SPECIAL WORKSHOP TITLE: The Concept of Law: Elements and Nature

CHAIR: Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora, Jorge Emilio Nez, Gonzalo Villa Rosas

LANGUAGE: English, Spanish

CONTACT: conceptoflaw.ws2017@gmail.com

Law has been defined in many forms and characterised by using essential, non-
essential, necessary, sufficient, and even desirable conditions. Following
Stammlers 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 Workshop will be
published in a Journal.

PARTICIPANTS (in alphabetical order):

1. Andrs Botero Bernal, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia

IS IT NECESSARY TO RETURN TO THE RELATION BETWEEN MORAL AND LAW
TO SAVE THE WESTERN CULTURE?

2. Luka Burazin, Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law,

Department for General Theory of Law and State
THE CONCEPT OF LAW AND EFFICACY

3. Ubaldina Daz Romero, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot

PERSPECTIVAS Y DESAFOS DE UNA REGLA DE RECONOCIMIENTO EN EL
ESTADO TRANSNACIONAL
4. Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora, McMaster University (Philosophy and Center for
Peace Studies). FUTCO (School of Law)
TWO CONCEPTIONS OF ANALYTICAL JURISPRUDENCE

5. Tomas Gizbert-Studnicki, Jagellonian University. Cracow, Poland

LEGAL THEORYS CLAIM TO NECESSITY

6. Javier Habib, European University Institute

THE CONCEPT OF PRIVATE LAW

7. Michael Heinke, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitt Erlangen-

Nrnberg/Germany
BEYOND POSITIVISM? OR IS THERE REALLY A FACTUAL DIMENSION OF
NORMATIVITY?

8. Sergei Kasatkin, Samara Law Institute of FPS of Russia

THE CONCEPT OF LAW RECONTEXTUALIZED: IMPLICATIONS OF HARTS
1950S ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY FOR CONCEPTUALIZATION OF LAW

9. Sari Kisilevsky, Department of Philosophy. Queens College CUNY, USA

LAW AND FRIENDSHIP

10.Ezequiel Monti, Kings College London, England

RESCUING OUTPUT POSITIVISM FROM OBLIVION

11.Felix Francisco Morales Luna, Departamento de Derecho de la Pontificia

Universidad Catlica del Per
ES POSIBLE UN ENFOQUE CONCEPTUAL EN EL DERECHO?

12.Matti Ilmari Niemi, School of Law, University of Eastern Finland

LAW AS AN EXPRESSION OF JUSTICE
13.Mt Paksy, Dpartement de droit/Droit commercial - Thorie du Droit,
Belgique
LIMITING HERBERT HARTS LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: WHEN HIS RECURRENT
QUESTIONS COME UP AGAINST THE FRENCH REALIST AND HARD-POSITIVIST
SCHOLARS

14.Cindy Phillips, University of Maryland, USA

LAWS FUNCTION AS A DECISION PROCEDURE

15. Jorge Alexander Portocarrero Quispe, Universidad San Martin de Porres and
Universidad de Piura. Peru
EL POSITIVISMO INCLUSIVO Y EL NO-POSITIVISMO INCLUYENTE: QUE
INCLUYEN Y QUE EXCLUYEN?

16.Julieta Rbanos, Universit degli Studi di Genova Istituto Tarello for Legal
Philosophy
A STRANGE (CONCEPTUAL) LOOP: WHO REALLY MAKES THE LAW IN THE END
(OR IN THE BEGINNING)? A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF LAW (AND THE
CONCEPT OF AUTHORITY) THROUGH THE EYES AND THE WORDS OF LEGAL
POSITIVISM AND LEGAL REALISM

17.Alejandro Robledo Rodrguez, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile

TPICA Y JURISPRUDENCIA: RAZONAMIENTO JURDICO EN VIEHWEG

18.Michelle Saporitti, Milano-Biccoa

THE CONCEPT OF RELIGIOUS LAW

19.Natalia Satokhina; Yaroslav Mudryi, National Law University, Kharkiv,

Ukraine
PEACE AS UTOPIA OF LAW

20.Michael Sevel, Sydney Law School, Australia

KNOWING THE LAW
21.; Delamar Jos Volpato Dutra, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Brazil
A DISCURSIVE THEORY OF THE AUTHORITY OF LAW

Open to additional interested participants.

NOTES: Open to additional interested participants. The abstracts should be sent

to the contact email by 25th 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.