Internationale Vereinigung für Recths – und Sozialphilosophie (IVR),
gegründet 1909
International Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, founded in 1909
Association Intenationale
de Philosophie du Droit et de Philosophie Sociale, fondée en 1909
IVR Newsletter
February
2003 – July 2003
Nº
31 ISSN 0256 –937X
Editor: Ricardo A. Guibourg. IVR
Web Master: Pierluigi Perri.
IVR Newsletter is published twice a year in
February and July to be distributed in March and August respectively. Material
to be published should be sent to the Editor by 15 January for the first issue
and by 15 July 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 +5
CONTENTS
Section One: IVR Announcements – Georg
Henrik von Wright (Page 1); Farewell from the editor (Page 2); Next meetings
(Pages 2-3).
Section Two: National Sections
News, Announcements and Records – Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Chile; China; Colombia; Denmark; France (AFPD);
Italy; Korea; Slovenia; Spain; Switzerland; Ukraine; United States of America
(Pages 3-15).
SECTION ONE: IVR
ANNOUNCEMENTS
GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT
One of the most important philosophers of
our time, Georg Henrik von Wright, died on June 16 in
Helsinki or, as he preferred to call his native city, Helsingfors.
Born in 1916, he studied philosophy under Eino Kaila, the Finnish champion of logical empiricism and
member of the Vienna Circle and later in Cambridge with Broad and Wittgenstein.
After Wittgenstein’s resignation in 1948 he became his successor in Cambridge,
but three years later he returned to
Finland to reassume his professorship at the Helsinki University. Later he was
appointed Research Professor of the Academy of Finland and became its
president. He lectured at many universities in Europe and in America,
especially at Cornell University.
Von Wright’s philosophic interests
embrace a very wide field: from formal logic to philosophy of culture, from
philosophy of science to ethics and religion, from philosophical logic to
problems of war and peace. He is famous as the “inventor” of deontic logic.
Though not a jurist himself, his works on norms and actions, freedom and
determinism, deeply influenced contemporary legal philosophy.
He was without doubt one of the most
influential intellectuals in Scandinavian countries and he took active part in
many public discussions on such topics as the role of reason, science and
technology, as well as on political issues, like the gap between rich and poor
countries or the Vietnam and the Iraq wars. In his last years he became
increasingly pessimistic about the development of our society.
The IVR regrets
deeply the disappearance of this great philosopher.
FAREWELL FROM THE EDITOR
In 1999, by appointment of IVR President, Prof. Bulygin, I took from the former
Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Carla Faralli, the honour and the responsibility of publishing the IVR Newsletter. Since then, eight issues gave me the
opportunity to keep in touch with every National Section and to see that every
new or announcement could be received by every member of IVR
throughout the world.
In
order to fulfill that task, I had the help I needed. At first, our Secretary
General Pablo López Ruf took care of printing and distribution. Later, when
local costs became too high, Prof. Burton Leiser did the same from New York.
Since 2002, the EC allowed the electronic edition, a decision that saved most
of the time and all of the money formerly used to publish the Newsletter. But, beyond
everything, I got the help of the national sections boards and I was encouraged
by the friendly disposition of IVR EC and of all IVR members.
Therefore,
I express my gratefulness to all of them and I say farewell to the Newsletter
readers, wishing the next Editor-in-chief the best luck in her job.
NEXT MEETINGS
The
22nd IVR World Congress will be held in
Granada, Spain, in May 2005. Prof. López Calera leads its organization.
In
the meanwhile, 2004 EC metting will take place in Alicante, Spain. Further details are not yet available.
SECTION
TWO: NATIONAL SECTIONS NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND RECORDS
ARGENTINA
(Asociación
Argentina de Filosofía del Derecho).
NEWS
In
In that opportunity, the second issue of Ideas
y Derecho (AAFD Annuary) was presented and distributed to AAFD members. With a short introduction
by AAFD Vice President, Rodolfo L. Vigo, the issue contains papers by Manuel Atienza (Univ. de Alicante, Spain), Mauricio Beuchot (UNAM, Mexico), Miguel Á. Ciuro Caldani (Univ. de Rosario), Eros Roberto Grau (Univ. de Sao
Paulo, Brazil), Riccardo Guastini (Univ. di Genova,
Italia), Enrique P. Haba (Univ. de Costa Rica), Guillermo Lariguet
(Univ. de Córdoba), Santiago Legarre (Univ. Austral,
Buenos Aires), Pablo López Ruf (Univ. de Buenos Aires), Andrés Ollero Tassara (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), Pablo M. Perot and Jorge Rodríguez (Univ.
