Internationale Vereinigung für
Recths – und Sozialphilosophie (IVR), gegründet 1909
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,
founded in 1909
Association Intenationale de Philosophie du Droit et de Philosophie
Sociale, fondée en 1909
IVR
Newsletter
February
2003 – July 2003
Nº
31 ISSN 0256 –937X
Editor: Ricardo A. Guibourg. IVR Web Master:
Pierluigi Perri.
IVR Newsletter is published twice a year in February and July
to be distributed in March and August respectively. Material to be published
should be sent to the Editor by 15 January for the first issue and by 15 July
for the second.
IVR Newsletter is available too in Internet, at www.cirfid.unibo.it/ivr/, where
present and previous issues can be consulted.
Addresses - Editor: Av. Callao
492 10 B, 1022 Buenos Aires, Argentina, tel/fax +54 11 4372 4613. E-mail: [email protected] . Web Master: [email protected]
CONTENTS
Section One: IVR Announcements –
Georg Henrik von Wright (Page 1); Farewell from the editor (Page 2); Next
meetings (Pages 2-3).
Section Two: National Sections
News, Announcements and Records – Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Chile; China; Colombia; Denmark; France (AFPD); Italy; Korea;
Slovenia; Spain; Switzerland; Ukraine; United States of America (Pages 3-15).
SECTION ONE: IVR ANNOUNCEMENTS
GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT
One of the most important philosophers of
our time, Georg Henrik von Wright, died on June 16 in Helsinki or, as he
preferred to call his native city, Helsingfors. Born in 1916, he studied philosophy
under Eino Kaila, the Finnish champion of logical empiricism and member of the
Vienna Circle and later in Cambridge with Broad and Wittgenstein. After
Wittgenstein’s resignation in 1948 he became his successor in Cambridge, but three years later he returned to Finland to
reassume his professorship at the Helsinki University. Later he was appointed
Research Professor of the Academy of Finland and became its president. He
lectured at many universities in Europe and in America, especially at Cornell University.
Von Wright’s philosophic interests embrace a
very wide field: from formal logic to philosophy of culture, from philosophy of
science to ethics and religion, from philosophical logic to problems of war and
peace. He is famous as the “inventor” of deontic logic. Though not a jurist himself, his works on
norms and actions, freedom and determinism, deeply influenced contemporary
legal philosophy.
He was without doubt one of the most
influential intellectuals in Scandinavian countries and he took active part in
many public discussions on such topics as the role of reason, science and
technology, as well as on political issues, like the gap between rich and poor
countries or the Vietnam and the Iraq wars. In his last years he became
increasingly pessimistic about the development of our society.
The IVR
regrets deeply the disappearance of this great philosopher.
FAREWELL FROM THE EDITOR
In 1999, by appointment of IVR President, Prof.
Bulygin, I took from the former Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Carla Faralli, the
honour and the responsibility of publishing the IVR Newsletter. Since then,
eight issues gave me the opportunity to keep in touch with every National
Section and to see that every new or announcement could be received by every
member of IVR throughout the world.
In order to fulfill
that task, I had the help I needed. At first, our Secretary General Pablo López
Ruf took care of printing and distribution. Later, when local costs became too
high, Prof. Burton Leiser did the same from New York. Since 2002, the EC
allowed the electronic edition, a decision that saved most of the time and all
of the money formerly used to publish the Newsletter. But, beyond everything, I
got the help of the national sections boards and I was encouraged by the
friendly disposition of IVR EC and of all IVR members.
Therefore, I express my
gratefulness to all of them and I say farewell to the Newsletter readers,
wishing the next Editor-in-chief the best luck in her job.
NEXT MEETINGS
The 22nd IVR
World Congress will be held in Granada, Spain, in May 2005. Prof. López Calera
leads its organization.
In the meanwhile, 2004
EC metting will take place in Alicante, Spain. Further details are not yet
available.
SECTION
TWO: NATIONAL SECTIONS NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND RECORDS
ARGENTINA
(Asociación
Argentina de Filosofía del Derecho).
