PROGRAM
Days: Saturday, September 16th Sunday, September 17th Monday, September 18th
Saturday, September 16th
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Sunday, September 17th
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09:00-10:40 Session 1A: Concept of Law
Chair:
Kamil Zeidler (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Location: Room A
09:00 | Liquid modernity, technoregulation and the problem of human dignity (abstract) |
09:25 | A Quantitative Turn in Law and Coercion?: An Short Examination (abstract) |
09:50 | ONLY ONE MUST PREVAIL: POSITIVE LAW AND OTHER NON-STATE NORMATIVE SYSTEMS (abstract) |
09:00-10:40 Session 1B: East Meets West: Indonesia and Japan
Chair:
Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Location: Room B
09:00 | The Legality of Living Law in the New Indonesian Penal Code (abstract) |
09:25 | An Aspect of the Reception of Spinoza's Political Thought in Japan (abstract) |
09:50 | Indonesia’s state ideology and the conditions of post-foundational political thought (abstract) |
10:15 | A Critical Recuperation of Watsuji’s Rinrigaku (abstract) |
09:00-10:40 Session 1C: Crisis of Constitutionalism
Chair:
Michael Goldhammer (EBS University Law School, Germany)
Location: Room C
09:00 | Perceived stress and occupational burnout among Polish lawyers during the constitutional crisis (abstract) |
09:25 | The Administrative State and Judicial Deference in the U.S. and Beyond (abstract) |
09:50 | What the Polish constitutional crisis tells us about liberal constitutionalism (abstract) |
09:00-10:40 Session 1D: Equality
Chair:
Chao-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Location: Room D
09:00 | Freedom of Movement for All? Toward a More Individualist Relational Equality (abstract) |
09:25 | ‘Special Quota’ is Fair? The pros and cons of introducing affirmative action in admissions - to criticize meritocracy. (abstract) |
09:50 | Equal Respect for All: A Moral Justification for Universal Basic Income (abstract) |
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
Location: Reception Hall
11:10-12:50 Session 2A: Legal Thoughts
Chair:
Tomasz Widłak (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Location: Room A
11:10 | Beyond legal positivism: Hegel's concept of positive right (abstract) |
11:35 | The Value Commitment of Value-Relativists (abstract) |
12:00 | Universality of Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law (abstract) |
12:25 | Can a Law be Just? (abstract) |
11:10-12:50 Session 2B: East Meets West: China
Chair:
Chao Wang (University of Macau, Macao)
Location: Room B
11:10 | The Search for Common Normative Foundations between East and West (abstract) |
11:35 | Confucian Virtues and Democracy: On Joseph Chan’s Confucian Perfectionism (abstract) |
12:00 | Han Fei and Fuller: an Examination of Kenneth Winston’s Reading of Han Fei (abstract) |
11:10-12:50 Session 2C: Legitimacy, Democracy and Civil Disobedience
Chair:
Teresa Chirkowska-Smolak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
Location: Room C
11:10 | Is autonomy-based civil disobedience possible? (abstract) |
11:35 | Conceptually Engineering Political Legitimacy (abstract) |
12:00 | Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Civil Disobedience (abstract) |
11:10-12:50 Session 2D: Gender
Chair:
Jin-Sook Yun (Soongsil University, South Korea)
Location: Room D
11:10 | Marital Status Discrimination Revisited (abstract) |
11:35 | A Rawlsian Critic on Stability problem of Public Reason: Same-Sex Marriage Debates in Taiwan as an Example (abstract) |
12:00 | Decriminalizing Homosexual Acts, Strengthening Heterosexual Monogamous Marriage: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Singapore’s Unique Approach towards Heterosexual Norms (abstract) |
12:25 | "Bridging the Gender Gap in Financial Technology: A Cross-Cultural Study of East and West" (abstract) |
12:50-14:00 Lunch
Location: Reception Hall
14:00-15:30 Session 3: Kobe Lecture
Chair:
Hidehiko Adachi (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Location: Main Hall
14:00 | In Defense of Symbolic Monarchy |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
Location: Reception Hall
16:15-17:55 Session 4A: Legal Reasoning
Chair:
Hidehiko Adachi (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Location: Room A
16:15 | Learning from Comparative Law (abstract) |
16:40 | Truth & knowledge: on the epistemological logics of judicial review in public law (abstract) |
17:05 | Recent Debates Over Originalism and Moral Reading (abstract) |
17:30 | Right answer and pragmatism (abstract) |
16:15-17:55 Session 4B: East Meets West: Contemporary Issues
Chair:
Celia Filipa Ferreira Matias (University of Macau, Faculty of Law, Macao)
Location: Room B
16:15 | Personal Data Protection from Asian Perspective: A Probe into Database Litigation in Japan and Taiwan (abstract) |
16:40 | EASTERN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE MEETS EUROPEAN LAW. UNMET NEEDS, EQUAL TREATMENT AND REGULATORY GAP. (abstract) |
17:05 | In Search of Normative Consensus: Hong Kong in the Age of PRC’s Alienation from the International System (abstract) |
17:30 | East or West - which Approach is Best? The Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Modern Parenthood (abstract) |
16:15-17:55 Session 4C: Social Philosphy: Climate and Population
Chair:
Fumihiko Ishiyama (Chuo University, Japan)
Location: Room C
16:15 | Admitting Climate Migrants as Compensation (abstract) |
16:40 | Sufficientarianism in Variable Population Settings (abstract) |
