Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Book Presentation. Bogota Colombia. May 2017 [video]



Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics
A Distributive Justice Issue
© 2017 – Routledge


Abstract.

La mayoría-si no todos-los conflictos en  relaciones internacionales tienen algo que ver con soberanía. En el aspecto teórico, nos enseñan en la Universidad que tanto considerado como un concepto fundamental cuanto uno que ha perdido relevancia, todavía se discute. En el aspecto real, las prerrogativas que un Estado tiene sobre la población y el territorio parece ser el más alto. En este contexto a la vez ideal y real, existen varias disputas de soberanía en todo el mundo que  transitan entre el limbo jurídico y político, status quo y la tensión continua con diversas consecuencias negativas para todas las partes involucradas (e.g. violación de derechos humanos, guerra, tráfico de armas, sólo por nombrar algunos). Cada vez es más evidente que los remedios disponibles son inútiles, y una solución pacífica y definitiva se necesita. Este libro presenta y evalúa una forma equitativa y justa de abordar ciertos conflictos de soberanía.

La Primera Parte presenta el argumento central sobre el que se desarrolla la tesis. Tradicionalmente se entiende que la soberanía no se comparte y es ilimitada. Sostengo que, en realidad, tanto en la teoría como en la práctica la soberanía es siempre limitada. De suyo, considero cómo la soberanía compartida es posible, cómo un Estado puede limitarse y seguir siendo soberano. El Capítulo Uno, la introducción, presenta los elementos básicos constitutivos de este trabajo. El Capítulo Dos examina si la soberanía puede ser (de hecho, es) limitada, por lo que se puede compartir. Para demostrar  utilizo tanto la crítica de las teorías más conocidas de soberanía como la investigación de hechos históricos.

La Segunda Parte explora los elementos mínimos que deben ser reconocidos conceptual, legal y realmente, con el fin de dar cuerpo a la soberanía compartida y la forma en que tienen que trabajar si queremos tener un entendimiento pacífico entre las partes interesadas. El Capítulo Tres evalúa “soberanía compartida” y expresiones similares utilizadas en la literatura política y jurídica. Con el fin de hacer eso, se muestra qué nociones de soberanía compartida no son relevantes. El Capítulo Cuatro examina cómo una noción relevante puede ser desarrollada, utilizando la analogía de la propiedad sobre uno mismo. El Capítulo Cinco analiza los principales remedios aplicados a nivel internacional en temas de soberanía y por qué las alternativas propuestas a la soberanía compartida no resuelven el problema.

La Tercera Parte examina cómo las teorías de justicia distributiva pueden estar en sintonía con el concepto de soberanía y explora la posibilidad de una solución ideal para los conflictos de soberanía. Sostengo que no sólo la soberanía compartida puede ser justa sino también que para ser justa, debe basarse en la metodología de Rawls. El Capítulo Seis presenta y analiza por qué la soberanía compartida es justa. El Capítulo Siete evalúa cómo funciona el modelo en la práctica al mostrar a grandes rasgos cómo se podría aplicar al territorio, población, gobierno y leyes.

Jorge E. Núñez is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Law School, UK and Visiting Professor at Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, UNLP, Argentina


 
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Thursday, 25 May 2017

Book Presentation. St Petersburg. May 2017 [video]


Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics
A Distributive Justice Issue
© 2017 – Routledge



Many conflicts throughout the world can be characterised as sovereignty conflicts in which two States claim exclusive sovereign rights for different reasons over the same piece of land. It is increasingly clear that the available remedies have been less than successful in many of these cases, and that a peaceful and definitive solution is needed. This book proposes a fair and just way of dealing with certain sovereignty conflicts. Drawing on the work of John Rawls this book considers how distributive justice theories can be in tune with the concept of sovereignty and explores the possibility of a solution for sovereignty conflicts based on Rawlsian methodology. Jorge E. Núñez explores a solution of egalitarian shared sovereignty, evaluating what sorts of institutions and arrangements could, and would, best realise shared sovereignty, and how it might be applied to territory, population, government and law.


