Juris North Kelsen 2021 Congress

 

Juris North Kelsen Congress 2021 (ONLINE)

“Global Perspectives on Kelsen”[1]

Friday 24th and Saturday 25th September 2021, 10am-7pm BST

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[1] In memory of Prof. Dr María Teresa López (UNLP, Argentina), Prof. Dr John Gardner (Oxford, UK) and Prof. Dr Eugenio Bulygin (UBA, Argentina)

SCHEDULE

DAY 1: Friday 24th September 2021

Block 1: 10:00am-1:00pm

10:00am Introduction by co-hosts Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Dr Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora and Gonzalo Villa Rosas

10:30am-11:30am Keynote Speaker 1

• Dr Maris Köpcke Tinturé, University of Barcelona (Spain) and University of Oxford (UK), Kelsen’s Place in the History of Legal Validity

Q&As interactive session between speakers and Zoom attendees.

11:30am-1:00pm Paper Authors 1 and 2

• Dr Wei Feng, University of Political Science and Law (China), Hans Kelsen on Necessity, Hierarchy, and Content of Law
• Dr Anna Taitslin, University of Canberra (Australia), Kelsen’s Basic Norm & Hart’s Secondary Rules in Comparative Study of the 20th c. Revolutionary Legal Change in Russia and Germany

Q&As interactive session between speakers and Zoom attendees.

1:00pm-1:30pm Active Break

Block 2: 1:30pm-4:00pm

1:30pm-2:30pm Keynote Speaker 2

•  Dr Mikhail Antonov, Higher School of Economics (Russia), Hans Kelsen and the Soviet Law

Q&As interactive session between speakers and Zoom attendees.

2:30pm-4:00pm Paper Authors 3 and 4

• Dr Tomasz Widłak, University of Gdańsk (Poland), Kelsen’s Philosophy of International Law and the Project of Pure Theory of Law
• Dr Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora, University of Toronto (Canada), Clarifying Kelsenian Monism

4:00pm-4:30pm Active Break

Block 3: 4:30pm-7:00pm

4:30pm-5:30pm Keynote Speaker 3

•  Dr Andrés Botero Bernal, University of Santander (UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia), The Kelsen-Hart Debate on Normative Sanction: a Look beyond the Last of the Mohicans

Q&As interactive session between speakers and Zoom attendees.

5:30pm-7:00pm Paper Authors 5 and 6

• Dr Carlo Garbarino Università Bocconi (Italy) andNYU Law School (United States), Expanding Kelsen’s Concept of Singular Rules and Production of Rules by Rules: Self-applied Rules and Nomo-Dynamic Networks
• Dr Asya Ostroukh,University of the West Indies (Barbados), “Kelsen in the Grenada Court”: Simeon McIntosh’s Contribution to the Understanding of Kelsen’s Theory of Revolutionary Legality

7:00pm Closing remarks – End of day 1

DAY 2: Saturday 25th September 2021

Block 4: 10:00am-1:00pm

10:00am Introduction by co-hosts Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Dr Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora and Gonzalo Villa Rosas

10:30am-11:30am Keynote Speaker 4

• Dr Lars Vinx, University of Cambridge (UK), Hans Kelsen and the Crisis of Democracy

Q&As interactive session between speakers and Zoom attendees.

11:30am-1:00pm Paper Authors 7 and 8

• Jingshu Wang, University of Political Science and Law (China), Resolve Norm Conflicts and Uphold International Law:Kelsen’s Legacy in Contemporary Challenges
• Dr Phil Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Kelsen and ‘Primitive’ International Law: Three Answers and a Question

1:00pm-1:30pm Active Break

Block 5: 1:30pm-4:00pm

1:30pm-2:30pm Keynote Speaker 5

•  Dr Monika Zalewska, University of Lodz (Poland), Fictionalism in Hans Kelsen’s General Theory of Norms

Q&As interactive session between speakers and Zoom attendees.

2:30pm-4:00pm Paper Authors 9 and 10

• Dr Rubin Assis da Silveira Souza, Law School of São Paulo, FGV-SP, and. National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq (Brazil), Kelsen on Kant’s Pure and Practical Reason Contradiction
• Cristiano de Aguiar Portela Moita, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Wittgenstein’s Rule-Following Paradox in Kelsen’s Account of Legal Interpretation

4:00pm-4:30pm Active Break

 Block 6: 4:30pm-6:30pm

4:30pm-5:30pm Keynote Speaker 6

• Dr Carsten Heidemann, Bordesholm (Kiel Bar Association, Germany), Varieties of Validity

Q&As interactive session between speakers and Zoom attendees.

5:30pm-6:30pm Open Floor Discussion and Closing remarks – End of day 2

Should you want to join us live via Zoom and interact directly with our speakers, please book your free ticket using our Juris North Eventbrite page. Note you’ll have to book separately for each day. 

Day 1 tickets:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/168427825159

Day 2 tickets:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/168428392857

The event will be transmitted live via YouTube and Facebook for those who may not be able to get a ticket (note we have limited availability). 

We’ll be using the following hashtags on social media:

#JurisNorth2021
#Kelsen2021

Last but not least, as you know, all our Juris North events are completely free. I’d appreciate if those who book a ticket could send a donation to Fundação Angelica Goulart, which I represent globally.

Details about our Fundação and how to send your donation: https://drjorge.world/fundacao-angelica-goulart/ 

Monday 30th August 2021

Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @DrJorge_World
https://drjorge.world