigo

Secretary: Pablo López Ruf

Treasurer: Eduardo Barbarosch

Other members: Ariel Álvarez Gardiol, Abel J. Arístegui, Eugenio Bulygin, Carlos M. Cárcova, Julio C. Cueto Rúa, José R. Chirico, Miguel A. Ciuro Caldani, Carlos I. Massini Correas, Ricardo V. Guarinoni, Julio R. Méndez and Mario Portela.

Board surrogates: Eduardo Barcesat, Ana Castro de Cabanillas, Luis López Taiana and Renato Rabbi Baldi.

Account reviewers: Carlos M. Fernández and Eloy E. Suárez.

CONTACT

Prof. Ricardo A. Guibourg

President

Av. Callao 492 10 B – 1022 Buenos Aires – Argentina

Tel/fax: +54 44 4372 4613 (home)

+54 11 4374 2711 (office)

E-mail: pachig@ciudad.com.ar

AUSTRIA

CONTACT

Univ.-Ass. Dr. Christian Hiebaum, Secretary of the Austrian IVR Section.

University of Graz

Institute for Legal Philosophy, Sociology of Law, and Legal Informatics

Universitätsstraße 15

8010 Graz

Austria

Tel.: +43(0)316/380-3394

Fax: +43(0)316/380-9460

E-mail: christian.hiebaum@kfunigraz.ac.at

CANADA

NEWS

Activity Report of the Canadian Section of the IVR in 2000-2001 year.

The major activity was the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Section on May 28, 2001 at Laval University, Quebec. Nine principal papers and thirteen commentaries were circulated before the meeting, and a full day of careful discussion was devoted to these. Several papers examined issues arising in the forthcoming International Congress on Pluralism and Law in Amsterdam. These included papers on Kymlicka’s argument on the entitlements of minority cultures (Baker), on lessons from alternative dispute resolution for democratic deliberation (Kahane), on law, morality and social fact (Wein), and on which of two freedoms should be given precedence in a conflict between them (A. Macleod). Other papers were on a variety of different issues, some of them work in progress. They included an essay on law and economics for a prospective textbook (Dimock), an examination of the cogency of treating like cases differently (Brett), a discussion of some implications of globalizing in and for legal philosophy (Gray), an investigation of the issues posed by finding archeological remains of past individuals and cultures (Soifer), and an examination of the claims of moral positivism in relation to moral psychology (Ellin). More than half a dozen members of the Canadian Section participated in the Amsterdam Congress.

CONTACT

Michael Milde (mmilde@uwo.ca)

Eldon Soifer at (Eldon.Soifer@uregina.ca)

Brenda Baker (bmbaker@ucalgary.ca ).

CHILE

(Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Jurídica y Social)

NEWS

This year, the Chilean Society for Legal and Social Philosophy reaches its twentieth anniversary, because it was founded in Valparaíso on December 5th, 1981.

The Anuario de Filosofía Jurídica y Social N. 18 is to be published very soon. Persons interested in receiving it, or in collaborating to next issues of the Anuario, may write to the President, Agustín Squella.

CONTACT

Prof. Agustín Squella Narducci

President

Universidad de Valparaíso

P.O.Box 3325, Correo 3, Valparaíso, Chile

Telefax (56) (32) 252125

Fax (56) (32) 50 71 43

E-mail secretaria.rectoria@uv.cl

DENMARK

NEWS

In the fall of 2000, the Danish chapter of IVR initiated a series of lectures on the theme of "Global Challenges to the Philosophy of Law", held at the University of Copenhagen. The series was extended into the spring of 2001 with the following lectures:

March 26th: Adjunct Professor Jacob Rendtorff, Roskilde University Centre: "Transnational business ethics - can cultural differences be overcome?"

April 9th: Cand. jur., LL.M, D.E.A. Mikael Rask Madsen, EHESS, Paris: Indigenous People and the creation of virtual law in a transnational space".

April 19th: Professor, dr. jur. Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen: "Global challenges to Western Philosophy of Law and legal thinking".

