Responsibility and the Criminal Law – Department "Cesare Beccaria", University o Milano

9 october, 15.30
John Stanton-Ife (King’s College, London – The Law Commission)
Mental Disorder and Sexual Consent: Williams and After
Discussant: Filippo Santoni de Sio (Delft University of Technology)

10 october, 10.00
Sir Anthony Kenny (The University of Oxford)
Intention in Homicide: Italian and English Law Compared
Discussant: Dennis Patterson (The European University, Florence)

Venue: Dipartimento Cesare Beccaria, sezione di Filosofia e Sociologia del diritto, via Festa del perdono 7, Milano

For information contact: Filippo Santoni de Sio (f.santonidesio@tudelft.nl)
 

Courts, interpretation, the Rule of Law – Conference at Belgrade University, 19 October 2012

On Friday, October 19, 2012, the Serbian section of the IVR will hold an annual conference, entitled ‘Courts, Interpretation, the Rule of Law’, at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. The key-note speakers are professors Andrei Marmor (University of South California), Wil Waluchow (McMaster University) and Kenneth Einar Himma (University of Washington). More information can be obtained from Professor Miodrag Jovanović (miodrag@ius.bg.ac.rs)

25th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
17–19 December 2012, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Call for Papers: JURIX 2012

Celebrating 25 years of supporting and enhancing cutting edge research in the interface between law and computer technology, the 2012 JURIX conference will return to its roots in Amsterdam. We invite submission of original papers on the advanced management of legal information and knowledge, covering foundations, methods, tools, systems and applications for the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Support for lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation;
• Support for the production and management of legislation, in agenda setting, policy analysis, drafting, workflow management, monitoring implementation;
• Support for the judiciary, in application of the law, analysis of evidence, management of cases;
• Support for police activities, in forensic inquiries, search and evaluation of evidence, management of investigations;
• Support for public administration, in applying regulations and managing information;
• Support for the acquisition, management or use of legal knowledge, using rules, cases, neural networks, intelligent agents or other methods;
• Systems and methods to support policies and legal issues for social networks;
• Retrieval of legal information;
• Legal education;
• Digital-rights management;
• Alternative dispute resolution, particularly on-line;
• Regulatory compliance and compliance of business processes;
• Theoretical foundations for the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the legal domain;
• Models of legal knowledge, including concepts (legal ontologies), rules, cases, principles, values and procedures;
• Legal inference and argumentation;
• Verification and validation of legal knowledge systems;
• Management of legal information in the semantic web;
• XML standards for legal documents, including legislative, judicial, administrative acts as well as private documents, such as contracts;
• Modelling the legal interactions of autonomous agents and digital institutions;
• Methods for managing organizational change when introducing legal knowledge systems;
• Evaluation of systems using advanced informatics techniques in legal applications;
• Interdisciplinary applications of legal informatics methods and systems.

The deadline for paper submission is the 1st September 2012. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair Conference Management System, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jurix2012, using PDF or Word format, and should not exceed 10 pages when formatted using the styles and guidelines in the Instructions for Authors. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the IOS Press site under “Book Publishing” in the “Authors’ Corner”. Authors are strongly encouraged to use these style sheets, as papers not meeting the publisher’s criteria or exceeding the page limit will be excluded from inclusion in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press (Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC) in their series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” before the Conference Proposals for tutorials and workshops are invited and strongly encouraged. All proposals, including a short description of the topic, should be sent to the Programme Chair by email. . There will also be a possibility to publish selected workshop papers with a range of peer reviewed journals, including SCRIPTed

Programme Chair: Burkhard Schafer, SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law University of Edinburgh, UK. b.schafer@ed.ac.uk

Local Organisation Chair: Tom van Engers, Leibniz Center for Law Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid/Faculty of Law Universiteit van Amsterdam vanEngers@uva.nl

Conference website: http://conference.jurix.nl/2012/cfp.html

Important Dates:

• Deadline for submissions of papers: 1st September 2012
• Notification of acceptance: 30th September
• Final, camera-ready copies required by: 5th October 2012
• Deadline for proposals for workshops and tutorials: 15th September
• Conference: main conference 17-18th December, workshops 19th December JURIX conferences are held under the auspices of the Dutch Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems.

