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LL.M. Legal Theory 2015-16 Master Programme Study Plan

(vs Jan 1, 2016)

The central idea of the curriculum of this Master programme is to provide a complete education in legal theory (jurisprudence). Legal theory is of analytic and normative nature. It sheds systematic light on the legal essentials: principles, rules, procedures, argumentation, interpretation, logics etc. This comprehensive education is set in a European perspective. Europe´s legal systems and academic pluralism provide a great variety of legal and academic cultures. Thus, this endeavor is a specific and a complex challenge. It is the purpose of Goethe University (GU) and the partner universities under the roof of the European Academy of Legal Theory (EALT) to set up a programme governed by the principle of unity in plurality thereby safeguarding the accommodation of diversity in a globalized world. The curriculum´s inner rationale is delineated at the beginning of the essential modules (A-C and D being obligatory, E1-7 being elective modules). The obligatory part takes place at GU, also with teachers from the EALT partners to lay ground for the elective modules deepening the obligatory education at various European locations. The technical survey is given here:

LLM Legal Theory - Course List

Compulsory General Modules Module A Jurisprudence (incl. History of Jurisprudence, Theories of Law, Mor al

and Political Philosophy of Law) Semester 1 9 ECTS

Module B Theory of Comparative and Global Law (incl. Theory of Comparat ive Law and European Legal Integration, Theory of Global Law)

Semester 1 6 ECTS

Module C Methodology and Research in Legal Theory Semester 1 8 ECTS

Optional Special Modules (E-Modules, one in Semester 1 and two in Semester 2) Law and Society Semester 1 7 ECTS

Legal Anthropology Semester 1 7 ECTS Law, Science and Technology Semester 1 7 ECTS Formation of Normative Orders Semester 2 7 ECTS Governance Semester 2 7 ECTS Global Law Semester 2 7 ECTS Law, Language and Reasoning Semester 2 7 ECTS

Master Thesis (Module D) Semester 2 16 ECTS

TOTAL 60 ECTS

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time of year Module

ECTS events / schools / regular classes

topic / teacher / city (if not Frankfurt)

Oct 5-9 Oct 2 Oct 8

Oct. 14-18 Oct 13

[4 CP ↔ C2c]

Global Legal Skills: Legal Writing (optional):

Course Objectives : The goal of this school is to provide students with information concerning: - Basic research skills (how to find the necessary

information in books, journals, case law); - Citation skills (making correct legal citations, avoiding

plagiarism); - The ability to brief a case, find important information,

use it as an argument; - The rules and structure of legal documents and

seminars and final papers.

Syllabus : 9 lectures taught by experts from Austria, the USA and Sweden with the focus on the following topics:

1. Brief Overview of the U.S. Legal System 2. Reading Cases Globally: Strategies for Case

Reading and Interpretation 3. Analysis of Louis Vuitton v. Hyundai case 4. Organizing Legal Analysis and Synthesizing Legal

Sources 5. Negotiation Skills and Strategies 6. Appellate Writing 7. Moot Court Presentation Skills 8. Introduction to Academic Legal Writing: Structured

Writing of Academic Papers and Theses 9. How to Write an Article or a PhD in Law

Registration starts on September 1, 2015. The deadline for submission of applications is September 30, 2015. See http://legalwriting.law.muni.cz/content/en/. The tuition fee (2990 CZK) is waived for LLM Legal Theory students. For details on accommodation visit the website.

Workshop on Ethics in Finance and Investment Opportunities, Positive Impacts and Sustainable Innovation see www.normativeorders.net/media/downloads

Goethe University – welcoming days for all incoming international Master students at GU (“Orientierungstag”, presentations in German; see http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/-58056326/FlyerOtagMasterWiSe2015_16.pdf).

International Book Fair Frankfurt

Beginning of classes of the LLM Legal Theory

Brno professors from USA Lurene Contento Mary Nagel AnthonyNiedwiecki Robert Shapiro Austria Jürgen Busch Florian Heindler Sweden Mauro Zamboni Excellence Cluster “The Formation of Normative Orders” convened by Rainer Klump and Manuel Wörsdörfer Frankfurt

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Nov 13

A 9 CP

Welcome Day LLM Legal Theory 2015-16 Nov 13, 18.00, RuW 1.101

18.00 Welcome Address

Dean of the Law Faculty

Opening Address LLM Legal Theory Programme Board

Welcoming students of the year 2014-15 Themis Award for the best Master thesis of the LLM Legal Theory 2014-15 presentation to the award winner by

to Thomas Weber (Munich) The best Ph.D.-Thesis in Legal Theory 2011 - 2015 Award by the European Academy of Legal Theory presentation to the award winner by

to Irena Rosenthal (Amsterdam) Andrej Kristan (Genoa)

Teaching Legal Essentials in a European Perspective panel discussion To teach legal essentials (principles, rules, proce-dures, argumentation, interpretation, logics etc.) in a European perspective is complex. Europe´s legal systems and academic pluralism provide a great variety of legal and academic cultures. What follows from the purpose of GU and its European partners (under the roof of EALT) to set up a programme governed by the principle of unity in plurality?

