IVR NEWSLETTER
August 2001 January 2002
Nº 28
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 January and July to be distributed in February and August respectively. Material to be published should be sent to the Editor by 1st January for the first issue and by 1st August for the second.
IVR Newsletter is available too in Internet, at www.ivr.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 Announcements – EC Meeting and Symposium (Paris, June 30th and July 1st, 2002) – 21st IVR World Congress (Lund, Sweden, August 12-18, 2003); 22nd IVR World Congress.
Section Two: National Sections News, Announcements and Records – Argentina; Australia; Austria; Brazil; Chile; China; Colombia; France (AFPD); France (SFPJ); Germany; Greece; Japan; Korea; Norway; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland.
SECTION ONE: IVR ANNOUNCEMENTS
IVR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN PARIS (June 30th and July 1st, 2002)
The IVR Executive Committee will meet in Paris, on June 30th, 2002, at the Institut National des Jeunes Sourds (I.N.J.S.), 254 rue St. Jacques, Paris 75005.
Close to that date, an international symposium will be held on the subject "Validity and applicability". Speakers will be:
The Symposium will take place at the Institut Universitaire de France, 103, bd. Saint Michel, 75005, Paris, on July 1st 2002 at 9.00. For more information or to attend the Symposium, please contact Prof. Michel Troper, troper@u-paris10.fr
THE TWENTY-FIRST IVR WORLD CONGRESS (LUND, SWEDEN), AUGUST 12-18, 2003 – LAW AND POLITICS – IN SEARCH OF BALANCE
The Faculty of Law at the University of Lund is proud to be the host of the 21st World Congress of the IVR. The theme for the 2003 Congress is Law and Politics – In Search of Balance. Apart from plenary lectures, the Congress will consist of working groups and special workshops.
Call for papers
Working groups will provide opportunity to discuss all the papers submitted to the congress. Abstracts will be published in paper form if they have been submitted before March 31, 2003. Abstracts submitted after this date will be available on the web only. There is no open call for papers to the special workshops. However, most working groups will have common meetings with the respective workshops.
Registration fees:
Registration will commence in September 2002.
Early registration fee: SEK 2.800. To qualify for early registration, the application form must be received no later than March 31, 2003.
Late registration fee: SEK 3.300 (registration after March 31, 2003).
The amount of the (early and late) student fees will be communicated at a later stage (via the web).
Registration, submission of papers and further information about the Congress will be handled through the Congress website, so please visit the website regularly for the latest news on the Congress: http://www.ivr2003.net/
Plenary session speakers
Robert Alexy, Roger Cotterell, John Gardner, Jaap Hage, Virgina Held, Tatsuo Inoue, Cristina Lafont, Eerik Lagerspetz, Lars Lindahl, Chibli Mallat, Beverley McLachlin, Michael Moore, Lech Morawski, Jare Oladosu, Enrico Pattaro, Philip Pettit, Richard Posner, Gerald Postema, Włodek Rabinowicz, Cristina Redondo, Giovanni Sartor, Robert S. Summers.
Preliminary Topics for Working Groups
. Reality, Truth and Knowledge in the Normative Sphere. Examples of specific problems within this area:
. Different Societies: Diversity and Common Ground. Examples of specific problems:
. Political Legitimacy and the Just Society. Specific problems:
. Political Power. Legal Authority and Morality. Law and Economics. Specific problems:
. Injustice, Power and the Law. Specific problems:
. Organized Political Violence
. Consequences of New Technologies for Law and Politics
Working language is English but working groups in French, German and Spanish can be organized on request.
A more detailed description of possible topics can be found on the Congress website.
Preliminary List of Special Workshops
. Democracy and Rule of Law
. Indigenous and Transplanted Legal Values in the Post-colonial World
. East Asian Jurisprudence on Rights and Duties
. Practical and Theoretical Problems in Legislation.Research in Legisprudence.
. Division of Powers, including Independence of Courts.
. Stressing Judicial Decisions
. Law Scholarship and Law Teaching - Technical or Theoretical?
. Criminal Responsibility
. Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship
. Law, Morality, Politics, Defeasibility
. Artificial Intelligence in the Law. Efficient Tools for Politicians and Lawyers.
. Scandinavian Legal Realism in Theory and Practice.
. Legal Reasoning
. Legal Positivism I.
. Legal Positivism after Hart and Dworkin.
. Coherence Theory of Law and Analogy in Legal Reasoning
. Politics of Human Rights
. The Actuality of Conceptual Jurisprudence.
The above list is subject to changes.
Travel Arrangements and Accommodation
Lund is a university town situated in the south of Sweden: Copenhagen, the Danish capital, can be reached in less than one hour by train. Also, Lund is connected to the Copenhagen international airport by direct train service.
Participants should make their own travel arrangements to Lund. Participants requiring visas to enter Sweden or the Schengen area should be registered at least six months before the Congress, requests for proof of registration for visa purposes should be made together with the registration.
Beginning in autumn 2002, detailed information on the booking of hotel rooms (at different standards) will be forthcoming on the IVR website.
