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)

Istanbul, Turkey| 16 – 21 July 2017

IVR 2017 Main Link

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

Organizers
Jorge 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)

Istanbul, Turkey| 16 – 21 July 2017

IVR 2017 Link

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 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: conceptoflaw.ws2017@gmail.com

Organizers
Jorge 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.