RECORDS

The composition of the Board of Directors is: Mogens Blegvad, Finn Collin (Secretary), Jřrgen Dalberg-Larsen (Vice-chairman), Jens Evald (Cashier), Peter Hřilund, Hanne Petersen (Chairman), Ditlev Tamm and Henrik Zahle.

CONTACTS

Finn Collin: collin@hum.ku.dk

Jřrgen Dalberg-Larsen: retslaere@jura.au.dk

Jens Evald: je@jura.au.dk

Hanne Petersen: Hanne.Petersen@jur.ku.dk

FRANCE

(Association Française de Philosophie du Droit)

NEWS

In April 26-27, a colloquium was held on the subject "Taxes", coordinated by Daniel Gutmann. The following sub-themes were developed:

I – Les fondements de l’impôt (Emmanuel de Crouy Chanel, Laurent Fonbaustier, Michel Bouvier, Cyrille David).

II – Les pouvoirs de l’impôt (Jacques Blanc, Jean-François Racine, Jacques Buisson, Philippe Didier).

III – Les formes de l’impôt (Bernard Plagnet, Emmanuel Picavet, Christine Larrčre, Alain Trannois)

There was a synthetic report by Daniel Gutmann.

Recent publications: A. Maryoli, J.-C. Billier, La philosophie du droit (Armand Colin); H. Dumont (éd.) et al., Pas de liberté pour les ennemis de la liberté?: Groupements liberticides et droit (Bruylant); Cahiers de recherches mediévales, Droits et pouvoirs (CEMO); F. Guéry, Critique du droit hégélien de l’État par Marx (Ellipses); J.-J. Sueur, Une introduction ŕ la théorie du droit (L’Harmattan); O. Battistini, Les saisons de la loi (Klincksieck); D. Renard et al., L’analyse des politiques publiques aux prises avec le droit (L.G.D.J.); Droit et société (nş 46), Complexités ŕ l’oeuvre (id.); B. Melkevik, Réflexions sur la philosophie du droit (P. Université de Laval); P. Livet (dir.), L’argumentation: droit, philosophie et sciences sociales (id.); P. Dumouchel (dir.), Violences, victimes et vengeances (id.); P. Catala, Droit et patrimoine (PUF); J. Gaudemet, Sociologie historique du droit (id.); G. Vannier, Argumentation et droit: introduction ŕ la Nouvelle Rhétorique de Perelman (id.): T. Padoa-Schioffa (dir.), Justice et legislation (id.); R. Dulong (dir.), L’aveu: histoire, sociologie, philosophie (id.); F. Saint-Bonnet, L’état d’exception (id.); J. Hoaereau-Dodinau (dir.), Pouvoir, justice et société (PULIM); Mélanges P. Aubenque, Ontologie et dialogue (Vrin).

CONTACT

Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

Secretary General

Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)

Rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris.

E-mail: mafr@noos.fr

www.philosophie-droit.asso.fr

FRANCE

(Société Française pour la Philosophie et la Théorie Juridiques et Politiques – SFPJ)

NEWS

In the automn 2001, a meeting will be held for "young researchers". There, the participants will show the state of their work or the thesis they have just finished or are working in.

In May 16-18, 2002, there will be a colloquium in Rouen, titled "Autour du réalisme scandinave". Stanley Paulson, Henrick Palmer Olsen, Carla Faralli, Riccardo Guastini, Pierre Brunet, Eric Millard and Michel Troper will participate.

In June, 2002, the SFPJ will organize a mid-term colloquium on "Validité et applicabilité", to host the annual meeting of the IVR Executive Committee.

CONTACT

Secretary General: Prof. Olivier Cayla, 30, rue Anatole France, 94300 Vincennes – France

Olivier.Cayla@ehess.fr

Michel Troper, troper@ext.jussieu.fr

GERMANY

NEWS

The next conference of the German section will take place Sept. 27-28, 2002, at Frankfurt/Oder, organized by Professor J. Joerden / R. Wittmann from the Law Faculty of the "Viadrina". The general subject is "Law and Politics", lectures are supposed to deal with thematical fields such as "Law Becoming Political – Adjudication of Politics", "Political Ethics", "Law, Politics, Religion" or "Globalization of Law and Politics"; speakers will be J. Habermas, W. Hassemer, H. Hofmann, W. Naucke and others (for details see www.rechtsphilosophie.de or the next newsletter).

