Plenary Speakers
Special Workshops 1-40
SW 1: The Content, Theory and Critique of Current Human Rights Revisionism
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 10
SW 2: Dignifying and Undignified Narratives in and of (the) Law
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 2 & Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 7
SW 3: AI and Digital Ontology: Literary Visions, Technological Perspectives and Legal Challenges
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B02
SW 4: Re-Assessing Rights of Nature
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 12; Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 12
SW 5: Theory of Legal Evidence. Evidence and Recognition in Law and Legal Theory
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 313
SW 6: Clinical Legal Education as a Path for Human and Social Inclusion
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 314
SW 7: Begründen, erklären und verstehen im internationalen Methodenvergleich - Was tun RechtswissenschaftlerInnen und wie tun sie es?
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B47
SW 8: Political Pluralism in Greater China – 大中华的政治多元化
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B57
SW 9: The Inherence of Human Dignity
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.A05; Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.A05
SW 10: Populism, Democracy and Rule of Law
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B58; Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B58
SW 11: Democracy and Globalization
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 4.B47
SW 12: The Anarchist Critique of the State, the Law and Authority
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.A05
SW 13: The Role of Human Dignity in Criminal Law and Ethics in the Age of Pluralism
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 314
SW 14: Human Dignity in Europe
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 4.A05
SW 15: Judicial Decision-Making: Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B48; Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B57
SW 16: Scott J. Shapiro's Planning Theory of Law
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 12
SW 17: Human Dignity: Alternative Histories
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 304
SW 19: Communicational Theory of Law: Legal Decisions - Formal and Material Aspects
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 8; Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 8; Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 8; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 8
SW 20: The Jurisprudence of Sports
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, Museggstrasse 304
SW 21: From Creation to Application of Law: Reality or Fig-Leaf?
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B58
SW 22: Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Reasoning
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.A05; Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, HS 4
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B02; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B02
SW 24: Aristotle and the Philosophy of Law: Dignity, Democracy, Diversity
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B48
SW 25: Individual and Group Vulnerability
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 315
SW 26: In Search for a Social Minimum: Human Dignity, Poverty and Human Rights
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B55; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 3. B55
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, HS 2
SW 28: Promoting Diversity Through Regulation
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B55
SW 29: Free Speech, Democracy, Human Dignity and their Threats
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Sentimatt 111
SW 30: Philosophical Perspectives on International Law
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 4; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 4
SW 31: The End of Legal Positivism?
Monday 8 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, HS 3; Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 3
SW 32: Democracy, Free Speech and Minorities
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B47
SW 33: Philosophy of Law: Latin-American Perspectives
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 305
SW 35: La construcción del precedente en el Civil Law
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 12
SW 36: Empirical Studies of Gender, Activism, and Socio-Legal Transformation
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.A07
SW 37: On the Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of North American Legal Realism
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B47
SW 38: ‘I Can Make a Change’: Designing New Ways for Change in a System
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 13
SW 39: Experimental Legal Philosophy
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 13
SW 40: The Varieties of Dignitary Harms
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.B02
Special Workshops 41-80
SW 41: Judge Made Law and Judicial Interpretation as Systemic Element of Law in Civil Law Legal Systems: How Can Courts Strengthen or Weaken the Unity of a Legal System?
