Programme
Thursday, 27 September 2018
1400–1500 Board Meeting IVR German Section (board members only) G*
1500–1700 General Assembly IVR German Section (IVR members only) G
1730–1800 Opening of the Conference G
- Hans-Jochen Schiewer (Rector of the University of Freiburg)
- Boris P Paal (Dean of the Faculty of Law)
- Stephan Kirste (President, IVR German Section)
- Ralf Poscher and Matthias Jestaedt (conference organisers)
1800–1845 Keynote Speech: The Normative Access to the World E
- Chair: Otto Pfersmann (Paris)
- John Gardner (Oxford)
1930–2100 Reception
Friday, 28 September 2018
0900–1045 Plenum I: Philosophical Foundations of the Pure Theory of Law/Die philosophischen Grundlagen der Reinen Rechtslehre
- Chair: Clemens Jabloner (Vienna)
- Robert Alexy (Kiel)
- Stanley L Paulson (Kiel/St Louis)
1045–1115 Coffee Break
1115–1300 Parallel Agoras 1–2
The Pure Theory of Law’s Theory of (Legal) Science G |
Kelsen in Contrast E |
Chair: Matthias Jestaedt (Freiburg) |
Chair: Marietta Auer (Gießen) |
Carsten Heidemann (Wattenbek): Das ‘Faktum der Rechtswissenschaft’ bei Hans Kelsen |
Urszula Kosielinska-Grabowska (Cracow): The Impact of Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory on Alf Ross’ Ideas: A Case of Scientific Plagiarism? |
Thomas Hochmann (Reims): Zur Rolle der Rechtswissenschaft – eine Debatte innerhalb der Wiener rechtstheoretischen Schule |
Frederick Schauer (Charlottesville): Fuller on Kelsen; Fuller and Kelsen |
Georgios Karageorgoudis (Göttingen/Munich): Ist die Rechtswissenschaft eine Normwissenschaft? |
Luís Terrinha (Porto): What can Kelsen Learn from Luhmann? Towards a Systemic Pure Theory of Law |
Maximilian Kiener (Oxford): Kelsen zwischen Kognitivistischem Dilemma und positivrechtlichem Fiktionalismus |
Reut Paz (Gießen/Berlin): Kelsen’s Legal Positivism versus Natural Legal Bolshevism |
1300–1430 Lunch at Mensa
1430–1615 Plenum II: The Structure of the Legal Order
- Chair: András Jakab (Salzburg)
- Christoph Kletzer (London)
- Lena Foljanty (Frankfurt)
1615–1645 Coffee Break
1645–1830 Parallel Agoras 3–4
Problems of Legal Theory |
The Demise of Hierarchy and Value Relativism |
Chair: Jörg Kammerhofer (Freiburg) |
Chair: Ralf Poscher (Freiburg) |
Mathieu Carpentier (Toulouse): "A Disappointed Absolutist?" Kelsen on Derogation and Normative Conflicts |
Matthias Klatt (Graz): Verfassungskonforme Auslegung und Stufenbau der Rechtsordnung |
Matheus Pelegrino da Silva (São Leopoldo/Freiburg): Suspension als Art von Derogation oder als weitere Funktion der Rechtsnorm? |
Dana Burchardt (Berlin/Potsdam): The Twilight of the Concept of Legal Order |
Rodrigo Garcia Cadore (São Paulo/Freiburg): Alternative Ermächtigung v. Fehlerkalkül: Wie geht das Recht mit Fehlern um? |
Federico Lijoi (Rom): ‘The Dangerous Contradiction of using Dictatorship to Defend Democracy’: Hans Kelsen on the Theory and Praxis of Relativism |
Monika Zalewska (Lodz): The Final Reformulation of Hans Kelsen’s Theory of Law and the Project of Legal Science |
Ulrich Wagrandl (Vienna): Kelsen war kein Relativist |
2000–2230 Dinner
Saturday, 29 September 2018
0900–1045 Plenum III: Entanglements and Trans-Culturality E
- Chair: Martin Borowski (Heidelberg)
- Alexander Somek (Vienna)
- DA Jeremy Telman (Valparaiso)
1045–1115 Coffee Break
1115–1300 Parallel Agoras 5–6
Kelsen and his ‘Fellow Travellers’ G |
Monism, Imputation and the Public–Private Law Divide E |
Chair: Ulfrid Neumann (Frankfurt) |
Chair: Shu-Perng Hwang (Taipeh) |
Tatiana Machalová (Brno): Zur Bedeutung der Brünner rechtstheoretischen Schule für das normative Rechtsdenken |
Anne Kühler (Zurich): European Constitutionalism and the Problem of the Hierarchy of Norms: What remains of Kelsen’s Monism? |
Marijan Pavčnik (Ljubljana): Die rechtliche Natur des Staates nach Leonid Pitamic |
Tomasz Widłak (Gdansk): Kelsen’s Third Monism and the Epistemology of Global Law |
Elisa Cacopardi (Milan): Kelsen and Felix Kaufmann |
George Pavlakos (Glasgow): Can Imputation Explain How Facts Make Law? A Kelsenian Take on the Contemporary Debate of Constitutive Explanation in the Legal Domain |
Benedikt Pirker (Fribourg): Kelsens Auslegungslehre im Lichte der kognitiven Sprachpragmatik |
Fernando Menezes de Almeida (São Paulo): Public and Private Law: Hans Kelsen’s Concepts and their Application on a Critical Analysis of the Theory of Administrative Law in Brazil |
1310–1340 Closing Speech: The Turin School: Receiving Hans Kelsen in Italy G
- Chair: Stephan Kirste (Salzburg)
- Mario G Losano (Turin)
* Panels marked ‘G’ are held in German, those marked ‘E’ are held in English. Panels not so marked are held in both languages.