Juris North+ 2024 Special Workshop “Queer Theory, Leadership and Inclusion” at IVR Seoul [7-12 July 2024]

 

SW Queer Theory, Leadership and Inclusion

IVR 2024 Seoul, South Korea

[7-12 July 2024]

Convenors

Jorge Nunez (Manchester Law School, Reader in Legal Philosophy (Jurisprudence), Political Philosophy and International Relations)j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk

Anna Chronopoulou (Westminster Law School)

Following successful roundtable events exploring the work of Hans Kelsen in 2021 and 2022, and contemporary non/anti-positivist legal theory in 2023, and the several special workshops organised by us at previous IVR events, Juris North is pleased to announce this special workshop on Queer Theory, Leadership and Inclusion.

We invite participants to present work-in-progress that engages with an aspect of queer theory. Papers may approach this theme from either a doctrinal or theoretical perspective.

Aims

• To critically assess domestic, regional and/or global crossovers with a specific thematic area.
• To explore different stakeholder journeys and views
• To seek different perspectives and exchanges about the same theme and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.

Led by

Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School
Dr Anna Chronopoulou, Westminster Law School

Aims

• To critically assess domestic, regional and/or global crossovers with a specific thematic area.
• To explore different stakeholder journeys and views
• To seek different perspectives and exchanges about the same theme and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.

Participants

Open to all. Ideally, multi-disciplinary, transversal and inclusive (academics, policy-makers,
people at large from different states, religions, genders, ethnicities, etc.).

Format

The purpose of this special workshop is to showcase and develop works-in-progress rather than completed papers.

Final event

We intend to follow up the special workshop with a one-day event in September/October 2024 where attendees can present their final papers. Though in-person attendance is encouraged, the final event will be hosted in a hybrid-format at Manchester Law School and/or Westminster Law School.
We are currently in discussions with Hart as to the possibility of publishing presented papers as an edited collection.

Participation

If you are interested in sending an abstract (up to 500 words) for consideration or simply taking part in our roundtables, please send your email to j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk by Friday 29th March 2024.

The e-mail accompanying your abstract should also contain the following information

• Name;
• Institutional affiliation (if any);
• Subject line: Please indicate “SW Queer Theory.”

Thursday 21st December 2023

Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @DrJorge_World

https://drjorge.world

Juris North 2024 Special Workshop “Global Justice and Global Order” at IVR Seoul [7-12 July 2024]

 

SW Global Justice and Global Order

IVR 2024 Seoul, South Korea

[7-12 July 2024]

Convenors

Prof. Dr. Thomas Pogge (Yale University)

Dr. Jorge E. Núñez (Manchester Law School)

Following successful Juris North roundtable events exploring the work of Hans Kelsen in 2021 and 2022, contemporary non/anti-positivist legal theory in 2023, queer theory, leadership and inclusion in 2024, Juris North and ASAP (Academics Stand Against Poverty) are pleased to announce the theme of our 2024/2025 Roundtable Series: Global Justice. We invite participants to present work-in-progress that engages with an aspect of queer theory. Papers may approach this theme from either a doctrinal or theoretical perspective.

Aims

• To deepen and broaden the understanding of how to address partiality and unfairness in the world order
• To explore different stakeholder journeys and view
• To seek different perspectives and exchanges and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.

Led by

Prof. Dr Thomas Pogge, Yale University
Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School

Theme

Any community or population consists of people who are different in many senses. Pluralism is a permanent feature. Similar to the civil society, the international community includes several agents of very different natures (sovereign states, cultures, subcultures, religions, individuals). People in civil societies may be weak or strong, wealthy or poor, classed as abled or disabled, and so on, while the international arena includes developed and non-developed nations, democratic and non-democratic legal systems, populated and not populated territories, sovereign states, pseudo-states, quasi-states, and other. Both in the case of civil societies and the international community, national and international agents, respectively recognize some inter-subject rules of conduct.
In any circumstances in which there are agents of different kinds their interrelations will introduce identity and conflict of interests. As a result, some criteria are needed for choosing the principles that can guarantee decision-making impartiality and the fairness of the outcome. Arguably, in the case of civil societies, many national legal orders already offer rules and mechanisms to secure normatively and effectively impartiality in the way in which different persons are considered and a certain degree of fairness (or at least, the ability to challenge unfair situations).
The global order is very different. Although there are international rules and mechanisms that in principle acknowledge equality of states and give central roles to non-governmental organizations and, to an extent, people (for example, European Union law), realpolitik shows clearly that impartiality in the way different international agents are considered is scattered (for example, there are some states that are “more equal” than others) and therefore, the fairness of the current world order is highly questionable.