NEWS
In June 26, 2003, a public discussion was held
in Buenos Aires about the subject “Igualdad y Desigualdad”. The meeting, held
as in memory of John Rawls, consisted of a set of short speeches by Marcelo
Alegre, Eduardo Barbarosch, Paula Vitutto and Pilar Zambrano and a general
discussion open to all attendants.
In that opportunity, the second issue of Ideas
y Derecho (AAFD Annuary) was presented and distributed to AAFD members. With a short introduction by
AAFD Vice President, Rodolfo L. Vigo, the issue contains papers by Manuel
Atienza (Univ. de Alicante, Spain), Mauricio Beuchot (UNAM, Mexico), Miguel Á.
Ciuro Caldani (Univ. de Rosario), Eros Roberto Grau (Univ. de Sao Paulo,
Brazil), Riccardo Guastini (Univ. di Genova, Italia), Enrique P. Haba (Univ. de
Costa Rica), Guillermo Lariguet (Univ. de Córdoba), Santiago Legarre (Univ.
Austral, Buenos Aires), Pablo López Ruf (Univ. de Buenos Aires), Andrés Ollero
Tassara (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), Pablo M. Perot and Jorge Rodríguez
(Univ. Mar del Plata, Argentina).
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The XVII Argentine Meeting on Philosophy of Law
and Social Philosophy will be held in Córdoba, from October 30 to November 1,
2003. Francisco Carpintero (Spain), Rodolfo Vázquez (México), Ruth Zimmerling
(Germany), Lucía Aseff, Mario E. Chaumet, Ricardo V. Guarinoni, Pedro Hooft and
Jorge Rodríguez (Argentina) will be main speakers. The AAFD Young Scholar Award
will be granted to the winner of the annual contest.
RECORDS
President: Ricardo A. Guibourg; Vice president:
Rodolfo L. Vigo; Secretary: Pablo López Ruf; Treasurer: Eduardo Barbarosch;
Other members: Ariel Álvarez Gardiol, Abel J. Arístegui, Eugenio Bulygin,
Miguel Ángel Ciuro Caldani, Julio C. Cueto Rúa, José Rolando Chirico, Diego
Duquelsky, Ricardo V. Guarinoni, Carlos I. Massini, Mario Portela
and Renato Rabbi-Baldi. Board surrogates: Armando Andruett, Eduardo
Barcesat, Juan Cianciardo and Pablo Navarro. Account reviewers: Eloy Emiliano Suárez and
Carlos M. Fernández.
CONTACT
Prof. Ricardo A. Guibourg, President
Av. Callao 492 10 B – 1022 Buenos Aires –
Argentina
Tel/fax: +54 44 4372 4613 (home); +54 11 4374
2711 (office)
E-mail: [email protected]
AUSTRALIA
(Australian Society of Legal Philosophy)
NEWS
The Australian Society of Legal Philosophy
(ASLP) held its Annual Conference on 18-20 July 2003. The conference was
organised in conjunction with the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at
the University of Sydney. Speakers included David Nelken (Macerata, Italy) ‘The
Concept of Legal Culture’, Rae Langton (Edinburgh) ‘Free Speech and
Pornography’s Knowledge’, and Jeremy Waldron (Columbia) ‘Legislating with
Integrity’.
Volume 28 of The Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy came out in June, with
articles by David Dyzenhaus (Toronto) ‘Humpty Dumpty Rules or the Rule of Law:
Legal Theory and the Adjudication of National Security’, George Christie (Duke)
‘The Importance of Recognising the Underlying Assumptions of Legal and Moral
Arguments: of Law and Rawls’, Andrew Geddis (Otago, NZ) ‘Three Conceptions of
the Electoral Moment’, Steven Tudor (Melbourne) ‘Modes of Mercy’, Adrian Walsh
(Armadale) ‘Monetary Valuation in the Law, Incommensurability and the
Objections from Substitutability’. The article by Andrew Geddis was awarded the
First ASLP Essay Prize.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Second ASLP Essay Prize. The Society is pleased to announce the
second ASLP essay prize competition. The prize is designed to encourage
original research and writing in legal theory and the philosophy of law by
young scholars around the world. Submissions are invited from currently
enrolled graduate students in any discipline. Submissions may be on any topic
in legal theory or the philosophy of law. Essays should be written in English
and should not exceed 10,000 (ten thousand) words in length (including
footnotes). The author of the winning essay will receive a cash prize of
AUD1,000 plus a contribution of up to AUD500 towards the cost of attendance at
the Society’s annual conference to present the essay as a paper. The winning
essay will be considered for publication in the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy. The closing date for
submissions is 31 January, 2004. The winner will be chosen by a panel appointed
by the executive committee of the Society, which reserves the right not to
award the prize if no submission of sufficient quality is received. Entries
should be sent to the Secretary of the Society (Prof P Cane, RSSS, ANU, ACT 0200,
Australia or [email protected]).