Mar del Plata, Argentina).
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The XVII Argentine Meeting on Philosophy of Law
and Social Philosophy will be held in Córdoba, from
October 30 to November 1, 2003. Francisco Carpintero
(Spain), Rodolfo Vázquez (México), Ruth Zimmerling (Germany), Lucía Aseff, Mario E. Chaumet, Ricardo
V. Guarinoni, Pedro Hooft
and Jorge Rodríguez (Argentina) will be main speakers. The AAFD
Young Scholar Award will be granted to the winner of the annual contest.
RECORDS
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,
Miguel Ángel Ciuro Caldani, Julio C. Cueto Rúa, José Rolando Chirico, Diego Duquelsky, Ricardo V. Guarinoni,
Carlos I. Massini, Mario Portela
and Renato Rabbi-Baldi.
Board surrogates:
Armando Andruett, Eduardo Barcesat, Juan Cianciardo and Pablo Navarro. Account reviewers: Eloy
Emiliano Suárez and Carlos
M. Fernández.
CONTACT
Prof. Ricardo A. Guibourg, President
Av. Callao 492 10 B – 1022 Buenos Aires –
Argentina
Tel/fax: +54 44 4372 4613 (home); +5
E-mail: pachig@ciudad.com.ar
AUSTRALIA
(Australian Society of Legal Philosophy)
NEWS
The Australian Society of Legal Philosophy (ASLP) held its Annual Conference on 18-20 July 2003. The
conference was organised in conjunction with the Julius Stone Institute of
Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney. Speakers included David Nelken (Macerata, Italy) ‘The
Concept of Legal Culture’, Rae Langton (Edinburgh)
‘Free Speech and Pornography’s Knowledge’, and Jeremy Waldron (Columbia)
‘Legislating with Integrity’.
Volume 28 of The Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy came out in June, with
articles by David Dyzenhaus (Toronto) ‘Humpty Dumpty Rules or the Rule of Law: Legal Theory and the
Adjudication of National Security’, George Christie (Duke) ‘The Importance of
Recognising the Underlying Assumptions of Legal and Moral Arguments: of Law and
Rawls’, Andrew Geddis (Otago,
NZ) ‘Three Conceptions of the Electoral Moment’, Steven Tudor (Melbourne)
‘Modes of Mercy’, Adrian Walsh (Armadale) ‘Monetary
Valuation in the Law, Incommensurability and the Objections from
Substitutability’. The article by Andrew Geddis was
awarded the First ASLP Essay Prize.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Second ASLP
Essay Prize. The Society
is pleased to announce the second ASLP essay prize
competition. The prize is designed to encourage original research and writing
in legal theory and the philosophy of law by young scholars around the world.
Submissions are invited from currently enrolled graduate students in any
discipline. Submissions may be on any topic in legal theory or the philosophy
of law. Essays should be written in English and should not exceed 10,000 (ten
thousand) words in length (including footnotes). The author of the winning
essay will receive a cash prize of AUD1,000 plus a contribution of up to AUD500
towards the cost of attendance at the Society’s annual conference to present
the essay as a paper. The winning essay will be considered for publication in
the Australian Journal of Legal
Philosophy. The closing date for submissions is 31 January, 2004. The
winner will be chosen by a panel appointed by the executive committee of the
Society, which reserves the right not to award the prize if no submission of
sufficient quality is received. Entries should be sent to the Secretary of the
Society (Prof P Cane, RSSS, ANU,
ACT 0200, Australia or pcane@coombs.anu.edu.au).
They should be submitted either in hard-copy with an accompanying floppy disk,
or electronically as an email attachment, preferably in MS Word.
RECORDS
The current office bearers of the ASLP are President: Tom Campbell (Charles Sturt), Sec/Treasurer: Peter Cane (ANU),
Vice-Presidents: Sandra Berns (Griffith), Jim Evans
(Auckland), Jeff Goldsworthy (Monash), Martin Krygier (UNSW), Ngaire Naffine (Adelaide),
Michael Stokes (Tasmania), David Wood (Melbourne). The ASLP has 57
individual members and 35 institutional members.