Hypotheses

1. The global order can progress from a pluralism of pluralisms to one version of pluralism that is widely sharable when no world order can be equally hospitable to all states, cultures, religions and persons it makes room for, or when no world order can please everyone in regard to how much inequality it engenders.
2. Sovereign states can cooperate together and accept limitations without sacrificing their sovereignty. Similarly, other international agents can cooperate together and accept limitations without compromising their freedom.
3. Individuals can be (i) partial for their state under rules of a fair competition and also be (ii) impartial in their defense and promotion of those fair rules themselves.

Participants

Open to all. Ideally, multi-disciplinary, transversal and inclusive (academics, policy-makers, people at large from different states, religions, genders, ethnicities, etc.).

Format

The purpose of this special workshop is to showcase and develop works-in-progress rather than completed papers

Follow-up events

We intend to follow up the special workshop with a set of roundtables and a conference. Inperson attendance will be encouraged. Each event will be hosted in a hybrid-format at Manchester Law School (United Kingdom) and/or Yale University (United States).

Roundtables Dates/Times: monthly meeting
October 2024: Date/Time TBC
November 2024: Date/Time TBC
December 2024: Date/Time TBC

Final event

The series will culminate in a one-day event in April/May 2025 where attendees can present papers that have been updated as a result of the series.
We are currently in discussions with Hart as to the possibility of publishing presented papers as an edited collection.

Participation

If you are interested in sending an abstract (up to 500 words) for consideration or simply taking part in our roundtables, please send your email to j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk by Friday 29th March 2024.

The e-mail accompanying your abstract should also contain the following information

• Name;
• Institutional affiliation (if any);
• Subject line: Please indicate “SW Global Justice and Global Order.

 

Thursday 21st December 2023

Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez

Twitter: @DrJorge_World

https://drjorge.world

Juris North Roundtables 2021: Kelsen (starting April 2021)

 

Wednesday 13th January 2021

Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez
Twitter: @DrJorge_World
https://drjorge.world

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

Special Workshop OBJECTIVITY AND LAW 

IVR 2017 Special Workshops

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 

IVR 2017 Lisbon

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 Press Release New Venue 2017 Lisbon

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

Special Workshop THE CONCEPT OF LAW: ELEMENTS AND NATURE 

[Call for Papers]

IVR 2017: Special Workshops

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 

IVR 2017 Lisbon

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. 

IVR Press Release: New Venue 2017 Lisbon

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. 

La Fuerza del Derecho: Derecho y Coerción [Charla 1de2, Argentina Junio 2015]

La Fuerza del Derecho:

Derecho y Coerción, Validez y Eficacia, y Sinergia[1]

 

Dr JORGE EMILIO NUNEZ

 

Resumen Este artículo considera las dos principales tesis que Schauer introduce en La Fuerza de Derecho. En primer lugar, busca establecer que la coacción o coerción es (a) generalmente parte del derecho; y (b) ocasionalmente puede no serlo. En segundo lugar, intenta demostrar que a pesar que la relación entre las normas y los hechos o actos dentro de un sistema normativo podría ser necesaria, suficiente o deseable, en todos los casos es sinérgica. La última sección de este trabajo muestra que la coacción o coerción tiene interés filosófico en la explicación de la naturaleza del derecho puesto que la cuestión de si se trata de un elemento necesario o suficiente es irrelevante.