More information on the World Congress: http://www.ivr2003.net
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
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
On September 21st, 2001, together with the Department of Legal Philosophy (U. of Buenos Aires) and with the Austral University, the AAFD received Prof. John Finnis (Oxford), who lectured about "Valuation and description in law". Comments were made by a panel composed of professors Carlos M. Cárcova, Ricardo A. Guibourg and Rodolfo L. Vigo.
In October 25-27, 2001, the May 18-19, 2001, the XV Argentine Conference on Legal and Social Philosophy was held in Rosario, province of Santa Fe. Speakers were Ariel Álvarez Gardiol (Rosario University), Carlos M. Cárcova (University of Buenos Aires), Renato Rabbi-Baldi (id.), Pablo López Ruf (id), Pedro Serna (University of La Coruña, Spain) and Roberto J. Vernengo (University of Buenos Aires). The 2001 Young Researcher Award was granted to Guillermo Lariguet (University of Córdoba) and his paper "Las llamadas teorías ‘generales’ del derecho" was read and discussed within one of the plenary sessions. Other papers were presented by Oscar Aguirre, Luis Anunziatto, Lucía M. Asseff, Eduardo S. Barcesat, J. Nicasio Barrera, Natalia Belmont, Raúl G. Borello, Diego Calo Maiza, Francisco A. Casiello, Mariana and Julio Castiglione, Mario E. Chaumet, José Rolando Chirico, Juan Cianciardo, Miguel A. Ciuro Caldani, María I. Dabove, Isabel Fernández Acevedo, Leandro Gatti, Ricardo V. Guarinoni, Hugo A. Herrera, Santiago Legarre, Lilians López, Fernando Luciani, Oscar Lupori, María A. Manassero, Mariano Novelli, Leandro Pacheco Barassi, Juan M. Pedreira, Fernando Ricciardini, Mario E. Rojas, Analía Viganó, Rodolfo L. Vigo, Juan M. Villaruel and Pilar Zambrano, among others.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
In October 24-26, 2001, the XVI Argentine Conference on Legal and Social Philosophy will take place in Azul, province of Buenos Aires.
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
AUSTRALIA
(Australian Society of Legal Philosophy – ALSP)
NEWS
The Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy (ASLP) was held on 15-17 June 2001 in Canberra. The topic was ‘Regulation’ and the principal speakers were Professor Julia Black (London School of Economics and Political Science), Professor Dimitry Kingsford Smith (Monash Law School) and Professor John Braithwaite (Australian National University). A new initiative at the conference was a very successful book symposium. The book selected was Jeffrey Goldsworthy, ‘The Sovereignty of Parliament’ (Oxford University Press). The author introduced the book and responded to five commentators. It is expected that the book symposium will become an annual event.
The contents of volume 26 of the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy are: Nicola Lacey, ‘Social Policy, Civil Society and the Institutions of Criminal Justice’; Desmond Manderson, ‘Apocryphal Jurisprudence’; James Allan, ‘Truth's Empire - A Reply to Ronald Dworkin's "Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe it"’; and Leighton McDonald, ‘Positivism and the Formal Rule of Law: Questioning the Connection’. Subscriptions and further information about ASLP activities are available from <cmt306@coombs.anu.edu.au>.
Plenary speakers at the 2002 Annual Conference to be held on 21-23 June in Canberra include David Dyzenhaus and Heidi Hurd.
RECORDS
Office Bearers: President: Tom Campbell (Charles Sturt); Secretary/Treasurer: Peter Cane (ANU); Vice-Presidents: Sandra Berns (Griffith), Tim Evans (Auckland), Jeff Goldsworthy (Monash), Martin Krygier (UNSW), Ngaire Naffine (Adelaide), David Wood (Melbourne), and Desmond Manderson (Sydney). Executive Committee: President, Secretary/Treasurer, Hilary Charlesworth (ANU), Adrienne Stone (ANU), Tony Connolly (ANU), Michael Smith (ANU) and Bryan Horrigan (Canberra).
CONTACT
Tom Campbell
Professorial Fellow
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Charles Sturt University, Canberra.
Mailing Address: Faculty of Law Building, ANU, ACT 0200.
Tel (61) 2 6125 0630
E-mail: tom.Campbell@anu.edu.au
Website: http://lawrsss.anu.edu.au/aslp/
AUSTRIA
NEWS
Currently the Austrian Section is planning a conference which is supposed to
be held in October 2002.
CONTACT
Univ.-Ass. Dr. Christian Hiebaum
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Institut für Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtssoziologie und Rechtsinformatik
Universitätsstraße 15, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Tel.: ++43 (0)316/380-3394
E-mail: christian.hiebaum@kfunigraz.ac.at
BRAZIL
Information about Brazil is not yet official, but encouraging. In November, 2001, the Associaciao Brasileira de Filosofia do Direito e Sociologia do Direito was created in Belo Horizonte. Its authorities are Luiz Fernando Coelho (President), Joao Mauricio Adeodato (1st. Vice President), Vicente Barreto (2nd. Vice President), Eurico De Santi (Tax Counselor), Denílson Feitosa (Executive Secretary and Marcelo Galuppo (Events Director). The new association let IVR know its purpose of asking to become Brazil IVR National Section once its registration process is completed.