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-address: tom.campbell@anu.edu.au or
pcane@coombs.anu.edu.au
Webpage: http://lawrsss.anu.edu.au/aslp/
BRAZIL
(ABRAFI,
Brazilian Association for Philosophy and Sociology of Law)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ABRAFI is creating an annuary
to publish documents and scientific papers.
Since February, 2003, the Brazilian Association
has its website.
RECORDS
The current board of ABRAFI
is:
President: Luiz Fernando Coelho
1st Vice-President: Joao Mauricio Adeodato
2nd Vice-President: Vicente Barreto
Tax Counselor: Eurico
De Santi
Executive Secretary: Denilson
Feitosa
Events Director: Marcelo Galuppo.
CONTACT
Website: http://planeta.terra.com.br/educacao/ABRAFI/
Webmaster e-address: marcelogaluppo@uol.com.br
CHILE
(Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Jurídica y Social)
NEWS
Agustín Squella, President of Chilean IVR
National Section, published before 2001 his book Filosofía
del Derecho.
Manuel Manson,
founder member of Chilean IVR National Section,
published his book Filosofía del Derecho (Ediciones Jurídicas Olejnik, Santiago),
2003.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Anuario de Filosofía
Jurídica y Social, n.20, will be published in 2003.
RECORDS
The National Section of Chile is presided by Agustín Squella.
CONTACT
Agustín Squella Narducci, President
Universidad de Valparaíso
Casilla 3325, Correo 3, Valparaíso – Chile
Fax 50 71 43
E-address: asquella@vtr.net
Or Patricia Whittle: pwhittle@presidencia.cl
CHINA
(Jurisprudence
Institute of Chinese Law Society –JICLS / IVR China)
NEWS
The 2003
annual conference of JICLS took place on January
16-17, 2003, in Harbin, on the topic “Social Transition and the Development of
the Rule of Law”.
RECORDS
President:
Prof. LIU Han, Institute of Law, CASS;
Secretary
General: Prof. LIU Zuoxiang, Institute of Law, CASS,
E-mail: liuzuoxiang@sina.com
CONTACT:
Prof. ZHANG
Qi, Vice Secretary General
Law
Building, Law School, Peking University
Beijing, 100871,
P. R. China
E-mail: zhangqi68@hotmail.com
COLOMBIA
(Asociación Colombiana de Filosofía del
Derecho y Filosofía Social)
NEWS
In April 4-5, 2003, the II Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy was held in Medellín. Speakers were Luis Villar Borda, Ubaldina Díaz, Hernán Ortiz, Rafael Osorio, Rodolfo Arango, Francisco Cortés, Carlos Eduardo Maldonado, Luis Eduardo Cerra, Ángela Santamaría, Oscar Mejía, Gerardo Durango, Gaspar Hernández, Marcela Forero, Numas Armando Gil, Danny Marrero, Rubén Jaramillo Vélez, Andrés Botero Bernal, Vicente Ramírez and Diego López.
Within the meeting, three books were presented: Filosofía del Derecho y del Estado, by Hasso Hofman (translation by Luis Villar Borda), El Estado y la Revolución de Lenin, by Hernán Ortiz Rivas, and Derecho y Dignidad Humana, by Numas Armando Gil.
RECORDS
The Authorities of the Colombian Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy are as follows: 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
NEWS
The Danish section
of IRV held its ordinary general assembly December
10th, 2002, and elected a board for the next two years.
RECORDS
The composition of
the Board of Directors is: Peter Hoilund (Chairman),
Hanne Petersen (Vice-chairman), Finn Collin (Secretary), Jens Teglbjerg Sondergaard (Cashier),
Jorgen Dalberg-Larsen, Jens Evald and Henrik Zahle.
CONTACTS
Peter Hoilund: peterh@ruc.dk;
Finn Collin: collin@hum.ku.dk ;
Hanne Petersen: Hanne.Petersen@jur.ku.dk
FRANCE
(Association Française de Philosophie du Droit)
NEWS
The AFPD held a colloquium on
“Mondialisation: entre illusion et utopie” and several seminars: “La pensée du
conflit de Hobbes à Hegel” (May, 15-17), “Veritas, approaches thomistes de la vérité” (May, 23-24) and “Maïmonide, Averroès, Thomas
d’Aquin, trios conflits entre la science et la foi” (June, 2-4).