 

Palabras Clave Derecho, Coerción, Validez, Eficacia, Sinergia, Poder

El artículo completo (en inglés) en SSRN The Force of Law: Law and Coercion, Validity and Effectiveness, and Synergy

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[1] Una breve versión de este artículo “нормативные системы как право в синергии: ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНОСТЬ И ДЕЙСТВЕННОСТЬ” (en castellano, “Sistemas Normativos como Derecho en Sinergia: Validez y Eficacia”), Filosofía del Derecho y Responsabilidad del Estado, Universidad Estatal de San Petersburgo, 2012.

The Force of Law: Law and Coercion [Presentation 1of2, Argentina June 2015]

The Force of Law:

Law and Coercion, Validity and Effectiveness, and Synergy[1]

 

Dr JORGE EMILIO NUNEZ

 

Abstract This paper considers the two claims Schauer introduces in The Force of Law. Firstly, the paper seeks to establish that coercion is (a) generally part of the law; and (b) occasionally may be not. Secondly, I intend to demonstrate that despite the fact that the relationship between rules and facts within a normative system could be necessary, sufficient or desirable, in all cases is a synergetic one: they outperform when they work together. Therein, the last section of this paper shows that coercion has philosophical interest in explaining the nature of law since the question whether it is a necessary or sufficient element is irrelevant.

Keywords Law, Coercion, Validity, Effectiveness, Synergy, Power

Complete paper available at SSRN The Force of Law: Law and Coercion, Validity and Effectiveness, and Synergy

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[1] A very early version of this paper “нормативные системы как право в синергии: ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНОСТЬ И ДЕЙСТВЕННОСТЬ” (in English, “Normative Systems as Law in Synergy: Validity and Effectiveness”), Philosophy of Law and State Responsibility, St. Petersburg State University, 2012.

UK IVR Annual Lecture 2015

UK IVR Members/all,

 

We’re very pleased to announce a new UK IVR initiative: the UK IVR Annual Lecture.

The first one will be hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, and will be delivered by Dr. Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco. Thank you to Dr. Jorge Nunez for taking on this initiative.

Please find the poster attached, and here is where you can register: https://www.kxregistration.mmu.ac.uk/UKIVR2015

 The fee is unfortunately necessary to cover the costs, but note that any funds generated will help the UK IVR.

There will be some light refreshments before and after the lecture, and also an option to stay for dinner – so this will be a nice occasion to get together.

Hope to see many of you there!

Taking Falklands to Russia (13–14 May 2013)

Llevando las Malvinas a Rusia (13-14 Mayo 2013)

 

 

Falkland/Malvinas islands: shared sovereignty and distributive justice

Manchester Posgraduate Research Conference 2010

The University of Manchester
School of Law
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2010
Alan Turing Building, Friday 17 September 2010

ABSTRACTS

SESSION 2: 11.30am – 1.00pm

Panel: Issues of national sovereignty
Jorge Nunez
Shared sovereignty: Falklands
From Chaucer women’s sovereignty through Bodin’s modern notion and to Nietzsche’s sovereign individual, the word sovereignty has had several meanings. In this investigation I aim to examine only one of them: State sovereignty. The paradigm I propose, although using the same elements from classical notions, twists their reciprocal relation. Many names or labels can be given to the model I intend to accomplish: bi-polar, shared, dual, double sovereignty. It is a necessary requirement then for the proposed model to have at least two sovereign States that somehow have (or intend to have) at the same time the same legal prerogatives over the same population and territory. We are used to seeing and accepting as a fact that in one territory there is one population governed by a single ultimate authority with a common legal bond or system of norms. What would it happen if that same territory and population had two ultimate and equal (legally speaking) sovereigns and two valid set of norms? There are several actual examples within the real context that show this is both a theoretical and a practical dilemma. Would it be possible, for example, that Israel and Palestine had sovereign authority at the same time over Jerusalem? Would it be plausible that Argentina and the United Kingdom could be at one time sovereign over the territory and population of the Falkland/Malvinas islands? If the answer were positive, what would be the consequences in terms of territory, population and law?