Le doctorat européen sur les « cultures juridiques européennes » à la Une dans la Lettre n°30 de l'EHESS

La Lettre n° 30, Mars 2010 de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales a consacré sa première page au "Doctorat sur les cultures juridiques européennes" qui s'achève avec son colloque de clôture, organisé par les doctorants, à Leuven (Belgique) du 4 au 6 Mars prochain.
Vous pouvez consulter la Lettre et le programme du colloque en cliquant sur le liens suivantes:

http://lettre.ehess.fr/422

http://lettre.ehess.fr/420

COMMENT SE RENDRE A LEUVEN

- Si vous arrivez par avion...

Si vous arrivez par l’aéroport de Bruxelles-Zaventem, cherchez la gare en sous-sol.
Il y a un train direct vers « Leuven » [il faut faire attention à ne pas confondre Leuven/Louvain (the place to be) et Louvain-la-Neuve Université (not the place to be).


- Si vous arrivez en train...

La ville est bien desservie par les trains. Depuis Bruxelles (gares du Nord, Centrale ou Midi) vous pouvez prendre le train en direction de Liège, Hasselt, Landen, Eupen, ou Welkenraedt, qui font tous arrêt à Leuven.
Veuillez consulter pour les horaires exactes les sites web :
http://www.b-rail.be/main/F/ (en français),
http://www.b-rail.be/main/D/ (en allemand) ou
http://www.b-rail.be/main/E/ (en anglais).
En face de la gare de Leuven se trouvent des taxis. Les bus se trouvent à droite.
La gare de Leuven se trouve à dix minutes de marche de la Grande Place. Suivez pour y arriver
simplement la ‘Bondgenotenlaan’ (Avenue des Alliés) en face de la gare.


- Si vous comptez faire une promenade jusqu’ à l'hôtel

Cf. Le plan de la ville sur le ‘flyer’.
1) Hôtel Conférenciers et Professeurs :
Martin’s Klooster Hotel****
Predikherenstraat 22
Tel. : +32 (0)16 21 31 41

Pour y arriver à pied (20min), vous suivez la ‘Bondgenotenlaan’ jusqu’à la ‘Grote Markt’ (Grande Place). Vous marchez le long de l’église ‘Sint Pieter’ en traversant la ‘Grote Markt’. Vous débouchez sur la ‘Brusselsestraat’, que vous devez suivre tout droit pendant 200m. Après avoir traversé la ‘Dijle’ (une petite rivière), qui se trouve à la fin de la zone piétonnière, vous prenez la première rue à gauche. Vous êtes arrivé dans la ‘Predikherenstraat’, où se trouve votre hôtel.

2) Hôtel Doctorants :
Holiday Inn Garden Hotel****
Alfons Smetsplein 7
Tel. : +32 (0)16 31 76 00
Pour y arriver à pied (15min), vous suivez la ‘Bondgenotenlaan’ (Avenue des Alliés) en face de la gare.
Juste après la statue du jeune homme ‘Fons sapientiae’ et avant d’arriver sur la ‘Grote Markt’ (Grande Place) vous prenez à gauche : la ‘Tiensestraat’. Vous montez la ‘Tiensestraat’ du côté droite jusqu’au moment où vous voyez une autre statue, cette fois-ci d’une femme nue et couchée. Vous continuez à monter pendant 20m et vous allez voir l’entrée du Holiday Inn Hotel de l’autre côté de la place qui s’ouvre à votre droite.


- Si vous comptez arriver directement à la mairie ou à la conférence

Cf. Le plan de la ville sur le ‘flyer’.
La mairie se trouve sur la Grande place à dix minutes de marche de la Grande Place (vous suivez la ‘Bondgenotenlaan’ en face de la gare).
Les conférences auront lieu dans la ‘Huis van Bethlehem’, Schapenstraat 34 (à moins que vous n’ayez l’esprit d’aventure il faut mieux prendre un taxi en venant de la gare).

OUR CONFERENCE: UNDOING LAW, FRAMING CONTEXTS

The final conference of our Doctorate in European Legal Cultures "Undoing Law, Framing Contexts. Normativity Across the Disciplines" is approaching very quickly. It will take place at the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (Belgium) from the 4th to the 6th of March 2010. If you click on the link to the official European Legal Cultures website you can see (and download) the entire conference schedule:
http://www.europeanlegalcultures.eu/colloque-louvain-2010/

The conference is free and open to all. If you are interested in attending it, please send an e-mail to:
europeanlegalcultures@gmail.com.
Registration will be taken into account within the limits of the seats available.

