LAW AND WAR: VOICES OF PHILOSOPHERS
Law and War: Voices of Philosophers
Panel discussion within the VI Kharkiv International Legal Forum
Hosted by:
Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Date and time: October 7, 2022, 13.00 – 18.00 (GMT+3:00, Kyiv)
English and Ukrainian; simultaneous translation will be provided.
The war fundamentally changes our lives and imposes a different perspective of world perception, which displaces all possible alternatives, including legal optics. So, inter arma enim silent leges. It is noteworthy that it was with the shock produced by the unprecedented violence during the 20th century that Paul Ricoeur linked the large-scale crisis of the philosophy of law and law as such. At the same time, law remains the maim (if not only) alternative to war, and giving a voice to it is the least philosophy of law can and should do today. Moreover, war is a border situation when, against the background of the existential threat of law, the latter reveals its genuine nature. When all legal institutions are powerless and all conventions are destroyed, the ultimate foundations of law finally become visible. This is how we find ourselves in the space of philosophy.
This panel discussion is motivated by a desire to give a voice to law among arms by giving a voice to philosophers and thereby reframe once again the question of the meaning of law.
Among other things, the following questions are proposed for discussion:
- Are laws silent among arms? Is war a state of exception? If so, is it possible to return to the legal state? And what enables law to revive even on the ashes of wars and genocides?
- How does the human experience, particularly the experience of law, change during a war? How does the experience of actual lawlessness change the balance between normativity and factuality of our existence? And are these changes irreversible?
- How does war change our perception of the world? What is the reason for the “forgetting” of law as one of the key topics of philosophy, that was traditionally present in all major philosophical systems? And how is this crisis of the philosophy of law related to the crisis of law as such?
- How is the “law of war” possible? And how should we rethink the nature of law so that jurisprudence continues to make sense?
- How should the philosophy of law respond to the challenges to legal values caused by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine? And do legal values remain unchanged and untouched in the conditions of war?
Additional Information:
Based on the results of the event, a special issue of the scientific journal “Philosophy of Law and General Theory of Law” (http://phtl.nlu.edu.ua) is planned.
SPEAKERS
Professor at Department of Jurisprudence of Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and Professor at Department of Labor Law and Jurisprudence of Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), Visiting Professor at the University of Baltimore (USA), President of Brazilian Section of IVR.
Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Director of the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, сorresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Professor of civil law, civil procedure law and legal philosophy at the University of Bremen (Germany).
Dr. iur., Professor at the Chair of Philosophy and Theory of Law, Legal Sociology and International Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich (Switzerland). 2005 2022 Recurrent Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Visiting professorships at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2007, 2016; Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 2012; BOK Visiting International Professor, University […]
Professor of Legal Theory, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Goethe-University (Frankfurt/Main, Germany).
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor at the Department of Human Rights and Legal Methodology of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine.
Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), School of Law.
PhD in law, Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, University of Wrocław, Secretary of the Assotiation for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy – Polish IVR Section.
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor at the Department of Human Rights and Legal Methodology of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Interim Head of the Human Rights and Legal Methodology Department.
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Rights and Legal Methodology of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Law (Humanities and Law Faculty) of the National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute”.
Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Palermo (Italy), Director of the PhD program in Gender Studies, Former Director of the PhD program in Human Rights.
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law at National Taiwan University College of Law. She studied both law and philosophy and has earned PhD of law in the Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Germany).
MODERATORS
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor at the Department of Human Rights and Legal Methodology of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine.
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Rights and Legal Methodology of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.
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