CONTACT
Prof. Marcelo Galuppo, e-mail galuppo.bhz@terra.com.br
CHILE
(Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Jurídica y Social)
The Chilean Society of Legal and Social Philosophy celebrated its 20th anniversary on December 1, 2001. The meeting was held in Valparaíso, the city where the Society was founded in 1981. The President, Agustín Squella, gave a report on the activities of the Society and Professor Juan Enrique Serra was distinguished as Honorary Member. IVR President Eugenio Bulygin, as special guest, offered a lecture on "Creation and application of law". A written version of this lecture will be included on the Legal and Social Philosophy Annuary, n.19. The Annuary is published since 1983.
In September, 2001, a book by Agustín Squella, President of the Chilean Society since its beginning, was presented by Editorial Jurídica de Chile. The book, "Filosofía del Derecho", consists of six chapters: ¿Qué es filosofía?, ¿Qué es filosofía del derecho?, Democracia y derecho, Positivismo Jurídico, Razonamiento jurídico y Cultura jurídica chilena. Information about this book is available from María Teresa Herreros, Av. Ricardo Lyon 946, Providencia, Santiago Chile, fax 56-2-2747860, e-mail mariarrpp@entelchile.net
CONTACT
Agustín Squella Narducci, President
Universidad de Valparaíso
Casilla 3325, Correo 3, Valparaíso – Chile
Fax 50 71 43
Or Patricia Whittle: pwhittle@presidencia.cl
CHINA
(Jurisprudence Institute of Chinese Law Society – JICLS/IVR China)
NEWS
Jurisprudence Institute of Chinese Law Society
The JICLS / IVR China was founded in 1985. It has already held more than 10 annual meetings that have covered broad issues like law in market economy and the rule of law. JICLS has promoted jurisprudence study in China through those meetings and other activities among jurisprudence scholars. It held its 2001 annual meeting in Urumqi, in October, about development of western China and the rule of law. JICLS was accepted as a member of IVR in 1990 and there is closer relationship between them ever since. In 2000, the 3rd Conference of Asia IVR was held successfully in Nanjing, China.
The Recent Development of Jurisprudence Study in China
Many treatises, papers and books on jurisprudence were published and they have produced a lot of debates. Below are several major aspects of those studies:
1. The values and spirits of law and human rights are taken seriously.
3. Research paradigm is changing. Scholars actively trace new paths on academic research, according to individual knowledge and interest instead of the simple way of class analysis used in the past.
4. Scholars have paid attention to cultural tradition. Nowadays, academic circles keep a calm attitude towards the tradition of Chinese culture. Both criticism and assimilation are investigated and, when a tradition is successful, researchers try to go further on its way. The boom of discussing law culture in the mid of 1980s was a consequence of this attitude. Transplantation of law and local resources for the rule of law are related issues and have been debated so far.
The dynamics from the ideal to the reality; the rule of law in China
The concept of the rule of law has been discussed in China since the beginning of the last century. We can draw out some of the theoretical conclusions of those discussions, although there are still some questions left open.
The rule of law concept has three parts. Firstly, the rule of law is contrasted with and distinguished from the "rule of man", under which a few people, being above the law, are able to disregard it. The rule of law refers to the ideal of the supremacy of the law and its crucial feature is that "the people demand that the government and its officials abide by law". Secondly, the rule of law refers to a theory and a way of governing state affairs or solving disputes by law, which include both substantive and procedural law as well as legal formalities. Thirdly, the rule of law consists of a body of inherited values which include some fundamental human rights, social justice, equality and so on. There is a strong connection between human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Some scholars point out that "the citizen’s rights are the legalization of human rights in a state; it is a fundamental issue of democratic construction and a crucial function of the modern rule of law. "
Between the late 1970s and the beginning of 1980s, there was a widespread debate regarding the rule of law and the rule of man in China, in which almost all legal scholars participated. The majority of the scholars made a clear distinction between the ideals of the rule of law and the rule of man and the significance of the rule of law to the country. In 1997, after the constant work by many Chinese scholars for several years, the Report of the Fifteenth National Conference of the CCP expressly stated their policy of "Governing the country according to law and making it a socialist country ruled by law". In 1999, this principle was incorporated within China’s Constitution in 1999, as an institutional framework to meet the ideals of the rule of law step by step.
There are two primary reasons why Chinese people are striving to guarantee the rule of law.
The first reason is to create an environment of tranquility and order in which a market economy can efficiently operate and Chinese people can conduct their daily lives, keeping China’s open door policy. The function of law is not only to preserve social order and tranquility, but also to prevent the government from abusing their powers. The rule of law operates as a tool of constraint upon the action of government itself.
The second reason is to prevent a repetition of the Cultural Revolution tragedy, during which the whole country suffered chaos without democracy or laws. Since 1949, China has been troubled by two fundamental problems. The first is the relationship between the authority of the leaders and the authority of the law. The second is the relationship between the ruling party and the state. If the authority of a leader is substantial, and there is no rational institution and process to control it, then this authority might be capricious, arbitrary and unpredictable. The leader of the Party could use the authority of the Party system to pursue his own purposes that may contravene the people’s interest and will. In a country based on the rule of law, all individuals and groups accept an obligation to comply with the law and to act accordingly, thus the leader’s authority is checked by legal institutions or individual rights and channeled in such a way as to conform to the people’s values and wills.
