The Legal and Political Theory Working Group

Contact: legal.theory@eui.eu  (Bosko Tripkovic  and Vesko Paskalev )

The Legal and Political Theory Working Group was created in June 2002 when a few researchers met to discuss their June papers. Since then, the meetings have never been interrupted, and some of them have even resulted in public lectures and published articles.

We hold regular meetings with talks given by established professors as well as young scholars but are particularly interested in giving Ph.D. students an opportunity to discuss and improve their own work.

The working group promises a relaxing setting and audience, comfort and critiques. Above all, we provide a friendly laboratory to test ideas and theories on law.

So, if you deal with law and economics, critical legal theory, legal history, jurisprudence, legal sociology and psychology and the law, political theory, law and society, global constitutionalism and governance or simply develop normative or empirically quantitative claims on legal topics, please let us know at legal.theory@eui.eu 

The current convenors of the Working Group are Bosko Tripkovic  (Law Department), and Vesko Paskalev  (Law Department).

 

Its previous convenors were:

2009/2011 - François-Xavier Millet, Guilherme Vilaça, and Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas

2008/2009 – Matej Avbelj and Alun Gibbs

2005/2008 – Daniel Augenstein and Jennifer Hendry

2002/2005 – Lorenzo Zucca

 

 

2011 Sessions

June 2011

Bruce ACKERMAN (Yale Law School) (tbc)

  

April 2011

“Santi Romano and L’Ordinamento Giuridico: An Introduction and Re-Contextualization of a Forgotten Masterpiece” by Filippo FONTANELLI (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

 

March 2011

“Knowing the Law”, by Mathias MÖSCHEL (EUI Law Department) (tba), Alec STONE SWEET (Yale Law School) (tbc), Michael SEVEL (EUI Max Weber Fellow)

 

January 2011

“Complexity as the ‘Efficient Secret’ of the European Constitution: an Alternative (Explanatory) Proposal”, by Giuseppe MARTINICO (EUI Max Weber Fellow)

 

 

2010 Sessions

December 2010

“The Case for Judicial Review: Judges as Agents and Judges as Trustees”, by Arthur DYÈVRE (Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales)

  

November 2010

“The Common Error”, by Ralf POSCHER (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Faculty of Law and Institute for Political Science & Philosophy of Law)

“Social Norms and the Determination of Action – The Case of Legal Officials”, by

David BAEZ (EUI Law Department)

 

October 2010

“The Unexpected Consequences of European Constitutional Pluralism: A Critical Appraisal of the European Multi-level System of Fundamental Rights Protection”, by Federico FABBRINI (EUI Law Department)

“The Constitutional Doctrines within an International Pluralist Context”, by François-Xavier MILLET (EUI Law Department)

“Law in the Guise of the Good”, by Veronica RODRÍGUEZ BLANCO (Birmingham Law School)

  

June 2010

“Intersectionality and Human Rights: Can Critical Race Theory Navigate the Head Scarf Debate?”, by Kimberlé CRENSHAW (UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School)

“Multiple Sovereignty”, by Jirí PŘIBÁŇ (Cardiff School of Law)

“Prosthetics, Agency and Subjectivity: Some Legal and Ethical Considerations about ‘Enhancement Technologies'', by Christophe LAZARO (EUI Law Department)

“Between Reason and Will”, by Vesco PASKALEV (EUI Law Department),

 

May 2010

“The Essence of Economics”, by Neil KOMESAR (University of Wisconsin Law School)

“Anachronism of the Moral Sentiments?  Integrity, Post-Modernism, and Justice”, by James BOYLE (Duke University School of Law)

Conference on Neil MacCormick: “Legal Reasoning and European Laws: The Perspective of Neil MacCormick” (sponsored together with the EUI Law Department, the Max Weber Programme and the RSCAS Global Governance Programme)

 

March 2010

“Efficiency and Justice: Compatible?”, by Gérman GOMEZ VENTURA (EUI Law Department)

“Economic Analysis of Competition Law: How Long Is a Piece of String?”, by Oles ANDRIYCHUK (EUI Law Department)

  