They should be submitted either in hard-copy with an accompanying floppy disk,
or electronically as an email attachment, preferably in MS Word.
RECORDS
The current office bearers of the ASLP are
President: Tom Campbell (Charles Sturt), Sec/Treasurer: Peter Cane (ANU),
Vice-Presidents: Sandra Berns (Griffith), Jim Evans (Auckland), Jeff
Goldsworthy (Monash), Martin Krygier (UNSW), Ngaire Naffine (Adelaide), Michael
Stokes (Tasmania), David Wood (Melbourne).
The ASLP has 57 individual members and 35 institutional members.
CONTACT
Tom Campbell
Professorial Fellow - Centre for Applied
Philosophy and Public Ethics
Charles Sturt University, Canberra.
Mailing Address: Faculty of Law Building,
ANU, ACT 0200.
Tel (61) 2 6125 0630
E-address: [email protected] or
[email protected]
Webpage: http://lawrsss.anu.edu.au/aslp/
BRAZIL
(ABRAFI, Brazilian Association for Philosophy
and Sociology of Law)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ABRAFI is creating an annuary to publish
documents and scientific papers.
Since February, 2003, the Brazilian Association
has its website.
RECORDS
The current board of ABRAFI is:
President: Luiz Fernando Coelho
1st Vice-President: Joao Mauricio Adeodato
2nd Vice-President: Vicente Barreto
Tax Counselor: Eurico De Santi
Executive Secretary: Denilson Feitosa
Events Director: Marcelo Galuppo.
CONTACT
Website: http://planeta.terra.com.br/educacao/ABRAFI/
Webmaster e-address: [email protected]
CHILE
(Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Jurídica y Social)
NEWS
Agustín Squella, President of Chilean IVR
National Section, published before 2001 his book Filosofía del Derecho.
Manuel Manson, founder member of Chilean
IVR National Section, published his book Filosofía del Derecho
(Ediciones Jurídicas Olejnik, Santiago), 2003.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Anuario de Filosofía Jurídica y Social, n.20, will be published in 2003.
RECORDS
The National Section of Chile is presided by Agustín Squella.
CONTACT
Agustín Squella Narducci, President
Universidad de Valparaíso
Casilla 3325, Correo 3, Valparaíso – Chile
Fax 50 71 43
E-address: [email protected]
Or Patricia Whittle: [email protected]
CHINA
(Jurisprudence
Institute of Chinese Law Society –JICLS / IVR China)
NEWS
The 2003
annual conference of JICLS took place on January 16-17, 2003, in Harbin, on the
topic “Social Transition and the Development of the Rule of Law”.
RECORDS
President:
Prof. LIU Han, Institute of Law, CASS;
Secretary
General: Prof. LIU Zuoxiang, Institute of Law, CASS,
E-mail: [email protected]
CONTACT:
Prof. ZHANG
Qi, Vice Secretary General
Law
Building, Law School, Peking University
Beijing,
100871, P. R. China
E-mail: [email protected]
COLOMBIA
(Asociación Colombiana de Filosofía del Derecho y Filosofía Social)
NEWS
In April 4-5, 2003, the II Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy was held in Medellín. Speakers were Luis Villar Borda, Ubaldina Díaz, Hernán Ortiz, Rafael Osorio, Rodolfo Arango, Francisco Cortés, Carlos Eduardo Maldonado, Luis Eduardo Cerra, Ángela Santamaría, Oscar Mejía, Gerardo Durango, Gaspar Hernández, Marcela Forero, Numas Armando Gil, Danny Marrero, Rubén Jaramillo Vélez, Andrés Botero Bernal, Vicente Ramírez and Diego López.