The legacies of Chinese traditional philosophy, such as humanistic thoughts of Confucius and Mencius and a thorough liberalism of Chuang Tzu’s philosophy, are helpful to the process leading to the rule of law. But, at the same time, some traditional misconceptions are to be overcome. Instrumentalist conception of the rule of law is actually a primary obstacle. The rule of law is a kind of value rationality. As a matter of fact, it is the rule of people, the rule of rationality and justice instead of the rule of human caprice or arbitrariness. In this context, the law is the end, instead of the mean. However, law is itself an instrument; the ends are something else and laws are the but instruments of some political or economical interests. Hence, laws are vulnerable and unreliable in the context of rule by law.
Besides the factor of tradition, the rule of law has a very close connection with society, namely civil society. In China, the civil society is keeping up pace with the developments of a market economy and a democratic polity which are also fundamental conditions for rule of law and vice versa. Only this kind of society needs the rule of law. And China’s entry into the WTO will have a significant influence on the rule of law in China. For example, it will be helpful for the reform of state-owned enterprises. People will also have to take care of themselves, manage their own resources and not be as dependent on the state as they did in the time of the planned economy. In keeping with this, they will have to rely on laws and to require the government to abide by laws. In addition, democratization in rural areas and People’s Congresses is pulling China towards a civil society that fosters the rule of law.
Legal institutions are the basis and the framework that enables the rule of law to operate. Below are several major aspects of the China’s current development of its legal system.
A. Legislation Law. The Legislation Law took effect on July 1, 2000. The legal system of China is close to the civil law system in terms of statute laws playing an important role. The Legislation Law regulates the powers of national and local legislatures in enacting and interpreting laws to define the division of those powers clearly and reasonably and to avoid the conflict of laws. The logical result of these provisions is that some restrictions on the powers of legislative and executive branches of government.
B. Enforcement of laws. There ought to be an enforcement system to prevent the rule of law from being abused. There has been a legal supervision system for more than two thousand years in China. The new enforcement system of law has been built up using this basis. The Standing Committee of the NPC is working on a Supervision Law to provide a comprehensive legal framework for this purpose.
C. Human rights and the relevant development on criminal procedural law. The Chinese government acknowledges the connection between the rule of law and human rights through legal institutions. China has signed and ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1997 and 2001 and signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1999. The revised Criminal Procedure law is in force since 1997. A research group of CASS has made four suggestions to the policy-makers to confirm the two above-mentioned covenants which include to prescribe "respect and protection of human rights" in the Constitution as an amendment.
There are new developments in the revised Criminal Procedural Law and in the proposals of the legal scholars. The Attorney’s Office of Shuncheng District, Fushun City, has started a new working regulation called "Zero Confess Regulation of the Prosecutors", according to which the prosecutors do not have to get a confession from suspects: they rather need to collect other evidence. This gives suspects an actual right to silence.
D. Ongoing process of judicial reform and growth of the legal profession. The people’s courts of China are working on judicial reform. We might generalize its aims as judicial justice, efficiency and rationalization of the courts. The autonomy of the legal profession is taken seriously. Now, the Supreme Court of China has started to publish the judgments of the court step by step in the media and on the Internet, in order to increase transparency and receive the supervision of the people. The publication is significant because it will not only speed up the cultivation of the autonomy of the legal profession, but also act as a check and balance on the powers between the government branches in the future.
In conclusion, the ideal and reality of the rule of law have interacted in a dynamic process in China. There has been only twenty-three years of construction work. Hence, the rule of law is just like a newborn baby. There are still many tough issues to be dealt with. Notwithstanding, it will be built gradually. Within this process, jurisprudence is taking its responsibility and making its own contribution.
(Reporter: ZHANG Qi)
RECORDS
President: Prof. LIU Han, Institute of Law, CASS
Secretary General: Prof. LI Lin, Institute of Law, CASS.
CONTACT:
Prof. ZHANG Qi, Vice Secretary General
Law Building, Law School, Peking University
Beijing, 100871, P. R. China
E-mail: zhangqi@pku.edu.cn
COLOMBIA
(Asociación Colombiana de Filosofía Jurídica y Social)
NEWS
In December, 2001, the First National Congress of the Colombian Association was held in Cartagena, with the participation of many professors of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy. A book containing the papers is being prepared.
In December 2001, the Universidad Externado de Colombia presented the book "Problemas centrals de la Teoría Pura del Derecho", edited by Robert Walter and translated by Luis Villar Borda. It includes six papers by professors of the University of Vienna, among them Robert Walter and Clemens Jablonner.
RECORDS
In 2001, a new Executive Committee was elected:
Honorary President: Luis Villar Borda
President: Numas Armando Gil Olivera
Vice President: Rodolfo Arango
Treasurer: Miguel Rugana.