You can read below a short version of our official conference proposal:

This conference represents the final stage of the “European Doctorate in history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy of legal cultures in Europe”, a multilingual PhD programme financed by the European Commission and conceived to deepen the links between law and social sciences, in order to cross the boundaries that separate the different fields of study as well as the different countries.
The topic of the meeting, “Undoing law, framing contexts. Normativity across the disciplines”, aims to encourage a reflection on the concepts of law and context, bringing together scholars with different academic backgrounds but with a common interest in law. Many feel that a line has to be drawn between what is law and what it is not, between the text of law and its con-text. It is precisely this activity of distinguishing between the legal and the non-legal that we would like to examine more closely. To that purpose, the conference will propose a two-fold strategy. It will first welcome specific “case studies”, presented with the following questions in mind: How does the notion of context come into play as an analytical tool? On the second hand, other contributions will approach the subject matter in more general terms, addressing questions such as: How can historians, philosophers and sociologists challenge representations of the law as pertaining to a purely formalistic normativity, devoid of any history, on the one hand, and depictions of the law as a pure course of events, indifferent to formal legal norms, on the other? Hopefully, but not necessarily, these two manners of approaching the question of law and its contexts will intersect at some point at the conference. By combining contributions from international scholars ranging from historians, philosophers, and lawyers to sociologists, it is our intention to offer an all-too-rare opportunity to catch a transversal glimpse of the law.

Please fell free to write to us!

CONFERENCE: Leuven, March 4-6th, 2010 - Undoing law, framing contexts. Normativity across the disciplines

Conference proposal

The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars of law who tackle it from different disciplinary perspectives. Our wish is to understand and critically assess the widespread urge to “contextualise” law which characterises a large spectrum of academic endeavours addressing the quaestio iuris.
How and to what extent can “contextualisation” still be claimed to be a useful guiding principle for such studies? The idea that law cannot be entirely understood if it is not situated in, or related to, a (social, economic, or cultural) context in which it actually lives is certainly not new. This idea gained prominence in the first half of the 20th century as an attack against the predominantly formalist legal orthodoxy of the times. It found expression in many currents of legal thought, mainly American Legal Realism, and has not disappeared from the radar screen of jurisprudential enquiry since then. Critical Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Theory, Law and Economics can all be seen as contemporary forms of this critique. For sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and other scholars not directly participating in these jurisprudential debates, the idea that law could be separated from its multiple contexts and considered abstractly is likely not to make much sense. The question to be asked would rather concern the role that the law plays in the more general process of social normativity.
Apart from any disagreement, many feel that a line can, and has to be drawn between what is law and what is not, between the text of law and its con-text. It is precisely this activity of distinguishing between the legal and the non-legal that we would like to examine more closely. In order to come to grips with this complex question, we propose a two-fold strategy. First, we would welcome specific “case studies”, which draw on already existing work and analyse it with the following questions in mind: How does the notion of context come into play as an analytical tool in studies taking law as their object? What are the merits and limits of various “contextualising” methodologies? How does the notion of context appear (explicitly or implicitly) in specific historical narratives of a particular legal institution or the law in general? How are these narratives structured? What has “context” been taken to mean in various theoretical contributions? Should it be redefined?
On the other hand, we also expect contributions which approach the subject matter of the conference in more general terms, addressing questions such as: How can historians, philosophers and sociologists challenge representations of the law as pertaining to a purely formalistic normativity, devoid of any history, on the one hand, and depictions of the law as a pure course of events, indifferent to formal legal norms, on the other? Is the formalist habit of drawing a line between law and non-law still to be denounced as a “lethean draught” which makes all historical and political particulars fall into oblivion? Or is it rather the case that all the currents which attempt to balance the formalistic approach with a closer look at the empirical level (by studying, for example, the “actual” functioning of the judiciary) have induced us to neglect the specific kind of logic which characterises legal norms as such? Finally, would it not be useful to distinguish between the set of institutions that is generally called the law (with its jurists, judges, law professors and students) and a more pervasive legal function, dispersed and immersed in society and sailing under the colours of con-text?
Hopefully, but not necessarily, these two manners of approaching the question of law and its contexts will intersect at some point at the conference, opening up new perspectives on an apparently familiar theme. We are therefore not strictly limited to the outlined agenda, but will also accept proposals framing the law-context-problem differently. By combining contributions from international scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds – ranging from historians, philosophers, and lawyers to sociologists – it is our intention to offer an all-too-rare opportunity to catch a transversal glimpse of the law as well as to question the assumptions which shape the various disciplines that study it.