The 8th conference of the "Junges Forum Rechtsphilosophie" took place at the Freie Universität Berlin, April 27-29, 2001. It was organized by Gralf-Peter Calliess and Matthias Mahlmann. It dealt with "The Government of the Future/Der Staat der Zukunft". 15 speaches of young scholars from all over Europe contributed with analyses of diverse topics (M. Hochhuth, Freiburg i.B.; D. Dettling, Potsdam; R.D. Fuhrmann, Konstanz; P.Czarny, Krakau; R. Uitz, Budapest; Chr. Kletzer, Cambridge; L. Kähler, Erfurt; Chr. Konrath, Wien; M. Hirsch, Frankfurt a.M.; C.v. Villiez, Bremen; F. Ekardt Rostock; D.v. Daniels, Leipzig; K. Krüger, Berlin; A. Augustin, Basel; Th. Füller, Berlin). For further information see www.rechtsphilosophie.de. The forum elected new speakers: Angela Augustin, Basel, and Silke R. Laskowski, Hamburg.

The IVR Study Group on "History of Ideas of Legal Philosophy" will hold its first meeting on "Discovery, Content and Overcoming of the Antithesis of Natural Law and Positive Law: The Sophists", Sept. 7-9, 2001 in Wölpinghausen. Further information can be obtained through the internet (http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak2/brugger/kirste/arbeitskreis.htm).