Reception - Get Together with snacks

Jurisprudence The central idea of the curriculum is to provide a complete education in legal theory . At first, this entails a historic-systematical introduction into legal philosophy (module A1-2). Module A starts (= A1) with an exposition of the early media of law and philosophy in ancient Greece, i.e. Greek language and scripture, as preconditions of the formation of philosophy and the systematical reflection on law.

Ute Sacksofsky Lorenz Schulz Nicoletta Bersier

(Geneva)

Mark van Hoecke (Gent/London)

chaired by L. Schulz

Mark van Hoecke (Gent/London)

Katja Langenbucher

(Frankfurt)

Gregory Lewkowicz

(Brussels) Isabel Trujillo

(Palermo)

Torben Spaak (Stockholm)

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Oct 13 Oct 13, 14

Oct 13

Oct 14

Oct 15

Oct 15

Oct 26

Oct 16

Oct 19

A 1

A 2

History of Jurisprudence - Cultural frame: the early media of law:

language and scripture Oct. 13, 17.15 - 20.15, RuW 1.101

see Vesting A 2 on Luhmann / Vesting see A 2 Campos / Tutorial on Vesting see E 2 Cultural Studies and Legal Anthropology

- Ancient world and middle ages Ancient world: Oct. 13: 9:15-12:15, RuW 1.101

Middle ages: Oct. 14: 9:15-12:15, RuW 1.101

Tutorials

Reading: Plato and Aristotle Oct 13: 14.15-16.00, RuW 1.101

"without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers?" - Plato, Cicero, Augustinus, Kant, Kelsen

Oct. 14: 14.15-16.00, RuW 2.101

- Early modernity and the rise of modern law Oct 15: 9.00-12.30, RuW 1.101

Tutorials

reading Hobbes Oct 15: 16.15-18.15, RuW 1.101

reading Hegel Oct 26: 10.15-12.00, Normative Orders EG 02

- 19th and 20th century:

struggles for autonomy of the law Oct. 16: 14.15-17.00, RuW 2.101

Reading material:

J. Rückert: “Autonomy of Law” (2015)

See module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester):

Moral obligation in contemporary Kantian scholarship

Theories of Law Module A2 provides a systematic introduction into the main traditions of legal theory, embracing legal positivism (Kelsen, Hart), theories of argumentation in law, namely the normative-universalist orientated discourse theory and the sociologically orientated systems theory, not neglecting some theories in between.

Critical legal studies, legal realism and sociological jurisprudence will be treated in the legal sociology module E1 in Jan 2016.

Thomas Vesting Klaus Günther

Lorenz Schulz

Joachim Rückert

Thomas Vesting

Uwe Volkmann

Tatjana Sheplyakova

Joachim Rückert

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Oct 20

Oct 21

Nov 7-8

Oct 22

Oct 21

tba

Oct 19

Nov 16

- Positivism, Discourse Theory Oct 20: 9:15-12:15; 14:15-16.15, RuW 1.101

Tutorial Jürgen Habermas

Ulfrid Neumann Oct 21: 14:15-16.15; RuW 1.101

Hans Kelsen 6 sessions

Nov 7: 9.00-17.30, RuW 4.101 Nov 8: 9.00-12.00, RuW 4.101

- Systems theory, cultural studies in law, media theory of law

Oct 22: 9.00-12.30, 13.30.-15.00 (opt.),RuW 3.101

Tutorial reading Niklas Luhmann / Thomas Vesting

Oct 21: 10:15-13:15; RuW 1.101

see also below: A3 Gunter Teubner

- Critical legal studies, legal realism,

sociological jurisprudence see module E1 a/b

Hubert Rottleuthner E1a Günter Frankenberg E1b

- Postmodern Legal Theories

conference (deepening A2 optional)

“Legal Normativity and Language” Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

