In memoriam for Kent Greenawalt, a preeminent legal philosopher and scholar:

In Memoriam: University Professor Emeritus Kent Greenawalt

An article “Understanding of Legal Science in Contemporary Course Textbooks on Positive Law Subjects at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb”, written by Luka Burazin and Svan Relac, was published in the recent number of Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu (Collected Papers of Zagreb Law Faculty).

The full text of the article (in Croatian) can be found here.

An article “Applicability of Legal Norms”, written by Anita Prusina, was published in the recent number of Pravnik: časopis za pravna i društvena pitanja (The Lawyer: law and society review).

The full text of the article (in Croatian) can be found here.

The international conference “Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity: Challenges to the European Union and Western Balkans” will be held on November 4, 2022, starting at 3:30 pm CET at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb (Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, hall IV).

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences, and the Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and the State (Croatian IVR section).

For remote online participation, please contact mario.kresic@pravo.hr

Extensive information and the Conference program can be found here.

The International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) and its Croatian section are pleased to announce that the promotion of the first book in the IVR book series, L. Burazin, K. E. Himma, C. Roversi, P. Banaś (eds.), The Artifactual Nature of Law (Edward Elgar 2022), will be held on October 17, at 7 pm (CET) at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88900107243?pwd=UUQ2QXVjNEZZNFgzQWpDNlk1cVlCdz09

Speakers include: Mortimer Sellers (IVR book series co-editor), Kenneth E. Himma and C. Roversi (co-editors of the book), Michael Giudice and Giovanni Tuzet (book reviewers). 

Povodom smrti Bruna Celana, jednog od najistaknutijih suvremenih teoretičara prava, prenosimo posmrtno slovo koje je napisao Josep Juan Moreso.

A eulogy for Eugenio Bulygin, written by Josep Joan Moreso:

Eugenio Bulygin (1931–2021): The Wonderful Russian

Posveta povodom smrti Josepha Raza, jednog od najistaknutijih suvremenih filozofa prava:

Ivan L. Padjen (Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb) has published Systematic Interpretation and the Re-systematization of Law: The Problem, Co-requisites, a Solution, Use (International Journal for the Semiotics of Law). Here is the abstract:

A renewed search for legal certainty is a reaction to the preponderance of judge made law, which has been in turn prompted by the democratic deficit of the EU and the impact of Anglo-American law. The problem is that the search is oblivious to both systematic interpretation and the need of re-systematization of law. The paper defines systematic interpretation, relates the definition to standard French and German conceptions, indicates the room for systematic interpretation in Anglo- American laws, and states prima facie reasons for a re-systematization of law as a prerequisite of systematic interpretation. The problem cannot be appreciated outside its proper context. It is a disregard for causation and evaluation. Hence the paper outlines Aristotle’s understanding of causation and evaluation in his presentation of phronesis, reconsiders continental European legal thought in the light of Aristotle’s presentation, and offers policy-oriented jurisprudence as a remedy to the deficit of evaluation and causation in European legal thought. A solution to the problem offers a typology of criteria and clarifies positive and fundamental legal concepts, positive and fundamental criteria of systematization, and the place of criteria in knowledge of law. The usefulness of the criteria is demonstrated by a common approach to the systematization of law and an alternative diagnosis of a defect of systematization diagnosed by an authority in history and philosophy of law rather than legal theory.

The IX Edition of the Master in Global Rule of Law & Constitutional Democracy (2019-2020) will start on 2nd November 2019, and end on 31 October 2020.