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Call for Papers "Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Diversity and Unity" 23rd World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) Jagiellonian University Cracow (Poland) 1-6 August 2007 __________________________________________________ The main theme of the 23rd IVR Congress are differences and similarities between legal cultures. This theme is important both for theoretical and practical reasons. It is extremely interesting, especially nowadays - in the age of globalisation and terrorism - to try to examine how fundamental legal concepts are understood in different legal traditions. It may turn out that behind apparently significant diversities in understanding these concepts, some intuitions can be found that are common for all legal cultures. These theoretical issues have an evident practical dimension: without identifying these common intuitions, it seems hardly possible to attain a fruitful and genuine communication between representatives of different legal cultures. This theme, though the main, is not the only one to be take up during the Congress: a number of workshops and working groups will be formed to provide appropriate grounds for discussion concerning almost all crucial topics in legal theory and social philosophy. A special workshop will be devoted to the works of the great Polish philosopher of law Leon Petrazycki (1867 - 1931) (see special workshops for more information). Plenary session speakers: Aulis Aarnio, Manuel Atienza, Zenon Bankowski, Seyla Benhabib, Eugenio Bulygin, Susan Haack, Mark van Hoecke, Takao Katsuragi, Krzysztof Motyka, Fred Schauer, Jan Sieckmann, Francesco Viola, Jan Wolenski. Special Workshops will serve as platforms for discussing crucial topics in legal theory and social philosophy. In addition to the Plenary Sessions and Special Workshops there will be Working Groups in which the participants may present and discuss their papers devoted to various subjects. The official language of the 23rd IVR Congress is English. Young Scholars Programme: Since we would like possibly many young scholars to participate in the congress, we have prepared a special refund programme for those of them who come from the so-called weak currencies countries (especially from Eastern Europe). Conference Website: http://www.law.uj.edu.pl/ivr2007/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