Contacts: You can contact us by sending an email to Burkhard Schafer, B.schafer@ed.ac.uk

26^th IVR World Congress ¦ Human Rights, Democracy, Rule of Law and Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies

The Brazilian Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (ABRAFI), in association with several entities, has the privilege to organize the XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy of the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (IVR), which would take place in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, from the 22nd to the 26th of July 2013.

The theme of the Congress will be Human Rights, Democracy, Rule of Law and Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies. The choice of the theme is important, on the one hand, because the biggest challenge of developing countries such as Brazil is to reconcile their rapid economic development with the protection of Human Rights, and, on the other hand, because the developed countries are now facing criticisms against the model that they have historically imposed on the rest of the world. The scientific activities of the event will be distributed among the Plenary Sections, the Working Groups and the Special Workshops. The Plenary Sections will have 11 keynote speakers that will be invited by the organization of the event, as well as the IVR Young Scholar Prize. The Working Groups will specify and develop the general theme of the Congress. The Special Workshops, which will be proposed by the participants of the Congress themselves, will allow other topics to be discussed at the Congress. English will be the official language of the event. There may eventually be Special Workshops in other languages, as long as all its participants are able to communicate in such languages.

Conference website: http://www.ivr2013.org

Rules 2013 | Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland | 27–29 September 2013

The idea of the Conference is to bring together philosophers, legal philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists, including researchers on artificial intelligence, who are interested in the problem of rules, rule-following and normativity. Our aim is to create an interdisciplinary forum that will bring together academics representing different disciplines, willing to present their perspective on the issues related to rules and normativity.

Conference website: http://rules2013.pl

Hans Kelsen and Max Weber: Convergences and Divergences in Conceptions of the Juridico-Political 11th-13th July 2012

This interdisciplinary, mini-Conference represents the first sustained examination of the relationship between Hans Kelsen and Max Weber's work in the UK. The examination will centre upon the concept of the juridico-political, and will be structured by three main paths of reflection; Kelsen, Weber and Neo-Kantianism (path I); Kelsen/Freud and Weber/Nietzsche (path II) and the theories of Kelsen and Weber as interventions within the modern juridico-political system (path III). The Conference papers will be given by a mixture of European and North American experts on the work of Kelsen and Weber

This mini-conference will primarily be of interest to UK academics whose research relates to the fields of legal theory, sociology, philosophy and social and political theory

Organisers: Peter Langford (Department of Law and Criminology, Edge Hill University), Ian Bryan (School of Law, Lancaster University) and John McGarry (Department of Law and Criminology, Edge Hill University)

Website: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/kelsenweber

Contact Individual: Peter Langford (langforp@edgehill.ac.uk)

This conference brings together experts from political philosophy, legal philosophy and social epistemology to examine fundamental issues in the theory of democracy. Is there an internal connection between the value of democracy within a group of enquirers and the "objective" standing of the products of that inquiry? How is the ideal of democratic self-governance connected to the pluralism of moral values? What is the relationship between the normative authority of democracy and of a legal system? How might the emergence of a trans-national legal order alter how we think about constitutional ideas? In what way can formal methods give insight into practical policy issues?

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Helen Longino (Stanford), Alexander Somek (Iowa), and Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt)

ORGANIZERS:

Stephan Hartmann, Hans Lindahl, Alan Thomas

We invite submissions of both a short abstract (max. 100 words) and an extended abstract (1000-1500 words) through our automatic submission system by 15 January 2012. Decisions will be made by 1 February 2012.

This conference is a joint event of TiLPS and Tilburg University's Department of Philosophy.

The conference language is English.

Website: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/tilps/Democracy2012/

International Conference «Transnational Societal Constitutionalism», May 17-19, 2012, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Torino (Italy)

Hosted by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL), the International University College of Turin (IUC) and the Collegio Carlo Alberto.