16:15-17:55 Session 4D: Crime and Punishment
Chair:
Ferry Fathurokhman (Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, Indonesia)
Location: Room D
16:15 | Rethinking the Ethics of Capital Punishment in East Asia: An Observation about “Sentencing Criteria for the Death Penalty” in the Supreme Courts of Japan and Taiwan (abstract) |
16:40 | The Development of Criminal Control of Hate Speech: A Comparison Between East and West (abstract) |
17:05 | A Relation Between Act and Criminal Capacity (abstract) |
17:30 | Reactive Attitudes, Retributive Justice, and the Moral Worth of a Person - A Western Bias? (abstract) |
Monday, September 18th
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09:00-10:40 Session 5A: Natural Law, Cosmopolitanism and Global Philosophy of Law
Chair:
Carlos Isler (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile)
Location: Room A
09:00 | TRACING BASIC LEGAL REASONS – An Attempt in Global Philosophy of Law (abstract) |
09:25 | How Can We Share Cosmopolitan Hope Interculturally? –– Foundation, Permissibility and Rationality of Cosmopolitan Hope (abstract) |
09:50 | Moral Universals, Evolution, and Natural Law (abstract) |
09:00-10:40 Session 5B: Panel
Location: Room B
09:00 | The Development of Commons Thought in Late 20th Century Japan (abstract) |
09:00-10:40 Session 5C: Immigration
Chair:
Seiko Urayama (Seijo University, Japan)
Location: Room C
09:00 | Connecting eastern and western legal prospectives on justice and forced migration: Redefining The 1951 Refugee Convention for a more effective international immigration system (abstract) |
09:25 | Multiculturalism and Liberal Nationalism: Liberal Integration of Immigrants (abstract) |
09:50 | Where Kant’s Hospitality Meets "Zo Hospitality"? (abstract) |
10:15 | The significance of states’ territorial jurisdictions as the basis of discretionary immigration control (abstract) |
09:00-10:40 Session 5D: Law and Education
Chair:
Michihiro Kaino (Doshisha University, Japan)
Location: Room D
09:00 | How to Educate a World Conqueror? Xenophon’s Guidebook for Virtues of Global Power Politics (abstract) |
09:25 | Legal Scientific Education in the UK and the US: Considering Legal Education as a Tool to Uphold Justice in Criminal Decisions (abstract) |
09:50 | Way of the judge: on judicial virtues and appointing judges of character (abstract) |
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
Location: Reception Hall
11:10-12:50 Session 6A: Legal Thoeries
Chair:
Monika Zalewska (University of Lodz, Poland)
Location: Room A
11:10 | The possibility of normativity in anomie: ancient and modern answers (abstract) |
11:35 | Crises and Change in the Legal Doctrine of International Organizations (abstract) |
12:00 | Aesthetics of Law as a Branch of the Philosophy of Law (abstract) |
11:10-12:50 Session 6B: Cultural Diversity
Chair:
Carlton Patrick (University of Central Florida, United States)
Location: Room B
11:10 | Against misleading criticisms of accommodating cultural differences in law (abstract) |
11:35 | East Meets West :Are cultural identities that violate human rights under international law justified? (abstract) |
12:00 | International Human Rights Norms in the Culturally Diverse World (abstract) |
12:25 | Differing conceptions of Justice for the resolutions of legal disputes: How to bridge the gap between West and East? (abstract) |
11:10-12:50 Session 6C: Role of Government
Chair:
Tatsuya Yokohama (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Location: Room C
11:10 | How (Not) to Object to Political Instrumentalism (abstract) |
11:35 | Group Well-Being and What States Ought to Do (abstract) |
12:00 | How to Reconcile Neutrality with Perfection: On Kramer’s Aspirational Perfectionism (abstract) |
11:10-12:50 Session 6D: Bentham and Legislation
Chair:
Xiaobo Zhai (University of Macao, Macao)
Location: Room D
11:10 | Bentham's Indirect Legislation: Prevention, Psychology and Normativity (abstract) |
11:35 | On Bentham’s Plan of ‘‘Preventive Police’’ (abstract) |
12:00 | Applying Evidential Pluralism to evidence-based law (abstract) |
12:50-14:00 Lunch
Location: Reception Hall
14:00-15:40 Session 7A: Nature of Rights
Chair:
Aleardo Zanghellini (UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK)
Location: Room A
14:00 | East meets West: A paradigm shift in human rights philosophies (abstract) |
14:25 | Scanlon’s Instrumentalist Theory of Rights Reconsidered (abstract) |
14:50 | A Positive Economic Theory of Right/Law (abstract) |
14:00-15:40 Session 7B: Rule of Law
Chair:
Kotaro Yonemura (Rikkyo University, Japan)
Location: Room B
14:00 | Ruled by AI? A Critical Examination from Lon Fuller’s Internal Morality of Law (abstract) |
14:25 | The Rule of Law in Francisco de Vitoria (abstract) |
14:50 | Overcoming the Possible Problem of Democracy and the Rule of Law (abstract) |
14:00-15:40 Session 7C: Autonomy, Liability and Responsibility
Chair:
Jon Williamson (University of Kent, UK)
Location: Room C
14:00 | The Bonus Paterfamilias of the Information Age - A Virtue Ethics Perspective (abstract) |
14:25 | Relational Scalar Autonomy without Threshold (abstract) |
14:50 | A Conception of Legal Causation Theory with Application of Interventionist Accounts (abstract) |
15:40-16:10 Coffee Break
Location: Reception Hall
16:10-17:10 Session 8: Plenary Lecture: Hirohide Takikawa
Chair:
Makoto Usami (Kyoto University, Japan)
Location: Main Hall
16:10 | Legitimate Authority: Democracy Meets Authoritarianism |