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This is the most important international event in the field of legal philosophy.
Every two years, it brings together hundreds of university professors from diverse countries and cultural backgrounds.
The Congress offers a unique opportunity to meet fellow scholars, learn about ongoing initiatives and research projects, and present one’s own work, thereby gaining visibility within the academic community.
The Iuris Naturalis Societas (www.iurisnaturalis.com), an international association of jurists who defend the legal and political transcendence of nature, is organizing this workshop about “the normative force of nature”.
Contemporary environmental sensitivity has reinforced the classical Rousseauian antithesis between nature and culture. At the same time, the so-called “gender perspective” and forms of transhumanism—such as that advanced by the influential writer Yuval N. Harari in Homo Deus—adopt an existentialist conception of the human being as causa sui: a demiurge who designs his own essence through an omnipotent freedom. Yet the naïve aspiration to create a ‘superhuman’, collapses once we lose any clear understanding of what it means to be human. It would seem at first glance that law breaks all ties with nature. But we see that the idea of nature continues to gain strength across all fields, including the legal.
From Constantinople—a bridge between East and West—Emperor Justinian projected the categories of Roman law onto the wider world. He consolidated them as ratio scripta: a rationally articulated legal order embodying universal principles of justice and giving juridical form to classical natural law theory that had emerged in Ancient Greece.
In this workshop, there is room for all proposals that help reflect on the relationship between nature and law, especially those that help re-evaluate the normative force of the classical concept of “natural law”.
Proposals for papers can be sent to the following email address: [email protected]