1-day International Conference on the theories of Hart, Raz, and Dworkin - with

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See module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): Rationalism and moral obligation

Klaus Günther André Ferreira Leite de Paula

(Belo Horizonte/ Fra)

Jürgen Busch

Mariana Brandtner (Vienna)

Thomas Vesting

Ricardo Campos (Rio de Janeiro/ Fra)

Thomas Seibert

Belgrade convened by Miodrag Jovanović Brian Bix

(Univ. of Minnesota)

Kenneth Himma (Univ. of Washington)

Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco

(Birmingham)

Matthias Klatt (Graz)

Dimitrios Kyritsas (Reading)

Andrej Kristan (Girona)

Bojan Spaić

Goran Dajović

M. Jovanović (all Belgrade)

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Oct 23

Oct 27

Oct 28

Oct 29

Nov 12

Nov 16

A 3

Moral & Political Philosophy of Law Module A3 reflects the idea that legal philosophy rests on moral and political implications: The Natural Law Tradition (resuming A1 and A2) – John Rawls´ “revival” of political philosophy Moral & political elements of obligation/responsibility

Oct. 23: 10.15-13.00, RuW 1.101

The introductory class will be followed by treating vital moral and political issues in the philosophy of law, starting with hard cases in international law and continuing with general issues of obligation and responsibility

Special issues

- Transnational Human Rights Oct. 27: 16.15-19.00, RuW 1.101

Recognizing the Human Right to a Name and the Implications for Giving and Changing Personal Names Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence

Oct. 28: 18.15, HZ 10

- Transnational Constitutions Oct. 29: 18.15-21.00, RuW 1.101

- States' Territorial Rights and Migrants' Human Rights

Nov. 12: 18.15-20.00, RuW 1.101

- International Labor and Employment Nov. 16: 9.15-12.00, SH 3.105

Tutorial/reading group in moral obligation

IG-Hochhaus - 2.501 Monday 18.00-20.00

Oct 19: Moral obligation in contemp. Kantian scholarship Reading: C. Korsgaard, “Kant’s Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork I”, in Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Cambridge UP, 1996, 43-76

Nov 16: Rationalism & moral obligation Reading: D. Owens, “Rationalism about Obligation” European Journal of Philosophy 16: 2008, 403-431

Dec 14: Second-person perspective & moral obligation

Reading: S. Darwall, “Moral Obligation: Form & Substance” Proc. Arist. Soc., 110: 2010, 31–46

Jan 25, 2016: Conventionalist approach to legal obligation

Reading: K. Gunther, “Voluntary Action and Criminal Responsibility”, in S. Maasen and others (eds.), Voluntary Action, Oxford UP, 2003

Febr 15: Law-as-Social-Practice view and legal

Lorenz Schulz

Michael Bothe

(Frankfurt)

Alison D. Renteln (Univ. of South. Cal.) Gunther Teubner

(Frankfurt)

Isabel Trujillo (Palermo)

Manfred Weiss (Frankfurt)

convened by Stefano Bertea

(Leicester)

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Nov 19

Nov 9-13

Nov 12

Nov 13

Nov 16

Nov 16

B 6 CP B1

obligation

Reading: S. Shapiro, “The Making of a Legal System”, in Legality, Harvard UP, 2011, 154-192

March 21: Legal obligation: the interpretivist perspective

Reading: A. Marmor “Conventions and The Normativity of Law” in Positive Law and Objective Values, Oxford UP, 2001, 25-48

April 11: Modest naturalism and legal obligation

Reading: R. Dworkin, “Integrity in Law”, in Law’s Empire, Harvard University Press, 1986, 225-275

May 16: Modest naturalism and legal obligation

Reading: J. Finnis, “Obligation”, in Nat. Law & Nat. Rights (2nd ed. with Postscript), Oxford UP, 2011, 297-350

June 13: Robust naturalism and legal obligation

Reading: Beyleveld, D. & Brownsword, R., Law as a Moral Judgement, Sweet & Maxwell, 1986, 325-381

Examination module A

(written test, 180 min) 9:00-13.00, RuW 3.101

Theory of Comparative and Global Law Module B provides the modern framework of legal philosophy, i.e. the theoretical foundations of legal com-parison in a globalized world and the EU legal integration as the theoretically most advanced enhancement of “e pluribus unum”.

Theory of Comparative Law

(1) What is Comparative Law?

(2) What makes a ‘Legal System’?