Jorge E. Núñez is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Law School, UK and Visiting Professor at Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, UNLP, Argentina


Friday, 19 May 2017

Book Presentation. Moscow. May 2017 [video]



Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics
A Distributive Justice Issue
© 2017 – Routledge


Many conflicts throughout the world can be characterised as sovereignty conflicts in which two States claim exclusive sovereign rights for different reasons over the same piece of land. It is increasingly clear that the available remedies have been less than successful in many of these cases, and that a peaceful and definitive solution is needed. This book proposes a fair and just way of dealing with certain sovereignty conflicts. Drawing on the work of John Rawls this book considers how distributive justice theories can be in tune with the concept of sovereignty and explores the possibility of a solution for sovereignty conflicts based on Rawlsian methodology. Jorge E. Núñez explores a solution of egalitarian shared sovereignty, evaluating what sorts of institutions and arrangements could, and would, best realise shared sovereignty, and how it might be applied to territory, population, government and law.


Jorge E. Núñez is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Law School, UK and Visiting Professor at Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, UNLP, Argentina




Friday, 5 May 2017

Book Presentation. Budapest. May 2017 [video]


Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics

A Distributive Justice Issue


© 2017 – Routledge


Many conflicts throughout the world can be characterised as sovereignty conflicts in which two States claim exclusive sovereign rights for different reasons over the same piece of land. It is increasingly clear that the available remedies have been less than successful in many of these cases, and that a peaceful and definitive solution is needed. This book proposes a fair and just way of dealing with certain sovereignty conflicts. Drawing on the work of John Rawls this book considers how distributive justice theories can be in tune with the concept of sovereignty and explores the possibility of a solution for sovereignty conflicts based on Rawlsian methodology. Jorge E. Núñez explores a solution of egalitarian shared sovereignty, evaluating what sorts of institutions and arrangements could, and would, best realise shared sovereignty, and how it might be applied to territory, population, government and law.

Jorge E. Núñez is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Law School, UK and Visiting Professor at Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, UNLP, Argentina



Saturday, 29 April 2017

Book Presentation. Bucharest. April 2017 [video]


Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics

A Distributive Justice Issue


© 2017 – Routledge

 

Many conflicts throughout the world can be characterised as sovereignty conflicts in which two States claim exclusive sovereign rights for different reasons over the same piece of land. It is increasingly clear that the available remedies have been less than successful in many of these cases, and that a peaceful and definitive solution is needed. This book proposes a fair and just way of dealing with certain sovereignty conflicts. Drawing on the work of John Rawls this book considers how distributive justice theories can be in tune with the concept of sovereignty and explores the possibility of a solution for sovereignty conflicts based on Rawlsian methodology. Jorge E. Núñez explores a solution of egalitarian shared sovereignty, evaluating what sorts of institutions and arrangements could, and would, best realise shared sovereignty, and how it might be applied to territory, population, government and law.

Jorge E. Núñez is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Law School, UK and Visiting Professor at Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, UNLP, Argentina
 
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Friday, 21 April 2017

IVR 2017: Special Workshop OBJECTIVITY AND LAW [Call for Papers]



Special Workshop OBJECTIVITY AND LAW 


Organizers 
Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora | Jorge Emilío Núñez | Gonzalo Villa Rosas 
XXVIII World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) 

NEW VENUE FOR 2017 IVR CONGRESS: LISBON

 16 – 21 July 2017 


Presentation 
What is the relation between rule of law and legal reasoning? Which are the necessary conditions required by the rule of law for an adequate legal reasoning? Are judicial decisions fallible? Are there right answers to legal questions? Can legal reasoning be objective when it must answer moral questions? Are there legal facts? What kind of facts are legal facts? Do legal facts suppose moral facts? Are legal facts independent from moral facts? Are there moral facts? What kind of facts are moral facts? Can moral and legal facts be identical to, reducible to, or constituted by natural facts? What are the epistemic conditions which are required for obtaining suitable legal decisions and right moral answers? These and related questions will be addressed by our speakers from metaethical and legal philosophical perspectives. A compilation book of the papers presented at the Worshop will be published in a Journal. 
Notes: Open to additional interested participants. The abstracts and brief academic biography should be submitted by no later than Friday 28th October 2016. 
Language: The abstracts must be written in English or Spanish, and it should be under 400 words. The sessions will be held in English. 
Contact: objectivityandlaw.ws2017@gmail.com 