CONTACT:
Prof. Rodolfo Arango, Vice President, e-mail rodolfo_arango@hotmail.com
Prof. Luis Villar Borda, Honorary President
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Calle 121-Este
Tel 342 0288/341 9900 – Fax 341-9900 Ext. 1060
E-mail: dgobmpal@uexternado.edu.co
FRANCE
(Association Française de Philosophie du Droit)
NEWS
The French Association for Philosophy of Law held in April 2001 a meeting on "Taxes". It consisted of three parts: "Les fondements de l’impôt", with the participation of Laurent Fonbaustier (Rennes I), Emmanuel de Crouy Chanel (Paris I), Jacques Buisson (Paris V), Alain Steichen (Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg) and Francesco D’Agostino (La Sapienza, Rome); "Les pouvoirs de l’impôt", by Jacques Blanc (Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris), Pierre-François Racine (Cour d’appel administrative de Paris), Cyrille David (Paris I), Bernard Plagnet (Toulouse I) and Philippe Didier (Tours); "Les formes de l’impôt", with Maurice Cozian (Bourgogne), Michel Bouvier (Paris I), Alain Trannoy (Cergy), Emmanuel Picavet (Paris I), Catherine Larrère (Bordeaux) and Daniel Gutmann (Paris I).
RECORDS
President: François Terré, 10, square de l’Alboni, 75016 Paris, tel. 01 45 20 93 68, fax 01 45 25 83 23.
Vice President: René Sève, 18, place Adolphe Chérioux, 75015 Paris, tel 01 53 18 46 15, fax 01 53 18 97 30.
Secretary General: Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, 25, avenue Rapp, 75007 Paris, tel. 01 445 56 07 09, fax 01 53 59 93 24, e-mail frison.roche.ed@wanadoo.fr
Treasurer: Philippe Reigné, 12, rue Ernest Psichari, 75007 Paris, tel. 01 40 62 98 59
Adjoint Treasurer: David Sankowicz, 6, rue Saint-Paul, 75004 Paris, tel. 01 48 87 55 66.
CONTACT.
Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Secretary General.
Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), rue d´Assas, 75006 Paris.
FRANCE
(Société Française pour la Philosophie et la Théorie Juridiques et Politiques – SFPJ)
On the occasion of 2002 IVR Executive Committee meetings, a symposium will be held by this National Section on "Validity and applicability". It will take place at the Institut Universitaire de France, 103, bd. St. Michel, 75005 Paris, with the participation of:
Christophe AGOSTINI, University of Cergy-Pontoise (France)
Manuel ATIENZA, University of Alicante (Spain)
Tom CAMPBELL, University of Canberra (Australia)
Paolo COMMANDUCCI, University of Genoa (Italy)
Ricardo GUIBOURG, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Yasutomo MORIGIWA, University of Nagoya (Japan)
Marek ZIRK-SADOWSKI, University of Lodz (Poland).
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 thematic fields such as "Law Becoming Political – Adjudication of Politics", "Political Ethics", "Law, Politics, Religion" or "Globalization of Law and Politics", speakers will be A. Chmielewski, J. Habermas, W. Hassemer, H. Hofmann, P. Koller, M. Losano, W. Naucke, M. Pawlik, B. Schünemann, D. von der Pfordten and others (for details see www.rechtsphilosophie.de).
Study Group on "History of Ideas of Legal Philosophy"
This IVR Study Group held its first meeting on "Discovery, Content and Overcoming of the Antithesis of Natural Law and Positive Law: The Sophists", Sept. 2001 (for information on the publication see www.arbeitskreis-ideengeschichte.uni-hd.de).
Junges Forum Rechtsphilosophie (JFR)
The next meeting will take place during the next conference of the German IVR section at Frankfurt/Oder, the next regular conference in Salzburg, Austria in spring 2003 (for details see www.rechtsphilosophie.de). Speakers: A. Augustin, LL.M. (Basel) and Silke R. Laskowski (Hamburg).
Recent Publications
Anderheiden, Michael/Huster, Stefan/Kirste (Hg.), Globalisierung als Problem von Gerechtigkeit und Steuerungsfähigkeit des Rechts, Stuttgart 2001 (ARSP-Beiheft); Bobbert, Monika/Düwell, Marcus/Jax, Kurt (Hg.), Ethik – Umwelt – Recht, Tübingen 2001; Braker, Susanne, Kohärenz und juristische Interpretation, Baden-Baden 2001; Brunkhorst, Hauke, Solidarität. Von der Bürgerfreundschaft zur globalen Rechtsgenossenschaft, Frankfurt/Main 2001; Byrd, Sharon B./Hruschka/Joerden (Hg.), Hard Cases in Genethics (Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 9), Berlin 2001; Dreier, Horst (Hg.), Philosophie des Rechts und Verfassungstheorie, Berlin 2001; Habermas, Jürgen, Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik?, Frankfurt/Main 2001; Haft, Fritjof/Hof, Hagen/Wesche, Steffen (Hg.), Bausteine zu einer Verhaltenstheorie des Rechts, Baden-Baden 2001; Höffe, Otfried, Gerechtigkeit, Eine philosophische Einführung, München 2001; Krauss, Dietrich, Die Politik der Dekonstruktion - Politische und ethische Konzepte im Werk von Jacques Derrida, Frankfurt/New York 2001; Krawietz, Werner (ed.), The Reasonable as Rational? On Legal Argumentation and Justification (Festschrift für