Over the past few years, a series of political scandals have raised the ‘new constitutional question’. Multinational corporations violated human rights; private intermediaries in the internet threatened freedom of opinion, and recently, with particular impact, the global capital markets unleashed catastrophic risks — all of these pose constitutional problems in the strict sense. It is outside the limits of the nation-state in transnational politics and, at the same time, outside institutionalized politics, in the ‘private’ sectors of global society that these constitutional problems arise.
In the conference, social scientists and lawyers will discuss the question whether Constitutionalism has the potential to counteract the expansionist tendencies of social systems outside the state, particularly the globalized economy, science and technology, and the information media, when they endanger individual or institutional autonomy.

The conference is open to the public and attendance is free of charge. Young researchers attending the conference are encouraged to present their own research in this field in form of a poster.

For more information and registration, visit the official conference website: http://www.hiil.org/tsc
 

The conference, devoted to the topic “Social Justice and Domestic Violence” which will be organized by Ankara University Law Faculty Center of Justice and Domestic Violence will be held at Ankara University Law Faculty on 3-4 April 2012. The aim of the conference is to discuss domestic violence as an issue of social justice. As it is known, domestic violence is not discussed as a problem of justice, like women’s rights are not regarded as human rights.

Speakers: Elizabeth Schneider, Carol Gould, Zenon Bankowski, Jonathan Herring, Marilyn Freeman, Feride Acar, Merih Öden, Selin Esen, Türkan Yalçın Sancar, Cavid Abdullayev, Yıldız Ecevit, Ayşe Akın, Süha Tanrıverdi, Şanal Saruhan, Selen Doğan, Nazik Işık, Gülriz Uygur.

Contact Person: Gülriz Uygur (gulrizuygur@gmail.com)

A V Jornada Brasileira de Filosofia do Direito

A V Jornada Brasileira de Filosofia do Direito ocorrerá na Faculdade de Direito da UFMG (Belo Horizonte) entre os dias 24 e 26 de novembro de 2011.

Conferencistas confirmados: Manuel Atienza, Joaquim Carlos Salgado, Tércio Sampaio Ferraz Júnior

Apresentação de trabalhos
Através do email contato.abrafi@uol.com.br (indicando no assunto: Submissão de trabalho), interessados podem enviar resumos expandidos até o dia 05 de novembro, que deverão conter até 2.000 palavras (mínimo de 1.200 palavras), indicando, ao início, o título do trabalho, o nome do autor ou autores, a instituição de ensino a que estão ligados como professores ou alunos e o seus e-mails, além de palavras-chave. Deverão ser apresentadas de 03 a 05 palavras-chave (compostas, cada uma delas, de até 3 palavras). Os trabalhos deverão ser apresentados conforme as normas da ABNT (em especial NBR 6023, 14724, 6028 e 10520, versões atualizadas). Uma vez recebidos os trabalhos, a comissão organizadora selecionará os trabalhos por Grupos de Trabalho a partir das palavras chave indicadas (NB.: Não haverá indicação prévia pelos autores de grupos de trabalhos: eles serão organizados pela afinidade da temática dos trabalhos submetidos, garantindo-se um mínimo de 3 trabalhos e um máximo de 10 trabalhos por grupo. Um dos participantes será indicado como coordenador do grupo pela organização do evento). Será aceito um máximo de 120 trabalhos. Para cada grupo de trabalho, serão concedidos 20 minutos por trabalho participante. Nesse tempo estão previstas a apresentação e a discussão dos mesmos.

Inscrições
Serão praticadas as seguintes taxas de inscrição:
– Alunos de graduação e de pós-graduação associados à ABRAFI e alunos de graduação em Direito da FDUFMG e da PUC Minas (organizadoras do evento): R$ 10,00
– Alunos de pós-graduação em Direito da FDUFMG e da PUC Minas e professores da FDUFMG e da PUC Minas ou associados à ABRAFI: R$ 20,00
– Demais alunos: R$ 100,00 (30% de desconto para pagamento até 31 de outubro)
– Demais professores: R$ 200,00 (30% de desconto para pagamento até 31 de outubro)
As inscrições deverão ser pagas até 18 de novembro. Para realizar o pagamento, o interessado deverá enviar email para contato.abrafi@uol.com.br indicando, no assunto do mesmo, “V Jornada Brasileira de Filosofia do Direito”. No email, além de nome completo, o interessado deverá enviar seu CPF e endereço completo, bem como a instituição a que está associado como professor ou estudante (no caso de estudante, indicar o curso e data provável de conclusão) e a categoria de sua inscrição, nas 4 modalidades acima. Será gerado um boleto bancário por email. O mesmo email (contato.abrafi@uol.com.br) pode ser utilizado para associação à ABRAFI (Anuidade: R$ 120,00, com 50% de desconto para alunos de graduação, mestrado e doutorado em Direito, Filosofia e Sociologia).

