“A Discourse on the Legal Method: Historical and Philosophical Influences on Legal Thinking”

International Research Project

Law As an Open System

Programme

of the international conference

“A Discourse on the Legal Method: Historical and Philosophical Influences on Legal Thinking”

The Groningen Circle hosted by the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

The conference will take place from Thursday 23 to Friday 24 June 2016.

On Wednesday, the delegates will arrive, Thursday and Friday will be dedicated to the conference, and Saturday we would like to organise some excursions for those of you who would like to spend an extra day in Moscow and leave on Sunday.

  There will be two sessions

Legal history (23 June):

• Floriana Cursi  “The History of Vicarious Liability”
• Dmitry Dozhdev “Force Majeure: between Facts and Norms”
• Thomas Finkenauer  “Concept and Function of Iustum pretium from Roman Law to Modern Law”
• David Johnston  “Legal method: Roman law in the common law”
• Francesco Giglio  “Roman dominium and the English Concept of Ownership”
• Lauretta Maganzani  “Economic Analysis of Law and history”

Legal philosophy (24 June):

• Kit Barker  “Private Law and Analytical Jurisprudence: the Continuing Value of Hohfeld”
• Rene' Brouwer  “On the introduction of person as a general category in Roman law in the 1st cent. BC”
• William Lucy
• Laurens Winkel
• Richard Wright  “The Law of Neighbors: Greek and Roman Roots”