Centre for Law and Public Affairs (CeLAPA) is inviting you to an international seminar Crisis, Modernity, Authority and the State
21-22 September 2018
The purpose of this conference is to engage critically with law's authority – conceptually, comparatively and historically – from the viewpoints of public law, private law, political, social and legal theory, as well as jurisdictional perspectives. We will discuss questions such as: What is law's authority and in which sense can authority be false or deficient? How does authority come into existence and how does it function? On which basis and from which standpoint can authority be criticized? What is the continuing relevance of the notion of authority for a critical understanding of our social and political reality? How does the critique of authority compare to other modes of immanent criticism? And how can the significant methodological, theoretical and normative challenges to traditional understandings of authority be addressed?
The seminar is taking place in the building of the Faculty of Law of the Charles University, meeting room 117.
Programme:
21 September
16:30 – 18:30 Martin Loughlin / Jens Meierhenrich
22 September
9:30 – 11:10 Lars Vinx / Marc de Wilde
11:30 – 13:15 Andrea Salvatore / Mariano Croce / Rita Simon