Recent Publications: Ballestrem, Karl Graf (Hg.), Internationale Gerechtigkeit, Opladen 2001; Becchi, Paolo/Seelmann, Kurt (Hg.), Gaetano Filangieri und die europäische Aufklärung. Rechtsphilosophische Hefte Bd. 8, Frankfurt/Main 2000; Birnbacher, Dieter (Hg.), Bioethik als Tabu? Toleranz und ihre Grenzen, Münster 2000; Bondolfi, Alberto/Grotefeld, Stefan (Hg.), Ethik und Gesetzgebung. Probleme-Lösungsversuche-Konzepte, Stuttgart 2000; Braun, Kathrin, Menschenwürde und Biomedizin, Frankfurt/Main 2000; Britz, Gabriele, Kulturelle Rechte und Verfassung, Tübingen 2000; Brudermüller, Gerd/Seelmann, Kurt (Hg.), Organtransplantation, Würzburg 2000; Burkhardt, Holger/Reich, Kersten, Begründung von Moral. Diskursethik versus Konstruktivismus. Eine Streitschrift, Würzburg 2000; Byrd, Sharon B./Hruschka/Joerden (Hg.), Der analysierte Mensch/The Human Analyzed (Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik Bd. 7), Berlin 1999; Dieth, Eric, Politisiertes Recht oder verrechtlichte Politik? Gedanken zur sozialen Konstruktion der Differenz von Recht und Politik, Zürich 2000; Feldner, Birgit/Forgo, Nikolaus (Hg.), Norm und Entscheidung. Prolegomena zu einer Theorie des Falls, Wien 2000; Filmer, Fridtjof, Das Gewissen als Argument im Recht, Berlin 2000; Gottschalk, Niels, Diskursethik, Berlin 2000; Gerechtigkeit. Facetten einer Diskussion. Erste Ferienakademie der Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin 2000; Gröschner, Rolf u.a., Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie. Ein dogmengeschichtlicher Dialog, Wien u.a. 2000; Halich, Oliver, Richard Hares Moralphilosophie. Metaethische Grundlagen und Anwendungen, Freiburg 2000; Heinzelmann, Claudia, Der Gleichheitsdiskurs in der Tierrechtsdebatte, Stuttgart 2000; Hippel, Eike von, Willkür oder Gerechtigkeit. Studien zur Rechtspolitik, Berlin 1998; Hochhuth, Martin, Relativitätstheorie des öffentlichen Rechts, Baden-Baden 2000; Höffe, Otfried, „Königliche Völker". Zu Kants kosmopolitischer Rechts- und Friedenstheorie, Frankfurt/Main 2001; Hossenfelder, Malte, Der Wille zum Recht und das Streben nach Glück, München 2000; Joerden, Jan C./Busch, Bodo (Hg.), Tiere ohne Rechte?, Berlin/Heidelberg 2000; Jung, Heike/Neumann, Ulfrid (Hg.), Rechtsbegründung-Rechtsbegründungen. Günter Ellscheid zum Geburtstag, Baden-Baden 2000; Kahlo, Michael, Die Behandlungsform der Unterlassung als Kriminaldelikt, Frankfurt/Main 2001; Kersten, Jens, Georg Jellinek und die klassische Staatslehre, Tübingen 2000; Kersting, Wolfgang, Politik und Recht. Abhandlungen zur politischen Philosophie der Gegenwart und zur neuzeitlichen Rechtsphilosophie, Weilerswist 2000; Kreß, Hartmut/Kaatsch, Hans Jürgen (Hg.), Menschenwürde und Bioethik, Münster 2000; Kuhlmann, Andreas, Politik des Lebens-Politik des Sterbens. Biomedizin in der liberalen Demokratie, Berlin 2001; Ladeur, Karl-Heinz, Negative Freiheitsrechte und gesellschaftliche Selbstorganisation, Tübingen 2000; Ladwig, Bernd, Gerechtigkeit und Verantwortung. Zum Gleichheitsverständnis des ethischen Liberalismus, Berlin 2000; Manterfeld, Norbert, Die Grenzen der Verfassung, Berlin 2000; McCormick, Peter (Hg.), Verantwortungsethik, Heidelberg 2000; Meder, Stephan, Urteilen. Elemente von Kants reflektierender Urteilskraft in Savignys Lehre von der juristischen Entscheidungs- und Regelfindung, Frankfurt/Main 1999; Merkel, Reinhard (Hg.), Der Kosovo-Krieg und das Völkerrecht, Frankfurt/Main 2000; Merkel, Reinhard, Früheuthanasie. Rechtsethische und strafrechtliche Grundlagen ärztlicher Entscheidungen über Leben und Tod in der Neonatalmedizin, Baden-Baden 2001; Merks, Karl-Wilhelm (Hg.), Verantwortung – Ende oder Wandlungen einer Vorstellung, Münster 2000; Menke, Christoph, Spiegelungen der Gleichheit, Berlin 2000; Mieth, Dietmar, Ethik im Zeitalter der Biotechnik, Freiburg 2001; Orsi, Guiseppe, u.a. (Hg.), Recht und Kulturen. Rechtsphilosophische Hefte Bd. 9, Bern 2000; Quante, Michael/Vieth, Andreas (Hg.), Xenotransplantation. Ethische und rechtliche Probleme, Paderborn 2000; Schilcher, Bernd/Koller, Peter/Funk, Bernhard (Hg.), Regeln, Prinzipien und Elemente im System des Rechts, Wien 2000; Schiwek, Heiko, Sozialmoral und Verfassungsrecht, Berlin 2000; Schluchter, Wolfgang, Individualismus, Verantwortungsethik und Vielfalt, Weilerswist 2000; Scholz, Oliver, Verstehen und Rationalität. Untersuchungen zu den Grundlagen von Hermeneutik und Sprachphilosophie, 2. Aufl., Frankfurt/Main 2001; Schröder, Peter, Naturrecht und absolutistisches Staatsrecht. Eine vergleichende Studie zu Thomas Hobbes und Christian Thomasius, Berlin 2000; Schulz, Lorenz, Normiertes Mißtrauen, Frankfurt/Main 2001, Seelmann, Kurt (Hg.), Aktuelle Fragen der Rechtsphilosophie, Bern 2000; Seher, Gerd, Liberalismus und Strafe. Zur Strafrechtsphilosophie von Joel Feinberg, Berlin 2000; Simon, Florian, Assoziation und Institution als soziale Lebensform in der zeitgenössischen Rechtstheorie, Berlin 2000; Spaemann, Robert, Grenzen. Zur ethischen Dimension des Handelns, Stuttgart 2001; Sticht, Oliver, Sachlogik als Naturrecht? Zur Rechtsphilosophie Hans Welzels (1904-1977), Paderborn 2000; Thurnherr, Urs, Angewandte Ethik, Hamburg 2000; Tönnies, Sybille, Der westliche Universalismus, Wiesbaden 2000; Unruh, Peter, Sokrates und die Pflicht zum Rechtsgehorsam. Eine Analyse von Platons "Kriton", Baden-Baden 2000; Wächter, Michael, Falsifikation und Fortschritt im Datenschutz, Berlin 2000; Weiler, Rudolf, Völkerrechtsordnung und Völkerrechtsethik, Berlin 2000; Weinberger, Ota, Aus intellektuellem Gewissen, Berlin 2000; Willoweit, Dietmar (Hg.), Die Begründung des Rechts als historisches Problem, München 2000.

