Working Groups
WORKING GROUPS IVR 2022 / JULY 3-8 BUCHAREST
WG1 / Monday, July 4, 14.00-16.00 / Room 5
(If necessary, continued 16.30-18.30)

Kamil Zyzik (Jagiellonian University), Liberal Constitutionalism and Elements of Civil Religion

Tom Herrenberg (Open University of the Netherlands), The Decline of Lèse-majesté?

Birden Gungoren Bulgan (Galatasaray University), Hegel’s Importance for the Theory of State and his Conception of Freedom

Yifan Shang (University of Passau), Research Trend of Human Rights in China

Wilson Kozlowski (University of Lisbon), Right to Public Health in Brazil - between Activism and Juristocracy

Gerard Conway (Brunel University London), Conflicts of Norms and their Resolution: An Endemic Feature of Legal Systems? A Case Study of EU Law

Jose Antonio Retamar Jimenez (University CEU San Pablo), Evidencia de los primeros principios de la ley natural: Tomás de Aquino versus Finnis

Bruno Xavier (Brazil), On Contemporary Constitutionalism

Makoto Usami (Kyoto University),  Limitarianism: A Critical Examination

WG2 / Monday, July 4, 14.00-16.00 / Room B
(If necessary, continued 16.30-18.30)

Rodrigo Meyer Bornholdt (Uruguay), Material Ethics and Values: its Contribution and Limitations on Contemporary Legal Reasoning 

Fernando Leal (FGV Direito Rio), On the Structure and the Limits of Consequentialist Reasoning

Marek Jakubiec (Jagiellonian University), Legal Reasoning and Cognitive Science: toward a Naturalized Theory of Legal Cognition

Mateusz Grabarczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University), The Role of Judiciary Reform and Judges' Liability within the Transitional Justice Framework

Joao da Fontoura (Univille University) Legal Positivism - an Approach Based on Friedrich Muller´s `Structuring Legal Theory` 

Sergiy Maksymov (Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University), On the Relational Approach to Law 

Gunoo Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Legal Personhood and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence: Beyond Conceptual Confusion and Distrust

Marina Valadares (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais), The Autonomy of Intersex Children and Resolution Nº 1664/03 of the Federal Council of Medicine in Brazil

WG3 / Tuesday, July 5, 14.00-16.30 / Room 5

Cristina Piga (Jagiellonian University), The Concept of Katéchon as a Function of Human Dignity: Constitutional Perspectives on the Protection of Human Rights

Agata Dabrowska (University of Lodz), Performative Statements in a Public Domain – Women’s Strike in Poland 2020/2021 and Theory of Discussion in a Public Sphere of Jurgen Habermas

Ramon Ruiz Ruiz (University of Jaén), The Parliamentary Model of Rights Protection as an Alternative to the Judicial Model

Jeyoun Son (Seoul National University,) Responsibility Reexamined - The Pandemic Challenge

Valerie Ingrid Fickert (Tübingen University), Vaccines and Freedom - Secular Virtue in Pandemic Times

Cristina Diaz (University Externado de Colombia), Theory of Dignity. Human meanings

Elif Kuzeci (Bahçeşehir University), AI and Citizenship: Today and Tomorrow

Chea Yun Jung (POSTECH), Blockchain Technology, Decentralized Governance, and the Future of the Nation State

WG4 / Tuesday, July 5, 14.00-16.30 / Room B

Rafael Buzon Ibanez (University of Alicante), Defeasibility from the Concept of Rule as a Premise of a Finished Legal Reasoning

Ileana Alexandra Orlich (Arizona State University), The Dialectic of Happiness According to Marx and the Achievements of Lenin and Stalin in the Era of Liberty, Equality, and Fratricide

Marta Zuzanna Huk (Adam Mickiewicz University), Four Schemes of Deliberation – the Democratic Legitimacy of Political Decision-making and Legislation

Yuko Kamishima (Ritsumeikan University), Democratic Justice and Obligations

Talhah Mustafa (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Racial Powers

Dawid Bunikowski (University of Eastern Finland/University of Guyana/State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek), Abortion in the Nordic Countries: from a Sin to a Crime to a Right?

Rocio Medina Martin (Autonomous University of Barcelona), An Intersectional Legal Analysis of Sexual Policies: the Prohibitionist Criminalization of Sexual Workers in the Spanish State

Gerald Chipeur, QC (Miller Thomson LLP), The Rule of Law is Essential to Achieve Justice and Freedom

WG5 / Thursday, July 7, 14.00-16.00 / Room 5
(If necessary, continued 16.30-18.30)

Kristin Albrecht (Salzburg University), The Basic Norm as Practical Legal Fiction

Victor Garcia Yzaguirre (Los Lagos University), Problems of the Restrictive Interpretation of Exceptions

Mateusz Pekala (Jesuit University Ignatianum), Mediation as a Form of Public Participation - Advantages and Challenges

Andres Bernal Botero (Industrial University of Santander), The Civil Code of Andrés Bello and the Exegetical Movement in Colombia

Nurhayat Bekir (İbn Haldun University), Judge Backdoor Trojan: a Critical Approach to AI as Judge/ as Assistant

Weiwei Zhang (Soochow University), Personality and Law: with the Ideal Type Methodology of Max Weber on Law

Viktor Carlsson (Uppsala University), The Duty to Decide as the Explanation of Law

HyunKyung Lee (Seoul National University), Jurisprudence of Customary law - a Fresh Understanding on the Nature and Legality of Custom

Antal Szerletics(University of Public Service Budapest), Remarks on the ‘Desiderata’ for Evaluating Human Rights Theories

Thiago de Mello Azevedo Guilherme (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo), Kafka and the Nostalgia for Plenitude: the Search for "Law", Inevitable Suffering, and Possible Action

WG6 / Thursday, July 7, 14.00-16.00 / Room B
(If necessary, continued 16.30-18.30)

Lucas Bertolo (Brazil), Autonomy in Hegel's Theory of the Modern State

Denitza Toptchiyska (New Bulgarian University), Reflections of the Global Digital Environment on the Legal System in Bulgaria

Daniel Conway (Texas A&M University), Collective Responsibility for Mass Crimes: Arendt, Eichmann, and the Future of International Law

Boyka Cherneva (Bulgaria), The Right to Non-discrimination in the Context of John Rawls’s Theory of Justice

Joao Manuel Cardoso Rosas (University of Minho), Rawls, the Basic Structure, and Structural Injustices

Anna Lukina (University of Cambridge), Making Sense of Evil Law

Takayuki Kawase (Chiba University), Can Liberal Nationalists say No to the War?

Ilsse Carolina Torres Ortega (ITESO), Philosophy of Evil and Legal Punishment

Yuichiro Mori (Hokkaido University), Making Sense of Race-based Affirmative Action in Allocating Scarce Medical Resources

Marta Dubowska (Jagiellonian University), The Importance of Narrativity in Legal Education

Rodrigo Meyer Bornholdt (Brazil), Material Ethics and Values: its Contribution and Limitations on Contemporary Legal Reasoning