PROGRAM
Days: Friday, March 27th Saturday, March 28th Sunday, March 29th
Friday, March 27th
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Saturday, March 28th
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09:30-10:30 Session 1A: Justice, Legitimacy and Democracy
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 09:30 | On the moral basis for recognitional legitimacy (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Workplace Democracy for Nonhuman Animals (abstract) |
09:30-11:00 Session 1C: Judicial Review and Judicial Deliberation
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Location: Conference Room 2
| 09:30 | Demystifying the Public in the Judicial Review of Japanese Court through the Perspective of Relational Autonomy (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Reappraising the Roberts Court Revolution (abstract) |
| 10:30 | Collective Intentionality and Judicial Deliberation: Preliminary Insights from Collegiate Courts in Europe (abstract) |
09:30-10:30 Session 1D: Technology and Law
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Location: Multipurpose Room
| 09:30 | AI and the Limits of Law: Exploring the Debate on Legal Singularity (abstract) |
| 10:00 | From Tools to Agents: Rethinking Will, Autonomy, and Legal Personhood in the Age of AI Agents and Avatars (abstract) |
09:30-11:00 Session 1E: Human Rights 1
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Location: Conference Room 5
| 09:30 | Social Recognition and the Foundations of Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Hannah Arendt and T.H. Green (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Reconstructing the Juridical Foundations of Humanity: Hannah Arendt on Rights, Dignity, and Human Existence (abstract) |
| 10:30 | Human Rights, Democracy, and the Idea of Communism (abstract) |
09:30-11:00 Session 1F: Criminal Liability and Retribution
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Location: Lounge
| 09:30 | Death Penalty, Communication, and Democratic Law- Reflections on Jimmy Hsu’s Hybrid Theory of Capital Punishment (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Error Regarding Duress (abstract) |
| 10:30 | Possession, Retribution, and Disobedience (abstract) |
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Session 2A: Constitutionalism and Populism
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 11:30 | The Taiwan Constitutional Court in a Dance with Politics: The Debate on Constitutional Loyalty and Democratic Self-Defense (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The Validity of Law in the Context of Populist Constitutional Amendment (abstract) |
11:30-13:10 Session 2B: Bentham, Mill and Classical Utilitarians
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Location: Conference Room 1
| 11:30 | The originality of Bentham's theory of evidence (abstract) |
| 11:55 | Among the Poor: Character, Democracy and Social Knowledge in Early-Victorian Manchester (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Bentham's Panopticon and His Idea of Indirect Legislation (abstract) |
| 12:45 | J. S. Mill on the Settler Colonies (abstract) |
11:30-13:10 Session 2C: Analytical Jurisprudence
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Location: Conference Room 2
| 11:30 | The Relation between Law and Its Users: Some Remarks on the Notion of Collective Acceptance/Recognition in the Artifact Theory of Law (abstract) |
| 11:55 | How Does Law Exist in Imagined Worlds? On the Rightness of Legal Representation (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Authorising Coercion (abstract) |
| 12:45 | The Force and Internal Morality of Law (abstract) |
11:30-13:10 Session 2D: Digitization and Democracy
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Location: Multipurpose Room
| 11:30 | Democratic Governance as a Societal Value: Engaged Rulemaking in Digital Times (abstract) |
| 11:55 | Rethinking democracy in digital healthcare: access, design, and governance (abstract) |
| 12:20 | From Autonomy to Automation: The Crisis of the Legal Subject in Digital Democracy (abstract) |
| 12:45 | Volunteer or Vigilante? Algorithmic Fragmentation and Democratic Legitimacy in Content Moderation (abstract) |
11:30-13:00 Session 2E: Human Rights 2
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Location: Conference Room 5
| 11:30 | Constitutional Rights and Proportionality as an Approach to Human Rights Protection (abstract) |
| 12:00 | An Examination of Arguments for the Human Right to Social Relationship (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Phenomenology of Human Rights: Empathy and the identification with the ‘we’ of humanity (abstract) |
11:30-13:00 Session 2F: Rule of Law
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Location: Lounge
| 11:30 | Moral and Legal Vectors: Why Law is a Blackhole (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The Arc's Fondations: Rethinking Dyzenhaus on Law and Justice (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Responding to Injustice: Judith Shklar’s two concepts of rights (abstract) |
13:00-14:30Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Session 3: Plenary Lecture 1: The 14th Kobe Lecture
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 14:30 | Democratic Legitimacy under Epistemic Uncertainty (abstract) |
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 4A: Democracy, Decision Making and Governance
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 16:30 | Practical Decision Making and the Problem of Framework Choice (abstract) |
| 17:00 | A Trustworthiness Account of Central Bank Independence (abstract) |