Recent publications: Journées (1999, Panama), La
responsabilité: aspects nouveaux (Association Henri Capitant); Concentration
des multinationals et mutation des pouvoirs de l’État (Pierre Bauchet); L’idée
d’étranger chez les philosophes des Lumières (Hubert Baysson);
Droit et porgrès scientifique: science du droit,
valeurs et biomédecine (Jean-René Binet); Science politique. 1, La
démocratie (Philippe Braud); Les regles de la liberté (Monique Canto-Sperber);
Rencontres (1; 2001; Paris) Variations autour d’un droit común
(Centre de Droit Comparé); L’État post-moderne
(Jacques Chevallier); Le profit avant l’homme (Noam Chomsky); Kant, la rationalité pratique (Michèle
Cohen-Halimi, dir.); Voyous: deux essays sur la raison (Jacques Derrida); L’éthique de
la liberation: brève achitectonique
d’une éthique matérielle et critique: à l’ère de la mondialisation et de
l’exclusion (Enrique Dussel); Les
purifications, un projet de paix universelle (Empedocles);
Les cigognes de la philosophie: études sur les migrations conceptuelles (Laurent
Fedi, dir.); La démocratie de notre temps (Marcel Gauchet,
Pierre Manent, Alain Finkielkraut); Dictionnaire Wittgenstein (Hans-Johann Glock); Fichte
(1801-1813): l’émancipation philosophique (Jean-Christophe Goddard); Citoyenneté,
souveraineté, société civile (Pascale
Gonod, Jean-Pierre Dubois); L’éthique de la discussion et la question de
la vérité (Jürgen Habermas); Leçons sur le droit naturel et la science de
l’État (Heidelberg, semestre d’hiver 1817-1818);
suivi de Remarques sur l’Introduction aux leçons de
1818-1819 (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel); Principes de la philosophie du droit (Georg W. F. Hegel); Chrétienté
et démocratie (Pierre de Lauzun); Jeremy Bentham, les artifices du capitalisme
(Christian Laval); Des conditions = De conditionibus
Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibnitz); Civilisation
et barbarie: réflexion sur le terrorisme contemporain Jean-François Mattei et Rosenfiel
dir.); Les contradictions du droit
mondialisé (Mahmoud Mohamed Salah); La nature hors la loi: l’écologie à
l’épreuve du droit (François Ost); Les collectivités locales: mélanges
en l’honneur de Jacques Moreau (Jacques Petit, dir.); Philosophes et
philosophies du XXe siècle (Guy Petitdémange); L’identité
de la personne humaine: étude de droit français et de droit compare (J. Pousson-Petit, dir.); La formation de la pensée
juridique moderne de Michel Villey (Stéphane
Rials); La mémoire, l’histoire et l’oubli (Paul Ricoeur);
Leçons de métaphysique allemande. 1, de Leibnitz à
Hegel, 2, Kant, Heidegger, Habermas (Jacques Rivelaygue);
La doctrine du droit vivant (Caterina Severino); Économie du droit et de l’État
(Philippe Simonnot); La cite charnelle du
droit (Stora-Lamarre, dir.); La philosophie du
droit (Michel Troper).
RECORDS
President: François Terré, 10, square de l’Alboni, 75016 Paris, tel. 01 4
Vice President: René Sève, 18, place Adolphe Chérioux, 75015 Paris, tel 01 5
Secretary General: Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, 25, avenue Rapp, 75007 Paris, tel. 01 445 5
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.
mafr@noos.fr
ITALY
(Società Italiana di Filosofia Giuridica e Politica)
NEWS
The IX Spanish-Italian Seminar on Analytical Legal
Theory, officially sponsored by IVR, will be held in
October 1’0-11, 2003, in Agrigento. Speakers will
be Giulio Itzcovich (Genoa), Teoria dell’argomentazione giuridica e integrazione europea. Discussione
di un caso giudiziale; Pablo Larrañaga (Alicante), La función de la noción de interés general en la regulación económica; Giorgio
Pino (Palermo), Alcune riflessioni sul concetto di abuso del diritto; Francesca
Poggi (Genoa), La rilevanza pratica delle norme permissive; Jorge
Rodríguez (Mar del Plata, Argentina), Consecuencias
lógicas de las normas jurídicas; Mario
Ruiz Sanz (Tarragona), Paradigmas
jurídicos y mundos posibles.