Within the meeting, three books were presented: Filosofía del Derecho y del Estado, by Hasso Hofman (translation by Luis Villar Borda), El Estado y la Revolución de Lenin, by Hernán Ortiz Rivas, and Derecho y Dignidad Humana, by Numas Armando Gil.
RECORDS
The
Authorities of the Colombian Association for Philosophy of Law and Social
Philosophy are as follows: Honorary
President: Luis Villar Borda; President: Numas Armando Gil Olivera; Vice
President: Rodolfo Arango; Treasurer: Miguel Rugana.
CONTACT:
Prof. Rodolfo Arango, Vice President,
e-mail [email protected]
Prof. Luis
Villar Borda, Honorary President
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Calle 121-Este
Tel 342 0288/341
9900 – Fax 341-9900 Ext. 1060
E-mail: [email protected]
DENMARK
NEWS
The Danish section of IRV held its
ordinary general assembly December 10th, 2002, and elected a board for the next
two years.
RECORDS
The composition of the Board of Directors
is: Peter Hoilund (Chairman), Hanne Petersen (Vice-chairman), Finn Collin
(Secretary), Jens Teglbjerg Sondergaard (Cashier), Jorgen Dalberg-Larsen, Jens
Evald and Henrik Zahle.
CONTACTS
Peter Hoilund: [email protected]; Finn Collin: [email protected] ;
Hanne Petersen: [email protected]
FRANCE
(Association Française de Philosophie du Droit)
NEWS
The AFPD held a colloquium on “Mondialisation: entre illusion et utopie”
and several seminars: “La pensée du conflit de Hobbes à Hegel” (May, 15-17),
“Veritas, approaches thomistes de la vérité” (May, 23-24) and “Maïmonide,
Averroès, Thomas d’Aquin, trios conflits entre la science et la foi” (June,
2-4).
Recent publications: Journées (1999, Panama), La responsabilité:
aspects nouveaux (Association Henri Capitant); Concentration des
multinationals et mutation des pouvoirs de l’État (Pierre Bauchet); L’idée
d’étranger chez les philosophes des Lumières (Hubert Baysson); Droit et
porgrès scientifique: science du droit, valeurs et biomédecine (Jean-René
Binet); Science politique. 1, La démocratie (Philippe Braud); Les
regles de la liberté (Monique Canto-Sperber); Rencontres (1; 2001;
Paris) Variations autour d’un droit común (Centre de Droit Comparé); L’État
post-moderne (Jacques Chevallier); Le profit avant l’homme (Noam
Chomsky); Kant, la rationalité pratique (Michèle Cohen-Halimi, dir.); Voyous:
deux essays sur la raison (Jacques Derrida); L’éthique de la liberation:
brève achitectonique d’une éthique matérielle et critique: à l’ère de la
mondialisation et de l’exclusion (Enrique Dussel); Les purifications, un
projet de paix universelle (Empedocles); Les cigognes de la philosophie:
études sur les migrations conceptuelles (Laurent Fedi, dir.); La
démocratie de notre temps (Marcel
Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Alain Finkielkraut); Dictionnaire Wittgenstein (Hans-Johann
Glock); Fichte (1801-1813):
l’émancipation philosophique (Jean-Christophe
Goddard); Citoyenneté,
souveraineté, société civile (Pascale
Gonod, Jean-Pierre Dubois); L’éthique
de la discussion et la question de la vérité (Jürgen Habermas); Leçons
sur le droit naturel et la science de l’État (Heidelberg, semestre d’hiver
1817-1818); suivi de Remarques sur l’Introduction aux leçons de 1818-1819 (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel); Principes de la philosophie du droit (Georg W. F. Hegel); Chrétienté et démocratie (Pierre de Lauzun); Jeremy Bentham, les artifices du capitalisme
(Christian Laval); Des conditions = De conditionibus Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz); Civilisation et barbarie: réflexion sur le
terrorisme contemporain Jean-François
Mattei et Rosenfiel dir.); Les
contradictions du droit mondialisé (Mahmoud Mohamed Salah); La nature
hors la loi: l’écologie à l’épreuve du droit (François Ost); Les
collectivités locales: mélanges en l’honneur de Jacques Moreau (Jacques
Petit, dir.); Philosophes et philosophies du XXe siècle (Guy
Petitdémange); L’identité de la personne humaine: étude de droit français et
de droit compare (J. Pousson-Petit, dir.); La formation de la pensée
juridique moderne de Michel Villey (Stéphane Rials); La mémoire,
l’histoire et l’oubli (Paul Ricoeur); Leçons de métaphysique allemande.