| 17:30 | The Seniority Problem with Legislative Intent: Party Power Dynamics and Democratic Values (abstract) |
16:30-17:30 Session 4B: Constitutional Law and Constitutionalism
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Location: Conference Room 1
| 16:30 | Taiwan's Current Democratic Crisis: An Observation from the Perspective of Constitutionalism (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Constitutional Thought of Mobilization in the 1930s–1950s: the War Cooperation of Japanese Legal Scholars and Post-War Democratization (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 4C: Populism and Judiciary
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Location: Conference Room 2
| 16:30 | Populist deconstruction of the liberal legal order (abstract) |
| 17:00 | INSIDE AND BEYOND PROTESTANTISM: JURISPRUDENCE IN TURMOIL UNDER THE ATTACK OF AUTHORITARIAN-POPULISM (abstract) |
| 17:30 | The Relational Dimension of Judicial Independence: Courts, Power, and Social Trust in Post-2015 Poland (abstract) |
16:30-18:10 Session 4D: AI and Democracy
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Location: Multipurpose Room
| 16:30 | Democracy After Truth: Reconstructing Ethical and Epistemic Foundations in the Age of AI (abstract) |
| 16:55 | Linguistic Justice and Minority Language Rights in the Age of AI Translation (abstract) |
| 17:20 | Translation and Interpreting Technologies and Democratic Legitimacy: Toward Institutionally Embedded Linguistic Risk Governance (abstract) |
| 17:45 | Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: An Analysis from the Perspective of Constitution, Law and Applied Ethics (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 4E: Feminism and Reproduction
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Location: Conference Room 5
| 16:30 | The Flawed Application of Abortion Law in Chile: Reflections and Areas for Improvement (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Locating Nedelsky in Relational Autonomy Debates (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Justice Beyond Jurisdiction: Feminist Legal Pluralism and the Cross-Recognition of Sexual Harassment Tribunal Awards in China and Malaysia (abstract) |
16:30-18:00 Session 4F: Philosophy of Punishment
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Location: Lounge
| 16:30 | Climate Protests, Civil Disobedience, and Democratic Legitimacy: A Legal-Philosophical Analysis (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Sentencing as an Expression of a Democratic Criminal Law (abstract) |
| 17:30 | State Punishment and Authority (abstract) |
19:00-21:00 Reception
Location: Jim Hall Spazio
Sunday, March 29th
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09:30-11:00 Session 5A: Relationship 1
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 09:30 | Placing Interpersonal Interactions at the Center of Justice Theory (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Relational Personhood as a Theoretical Foundation for Law in Liberal Democracies (abstract) |
| 10:30 | The Self-respect Approach to Responsibility-cut: A novel distributive demand of relational equality (abstract) |
09:30-10:30 Session 5B: Normativity and Human Dignity
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Location: Conference Room 1
| 09:30 | Re-narrating Human Dignity at the Crossroads of Liberal Modernity (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Adam Smith’s ‘Impartial Spectator’ and the Normativity of Law. (abstract) |
09:30-11:00 Session 5C: International Justice and International law
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Location: Conference Room 2
| 09:30 | The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine: Goals, Challenges and Relation with the Rule of Law (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Why Should We Care about The Authority of International Law? (abstract) |
| 10:30 | At a slight angle to the Universe: SWAIL and history of international law (abstract) |
09:30-10:30 Session 5D: Climate Change and Disaster
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Location: Multipurpose Room
| 09:30 | The Ethics of Intervening in Nature for Disaster Prevention (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Moral Uncertainty and Typhoon Control Technology (abstract) |
09:30-10:30 Session 5E: Freedom and Justice
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Location: Conference Room 5
| 09:30 | What Can We Learn from the Waldron–Weinstein Exchange? Symbolic Case Fallacy, Democratic Legitimacy, and Hate Speech Regulation (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Freedom of Artistic Expression: Norm Entrepreneur or Destroyer of Moral Order? (abstract) |
09:30-11:00 Session 5F: Philosophy of Criminal Law
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Location: Lounge
| 09:30 | Is it Possible to Construct a Theory of Criminalization? (abstract) |
| 10:00 | A Puzzle about Intervening Cause (abstract) |
| 10:30 | Democracy, Public Opinion and Criminal Law Theory (abstract) |
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-13:10 Session 6A: Marrige and Children
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 11:30 | Against Right-to-Parent Allocation: Building a Children-Rights Framework (abstract) |
| 11:55 | Beyond the Marital-Family Model: Envisioning A Marriage-Free State (abstract) |
| 12:20 | The Public Value of Care: Rethinking Family Law in Liberal Democracies (abstract) |
| 12:45 | Same-sex relationship recognition and democracy in Japan (abstract) |
11:30-13:00 Session 6B: Continental Legal Philosophy