The meeting will include a round table on “Eguaglianza, crisi della legge e principio
di ragionevolezza”. Chair-person:
Maria Vittoria Ballestrero
(Genoa). Participants:
Mario Dogliani (Torino),
Liborio Hierro (Madrid), Jorge Malem (Barcelona),
Tecla Mazzarese (Brescia).
CONTACT
President:
Prof. Gaetano Carcaterra
carcaterra@libero.it or gaetano.carcaterra@libero.it
Homepage: www.fildirg100.giu.uniroma1.it/SIFGP.htm
KOREA
NEWS
A symposium on "Liberalism, Communitarianism
and Law" was held on
ANNOUNCEMENTS
By request of the National Academy of the Republic of
Korea, Prof. Hangnyoung Lee (Member of the Academy)
and Prof. Chongko Choi (Seoul Nat. Univ.) are writing a Research History of
Jurisprudence in Korea since 1945, to be published this year.
CONTACT
Prof.
Chongko Choi, President
College of
Law, Seoul National University
Sinrimdong,
Kwanakgu, 151-742 Seoul, Korea
SLOVENIA
(Slovenian Society for Legal and Social
Philosophy)
RECORDS
President: Prof. Dr. Marijan
Pavcnik
Tel.+386 o1 42 03 197
e-mail: marijan.pavcnik@uni-lj.si
Vice President: Dr. Miro
Cerar
e-mail: miro.cerrar@uni-lj.si
Secretary and
Treasurer: Ales Novak
e-mail: ales.novak@uni-lj.si
SPAIN
(Sociedad Española de Filosofía Jurídica y
Política, SEFJP)
NEWS
Prof. Francesca Puigpelat is the
new Executive Director of the SEFJP, replacing Prof.
Benito de Castro. She was elected at Las Palmas, where the SEFJP
19th Congress was held on March, 6-7. The general subject of the meeting was Justice, Migration and Law.
Plenary session speakers were Prof. J. de Lucas, Prof. R. de Asís, Prof. L. García-San Miguel
and Prof. A. Marcos del Cano.
Recent publications:
S. Blanco, Positivismo metodológico y racionalidad política: Una
interpretación de la teoría jurídica de Carlos S. Nino,
2002; J. R. Capella, Las sombras del sistema constitucional español,
2003; M. Carbonell (ed.), Neoconstitucionalismos,
2003; B. de Castro (ed.), Nuevas lecciones de
teoría del derecho, 2002; J. de Lucas, Blade
Runner: El Derecho, guardián de la diferencia,
2002; A. E. Pérez-Luño, Lecciones de Filosofía del
Derecho (3ª ed.), 2002; A. Ruiz-Miguel, Una
Filosofía del Derecho en modelos históricos: de la antigüedad a los inicios del
constitucionalismo, 2002; F. Sánchez-Díaz, Decisión judicial y ciencia
jurídica: La propuesta de Kart N. Llewellyn,
2002.
RECORDS:
New
executives of the Spanish section of the IVR are: F. Puigpelat (President), C. Alarcón
(Vice president), J. Ansuátegui (Secretary), E. Gayo (Treasurer); Other members: J. Calvo,
M. J. Añón, J. Pérez-Lledó,
L. Miraut and A. de Julios.
CONTACT:
Prof.
Carlos Alarcón Cabrera (carlos@cica.es)
SWITZERLAND
NEWS
The last 2-year-congress of the Swiss section
of IVR was held on November 15th and 16th,
2002 in Lucerne. As guest lecturers were invited: Prof. Peter Behrens (Hannover), Prof. Gerhard Luf (Wien), PD Dr. Urs Marti (Zürich) and Prof. Manfred Walther (Hamburg). The topic was:
"Law in conflict between utilitarian and deontological ethics" (das Recht im
Spannungsfeld utilitaristischer
und deontologischer Ethik).
Lawyers and philosophers of the German-speaking countries tried to disclose the
requirement for these two lines of legitimating law. At the same time they
tried to reach for a synthesis. The Good and the Righteous were shown and compared
each in a general form and in the form in which they can be specified and
standardized within law. Both positions were represented by two lecturers and
about four supplementary votes. All the speakers proceeded on individualism as
a starting point and cooperation as the goal. The leading question was: How do
we motivate cooperation as a duty among people in this world of individualism?
