Law and the Ties that Bind
Location:
Edinburgh Law School
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL
Date/time
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27 & 28 April 2023
The Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory presents
Law and the Ties that Bind
The ECLT is delighted to invite you to this international conference, which is partially funded by the British Academy and organised by Prof Amalia Amaya, Prof Claudio Michelon and Prof Neil Walker. The conference will take place on April 27th and 28th at the Edinburgh Law School (Old College), with the possibility to attend online. A group of leading scholars from all around the world will join us to present their research on the different ways in which law contributes to community-building and solidarity in our contemporary world. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A session, and we will be serving lots of coffee and cakes to keep up with the lively debate!
Panel I - Law’s Concept of Social Cohesion
Speakers:
- Rainer Forst (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Andrea Sangiovanni (Kings College London)
- Maria Cahill (University of Oxford)
- Esin Kucuk (University of Essex).
Panel II - Legal Institutions for Social Cohesion
Speakers:
- Roberto Gargarella (Torcuato di Tella University)
- Alex Latham-Gambi (University of Birmingham)
- Jan Klabbers (University of Helsinki)
- Denis Baranger (Pantheon-Assas University)
Panel III - Challenges to Social Cohesion
Speakers:
- Rowena Robinson (IIT Bombay)
- Mark Dowson (Hertie School)
- Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University)
- Tamar Hostovsky (University of Tel Aviv)
You can find our programme and impressive line-up of speakers in the Agenda below. To register to attend in person please get in touch with Sara Canduzzi (PhD candidate), who is helping with the organisation, at s2193635@ed.ac.uk.
Register to attend this event VIRTUALLY:
Morning session (Raeburn Room)
9:30-10:00 Breakfast
10:00-10:20 Preliminary remarks with Amalia Amaya, Claudio Michelon and Neil Walker
10:20-12:00 Session I – Social cohesion and the liberal legal order (chair: Alexandra Braun)
- Denis Baranger (Pantheon-Assas University): Doing away with law’s bindingness? Law, political philosophy and social cooperation
- Maria Cahill (University College Cork): Is freedom of association a fundamental right within the liberal tradition?
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session (Elder Room)
13:00-14:40 Session II – Legal organisations and social cohesion (chair: David Cabrelli)
- Jan Klabbers (University of Helsinki): Legal institutions and social cohesion
- Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University): From multitude to unity in the workplace: solidarity as remedy to domination and detachment
14:40-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-16:50 Session III – Constitutional frameworks and social cohesion (chair: Barry Maguire)
- Rowena Robinson (IIT Bombay): Imagining democracy: fraternity, horizontal rights and society
- Tamar Hostovsky-Brandes (Ono Academic College): The constitutional crisis in Israel as a “breach of the social contract”
16:50-17:00 Closing remarks
Morning session (Raeburn Room)
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-11:10 Session IV – Law’s concept of social cohesion (chair: Amalia Amaya)
- Andrea Sangiovanni (Kings College London): What is solidarity?
- Rainer Forst (Goethe University Frankfurt): Social cohesion: on the analysis of a difficult concept
11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:10 Session V – Social Cohesion in the European Union (chair: Neil Walker)
- Mark Dawson (Hertie School): Belonging to and in the European Union
- Esin Küçük (University of Essex): Re-defining solidarity in the EU: bridging the gap between law and society?
13:10-14:10 Lunch Break
Afternoon session (Raeburn Room)
14:10-15:50 Session VI – Social cohesion and political representation (chair: Claudio Michelon)
- Alex Latham-Gambi (University of Birmingham): For it is the Unity of the Representor… that maketh the Person One’: The legislative assembly as condensation symbol
- Roberto Gargarella (Torcuato di Tella University): Law, community, and the problem of authorship
15:50-16:30 Final Roundtable with Amalia Amaya, Claudio Michelon and Neil Walker