1, de Leibnitz à Hegel, 2, Kant, Heidegger, Habermas (Jacques Rivelaygue); La
doctrine du droit vivant (Caterina Severino); Économie du droit et de
l’État (Philippe Simonnot); La cite charnelle du droit (Stora-Lamarre,
dir.); La philosophie du droit (Michel Troper).
RECORDS
President: François Terré, 10, square de l’Alboni, 75016 Paris, tel. 01
45 20 93 68, fax 01 45 25 83 23.
Vice President: René Sève, 18, place Adolphe Chérioux, 75015 Paris, tel
01 53 18 46 15, fax 01 53 18 97 30.
Secretary General: Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, 25, avenue Rapp, 75007
Paris, tel. 01 445 56 07 09, fax 01 53 59 93 24, e-mail [email protected]
Treasurer: Philippe Reigné, 12, rue Ernest Psichari, 75007 Paris, tel.
01 40 62 98 59
Adjoint Treasurer: David Sankowicz, 6, rue Saint-Paul, 75004 Paris, tel.
01 48 87 55 66.
CONTACT.
Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Secretary General.
Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), rue d´Assas, 75006 Paris.
[email protected]
ITALY
(Società
Italiana di Filosofia Giuridica e Politica)
NEWS
The IX Spanish-Italian
Seminar on Analytical Legal Theory, officially sponsored by IVR, will be held
in October 1’0-11, 2003, in Agrigento. Speakers will be Giulio Itzcovich (Genoa), Teoria dell’argomentazione giuridica e
integrazione europea. Discussione di un caso giudiziale; Pablo Larrañaga (Alicante), La función de la noción de interés general
en la regulación económica; Giorgio
Pino (Palermo), Alcune riflessioni sul
concetto di abuso del diritto; Francesca
Poggi (Genoa), La rilevanza pratica delle
norme permissive; Jorge
Rodríguez (Mar del Plata, Argentina), Consecuencias
lógicas de las normas jurídicas; Mario
Ruiz Sanz (Tarragona), Paradigmas
jurídicos y mundos posibles.
The meeting will include a round table on “Eguaglianza, crisi della
legge e principio di ragionevolezza”. Chair-person: Maria Vittoria Ballestrero
(Genoa). Participants: Mario Dogliani (Torino), Liborio Hierro (Madrid), Jorge
Malem (Barcelona), Tecla Mazzarese (Brescia).
CONTACT
President: Prof.
Gaetano Carcaterra
[email protected] or [email protected]
Homepage:
www.fildirg100.giu.uniroma1.it/SIFGP.htm
KOREA
NEWS
A symposium on "Liberalism, Communitarianism and
Law" was held on June 14, 2003 at Yonsei University Law School Building in
Seoul. The speakers and their topics were: Prof. Dongjin Chang (Yonsei Univ.),
Basic Principles of Liberalism and Communitarianism: The Just and the
Good; Prof. Byoung-sun Oh (Sogang Univ.), Pursuit of Justice: Conflict and
Harmony between Liberalism and Communitarianism; Prof. Chongko Choi (Seoul Nat.
Univ.), Liberalism and Communitarianism in East Asian Jurisprudence; Prof.
Kukwoon Lee (Handong Univ.), Rehabilitation of the Other in the Constitutional
Theory.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
By request of the National Academy of the Republic of
Korea, Prof. Hangnyoung Lee (Member of the Academy) and Prof. Chongko Choi
(Seoul Nat. Univ.) are writing a Research History of Jurisprudence in Korea
since 1945, to be published this year.