Asking this question, ethics becomes the orientation needed whenever an
individual decides to cooperate. It was stimulating to see that utilitarianism
and deontology have worked out each their own theory of cooperation among
individuals.
A volume about the congress will be
published soon in the ARSP (Archiv
für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie). In their contributions the speakers
will put into words their votes and include the important elements of the
discussion.
There was also the scientific
conference in Landgut Castelen
near Basel in June 25-28, organised by Prof. K. Seelmann.
Its theme was: "human dignity as a legal notion" (die Menschenwürde als Rechtsbegriff) and it took shape of a colloquium with about
15 speakers and 30 listeners. From an interdisciplinary view, they illustrated
the meanings of human dignity as religious, ethical and legal notion. Thereby
they tried to identify the different contents and the binding character of this
rule in a basic way.
There will be a volume about this
congress too, published in ARSP.
RECORDS
President: Prof.
Dr. iur. Philippe Mastronardi, Universität St. Gallen, Rechtswisschenschaftliche Abteilung, Bodanstrasse 3,
CH-9000 St. Gallen.
Tel.: +41 / 71 / 22
E-mail: philippe.mastronardi@unisg.ch
Quaestor: Prof. Dr. iur. Marcel Senn, Lehrstuhl fuer Rechtsgeschichte, juristische Zeitgeschichte und Rechtsphilosophie, Universität Zürich, Cäcilienstrasse 5, CH-8032 Zürich.
Tel.: +41 /
1 / 63
E-mail: marcel.Senn@unizh.ch
CONTACT
Secretary: Lic. iur. Patrik Stadler,
Assistant to Prof. Mastronardi, Universität
St. Gallen, Bodanstrasse 3,
CH-9000 St. Gallen.
Tel.: +41 /
71 / 22
E-mail: patrik.stadler@unisg.ch
UKRAINE
(Ukrainian Association of Philosophy of Law and
Social Philosophy - UAPLSP)
NEWS
The Ukrainian Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (UAPLSP) was
established in June 2002 by a group of Ukrainian scholars - as Prof. Mykhajlo Kostitsky, Prof. Boris Chmil, Prof. Olexandr Manoha, Prof. Oleg Bandura and Nadiya Semenova (LL.M). Later the same year, in Paris, the IVR EC approved the UAPLSP
application for IVR membership as Ukrainian national
section. This status is expected to be confirmed by the IVR
General Assembly at the World Congress in Lund.
The main aim of the UAPLSP activities is to advance the development of
philosophy of law and social philosophy and to foster the principles of rule of
law, democracy and human rights.
With the purpose of familiarising
Ukrainian scholars with the IVR expertise and
activities, the IVR President Eugenio
Bulygin paid a visit to Ukraine in May, 2003. With crucially important support
of leading Ukrainian legal universities, the Academy of Legal Sciences of
Ukraine (a research and co-ordination body) and the Centre of Comparative Law
at the Ministry of Justice, a chain of meetings and round tables was prepared
and held.
The scientific
tour began in southern Ukrainian city of Odessa with a round table on
“Philosophical-legal doctrine in contemporary world” and “Organisational models
for co-operation of scholars in philosophy of law and how to build the national
section (in application to Ukraine)”, held in the Odessa National Legal Academy
(Rector Prof. Kivalov, Pro-Rectors Prof. Baymuratov and Prof. Orzikh, Head
of the International Relations Department V. Barsky)
in
In May 28, the
rigorous discussions continued in the city of Kharkiv.
On the premises of both Ukrainian National Legal Academy (UNLA,
leading university) and the Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, a symposium
was held on “World philosophical-legal heritage and the Ukrainian context”. The
team consisted of UNLA Rector V. Tatsiy,
Vice-Rectors O. Chastnik and V. Panov,
Head of Department for philosophy of law O. Danilyan
and professor S. Maximov. This meeting was special
beyond academic bounds: Kharkiv is the IVR President’s native city and, after a 65 year absence,
Prof. Bulygin visited the building where he was born and spent childhood.
The tour ended in
May 30 with the closing conference “Development of Philosophical-legal thought
in Ukraine: state, problems, perspectives”. This meeting was held in Kyiv, the
Ukrainian capital, at the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIAU, main legal university, a pioneer of philosophy of
law renaissance in Ukraine). The NAIAU Rector Y. Kondratiev, Vice-Rectors L. Kravchenko
and acting UAPLSF president B. Chmil
ensured high quality working environment for the conference participants. The
conference was opened by the Vice-Rector Prof. V. Suzhenko.