Maiores informações podem ser obtidas no site http://abrafi-filosofia.blogspot.com/

Realização: ABRAFI

Organização: Programa de Pós-graduação em Direito da UFMG e Programa de Pós-graduação em Direito da PUC Minas

Patrocínio: OAB-MG

Criminalization Conference

Conference of the Criminalization Project led by Antony Duff (Philosophy, Stirling), Lindsay Farmer (Law, Glasgow), Sandra Marshall (Philosophy, Stirling), Massimo Renzo (Law, York) and Victor Tadros (Law, Warwick).

Website: http://www.philosophy.stir.ac.uk/criminalization/CriminalizationConference.php

Congress theme: Law, Science, Technology

Website: http://www.ivr2011.org

10th Kobe Lecture

IVR Japan and the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy will hold the 10th Kobe Lecture in July 2011, with Professor David Miller of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, as the invited lecturer. The Kobe Lecture is an international lecture program founded in 1988, commemorating the 13th IVR World Congress held in 1987 in Kobe, Japan. The 10th Kobe Lecturer, Professor David Miller, is known worldwide as one of the leading theorists of political theory, particularly on global and social justice.  His recent books, especially On Nationality and National Responsibility and Global Justice, have attracted much attention among Japanese legal and political philosophers, and their Japanese translations are expected to be out before his trip to Japan. He will give the Kobe Lecture in Kyoto and four additional seminars in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka during his stay.

For more information see the page of the IVR Japan section.

International Round Table organized/sponsored by the Nagoya University Global COE Program HERSETEC (Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration), supported by l'École Normale Supérieure and the Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit.

See the programme for further details.

International Round Table organized/sponsored by the Nagoya University Global COE Program HERSETEC (Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration) and IVR Germany.

See the programme for further details.

All members of the UK section of the IVR (and everyone who is interested in legal philosophy) are cordially invited to the 2010 annual meeting of the UK section of the IVR in Birmingham on 21 and 22 Sep 2010! The conference will commence on 21 Sep 1:30 pm and will last until 22 Sep 5 pm. The conference fee is 50 pounds, which includes the annual membership fee for the UK IVR section. There is no fee for postgraduate students. Stanley L. Paulson and Julian Rivers have kindly confirmed to give plenary speeches. The conference with the title "Rights, Morality, and the Law" has three streams, (1) The Structure of Rights, (2) Law and Morality, and (3) The Pure Theory of Law. The conference organizer invites abstracts (300 words) for workshop presentations of circa 20 minutes (plus discussion time). Abstracts for presentations in the three conference streams "broadly conceived" are particularly welcome. However, contributions to any field of legal philosophy, legal theory or legal sociology are welcome. Please submit abstracts via email to ivr2010@contacts.bham.ac.uk by 11Sep at the latest.

Contact Person: Dr Martin Borowski (ivr2010@contacts.bham.ac.uk)

Contact Person: Gülriz Uygur guygur@law.ankara.edu.tr

The congress, devoted to the topic “Neutrality and Theory of Law”, will take place the 20th, 21st and 22nd of May 2010 in the Spanish city of Girona. The conference is conceived of as a meeting place for authors and readers of the seriesPhilosophy and Law, published by Marcial Pons. For this reason twelve authors from the collection will be speakers at the event Dr. Robert Alexy, Dr. Juan C. Bayón, Dr. Brian Bix, Dr. Eugenio Bulygin, Dr. Bruno Celano, Dr. Jules L. Coleman, Dr. Riccardo Guastini, Dr. Brian Leiter, Dr. Jorge Luis Rodríguez, Dr. Frederick Schauer, Dr. Scott J. Shapiro, Dr. Wilfrid J. Waluchow. Our objective is to offer an event of great importance in the legal-philosophical debate that will gather and try to bridge different legal traditions.