CONTACT
Prof. Chongko Choi,
President
College of Law, Seoul
National University
Sinrimdong, Kwanakgu,
151-742 Seoul, Korea
SLOVENIA
(Slovenian Society for Legal and Social Philosophy)
RECORDS
President: Prof. Dr. Marijan Pavcnik
Tel.+386 o1 42 03 197
e-mail: [email protected]
Vice President: Dr. Miro Cerar
e-mail: [email protected]
Secretary and
Treasurer: Ales Novak
e-mail: [email protected]
SPAIN
(Sociedad Española de Filosofía Jurídica y
Política, SEFJP)
NEWS
Prof. Francesca Puigpelat is the new
Executive Director of the SEFJP, replacing Prof. Benito de Castro. She was
elected at Las Palmas, where the SEFJP 19th Congress was held on March, 6-7. The general subject of the meeting
was Justice, Migration and Law. Plenary session speakers were Prof. J. de
Lucas, Prof. R. de Asís, Prof. L. García-San Miguel and Prof. A. Marcos del
Cano.
Recent publications: S. Blanco, Positivismo
metodológico y racionalidad política: Una interpretación de la teoría jurídica
de Carlos S. Nino, 2002; J. R. Capella, Las sombras del sistema
constitucional español, 2003; M. Carbonell (ed.), Neoconstitucionalismos,
2003; B. de Castro (ed.), Nuevas lecciones de teoría del derecho, 2002;
J. de Lucas, Blade Runner: El Derecho, guardián de la diferencia, 2002;
A. E. Pérez-Luño, Lecciones de Filosofía del Derecho (3ª ed.), 2002; A.
Ruiz-Miguel, Una Filosofía del Derecho en modelos históricos: de la
antigüedad a los inicios del constitucionalismo, 2002; F. Sánchez-Díaz, Decisión
judicial y ciencia jurídica: La propuesta de Kart N. Llewellyn, 2002.
RECORDS:
New
executives of the Spanish section of the IVR are: F. Puigpelat (President), C.
Alarcón (Vice president), J. Ansuátegui (Secretary), E. Gayo (Treasurer); Other
members: J. Calvo, M. J. Añón, J. Pérez-Lledó, L. Miraut and A. de Julios.
CONTACT:
Prof.
Carlos Alarcón Cabrera ([email protected])
SWITZERLAND
NEWS
The last 2-year-congress of the Swiss section
of IVR was held on November 15th and 16th, 2002 in
Lucerne. As guest lecturers were invited: Prof. Peter Behrens (Hannover), Prof.
Gerhard Luf (Wien), PD Dr. Urs Marti (Zürich) and Prof. Manfred Walther
(Hamburg). The topic was: "Law in conflict between utilitarian and
deontological ethics" (das Recht im Spannungsfeld utilitaristischer und
deontologischer Ethik). Lawyers and philosophers of the German-speaking
countries tried to disclose the requirement for these two lines of legitimating
law. At the same time they tried to reach for a synthesis. The Good and the Righteous
were shown and compared each in a general form and in the form in which they
can be specified and standardized within law. Both positions were represented
by two lecturers and about four supplementary votes. All the speakers proceeded
on individualism as a starting point and cooperation as the goal. The leading
question was: How do we motivate cooperation as a duty among people in this
world of individualism? Asking this question, ethics becomes the orientation
needed whenever an individual decides to cooperate. It was stimulating to see
that utilitarianism and deontology have worked out each their own theory of
cooperation among individuals.
A volume about the congress will be published
soon in the ARSP (Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie). In their
contributions the speakers will put into words their votes and include the
important elements of the discussion.
There was also the scientific
conference in Landgut Castelen near Basel in June 25-28, organised by Prof. K.
Seelmann. Its theme was: "human dignity as a legal notion" (die
Menschenwürde als Rechtsbegriff) and it took shape of a colloquium with about
15 speakers and 30 listeners. From an interdisciplinary view, they illustrated
the meanings of human dignity as religious, ethical and legal notion. Thereby
they tried to identify the different contents and the binding character of this
rule in a basic way.