A. Aarnio), Berlin 2001; Krebs, Angelika, Arbeit und Liebe. Die philosophischen Grundlagen sozialer Gerechtigkeit, Frankfurt/Main 2001; Leisner, Walter, Die Krise des Gesetzes. Die Auflösung des Normenstaates, Berlin 2001; Maring, Matthias, Kollektive und kooperative Verantwortung, Münster 2001; Menezes Abuquerque, Paulo Antonio de, Funktionen und Struktur der Rechtsprechung im demokratischen Rechtsstaat in normen- und systemtheoretischer Perspektive, Berlin 2001; Munte, Oliver, Konkretisierung unbestimmter Rechtsbegriffe mit Hilfe von Fuzzylogik. Am Beispiel des § 1610 BGB, Münster 2001; Park, Goo-Yong, Freiheit, Anerkennung und Diskurs. Die Moral- und Rechtsphilosophie des deutschen Idealismus und deren Aktualität und Habermas´ Diskurstheorie, 2001; Petev, Valentin, Das Recht der offenen Gesellschaft. Grundlegung einer Philosophie des Rechts, Berlin 2001; Schnell, Martin W., Zugänge zur Gerechtigkeit. Diesseits von Liberalismus und Kommunitarismus, München 2001; Schroeder, Peter, Naturrecht und absolutistisches Staatsrecht. Eine vergleichende Studie zu Thomas Hobbes und Christian Thomasius, Berlin 2001; Schulz, Lorenz, Normiertes Misstrauen. Der Verdacht im Strafverfahren, Frankfurt/Main 2001; Schweidler, Walter, Das Unantastbare: Beiträge zur Philosophie der Menschenrechte, Münster 2001; Schwinger, Ele, Angewandte Ethik. Naturrecht, Menschenrecht, München 2001; Taupitz, Jochen (Hg.), Die Bedeutung der Philosophie für die Rechtswissenschaft, Berlin/Heidelberg 2001; von der Pfordten, Dietmar, Rechtsethik, München 2001; von der Pfordten, Dietmar, Rechtsphilosophie (kommentierte Textsammlung, Freiburg 2001; Wesche, Steffen, Gegenseitigkeit und Recht. Eine Studie zur Entstehung von Normen, Berlin 2001.
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), Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften und Rechtsphilosophie der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Senckenberganlage 31-33, D-60054 Frankfurt/Main;
e-mail: L.Schulz@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
Homepage: www.rechtsphilosophie.de
CONTACT:
Priv.Doz. Dr. Lorenz Schulz
Vice-President and Treasurer.
L.Schultz@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
GREECE
(The Greek Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy)
NEWS
The 2001 annual conference of the Greek Society for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy took place in Salonica, in February 2002, on the topic "Justice and Democracy".
On February 22nd, the Department of Philosophy of the University of Athens held an international conference on jurisprudence. Its speakers were Prof. Stavros Panou, Prof. Ivan Romanof and Prof. Demos Tzitzis.
On April 8-9, 2001, a symposium was held at the University of Crete about "Peace and Law". Speakers: Prof. K. Despotopoulos, Prof. Stavros Panou, Prof. Petros Kostopoulos, Prof. K. Nikitas, Prof. Evangelos Dedes.
Recent publications: P. Anton, Aristotle, Athens 2001, St. Panou, Dialectic and Anthropology, Athens 2001, G. Koumakis, Justice by Plato and Aristotle, G. Konmakis, Plato on dialectic and democracy, Athens 2000; "Eudikia", review of the International center for law philosophy and theory, Athens, 1999.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The annual conference of the Greek Society will be held in Thessalonica in February 2002.
RECORDS
President: Prof. Stavros Panou. Secretary General: Dr. Nicolas Philipidis.
CONTACT
Dr. Nicolas Philipidis, P. Kalliga 21-23, Athens 11473.
Tel/fax: +30 1 64 23 270
E-mail: dpanos@hol.gr
JAPAN
NEWS
In July 2000, IVR Japan co-sponsored with JALP the 6th Kobe Lecture. The invited lecturer was Professor Randy Barnett of Boston University, USA. The meeting consisted of two parts. The first lecture, entitled "Natural rights: what they are and why they matter," was given in Tokyo at the University of Tokyo on July 2nd. The second, "Constitutional legitimacy: the duty of obedience and the fiction of popular sovereignty," was given in Kyoto at Doshisha University on July 8th. There was a seminar before each of the lectures for in-depth discussion. Professor Barnett also gave seminars in Tokyo and Osaka on contract law and criminal responsibility. The Lecture will be published as a Kobe Lecture in the ARSP.
The 2000 annual conference of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy (JALP) took place 11-12 November 2000, at Tokai University near Tokyo. The main theme of the conference was "The Public/Private Dichotomy Revisited at the Turn of the Decade/Century/Millennium." Professor Yasutomo Morigiwa (Nagoya U.) gave the keynote speech, which was to be followed by five presentations. The titles and the scheduled speakers were as follows:
2 Redefining the Public/Private in the Family, by Professor Katsumi Yoshida (Hokkaido U.). Comments by Professor Hiroyuki Takai (Kyoto Sangyo U.).
Comments by Professor Tadao Kagono (Kobe U.).