Opinio Juris in Comparatione- Lider Lab Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa

Cari tutti,

Volevo segnalarvi l'iniziativa del Lider Lab della Scuola Superiore S. Anna di Pisa Opinio Juris in Comparatione che mi pare si sposi molto bene con lo spirito multilinguistico e pluridisciplinare del nostro dottorato. Si tratta, infatti, di una rivista elettronica di diritto comparato e nazionale il cui scopo è quello di stimolare il dialogo tra tradizioni giuridiche differenti attraverso la pubblicazione di contributi in tre lingue diverse (inglese, francese e spagnolo).
Inoltre, Opinio Juris in Comparatione viene regolarmente pubblicata sul Social Science Research Network, che, come sapete, è un rapido ed utilissimo strumento di diffusione degli studi accademici in scienze sociali, a livello internazionale.

Per tutti i dettagli che riguardano il Call for submission e le regole per la presentazione dei contributi, vi rimando alla pagina dedicata del sito Lider Lab, lider-lab.sssup.it/opinio
dove potete trovare il Call anche in francese e spagnolo.

Saluti
Francesca

Frankfurt 16th May 2009: General Meeting

General meeting related to the Marie-Curie doctorate on European legal cultures conference: Leuven (Belgium), March 4-6th, 2010

Aim of the Frankfurt meeting:

1) The principal aim of the Frankfurt meeting will consist in discussing the various personal call for papers proposals (written on the basis of the texts submitted by each group) in order to select/re-write a proposal that most of us can agree on. (2-4pm).

2) In addition, we will have to think about very practical issues, such as the professors we are going to invite; who is going to invite them; who is going to introduce them; conference scheme; public relations management; advertising,… (4:30-6pm).

Programma Scuola Invernale di Berlino

Programme de l’Ecole d’hiver de méthodologie à la Harnack-Haus à Berlin
5 – 8 février 2009

http://www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de/de-index.htm
Jeudi 5 : Arrivée des participants
Déjeuner à la Harnack-Haus

14 h – 18h : Mid-term Review (1ère partie)
14 h : Présentation du programme et des accords avec la Commission européenne
Frank Marx : DG Research, Unit T.3 -Marie Curie Actions - Networks
Paolo Napoli, Coordinateur pour EHESS

14h15 : Présentation des responsables scientifiques des institutions partenaires du programme
Rainer Maria Kiesow (MPIER), Paolo Napoli (EHESS), Prof. Stolffi ou Meloni (SUM)

14h40 Rapport du coordinateur : Paolo Napoli
Présentation du réseau de recherche et de formation et du rapport scientifique : Paolo Napoli
Présentation du rapport administratif et financier : Romain Zanolli, EHESS

15h30 – 18 h : Rapports des jeunes chercheurs

Dîner à Berlin
Vendredi 6 :
9h Réunion entre les jeunes chercheurs et le représentant de la Commission
10h Premières impressions du représentant de la Commission
11h Discussion ouverte sur le déroulement du programme.

Déjeuner à la Harnack-Haus

14 h – 18h : « Travailler le bibliographique : Introduction sur l’étude critique des sources et élaboration d’une bibliographie commentée », par Emanuele Conte et Paolo Napoli, Présentation des enjeux par une équipe de doctorants
Dîner à Berlin
Samedi 7 :
9h – 12 h : « Vive la multi-/inter-/transdisciplinarité ! » : Introduction d’Olivier Cayla et Rainer Maria Kiesow, Présentation des enjeux par une équipe de doctorants

Déjeuner à la Harnack-Haus

14h – 18 h : « Les cultures du plan (de thèse) » Introduction par Marie-Angèle Hermitte, Florence Bellivier et Rainer Maria Kiesow, Présentation des enjeux par une équipe de doctorants

18 h 30 : Visite du Reichstag/Bundestag


Dîner de clôture de l’école d’hiver de méthodologie