February 2010

“Joint Commitment and Individual Participation’: A Critique (and Beyond) Of Margaret Gilbert's Plural Subject Account of Political and Legal Obligations”, by Vesco PASKALEV (EUI Law Department)

  

January 2010

“Defining Judicial Accountability”, by David KOSAR (NYU School of Law)

 

 

2009 Sessions

December 2009

"Comparative Law in Courts: Points of Entry in Theories of Legal Interpretation", by Michael BOBEK (EUI Law Department)

 

November 2009

“Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller”, by Reva SIEGEL (Yale Law School)

“What Tools do Contemporary Legal Scholars Need in their Toolkits?”, by Larry SOLUM (University of Illinois and Institute for Law and Philosophy)

  

October 2009

“The Concept of Constitution and Constitutionalism Today”, by Pierre BRUNET (Université Paris X)

  

April 2009

“Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory?”, by Gregory SHAFFER (University of Minnesota Law School)

  

March 2009

“Implicit Law:  Fuller’s Interactional Theory of Law”, by Gerald POSTEMA (University of North Carolina)

 

 

2008 Sessions

January 2008

Symposium “Four Visions of Constitutional Pluralism” – programme and texts here.

  

 

2007 Sessions

November 2007

“Integration Through Law? Double-Institutionalisation and Legal Culture in the European Union”, by Daniel AUGENSTEIN & JEN HENDRY (EUI Law Department)

"Structural Principles of the European Legal Order", by Matej AVBELJ (EUI Law Department)

“Moral Justificatory Arguments Reconsidered”, by Julia HERMANN (EUI SPS Department)

“The Concept of Rights and International Human Rights”, by Axelle REITER (EUI Law Department) and Nuhaila CARMOUCHE (EUI Law Department)

 

October 2007

“On Sovereignty”, by Cormac MAC AMHLAIGH (EUI Law Department) 

“Doom”, by Alun GIBBS (EUI Law Department)

“'Genocide and the Transformation of 'Law': A Post-Durkheimian Social Order”, by Carlo PINNETTI (University of Edinburgh/Lund)

  

July 2007

“Tolerance & Legal Judgement”, by Daniel AUGENSTEIN (EUI Law Department)

  

May 2007

“The Discovery of Discretion: A Genealogy of the Hart/Kelsen Theory of Legal Interpretation”, by Hent KALMO (École Normale Supérieure)

“Global Administrative Law: A Polycentric Deliberative Alternative to Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism”, by NUHAILA CARMOUCHE (EUI Law Department)

  

April 2007

“The Jurisprudence of Terror”, by Rory BROWN (EUI Law Department)

  

March 2007

“Taking Freedom Constitutionally”, by Maria CAHILL (EUI Law Department)

“Gratitude, Entitlement and Luck”, by Anthony KRONMAN (Yale Law School)

“The Langauge and Practice of Res Publica: an Investigation into the Hidden Structures of Constitutionalism”, by Alun GIBBS (EUI Law Department)

 

February 2007

“Resurrecting the Leviathan: Repositioning the Concept of State in European Constitutional Discourse”, by Cormac MAC AMHLAIGH (EUI Law Department)

“Nationalism and State Creation in Europe after the Cold War”, by Fernando VELIZ (EUI SPS Department)

“On Legal Culture: A Systems-Theoretical Approach”, by Jennifer HENDRY (EUI Law Department)

 

  

2006 Sessions

December 2006

“Human Rights Protection under Conditions of Fragmented Statehood”, by Klaus GÜNTHER (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

  

November 2006

“Three Forms of Governance and Three Forms of Power”, by Poul KJAER (EUI Law Department)

“The Nature of the European Legal Order”, by Matej AVBELJ (EUI Law Department)

“Some Problems with Deliberative Law-Making”, by Mark DAWSON (EUI Law Department)

“Identity, History, and the Nature of Explanation in the Social Sciences”, by David MCCOURT (EUI SPS Department)

 

October 2006 

“Finding a Balance in Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”, by Alun GIBBS (EUI Law Department) 

“How to Discuss Viability: The Problem of Understanding the EU in Political Science”, by Andrew GLENCROSS (EUI SPS Department)