(3) Legal Doctrine

(4) Comparative Law

Nov 09: 16.15-18.00, SH 0.106 Nov 10: 10.15-13.00, RuW 1.101 Nov 11: 10.15-13.00, RuW 1.101 Nov 12: 10.15-12.00, RuW 1.101 Nov 13: 9.30-17.00, RuW 1.101

See module A3: States' Territorial Rights and Migrants' Human Rights (Isabel Trujillo) (evening presentation) LLM Legal Theory Opening Day – see above

See module A3: International Labor and Employment (Manfred Weiss) (morning presentation)

See also module A3: Reading Group Stefano Bertea (Leicester): Rationalism and moral obligation

Mark van Hoecke

(Gent/London)

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Nov 23-25

Nov 26

Dec 2

Dec 7-11

B2

Theory of European Legal Integration

Introduction Nov 23: 14.15-18.00 hr, RuW 1.101 Nov 24: 10.15-14.00 hr, RuW 1.101 Nov 25: 10.15-14.00 hr, RuW 1.101

Data protection - reform and perspective Nov 26: 9.15-13.00, RuW 3.101

When and Why does a Religious Norm Become Unacceptable in the Public Space? Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence

Dec 2: 18.15, HZ 10

Theory of Global Law

- General Introduction: The Global Turn in Legal Theory

Dec 7, 16-19, RuW 1.101

- Global Natural Law & Global Constitutionalism

Dec 8, 10-12, RuW 3.101

- Global Legal Pluralism & Global Administrative Law

Dec 8, 13-16, RuW 3.101

- Pragmatic Approach to Global Law Dec 10, 10-12, RuW 3.101

- Case Study: Corporate Social Responsibility

Dec 10, 14-16, RuW 3.101

(oral) examination, Dec 11, 10-13, RuW 3.101

Historical aspects (optional, on agreement)

The School of Salamanca: The Paradigm of Globalization in Legal History and Theory:

Governance: The Case of South America becoming Latin America

Note:

Module B examination consists of oral exams after BI and BII.

Dimitrios Koukiadis (Athens)

Spiros Simitis (Frankfurt)

Olivier Roy

(EUI Florence)

Benoît Frydman Greg. Lewkowicz

(Brussels, ULB)

Christiane Birr

(Frankfurt MPI)

Benedetta Albani (Frankfurt MPI)

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Dec 1

Dec 03-03

Dec 14

Dec 14 Dec 15

Dec 15

Dec 16

Dec 16

Dec 16

C 8 CP

C1 I C2a

Methodology and Research in Legal Theory Module C lays stress on the methodological counterparts of legal theory (module A2 and B1/2). After resuming and connecting the modules A and B, it provides an introduction into the methodological grounds of the elective modules 1-7. - For the students, it also serves as first laboratory of the Master thesis. The topic of this thesis (= module D) should be best be determined at the end of this module (Jan 2016). Methodology in Legal Theory & Legal Research

Dec 1: 10.15 – 16.00; SH 3.105 After C1 I, students have to write an essay to be discussed in C1 II in Jan 2016 (see below).

„Proceduralisation of the Law“ International conference of the Excellence Cluster “The Formation of Normative Orders” convened by Sheplyakova see below under “occasions” at GU

See module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): Second-person perspective & moral obligation

Global Legal Skills: Introduction to Formal Logic in Legal Argumentation

• Law and Logic:

monotonic and non-monotonic reasoning in law

Dec 14: 10.15 – 16.00; RuW 1.101

Defeasability

Dec 15: 10.15 – 15.00; RuW 1.101

The Force of the Law (Special Lecture) Haus Normative Ordnungen 5.01, Dec 15: 16.15-18.00

afterwards: Get Together / Reception ( with snacks)

• Argumentation and Interpretation

Dec 16: 10.15 – 16.00; RuW 1.101

note: C2 will be deepened in E7

Accommodating Islam within the Framework of Western Legal Thinking. An Impossible Mission? Public Lect., Cluster of Excellence, Dec 16: 18.15, HZ 10 See module E2a Farewell 2015 (Get Together)

(after the lecture by Marie-Claire Foblets, 18.15-19.45) RuW 4th floor meeting area

K. Langenbucher (Frankfurt)

Lorenz Schulz (Frankfurt)

Ricardo Campos (Rio de Janeiro/ Fra)

André Ferreira Leite de Paula

(Belo Horizonte/Fra)

Lorenz Schulz

(Frankfurt) Fred Schauer (Virginia L. School)

Fred Schauer Otto Pfersmann

(Paris, EHESS) Marie-Claire Foblets

(Halle MPI)

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Jan 18

C1 II

Methodology in Legal Theory & Legal Research

Jan 18: 9.15 – 18.00; RuW 1.101

• Reviewing the students´ papers presenting the topic and design of the Master thesis

• Feedback concerning module A-C classes

• Student counseling and course guidance concerning modules E and extra curriculum study / research options

• others technical issues

elective courses (modules E 1-7) - general remarks -

The curriculum separates obligatory modules (A, B, C) from elective modules.