RECORDS

Executives of the German section of the IVR are:

Ulfrid Neumann (President), Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften und Rechtsphilosophie der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Senckenberganlage 31-33, D-60054 Frankfurt/Main, tel. 069-798- 22921/2, fax 069/798-22204;

e-mail: U.Neumann@jur.uni-frankfurt.de.

Lorenz Schulz (Vice-President and Treasurer), same address;

e-mail: L.Schulz@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

The Honorary President, Arthur Kaufmann, died on April, 11th, 2001 in Munich.

CONTACTS

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Schulz, Vice-President and Treasurer.

Homepage: www.Rechtsphilosophie.de

HUNGARY

(IVR Hungarian National Section)

NEWS

In conclusion of the TEMPUS Structural European Project 090909/95, workshops with participants from Belgium, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Russia and Spain were organised in Budapest in 1997 and 1998 with the prospect of proceedings to be published in a special issue of Rechtstheorie.

Within the Project, a number of collections—mainly of translations into Hungarian from western classical literature, as well as monographical treatments—were published in the series JOGFILOZÓFIÁK [Philosophies of Law] edited by Csaba Varga (Budapest: Osiris) on, among others, law and philosophy in continental Europe (ed. Cs. Varga, 1998), paradoxes of democratic transition (Cs. Varga, 1998) and its cry for practicalness (ed. Cs. Varga, 1998), social science theory of law (Cs. Varga, 1999), law as process (Cs. Varga, 1999), the law’s paradigms (ed. Cs. Varga, 1998; 2000), law as logic, system and technique (Cs. Varga, 2000), law and anthropology (ed. István H. Szilágyi, 2000; enlarged ed. 2001) and its trends (I. H. Szilágyi, 2000), law and language (ed. Miklós Szabó & Cs. Varga, 2000), comparative legal cultures (ed. Cs. Varga, 2000), and, finally, Historical Jurisprudence (a facsimile reader, ed. József Szabadfalvi, 2000), as well as (Budapest: Szent István Társulat) on law and philosophy in the twentieth century (ed. Cs. Varga, 2001), Law and Morality (a fac simile reader, ed. Péter Takács, 2001), natural law (ed. János Frivaldszky, 2001) and its history (J. Frivaldszky, 2001), Scandinavian Legal Realism (a facsimile reader, ed. Antal Visegrády, 2001), European constitutional theory (Péter Paczolay, 2001), and, eventually, theory of state: a reader (ed. P. Takács, 2001). In preparation are a monograph on intersubjectivity in law (J. Frivaldszky) and a reader on/of American legal realism (ed. Attila Badó). Some book-size manuscripts from the socialist era are also planned in the series posthumously, including Katalin Szegvári on Felix Somló’s intellectual development (from 1953), Aladár Halász on Gusztáv Szászy-Schwarz’s idea of the subject in law (from 1957, with chapters on legal logic and the theory of fiction) and Pál Halász on normativism and legal theory (from 1963).