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Location: Conference Room 1
| 11:30 | On the Reliability of Empirical Assumptions in Proportionality under Robert Alexy’s Principle Theory (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Sociality of Law as Ground of Legal Norms: On the Legal Theory of Werner Maihofer (abstract) |
| 12:30 | From Facts to Norms: Wittgenstein and Kelsen Revisited (abstract) |
11:30-12:30 Session 6C: Legal Transplants, EU, and Communitarianism
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Location: Conference Room 2
| 11:30 | Reevaluating Legal Families: Toward a Dynamic Genealogy and Typology for Legal Mimesis (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Natural law theory and acquisition of indigenous lands in North America and Japan (abstract) |
11:30-13:10 Session 6D: Artificial Intelligence and Law
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Location: Multipurpose Room
| 11:30 | Investigating the Lisbon Treaty’s Impact - A Stochastic Block Model (abstract) |
| 11:55 | AI Anxiety and Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Emotional and Ethical Responses among Polish Legal Professionals (abstract) |
| 12:20 | The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Deliberative Democracy: The Case of the Habermas Machine (abstract) |
| 12:45 | Rule of Law and the Possibility of Individualizing Law (abstract) |
11:30-13:10 Session 6E: Justice and Fairness
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Location: Conference Room 5
| 11:30 | Epistemic Dimension of Structural Injustice and Disruption (abstract) |
| 11:55 | Rethinking Conscientious Objection for Environmental Sustainability (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Self-respect, Stability and Distribution in Liberal Democratic Societies (abstract) |
| 12:45 | Partial Compliance, Fair Play, and Reciprocity (abstract) |
11:30-13:00 Session 6F: Democracy, Law and Society
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Location: Lounge
| 11:30 | On the Relation between Democracy and the Rule of Law. The Constitutive and Normative Approach (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Making Democracy Intelligible: Dewey, the Social, and Narrative Inquiry (abstract) |
| 12:30 | The Statutory Legislative Model and Participatory Democracy: Strengths, Limits, and Democratic Tensions (abstract) |
13:00-14:30Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Session 7A: Care and Personalized Law
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 14:30 | Beyond Same-sex Marriage: Reconstructing the Marriage Law in Taiwan (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Personalized Affirmative Action? On Its Potential (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Deprivatising Care & Uncovering Ir-Relationalities: Care Ethics and Individuality in the Law (abstract) |
14:30-16:10 Session 7B: Theories on Rule
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Location: Conference Room 1
| 14:30 | Rules and Principles: A Distinction Through Possible Worlds Semantics (abstract) |
| 14:55 | The Fiction of Finality – Law Between Uncertainty and Order (abstract) |
| 15:20 | The Rule-like Features of Law and its Moral Value: A Critique of Lon Fuller’s Argument from Reciprocity (abstract) |
| 15:45 | The End of the Rules-Based Order, Long Live the Rules-Based Order (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 7C: Global Justice and Nationalism
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Location: Conference Room 2
| 14:30 | (via Zoom) Fairness and Democratic Legitimacy in Sovereign Debt Governance: Rethinking International Financial Law (abstract) |
| 15:00 | How Can a Landscape of Our Community Shape Nationalist and Conservative Norms? (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Beyond Deparochialization: Rethinking Global Justice through the Lens of the Marginalized (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 7D: Relationship 2
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Location: Multipurpose Room
| 14:30 | How Egalitarianism Can Overcome Environmental Injustice? (abstract) |
| 15:00 | The Legal Right to Protection from Loneliness: Social Isolation, Disability and Old Age. (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Limits and Contradictions of Family Reunification in Immigration Law (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 7E: Justice in Contexts
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Location: Conference Room 5
| 14:30 | Capital Sentencing After Taiwan's Constitutional Court’s Death Penalty Ruling: A Critical Reflection through the Lens of Punishment Theory and Human Right (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Restorative Justice Values within the New Indonesian Penal Code (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Irregular Migrants and the Case for Amnesty Revisited (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 7F: Democracy and variants
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Location: Lounge
| 14:30 | Mapping Militant Democracy: A Framework for Understanding Legal Defenses of Democratic Order (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Democracy and Its Pretenders (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Can ‘militant democracy’ serve as a response to far right? (abstract) |
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Session 8: Plenary Lecture 2
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Location: Large Conference Room
| 16:30 | Normative Relationship in Liberalism (abstract) |