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B55
SW 42: Folk-Psychology, Law and Reductionism
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, Museggstrasse 316
SW 43: Menschenwürde ohne Metaphysik
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 10; Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 10; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 10
SW 44: (Re-)Birth of a State as a Matter of Law: Baltic Sea Region Perspectives
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.A07
SW 45: Legal Interpretation and the Separation of Law and Morals
Monday 8 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, HS 4; Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 4
SW 46: Pluralism and Integration: From Civil Society to an Impartial and Fair Global Order
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 4.A05
SW 47: Transformative Technologies: Towards a Theory of the Interdependency between Technological and Legal Evolution
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B47
SW 48: Immigration & Nationalism: Finding Common Ground Between Narrative Extremes
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 2
SW 49: From Values to Rights
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 315; Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.A05
SW 50: Legal Positivism and Legal Realism
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B54; Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B54; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B54
SW 51: Globalization as a Challenge to Legal Philosophy
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 316; Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 3
SW 52: Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity in Europe
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 4
SW 53: Freedom to Discriminate? Tensions Between Freedom of Religion and Antidiscrimination
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 315
SW 54: Law, Normativity and the Mind
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 8; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 7
SW 56: Migration Philosophy
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.A07
SW 57: Legal Theories and Relations / Théories du droit et relations
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, Museggstrasse 314
SW 58: Legal Competence: Concept, Norms, Formalization and Exercise
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B58; Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B58
SW 59: Legisprudence and Legal Theory: Democracy, Diversity and Dignity in Lawmaking
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 305; Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 305
SW 60: Law, Happiness, the State and the Other
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 304
SW 61: (Un)Changing Ideas of Equality and Liberty and Their Contemporary Legal Meaning
Wednesday 10 July, 16.00-20.00, HS 2
SW 62: Friedrich Müller's Theory of Law
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 3
SW 64: Law as an Artifact
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B47; Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 8
SW 65: Human Rights Accountability of Non-State Actors
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.A05; Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B55
SW 66: Lobbying and Domestic Lawmaking Processes: Do Lobbies Strengthen or Undermine Dignity, Democracy and Diversity?
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B57
SW 67: The Rule of Law, State of Emergency and Crisis
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 3
SW 69: Regulating Contingency: Risk, Law, and the Theory of Regulation
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B55
SW 70: Dworkin’s Equality in Legal Argumentation
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 4.B01
SW 71: Metaphysics, Morality, and Interpretation in Dworkin’s Justice for Hedgehogs
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B48
SW 72: Between Experience and Community. Pragmatic Inquiries in Legal Theory and Philosophy
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B52
SW 73: Dignity and the Natural Law Tradition
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, Museggstrasse 315
SW 74: Customs for a Peaceful Social Life
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 303
SW 76: Constitutional Amendments: Theoretical Issues
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 13
SW 77: Alternatives to Liberal Constitutionalism: Popular, Political, Deliberative
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B01; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B01
SW 78: Collective Decision Making in a Theory of Justice
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 202
SW 79: Constitutionalism and Disagreement
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B55
SW 80: Legal Education: Philosophy, Theory and Practice in a Globalised World
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 7; Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B47
Special Workshops 81-115
SW 82: Democratic Authority
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B54
SW 83: Fairness of Algorithms and Disruptive Legal Innovation in Complex Litigation
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, Museggstrasse 313
SW 84: Legal Education and Big Data: Methodological Assumptions for Human Right’s Protection
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.A07
SW 85: Boundaries of Citizenship
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 304
SW 87: Feminist Critique of Rights – Feminist Perspectives in Legal Theory
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B57
SW 88: Dignity's Antagonists
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 3.B47
SW 89: The Normative Content of the Principle of Democracy in Central Europe
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 11
SW 91: The Legitimacy of International Courts
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 313; Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.B01
SW 93: Economics, Law and Humanities: Homo-what?
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 1.B05; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B58
SW 94: Bioethics and Biolaw and the Question of Human Dignity
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.B54
SW 96: Philosophy of Private Law
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 2; Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 2
SW 97: Preserving Democracy Through Undemocratic Means?