Participants were warmly greeted by Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in
Ukraine, Mr. Miguel A. Cuneo. Prof. M. Kostitsky, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine,
acted as the moderator of the symposium.
The topic of the
conference has been examined in 37 papers covering three aspects of it:
·
organisational (general information about IVR and UAPLSP; topical problems
of professional NGOs in the area of law and interdisciplinary sciences; IVR expertise and Ukrainian realities; ways of building-up
the UAPLSP capacity). Papers were presented by E.
Bulygin, B. Chmil and N. Semenova.
·
on subject itself (philosophy of law in comparative
perspective, an application-oriented dimension of philosophy of law;
challenging role of philosophy of law during the period of democratisation;
problems of philosophy of law development: factors for stimulation and
restraints; formation of legal-philosophical thought in Ukraine: tradition –
reception – novation). Interventions were made by E.
Bulygin, M. Kostitsky, P. Rabinovich,
O. Gvozdik, S. Shevchuk, O.
Danilyan, A. Kozlovsky, V. Shkoda, S. Slivka, V. Larionova, S. Maximov, Y. Oborotov, M. Oleksuk, O. Bilyk and Y. Bilyk, V. Kondovich, O. Manokha, V. Shapoval, O. Balynska, O. Dovgopolova, Y.
Simon, V. Nechiporenko, M. Zovtobrukh,
V. Shishko, V. Yesip, Y. Anokhin, T. Dudash, O. Stovba, N. Ohotnikova.
·
educational, in two layers:
a more narrow one, as training of professionals in the area and another wider,
as a key component of legal culture for all lawyers - both theoreticians and
practitioners. Papers were presented by O. Gubar, O. Litvinov, V. Lyashenko, T. Malko, V. Bigun, O. Pavlishin, D. Gudyma. N. Shevchenko, V. Koltun, T. Kondratuk-Antonova and V. Stus
took part in discussions.
Ukrainian scholars thought of the IVR expertise as specially valuable for the time of deep legal reforms in Ukraine, due to the role philosophy of law and social philosophy have in states under transformation.
The Ukrainian tour of IVR president E. Bulygin was covered by TV and 7
professional media in Odessa. The report about it is expected to be published
in the coming issue of the main professional journal “Law of Ukraine”. The tour
gave a considerable push to the development of the newly born Ukrainian
association: 43 new applications were submitted for a UAPLSP
membership and were approved by the general meeting at the Kyiv conference.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
In the late 2003, the UAPLSP is planning to hold a new conference titled “The
reforming potential of philosophy of law”.
RECORDS
President: Prof. Boris Chmil
Other founding members: Mykhajlo
Kostitsky, Olexandr Manoxa, Oleg Bandura, Nadiya Semenova.
CONTACTS
The UAPLSP legal address is
Boris Chmil (President), tel. 380-44-249-09-69
(please speak in Ukrainian and Russian) Nadiya Semenova (Secretary) tel./fax
380-44-244-33-94 (please speak in English, Ukrainian, Russian).
E-mails: UAFPSF@ukr.net, lclck@iatp.kiev.ua
(AMINTAPHIL)
NEWS
AMINTAPHIL's election results
are as follows. Larry May edged out Carol Gould for President. Chris Sistare and David Reidy narrowly prevailed over Steven Lee
and Helen Stacy for positions on the Executive Committee.
Palo Alto in
California emerged as the clear choice for 2004 meetings. Helen Stacy will
host.
"Just and
Unjust Wars" was favored as the conference
topic. President Bob Moffat, with the concurrence of
the Executive Committee, has appointed Steven Lee as Program Chair for the 2004
Palo Alto conference. Work is now progressing on the make-up of the Program
Committee.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
In the coming
months, AMINTAPHIL will be settling the dates and the
Program Committee will suggesting a panoply of topics that can be addressed in
principal papers. Deadlines for paper submissions will be announced and we will
again arrange for electronic distribution of conference materials.
CONTACT
Prof. PhD Ken Kipnis
Executive
Director, AMINTAPHIL, Dpt.
of Philosophy, 2530 Dole Street, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Dpt. Fax 808 956-9228
Home/ans. Machine 808
732-0072
Ofc/voicemail 808
956-8954
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