See the website below for the Young Researchers "Philosophy and Law Collection" Award.

Organizers: Marcial Pons, Universitat de Girona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

Conference website: http://www.filosofiayderecho.es/congreso/en/index.html

Contact Person: Gülriz Uygur guygur@law.ankara.edu.tr

Website: http://www.ankarabarosu.org.tr/Siteler/HukukKurultayi/2010.html

The 24th World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy will be held in Beijing on September 15-20, 2009. The main theme of the World Congress is "global harmony and rule of law". The concept of harmony has figured prominently in both eastern and western philosophical traditions, and can be interpreted to describe the developmental goals of many societies. Unlike the more often invoked concept of "globalization", "global harmony" captures many of our shared ideals concerning the relationships among countries, cultures, and legal systems, as well as between human kind and nature. By proposing to examine the role of the rule of law in promoting global harmony, the hosts of the 24th IVR World Congress hope not only to give greater voice to traditions and contemporary thinking in non-western cultures, but also to suggest new dimensions of collaboration among eastern and western scholars.

Conference website: http://www.ivr2009.com/

The symposium which is organized by Turkish Philosophical Society will be held at the Human Rights Department, Maltepe University on June 24, 2009.

Keynote Speaker: Jules Coleman

Speakers: Ioanna Kuçuradi, Kenneth Einar Himma, Ofer Raban, Fazýl Saðlam, Ýbrahim Kaboðlu, Hayrettin Ökçesiz, Emrah Bertil Oder, Ece Göztepe, Gülriz Uygur

Organizers: Ioanna Kuçuradi (ioanna@fisp.org.tr), Maltepe University, Human Rights Department

Contact person: Gülriz Uygur (guygur@law.ankara.edu.tr)

Website: www.tfk.org.tr and www.ivr-turkey.org

Australian Society of Legal Philosophy – Annual Conference 2009

The Society's Annual Conference will be held at the Law School, University of Melbourne, from Friday June 5 until Sunday June 7, 2009. Conference highlights this year will include:

A plenary paper by Professor Chin Liew Ten from the Department of Philosophy, University of Singapore. Professor Ten is internationally renowned for his work on crime and punishment, liberalism and toleration, and the political philosophy of John Stuart Mill.

A "public conversation" between retired High Court Justice Michael Kirby and Professor James Allan of the University of Queensland, with an opportunity for questions from the audience.

A book symposium dedicated to Professor Ngaire Naffine's recently published Law's Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Profession (Hart Publishing, Legal Theory Today Series). Commentators will be Professor Margaret Thornton (ANU), Dr Steve Tudor (La Trobe), Professor Denise Meyerson (Macquarie) and Dr John Morss (Deakin).

There will be a parallell conference on 19 May 2009 in connection with the visit of Professor David B. Wexler (University of Arizona and University of Puerto Rico). The theme of this parallell conference is: "Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Sweden".

Offers of papers for this year's conference should be sent to the ASLP President, Professor Jeff Goldsworthy at:(jeff.goldsworthy@law.monash.edu.au).

Congress: "Law and Other Disciplines" and "Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Sweden"

The annual conference of the Swedish IVR National Section will be held in Stockholm, 18-19 May 2009. The first day of the conference will deal with the theme "Law and Other Disciplines", while the second day will be devoted to the discussion of on-going research in legal philosophy in Sweden.

There will be a parallell conference on 19 May 2009 in connection with the visit of Professor David B. Wexler (University of Arizona and University of Puerto Rico). The theme of this parallell conference is: "Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Sweden".

For details on the conferences please see the conference programme.

Influences réciproques entre globalisation et ordres juridiques — Régionalisation du droit des Gens ? — Globalisation, législation et démocratie

Wechselwirkung zwischen Globalisierung und Rechtsordnung — Regionalisierung des Völkerrechts ? — Globalisierung, Normsetzung und Demokratie

For details see SVRSP website with conference programme.