A two-day conference organised by Professor Michael Freeman of the UCL Faculty of Laws
UCL Laws: John Austin and his Legacy

UCL Laws: John Austin and his Legacy

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM - Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM (GMT)

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire


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John Austin and his Legacy
16 & 17 December 2009

A two-day conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death UCL's first professor of Jurisprudence, John Austin. The conference brings together legal philosophers from the US, Canada, UK and Europe in a programme that celebrates his work.

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Programme

DAY ONE
09:00 Registration and refreshments
09:30

SESSION I:

John Austin and Constructing Theories of Law
Brian BIX (University of Minnesota)

Austin's Methodology?
Andrew HALPIN (University of Swansea)

11:00 Refreshment break
11:15

SESSION II

Primary and Secondary Rights
James PENNER (UCL)

Austin on Punishment
Matthew KRAMER (Churchill College, Cambridge)

13:00 Lunch
13:45

SESSION III

"Darkening the Fair Face of Roman Law": Austin and Roman Law
Andrew LEWIS (UCL)

Austin's Conception of International Law
Emmanuel VOYIAKIS (Brunel University)

15:15
Refreshment break
16:00

SESSION IV:

Austin, Kelsen and the Model of Soverignty
Lars VINX (Philosophy, Bilkent University, Turkey)

Austin and Scandinavian Realism
Patricia Mindus (Turin)


Sense and Nonsense about Austin's Jurisprudence from a Scandinavian Perspective
Jes Bjarup (Stockholm)

17:45
Break
18:00

PUBLIC LECTURE:

Did Austin cease being an Austinian?
Wilfrid RUMBLE (Vassar College, Political Science)


 Reception
20:00
End of Day One
DAY TWO 
08:30
Registration and refreshments
09:00

SESSION V:

Sovereignty and the Electors
Pavlos ELEFTHERIADIS (Mansfield College, Oxford)

Austin, Sovereignty and Transnational Regulation
Roger COTTERRELL (Queen Mary, University of London)

John Austin's Divine Command Theory of Moral and Legal Obligation
James Bernard MURPHY (Dartmouth College)

10:45  Refreshment Break
11:00

SESSION VI:

Embedding and Routinsing Austin's Sovereign
Michael RODNEY (London South Bank University)

Austin 2 Bentham 0 (a.e.t.)
Richard TUR (Oriel College, Oxford)

12:30
Lunch
13:15

SESSION VII:

Hobbes, Austin, Dicey
David DYZENHAUS (University of Toronto)

Mill and Austin
Philip SCHOFIELD (UCL)

14:45
Refreshment Break
15:00

SESSION VIII:

Austin's Failure
Michael LOBBAN (Queen Mary, University of London)

The Very Idea of Positivism
Stanley L PAULSON (Washington University, St. Louis, and University of Kiel, Germany)

Positivism before Hart
Fred SCHAUER (Virginia)

17:00 Break
17:15

SESSION IX:

Law as Someones' Say-So: The Enduring Influence of Austinian Positivism
George LETSAS (UCL)

Reconstructing Austin's Intuitions: Positive Morality and Law
Maria Isabel TUREGANO MANSILLA (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

Hart and Austin Together Again for the First Time: Coercive Enforcement and the Theory of Legal Obligation
Ken HIMMA (Seattle Pacific University)

19:00 END OF CONFERENCE
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When

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM (GMT)

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Where

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
University of Cambridge
5 Cranmer Road
CB3 9BL Cambridge
United Kingdom



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