After having published Csaba Varga’s Law and Philosophy (1994), Études en philosophie du droit (1994), Rechtsphilosophische Aufsätze (1994), Ghfdj (1994) and Transition to Rule of Law (1995), as well as the facsimile collection Aus dem Nachlass von Julius Moór (ed. Cs. Varga, 1995, with the photo of the only surviving copy of Ilmar Tammelo’s thesis from Dorpat (in its author’s German manuscript!), Varga’s foreign language series PHILOSOPHIAE IURIS was taken over by Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó to publish his Lectures on the Paradigms of Legal Thinking (1999) in company of Felix Somló’s Schriften zur Rechtsphilosophie (ed. Cs. Varga, 1999) and Ferenc Horkay Hörcher’s Prudentia Iuris Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Natural Law (2000). In preparation are facsimile collections of papers published originally in western languages by philosophers of law of the interwar Hungary, namely Julius Moór, István Bibó, Barna Horváth, István Losonczy and József Szabó, as well as two manuscripts from 1948, notably a paper of synthesis by Barna Horváth (Budapest) on The Bases of Law and, by I. Losonczy (Pécs), his lectures on philosophy of law.

In the meantime, Miskolc University has also launched its own series PRUDENTIA IURIS in Hungarian language (Miskolc: Bíbor Kiadó) with titles on introduction to law (ed. Miklós Szabó, 1995), history of Hungarian legal philosophy (József Szabadfalvi, István H. Szilágyi et al., 1995), excerpts from Felix Somló’s Juristische Grundlehre in Hungarian translation (ed. Péter Takács, 1995), doctrinal study of law (M. Szabó, 1996), English–American legal theorising (ed. J. Szabadfalvi, 1996), law and logic: a reader (ed. Mátyás Bódig & M. Szabó, 1996) and legal logic (Kornél Solt, 1997), theory of state (ed. P. Takács, 1997), Hans Kelsen’s Grundriß einer allgemeinen Theorien des Staates in Hungarian translation (ed. J. Szabadfalvi, 1997), lectures in jurisprudence (ed. M. Szabó, 1998), introduction to legal sociology (I. H. Szilágyi et al., 1998), history of western legal philosophy (ed. M. Szabó, 1999), as well as a collection of legal-philosophical papers by the late Professor József Szabó (ed. J. Szabadfalvi, 1999).

Independently, Béla Pokol’s The Concept of Law The Multi-layered Legal System was also published (Budapest: Rejtjel 2001).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Scheduled for the rest of the year are symposia on H.L.A. Hart (with Mátyás Bódig, Balázs Gellér, Tamás Gyôrfi, András Karácsony, Lajos Cs. Kiss, Zsolt Krokovay, Péter Paczolay, Péter Takács, Csaba Varga) in Budapest on 7 September (to be followed by one on Carl Schmitt later on in this autumn) by Eötvös Loránd University, and on positivism and natural law at Miskolc on 5–6 October, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of Miskolc University.

RECORDS

President: Prof. Vilmos PESCHKA

Secretary: Prof. Csaba VARGA

both at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

H–1250 Budapest, P. O. Box 25

CONTACT

Professor Csaba VARGA

Director of the Philosophy of Law Institute,

Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary

H–1428 Budapest 8, P. O. Box 6

phone: (36 1) 42 97 230, secr. [English/French/German] 42 97 227; fax: 42 97 226

E-mail: vargacs@jak.ppke.hu

SPAIN

(Spanish Society for Legal and Political Philosophy, SEFJP)

NEWS:

The last Conference of the Spanish Section was held in Granada, on "Feminism and Law", on 4-6 April 2000. Speakers were: A. Rubio (Granada), on Aportaciones del feminismo al principio de igualdad; E. Bodelón (Barcelona), on Dos metáforas para la libertad: igualdad y diferencia; A. Ruiz Miguel (Madrid), on La representación democrática de las mujeres; J. Herrera (Sevilla), on El nuevo sujeto político; J. Malem (Barcelona), on La situación de las mujeres: de la felicidad a los derechos.

Number XVII of the Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho has been published. Number XVIII is under preparation. The release of this volume is expected for the end of 2001.

Together to Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho, since 1998 there is a second review edited by the SEFJP: Cuadernos Electrónicos de Filosofía del Derecho, an electronic review whose editor in chief is Prof. J. De Lucas (www.uv.es).

