NEWSLETTER –October2010
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Conferences:
November 26: The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: A Workshop on Bruce Ackerman’s
Constitutionalism
Speakers: B. Ackerman, E. Christodoulidis, A. Ferrara, M. Goldoni
Organizers: Law and Government Research Group, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values
(Antwerp), GlasgowLawSchool
Venue: Sint Jacobstraat 2, Room M.107, Antwerpen
December 2: First Jurisprudence Annual Lecture: Freedom, Coercion, Necessary Goods and the
Rule of Law
17.30-18.30: Prof. R. Plant
Organizers: Hart Publishing and the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values
Venue: The BritishAcademy, Lecture Hall, Carlton Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
February 17-18: The Principle of Proportionality and Post-national Constitutionalism
Speakers: R. Alexy, T. Cottier, S. Greer, T.-I. Harbo, M. Kumm, K. Möller, C. Möllers,
S. Tsakyrakis
Organizers: Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values and the Special Centre on Transformation
Of the State (Bremen)
Venue: To be announced
March 25-26: Justice and Virtue: International Conference on Kant’s Practical Philosophy
Speakers: R. Alexy, S. Byrd, B. Herman, J. Hruschka, B. Ludwig, O. O’’Neill,P. Niesen, A. Ripstein, H. Varden, M. Willascheck
Organizers: Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values and LondonSchool of Economics Department of Government
Venue: To be announced
April 7: First Law and Cosmopolitan Values Lecture: Joseph Raz on Human Rights
Venue: To be announced
April 8: Symposium on Raz’s Conception of Normativity
Speakers: U. Heuer, N. Kolodny, D. Lavin, G. Pavlakos, J. Raz
Venue: To be announced
NEWS
The Centre welcomes Dr. Armen Mazmanyan as a postdoctoral researcher on a BOF grant. His research concentrates on constitutional design and constitutional justice in the context of the democratization of post-soviet countries (promoter: Prof. P. Popelier).
Triantafyllos Gkouvas has joined the Centre in September. His research project is titled: ‘Law’s Humility: An Inquiry into the Rationality of Law’s Claim to Authority’ (Promoter: Prof. G. Pavlakos)
Dr. Stefano Bertea has moved to a Readership at the LawSchool, University of Leicester, following a two-year stay at the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values. We wish him the best of success with his future endeavours.
The second issue of the Journal Jurisprudence (Hart Publishing) is going to be published in December.
Click here to go to the webpage of the Journal.