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.B02
SW 98: Practical Reason and Jurisprudence
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B02
SW 99: Freedom of Thought in Networked Space
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 12
SW 100: Human Rights and Personal Identity
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 217
SW 101: Law’s Autonomy and Concepts of Human Dignity
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, 1.B05
SW 102: Das Recht als Aushandlungsprozess
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 217
SW 103: Mid-Level Principles in the Law
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 302
SW 104: New Frontiers and Contemporary Challenges of Biolaw: From the Exaltation of Human Dignity to the Protection of Diversity
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B01
SW 105: Restoring Dignity Beyond Criminal Justice: Truth Seeking and Reparation in Persistent Contexts of Impunity
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B48
SW 106: Contemporary Spatial Justice in Urban China: Theoretical Review, Case Studies and Legal Critique
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.A07
SW 107: Human Dignity and Human Rights from Asian Perspectives
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B52
SW 108: Internet, Human Rights and Democracy
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.B46
SW 109: Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism: Indian, Eastern and Western Perspectives
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.B02
SW 111: Constitutional Bio-Law and Human Dignity on Diversity
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 304
SW 112: Legal Fictions Revisited
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 504
SW 113: The Strained Relationship between Legal Orders – Current Challenges for International Legal Pluralism
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 304
SW 114: In the Spheres of the Triad ‘Law, Process and Development’: A Methodological Proposal Based on a Neo-Paradigmatic View of Procedural Law
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 11
SW 115: Legal Ethics and the Concept of Law
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 203
Special Workshops 116-151
SW 116: Justice and Revenge
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 4
SW 117: Constitutional Reform as a Legal-Philosophical Problem
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B48
SW 118: Law and Realism
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B52; Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.A05
SW 120: Diversidad y valores democráticos (repensando la democracia)
Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.A05
SW 121: Caritas und Menschenwürde in einer vielfältigen demokratischen Gesellschaft
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 11
SW 122: Resistance, Dissent and Innovation: Perspectives from Around the World
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00 & 14.00-18.30, HS 7
SW 123: The Advance of Conservative Tendencies in the Western World and the Risks for Democracy
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.A07
SW 124: Tolerance and Dignity – A Tension and a Challenge
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 303
SW 125: A Portrait of the Hartist as a Young Man
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, HS 13
SW 126: Transitional Justice and its Challenges for the 21st Century
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 2
SW 127: Human Dignity and the New Frontiers of Constitutional Law: Rise or Fall of a Controversial Concept?
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 11
SW 130: Social Media Platforms and Neoliberalism as a Shaping Tool for the Rise of Extreme Right-Wing Parties
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 501
SW 131: Is Religious Liberty More than the Sum of its Parts?
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B52; Friday 12 July, 08.30-13.00, 3.B52
SW 132: Legal Norms and Intimate Relationships
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 304
SW 134: European Democracy in Crisis: The Uses and Abuses of Dignity
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 302
SW 135: Enhancing Human Dignity in a Value Plural and Democratic Society
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.B47
SW 136: Dignity, Privacy and Human Identities
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 202
SW 137: Aportes para una teoría jurídica feminista contemporánea
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 12
SW 139: Legal, Moral and Epistemic Traits of Constitutional Balancing
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 11
SW 140: Dignity and Democracy in the Context of AI: What Ways to Program Autonomous Systems (such as Cars) are Permissible in a Liberal-Democratic Rechtsstaat?
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 305
SW 141: Gender, Democracy and Human Rights
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B52; Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B52
SW 143: Common Law – Civil Law: The Great Divide?
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, 4.A07; Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 3
SW 144: Philosophical Perspectives on Women’s Human Rights
Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 13
SW 145: Human Dignity and the Human Future: Legal and Ethical Implications of Emerging Biotechnology
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Sentimatt 204
SW 146: History of Philosophy of Law
Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, 3.B47
SW 147: Challenges of Causation in Law and Moral Philosophy
Tuesday 9 July, 08.30-13.00, 4.B54
SW 148: Guilty Minds and Biased Minds: Recent Empirical Work on Biased Ascriptions of Inculpating Mental States
Thursday 11 July, 08.30-13.00, 1.B05
SW 149: Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire (1st-5th century A.D.)
Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 203
SW 151: Art, Law and Artificial Intelligence
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, 1.B05