Professors Kagono and Satou were unable to attend due to unforeseeable reasons. Prof. Morigiwa gave a presentation in Prof. Satou’s stead, which will be integrated into the Editor’s introductory paper in the proceedings. Prof. Satou has kindly provided a full paper for publication.
There were also six papers read in parallel sessions, which were not officially connected with the main theme of the conference. Many were substantially important contributions to the subject. Those papers were by Associate Professors Yasutoshi Mouri (Eichi U.), Yasushi Yamanaka (Kogakkan U.), Mikio Watanabe (Yamaguchi U.), MM. Michinori Karino (Waseda U.), Yoshinori Seki (Hitotsubashi U.), and Associate Professor Kosuke Nasu (Setusnan U.).
The proceedings will be published in the Annals of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy 2000 to be available in November, 2001.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The 2001 annual conference of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy (JALP) will take place 9-10 November 2001, at Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai, north of Tokyo. The main theme of the conference is "The Problem of Order in the Information Society". Professor Ichiro Sako (Kyushu U.) will give the keynote speech, followed by five sections of presentations. The provisional titles of the sections and the speakers for each are:
1 Law, Information, and Technology: Professor Ichiro Sako (Kyushu U.)
2 Some Philosophical Aspects of the Privacy Issues in the Age of the Internet: Professor Masahiko Mizutani (Kyoto U.)
3 The Future of the Copyright Law: Professor Yoshiyuki Tamura (Hokkaido U.)
4 Politics, Democracy and the Public in the Information Society: Professor Takahiro Hattori (Okayama U.)
5 The Net and Overlapping Communities: Professor Takehiro Ohya (Nagoya U.)
Professors Yoshiharu Matsuura (Nagoya U.), Hideaki Serizawa (Tohoku U.), Shigenori Matsui (Osaka U.) and Toru Aono (Kanazawa U.) will be the commentators.
There will also be eight papers read which are independent from the main theme of the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Annals of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy 2001.
RECORDS
The executive committee of the Japan section has been reorganized and has a new president and a new member. The following is the list of the present members.
President: KATSURAGI Takao, professor at Seikei University, Tokyo. Email: katuragi@law.seikei.ac.jp
General secretary: ISHIYAMA Fumihiko, professor at Daito Bunka University, Tokyo.
Treasurer: Professor WAKAMATSU Yoshiki, professor at Seijo University, Tokyo. Email: wakamatu@seijo.ac.jp
NAKAYAMA Ryuichi, associate professor at Osaka University, Osaka.
TSUNODA Takeshi, professor at Osaka Prefectural University, Osaka.
SAKURAI Tetsu, associate professor at Kobe University, Kobe.
SUMIYOSHI Masami, associate professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
ex officio: MORIGIWA Yasutomo, professor at Nagoya University, Nagoya, and EC member of the IVR.
CONTACT
Correspondence to the Japan Section should be sent to Professor ISHIYAMA at: ishiyama@ic.daito.ac.jp
Mail address: Professor ISHIYAMA Fumihiko
Faculty of Law
Daito Bunka University
1-9-1 Takashima-daira, Itabashi-ku
Tokyo 175-8571
JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-3935-1113-#4017
Fax: +81-3-5399-7377 attn: Prof. ISHIYAMA
KOREA
(Korean Association of Legal Philosopy)
NEWS
The Korean Association of Legal Philosophy held an annual meeting in November 24th, 2001 at the Conference Room of Kyunghee University in Seoul. This meeting was accompanied with a symposium on "Crucial Topics of Contemporary Jurisprudence". Four young scholars, who got their doctoral degrees recently, presented the contents of their dissertations: on Freedom, by Dr. Dogyun Kim (Kiel), on Rights by Dr. Hyunchul Kim (Seoul National University), on Human Rights by Dr. Miwon Lim (Hamburg), on Contemporary Chinese Legal Thoughts by Dr. Kyungbae Min (Freiburg i. Br.). Dr. Chongko Choi reported on the IVR Conference in Amsterdam. These presentations are published on the "Popchulhak Yongu" (Journal of Legal Philosophy), vol. 4, n. 2, 2001.
Some members are preparing to participate in the 4th Conference of Asian Jurisprudence in Hongkong on January 17-18, 2002.
CONTACT
Prof. Chongko Choi, President
College of Law, Seoul National University
Sinrimdong, Kwanakgu, 151-742 Seoul, Korea
NORWAY
(Norsk Forening for Rettsfilosofi)
In february 2001, a new board for IVR Norwegian section was elected. The members of the new board are:
Alf Petter Hogberg (Chairman), Knut Bergo, Sverre Blandhol, Anne Christophersen, Morten Kinnander, Inger Johanne Sand and Cecilie Elisabeth Schjatvedt.