OrganizersJorge Luis Fabra Zamora (Co-Chair) 
Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora, Ph.D Candidate, Philosophy, McMaster University and External Research, FUCTO School of Law. My research legal philosophy, international law and philosophy of private law. 
Jorge Emilío Núñez (Co-Chair) 
Jorge Emilio Núñez, PhD in Law (Manchester-UK). Senior Lecturer in Law (Manchester-UK). Profesor de Derecho (UNLP-Argentina). Areas of research: jurisprudence, legal theory, political theory, international relations. Various international publications and events worldwide as key speaker. 
Gonzalo Villa Rosas (Co-Chair) 
Gonzalo Villa Rosas, Ph.D. Candidate in Law and Philosophy, Christian-Albrechts Universität (Germany); LL.M. Summa Cum Laude, Christian-Albrechts Universität (Germany); Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) with distinction from the Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia); M.e.Ph. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia). Areas of research: legal theory, argumentation theory, and meta-ethics. 

IVR 2017: Special Workshop "THE CONCEPT OF LAW" [Call for Papers]



Special Workshop THE CONCEPT OF LAW: ELEMENTS AND NATURE 
[Call for Papers]


Organizers 
Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora | Jorge Emilío Núñez | Gonzalo Villa Rosas 
XXVIII World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) 

NEW VENUE FOR 2017 IVR CONGRESS: LISBON

16 – 21 July 2017 


Presentation 
Law has been defined in many forms and characterised by using essential, non-essential, necessary, sufficient, and even desirable conditions. Following Stammler’s classification of the four themes in law, that is ontology, axiology, formal logic and transcendental logic, the workshop aims to explore the law, its ontology and its nature. What are the essential conditions defining law? Do “essential” and “necessary” refer to the same conditions? Following recent works by Yankah and Schauer there seems to be renewed interest in elements that post-Hartian Anglo-American legal philosophy had long ago discarded: are the Hartian criticisms to Kelsenian and post-Kelsenian hard positivism still valid? Is coercion an essential element of law? Is legitimacy an essential element of law? Which are the relations between coercion and legitimacy of law? Which are the conditions for legitimacy of law? Is objectivity a condition for law and its legitimacy? These and related questions will be addressed by our speakers. A compilation book of the papers presented at the Worshop will be published in a Journal. 

NOTES: Open to additional interested participants. The abstracts should be sent to the contact email by 10th May, 2017. Please send your manuscripts by 4th June, 2017. 
Language: The abstracts must be written in English or Spanish, and it should be under 400 words. The sessions will be held in English. 
Contact: conceptoflaw.ws2017@gmail.com 


OrganizersJorge Luis Fabra Zamora (Co-Chair) 
Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora, Ph.D Candidate, Philosophy, McMaster University and External Research, FUCTO School of Law. Areas of research: legal philosophy, international law and philosophy of private law. 
Jorge Emilío Núñez (Co-Chair) 
Jorge Emilio Núñez, PhD in Law (Manchester-UK). Senior Lecturer in Law (Manchester-UK). Profesor de Derecho (UNLP-Argentina). Areas of research: jurisprudence, legal theory, political theory, international relations. Various international publications and events worldwide as key speaker. 
Gonzalo Villa Rosas (Co-Chair) 
Gonzalo Villa Rosas, Ph.D. Candidate in Law and Philosophy, Christian-Albrechts Universität (Germany); LL.M. Summa Cum Laude, Christian-Albrechts Universität (Germany); Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) with distinction from the Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia); M.e.Ph. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia). Areas of research: legal theory, argumentation theory, and meta-ethics.