There is also an electronic newsletter of the SEFJP, at http: www3.unileon.es/dp/dpb/boletinfd, edited by Prof. García Amado (Univ. of León).

Recent publications: V. Abril (ed.), Bartolomé de las Casas: la Apología. Valladolid, 2000; C. Alarcón, Causalidad y normatividad. Sevilla, 2001; F. Arcos, La seguridad jurídica: una teoría formal. Madrid, 2000; R. de Asís, Sobre el concepto y el fundamento de los derechos: una aproximación dualista. Madrid, 2001; M. Atienza, El sentido del Derecho. Barcelona, 2001; M. Atienza / J. Ruiz Manero, Ilícitos atípicos. Madrid, 2000; J. Barraca, La clave de los valores. Madrid, 2000; J. M. Cabra, Argumentación jurídica y racionalidad en A. Aarnio. Madrid, 2000; R. Escudero, Positivismo y moral interna del derecho. Madrid, 2000; M. J. Farińas, Globalización, ciudadanía y derechos humanos. Madrid, 2000; J. Ferrer, Las normas de competencia. Un aspecto de la dinámica jurídica. Madrid, 2000; M. Figueras, Apuntes iusfilosóficos en la Cataluńa franquista. Lleida, 2000; A. Llano, Una aproximación a la Neoescolástica jurídica espańola de finales del siglo XIX: Francisco Javier González Castejón Elio, 1848-1919; J. Malem, Globalización, comercio internacional y corrupción. Barcelona, 2000; A. Marmor, Interpretación y teoría del derecho. Barcelona, 2001. N. Martínez, La obediencia al Derecho en la Espańa democrática. Madrid, 2000; D. Mendonca, Las claves del derecho. Barcelona, 2000; F. Puy / A. López Moreno (ed.), Manual de Filosofía del Derecho. Madrid, 2000; M. Rodríguez Molinero, Introducción a la Filosofía del Derecho. Madrid, 2000; R. Susín, La regulación de la pobreza. Logrońo, 2000; J. Vega, La idea de ciencia en el Derecho. Oviedo, 2000.

RECORDS:

Executives of the Spanish section of the IVR are: B. De Castro (President), E. Gayo (Treasurer), J. Ansuátegui (Secretary), F. Puigpelat, J. García Amado, M. Gascón, M. J. Ańón, M. Calvo and C. Alarcón.

CONTACT:

Prof. Carlos Alarcón Cabrera (carlos@cica.es)

SWITZERLAND

NEWS

In October 20-21, 2000, the Jahrestagung 2000 was held in Fribourg/Freiburg. Participants: Ulrich Steinvorth, Peter, Ulrich, Czelaw Porebski, Markus Haller, Anna Remisova.

In May, 2-5, 2001, a colloquium was held in Augst on "Rechtliche und etische Fragen der Transplantationtechnologie in einem interkulturellen Vergleich". Its participants were Jörg Paul Müller, Rikizo Kuzuhara, Wolfgang Holzgreve, Makoto Ida, Kurt Seelman, Hans-Reinhard Zerkowski, Wolfgang Lienemann, Denis Müller, Alberto Bondolfi, Yen-Ching Chao, Mitsumasa Matsuo, Rainer J. Schweitzer, Hirokazu Kawaguchi, Karl-Ludwig Kunz, Olivier Guillod, Masami Okaue, Andreas Brenner, Bettina Schöne-Seifert, Danielle Bütschi.

RECORDS

Prof. Dr. Kurt Seelmann, Universität Basel (President); Prof. Dr. Alfred Dufour, Université de Genčve(Vice-President); Dr. Nicoletta Bersier-Ladavac, Thémis, Genčve (Secretary); Prof. Senn (Treasurer); Prof. J.-C. Wolf.