There will be a volume about this
congress too, published in ARSP.
RECORDS
President: Prof.
Dr. iur. Philippe Mastronardi, Universität St. Gallen,
Rechtswisschenschaftliche Abteilung, Bodanstrasse 3, CH-9000 St. Gallen.
Tel.: +41 / 71 / 224 23 34, Fax: +41 / 71 / 224 39 08.
E-mail: [email protected]
Quaestor: Prof. Dr. iur. Marcel Senn, Lehrstuhl fuer Rechtsgeschichte, juristische Zeitgeschichte und Rechtsphilosophie, Universität Zürich, Cäcilienstrasse 5, CH-8032 Zürich.
Tel.: +41 /
1 / 634 30 05, Fax: +41 / 1 / 634 43 90.
E-mail: [email protected]
CONTACT
Secretary: Lic.
iur. Patrik Stadler, Assistant to Prof. Mastronardi, Universität St. Gallen,
Bodanstrasse 3, CH-9000 St. Gallen.
Tel.: +41 / 71 / 224
23 33, Fax: +41 / 71 / 224 39 08.
E-mail: [email protected]
UKRAINE
(Ukrainian Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy -
UAPLSP)
NEWS
The Ukrainian Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (UAPLSP) was established in June 2002
by a group of Ukrainian scholars - as Prof. Mykhajlo Kostitsky, Prof. Boris
Chmil, Prof. Olexandr Manoha, Prof. Oleg Bandura and Nadiya Semenova (LL.M).
Later the same year, in Paris, the IVR EC approved the UAPLSP application for
IVR membership as Ukrainian national section. This status is expected to be
confirmed by the IVR General Assembly at the World Congress in Lund.
The main aim of the UAPLSP
activities is to advance the development of philosophy of law and social
philosophy and to foster the principles of rule of law, democracy and human
rights.
With the purpose of familiarising
Ukrainian scholars with the IVR expertise and activities, the IVR President
Eugenio Bulygin paid a visit to Ukraine in May, 2003. With crucially important
support of leading Ukrainian legal universities, the Academy of Legal Sciences
of Ukraine (a research and co-ordination body) and the Centre of Comparative
Law at the Ministry of Justice, a chain of meetings and round tables was
prepared and held.
The scientific
tour began in southern Ukrainian city of Odessa with a round table on
“Philosophical-legal doctrine in contemporary world” and “Organisational models
for co-operation of scholars in philosophy of law and how to build the national
section (in application to Ukraine)”, held in the Odessa National Legal Academy
(Rector Prof. Kivalov, Pro-Rectors Prof. Baymuratov and Prof. Orzikh, Head of
the International Relations Department V. Barsky) in May 26, 2003.
In May 28, the
rigorous discussions continued in the city of Kharkiv. On the premises of both
Ukrainian National Legal Academy (UNLA, leading university) and the Academy of
Legal Sciences of Ukraine, a symposium was held on “World philosophical-legal
heritage and the Ukrainian context”. The team consisted of UNLA Rector V.
Tatsiy, Vice-Rectors O. Chastnik and V. Panov, Head of Department for
philosophy of law O. Danilyan and professor S. Maximov. This meeting was
special beyond academic bounds: Kharkiv is the IVR President’s native city and,
after a 65 year absence, Prof. Bulygin visited the building where he was born
and spent childhood.
The tour ended in
May 30 with the closing conference “Development of Philosophical-legal thought
in Ukraine: state, problems, perspectives”. This meeting was held in Kyiv, the
Ukrainian capital, at the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
(NAIAU, main legal university, a pioneer of philosophy of law renaissance in
Ukraine). The NAIAU Rector Y. Kondratiev, Vice-Rectors L. Kravchenko and acting
UAPLSF president B. Chmil ensured high quality working environment for the
conference participants. The conference was opened by the Vice-Rector Prof. V.
Suzhenko. Participants were warmly greeted by Ambassador of the Argentine
Republic in Ukraine, Mr. Miguel A. Cuneo. Prof. M. Kostitsky, Judge of the Constitutional
Court of Ukraine, acted as the moderator of the symposium.
