Conference Programme

Day 1

09h00

Opening remarks

09h10

Otto Pfersmann

The Pure Theory of Law and the Common Law, or Is the Pure Theory a Truly General Theory of Law?

09h40

Jürgen Busch and Thomas Olechowski

Legal Theory Meets History: Spotlights On “Essence & Value” of a Legal Biography of Hans Kelsen

10h10

Discussion

11h10

Coffee

11h30

Matthias Jestaedt

Demythologizing Legal Thought: Kelsen’s Programme of Scientificality in Legal Scholarship

12h00

Robert Alexy

On Kelsen’s Concept of the ‘Ought’

12h30

Discussion

13h30

Lunch

14h40

Stanley L. Paulson 

The Great Puzzle: Kelsen’s Basic Norm

15h10

Riccardo Guastini

The Basic Norm

15h40

Discussion

16h40

Tea

17h00

Ulises Schmill

The Basic Norm and the Concept of Normativity

17h30

Leslie Green

Kelsen’s Fictionalism

18h00

Discussion

20h00

Dinner

 


Day 2

09h00

Clemens Jabloner

Kelsen’s Concept of Law

09h30

Eugenio Bulygin

Kelsen on Completeness and Consistency of Law

10h00

Discussion

11h00

Coffee

11h20

Martin Borowski

Balancing and Hierarchy

11h50

José Juan Moreso

Kelsen on Justifying Judicial Review

12h20

Discussion

13h20

Lunch

14h40

Luís Duarte d’Almeida

Kelsen’s Delict

15h10

Pablo E. Navarro

The Effectiveness of General Norms

15h40

Discussion

16h40

Tea

17h00

Bert van Roermund

Some Fallacies in Kelsen’s Theory of Norms

17h30

Peter Koller

On the Nature of Norms. A Critical Discussion of Kelsen’s View and Further Reflections

18h00

Discussion


Day 3

09h00

Pierluigi Chiassoni

Is the Pure Theory of Law Quasi-Positivism?

09h30

Uta Bindreiter

Kelsen and Scandinavian Legal Realism

10h00

Discussion

11h00

Coffee

11h20

Jes Bjarup

Kelsen in the Nordic Countries

11h50

Roberto Vernengo

Avatars of Kelsen’s Reine Rechtslehre in the Pampas

12h20

Discussion

13h20

Lunch

14h40

Alexander Somek

Monism

15h10

Mario G. Losano

Kelsen’s Theory of International Law during his Exile in Geneva

15h40

Discussion

16h40

Tea

17h00

Christoph Kletzer

The Idea of a Pure Theory of Law

17h30

Michael Steven Green

Is Kelsen the Frege of Legal Theory?

18h00

Discussion

19h00

Closing remarks: John Gardner

19h45

Closing Dinner

 


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