CONTACT

Secretary: Dr. Nicoletta Bersier-Ladavac

Thémis, 8, Quai Gustave Ador, CH-1207 Genčve – Switzerland

Tel. +41-22-7868060

+41-22-7868063

nbersier@iprolink.ch

Angela Augustin

Angela.Augustin@unibas.ch

Pascal Lachenmeier (assistant to Prof. Seelman)

Pascal.Lachenmeier@unibas.ch

SECTION FOUR: OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

JUNGES FORUM RECHTSPHILOSOPHIE (JFR)

News: In April, a conference on "The Future State - Basics, Tasks, Measures" was organized by Dr. Matthias Mahlmann (Berlin) and Dr. Gralf-Peter Callies (Frankfurt a.M.) at Berlin. Speakers and subjects: Angela Augustin (Basel): Private Gefängnisse, Piotr Czarny (Krakau): Begrenzung der Staatsgewalt und Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Polen, Felix Ekardt (Rostock): Grundrechte für zukünftige Menschen?, Detlef von Daniels (Leipzig): Vier Asse und ein Revolver. Otfried Höffes Weltstaat als Garant des ewigen Friedens, Daniel Dettling (Potsdam): Der Netzwerkstaat – Leitbild für ein nachhaltiges Verständnis von Recht und Politik, Petra Dobner (Halle): Handlungsbedingungen konstitutioneller Politik in der Transformation von Staatlichkeit, Jens Thomas Füller (Berlin): Deregulierung durch Wettbewerbsrecht – "Kartellrechtliche Normenkontrolle", Raban Daniel Fuhrmann (Konstanz): Wo ist die Macht? Zur prozeduralen Entgrenzung und Eingrenzung des Staates einer Bürgergesellschaft, Michael Hirsch (Frankfurt a.M): Der Staat als Kirche – zum politisch-theologischen Komplex der Moderne, Martin Hochhuth (Freiburg): Staatsräson, Geldräson, Menschenräson: Die Selbstpreisgabe des Staates und wem sie nützt, Lorenz Kähler (Erfurt): Abschied vom rechtsphilosophischen Etatismus?, Christoph Kletzer (Cambridge): Recht und Unordnung – Versuch einer staatstheoretischen Grenzziehung, Christoph Konrath (Wien): Der Staat als Identitätsstifter?, Karsten Krüger (Berlin): Das (fast) vergessene Konzept der „personalen Autonomie" – Nation und Staatsbürgerschaft in multiethnischen Gesellschaften.

Announcements: The next regular conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria in the spring of 2003.

Records: Speakers: Dr. Angela Augustin, LL.M. (Basel), Dr. Silke Ruth Laskowski (Hamburg)

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Fourth European Congress for Analytic Philosopy (ECAP 4)

Lund, June 14-18, 2002.

ECAP-congresses are organized every three years. The European Society for Analytic Philosophy organizes these congresses in order to further contacts and collaboration amongst European analytic philosophers.

Plenary speakers: Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Susan Haack (Miami), Manuel García Carpintero (Barcelona). There will be a workshop on philosophy of law.

Contact: All requests for information are to be sent to ecap4@fil.lu.se

Homepage: www.dif.unige.it/esap/ecap4.htm

Honorary Presidents: Junichi Aomi (Japan), Norberto Bobbio (Italy), Hermann Klenner (Germany), Enrico Pattaro (Italy), Miguel Reale (Brazil), Carl Wellman (USA), Arthur F. Utz (Switzerland)

President: Eugenio Bulygin (Argentina).

Vice-Presidents: Manuel Atienza (Spain); Rex Martin (USA); Aleksander Peczenik (Sweden); Arend Soeteman (Netherlands).

Other Members: Elspeth Attwool (UK); Brenda Baker (Canada); Alexander Bröstl (Slovakia); Tom Campbell (Australia); Paolo Comanducci (Italy); Attracta Ingram (Ireland); Tscholsu Kim (Korea); Werner Krawietz (Germany); Burton Leiser (USA); Yasutomo Morigiwa (Japan); François Ost (Belgium); Rolando Tamayo (Mexico); Michel Troper (France); Kaarlo Tuori (Finland); Marek Zirk-Sadowski (Poland).

Secretary General: Pablo López Ruf (Argentina). Treasurer: Carlos E. Pettoruti (Argentina).

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie Editors: Werner Maihofer and Gerhard Sprenger (Germany). IVR Newsletter Editor: Ricardo A. Guibourg (Argentina). IVR Webmaster: Giovanni Ziccardi (Italy).