The topic of the
conference has been examined in 37 papers covering three aspects of it:
·
organisational (general information about IVR and
UAPLSP; topical problems of professional NGOs in the area of law and
interdisciplinary sciences; IVR expertise and Ukrainian realities; ways of
building-up the UAPLSP capacity). Papers were presented by E. Bulygin, B. Chmil
and N. Semenova.
·
on subject itself (philosophy of law in comparative
perspective, an application-oriented dimension of philosophy of law;
challenging role of philosophy of law during the period of democratisation;
problems of philosophy of law development: factors for stimulation and
restraints; formation of legal-philosophical thought in Ukraine: tradition –
reception – novation). Interventions were made by E. Bulygin, M. Kostitsky, P.
Rabinovich, O. Gvozdik, S. Shevchuk, O. Danilyan, A. Kozlovsky, V. Shkoda, S.
Slivka, V. Larionova, S. Maximov, Y. Oborotov, M. Oleksuk, O. Bilyk and Y. Bilyk, V. Kondovich, O. Manokha, V.
Shapoval, O. Balynska, O. Dovgopolova, Y. Simon, V. Nechiporenko, M.
Zovtobrukh, V. Shishko, V. Yesip, Y. Anokhin, T. Dudash, O. Stovba, N.
Ohotnikova.
·
educational, in two layers:
a more narrow one, as training of professionals in the area and another wider,
as a key component of legal culture for all lawyers - both theoreticians and
practitioners. Papers were presented by O. Gubar, O. Litvinov, V. Lyashenko, T.
Malko, V. Bigun, O. Pavlishin, D. Gudyma. N. Shevchenko, V. Koltun, T.
Kondratuk-Antonova and V. Stus took part in discussions.
Ukrainian scholars thought of the IVR expertise as specially valuable for the time of deep legal reforms in Ukraine, due to the role philosophy of law and social philosophy have in states under transformation.
The Ukrainian tour of IVR president
E. Bulygin was covered by TV and 7 professional media in Odessa. The report
about it is expected to be published in the coming issue of the main
professional journal “Law of Ukraine”. The tour gave a considerable push to the
development of the newly born Ukrainian association: 43 new applications were
submitted for a UAPLSP membership and were approved by the general meeting at
the Kyiv conference.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
In the late 2003, the UAPLSP is
planning to hold a new conference titled “The reforming potential of philosophy
of law”.
RECORDS
President: Prof. Boris Chmil
Other founding members: Mykhajlo Kostitsky, Olexandr Manoxa, Oleg
Bandura, Nadiya Semenova.
CONTACTS
The UAPLSP legal address is 23
Tolstogo St., apt. 29, Kyiv, 01033, Ukraine.
Boris Chmil (President) at tel.
249-09-69 (in Ukraine and Russia)
Nadiya Semenova (Secretary) tel./fax
380-44-244-33-94 (in Ukraine, Russia, England).
E-mails: [email protected],
[email protected]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(AMINTAPHIL)
NEWS
AMINTAPHIL's
election results are as follows. Larry May edged out Carol Gould for President.
Chris Sistare and David Reidy narrowly prevailed over Steven Lee and Helen
Stacy for positions on the Executive Committee.
Palo Alto in
California emerged as the clear choice for 2004 meetings. Helen Stacy will
host.
"Just and
Unjust Wars" was favored as the conference topic. President Bob Moffat,
with the concurrence of the Executive Committee, has appointed Steven Lee as
Program Chair for the 2004 Palo Alto conference. Work is now progressing on the
make-up of the Program Committee.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
In the coming
months, AMINTAPHIL will be settling the dates and the Program Committee will
suggesting a panoply of topics that can be addressed in principal papers.
Deadlines for paper submissions will be announced and we will again arrange for
electronic distribution of conference materials.
CONTACT
Prof. PhD Ken Kipnis
Executive Director, AMINTAPHIL, Dpt. of
Philosophy, 2530 Dole Street, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
96822, USA
Dpt. Fax 808 956-9228
Home/ans. Machine 808 732-0072
Ofc/voicemail 808 956-8954
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