CONTACT
Alf Peter Hogberg
SPAIN
(Sociedad Española de Filosofía Jurídica y Política, SEFJP)
NEWS:
Number 35 of Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez has been published with these articles: C. Berzosa: "El orden económico internacional"; M. L. Espada Ramos: "Los derechos sociales en la Unión Europea: mercado o justicia"; R. Franco/C. Artigas/C. Franco Guzmán: "Derechos económicos, sociales y culturales en América Latina: su situación actual"; J.J. Mora Molina: "Globalización y beneficio económico: la dialéctica jánica de los derechos fundamentales"; A. Sen: "Derechos humanos y valores asiáticos"; L.F. Coelho: "La transmodernidad del derecho"; F. Contreras: "La idea de espíritu del pueblo en F.C. v. Savigny"; F. Llano: "Tres niveles axiológicos reconciliables dentro del proyecto humanista-cosmopolita de Immanuel Kant"; A. Ruiz Miguel: "La representación democrática de las mujeres"; F. Vergara: "Los errores y confusiones de Louis Dumont. A propósito de la autonomía o emancipación de la economía".
Number XVIII of the Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho is being prepared. The release of this volume is expected for the end of 2001.
Recent publications
E. Aranda, Cuota de mujeres y régimen electoral, 2001; D. Blázquez, Herejía y traición: las doctrinas de la persecución religiosa en el siglo XVI, 2001; M. Calvo/N. Fernández (ed.), Los derechos de la infancia y de la adolescencia, 2000; A. Cambrón, Reproducción asistida: promesas, normas y realidad, 2001; O. Celador, Proceso de secularización y sistema educativo en el ordenamiento jurídico inglés, 2001; A. García Inda, Materiales para una reflexión sobre los derechos colectivos, 2001; M.J. Falcón Tella, La desobediencia civil, 2000; E. Fernández, Dignidad humana y ciudadanía cosmopolita, 2001; J.M. Lassalle, John Locke y los fundamentos modernos de la propiedad, 2001; A. Marcos del Cano, La eutanasia, 2000; E. Mikunda, Derechos humanos y mundo islámico, 2001; A. Osuna, Teoría de los Derechos Humanos, 2001; C. Pérez Ruiz, Geótica, 2001; F. Querol, La filosofía del Derecho de K. Ch. F. Krause, 2001; Rus, S/Meabe, J. E., Justicia, derecho y fuerza, 2001; A. Solanes, El espejo italiano. Un estudio de la normativa sobre la inmigración en Italia, 2001; J. Vega, La idea de ciencia en el Derecho, 2000; J. C. Velasco, La teoría discursiva del Derecho, 2000.
RECORDS:
Executives of the Spanish section of the IVR are: Benito De Castro (President), M. Eugenia Gayo (Treasurer), Javier Ansuátegui (Secretary), Francesca Puigpelat, Juan A. García Amado, Marina Gascón Abellán, M. J. Añón, Manuel Calvo and Carlos Alarcón Cabrera.
CONTACT:
Prof. Carlos Alarcón Cabrera (carlos@cica.es )
SWEDEN
NEWS
Most legal philosophical activities in Sweden take place in the higher seminars in Jurisprudence lead by prof. Jes Bjarup, Stockholm, prof. Åke Frändberg, Uppsala, and prof. Aleksander Peczenik, Lund. Each year a common symposium is arranged (the latest held in Stockholm, 4-5 Oct., 2001).
RECORDS
President: Åke Frändberg
Secretary and treasurer: Torben Spaak
CONTACTS
Torben Spaak: Torben.Spaak@jur.uu.se
SWITZERLAND
NEWS
The managing committee of the SVRSP gave their vote to Mr. Prof. Ph. Mastronardi for President and to lic. iur. P. Stadler for Secretary. The new Officials started on october 1st, 2001.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Swiss section of IVR will hold its 2-year-congress on November 15th and 16th, 2002, in Lucerne. The topic will be: "Law in conflict between utilitarian and deontological ethics". Four short lectures, a public event and substantial discussions will present the ethical conflicts within the legal order. The lectures on utilitarianism will first treat: "Utilitarian legal philosophy" and second: "The role of law in the economical utilitarianism". Within the range of deontology, the lectures will cover the following subjects: "Law as a system of rights and duties" and "Legitimation of law by discourse ethics".
For further informations please contact the Secretary: patrik.stadler@unisg.ch
RECORDS
Current Officials:
President: Prof. Dr. iur. Philippe Mastronardi, Universität St. Gallen, Rechtswissenschaftliche Abteilung, Bodanstrasse 3, CH - 9000 St. Gallen.
Tel.: +41 / 71 / 224 23 34, Fax: +41 / 71 / 224 23 35.
E-mail: philippe.mastronardi@unisg.ch
Quaestor: Prof. Dr. iur. Marcel Senn, Lehrstuhl f=FCr Rechtsgeschichte, Juristische Zeitgeschichte und Rechtsphilosophie, Universität Zürich, Cäcilienstrasse 5, CH - 8032 Zürich
Tel.: +41 / 1 / 634 30 05
Fax: +41 / 1 / 634 43 90
E-mail: marcel.senn@rwi.unizh.ch
CONTACT
Secretary: Lic. iur. Patrik Stadler, Assistant to Prof. Mastronardi, Bodanstrasse 3, CH - 9000 St. Gallen.
Tel.: +41 / 71 / 224 23 33
Fax: +41 / 71 / 224 23 35
e-mail: patrik.stadler@unisg.ch
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IVR
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, Gerhard Sprenger (Germany) and Annette Brockmöller. IVR Newsletter Editor: Ricardo A. Guibourg (Argentina). IVR Webmaster: Giovanni Ziccardi (Italy).