E modules provide 7 ECTS each. Completing 30 ECTS in the winter term requires one examination either in E1 or E2. This examination requires writing an essay of ca. 10 page. The spring term offers E3-E7 and requires two examinations out of them.

E1 and E2 are elementary for the comprehensive intro-duction to legal theory in the winter term.

E1 serves as introduction to legal sociology (law and society), stressing the facticity of law.

E2, the module on cultural studies and legal anthropology, departs from a similar course structure to supplement the basic elements of a study in legal theory.

The five E modules in the spring term provide the opportunity to deepen the obligatory modules focusing on the formation of normative orders in general (E3), on gover-nance (E4), on global law (E5, specifically deepening B), law and technology (E6) and Law, Language and Reasoning . (E7, specifically deepening C).

Convening the modules E3-E7 requires a certain number of students participating in a module. There is module E1

note: Concerning the elective modules the colored entries indicating the obligatory classes are obligatory insofar a student has decided to take the take the module for achieve the required amount of ECTS.

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Jan 19-22 Jan 25 Jan 20

Jan 25

Jan 26-28

Jan 29 Jan 30 (tbc)

Feb 3

Feb 15

E1 7 CP E2 7 CP

Law and Society

• Sociology of Law

Jan 19, 10.15-13.45, RuW 1.101 Jan 20, 10.15-13.45, RuW 2.101 Jan 21, 10.15-13.45, RuW 3.101 Jan 22, 10.15-13.45, RuW 3.101

Tutorial (date tba in class):

readings classics: Max Weber {for Niklas Luhmann:

see module A2}

• Sociology of Law Seminar 1:

Critical Legal Theory

• Sociology of Law Seminar 2: Case studies Responsibility and Technological Progress: Autonomous Cars and Robots

Jan 20, 16:00-18.00, RuW 3.102

See module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): Conventionalist approach to legal obligation

Legal Anthropology

• Legal Anthropology:

Accommodation of Diversity in Contemporary Societies

• Indigenous Cultures and Law

• Legal Gender Studies

Democratizing “Shari’a”: How Liberal Democracies Apply and Regulate Muslim Family Laws

Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence, Feb 3: 18.15, HZ 10 see module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): Law-as-Social-Practice view and legal obligation

Hubert Rottleuthner

(FU Berlin/Frankfurt)

Kent Lerch (Frankfurt)

Günter

Frankenberg

Eric Hilgendorf

(Würzburg) Malte Gruber

(Frankfurt) Marie-Claire Foblets

(Halle MPI) René Kuppé

(Vienna)

Marion Guerrero (Florence EUI)

Juliane Ottmann (Berlin FU)

Yüksel Sezgin

(Syracuse U. NY)

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February

Febr. 15

Febr. 16

Febr. 17

E3 7 CP [4 CP ↔ C2b]

winter schools abroad Winter schools (as well as summer schools in the spring term) provide the occasion to deepen the standard programme. By studying abroad, students get also the opportunity to get to know centers of excellence throughout Europe. They also will make friends with students beyond the regular class of the LLM Legal Theory because these schools are offered to a broad audience. Students of the LLM may participate in these schools for free (concerning the programme tuition). They are recommended to do so. These schools enrich the knowledge in legal theory matters. They also foster the communicative and intercultural competences that are targeted by the LLM Legal Theory. Students finally get into contact to additional legal theory scholars thereby completing the personal knowledge of leading European legal theorist.

Law and Technology (from 2017 onwards)

• Epistemology & Legal Informatics: Methods, Ideas and Models

• Information, Communication, Technology

• Bioethics and Law details tba

Global Legal Skills: “Soft Law and Legal Theory”

Time table: 11-13 / 14-16 hr 10 The Differentiation of Law and its Definition 11 Flexibility in Roman Law 14 Alternative Dispute Resolutions in Comparative Law 11 Is soft-law really soft? The impact of information technology on constitutional law 14 Softness and the Resilience of the International Legal Order

11 Compliance: Obeying the Law 2.0, 14 New Lex Mercatoria and Business Ethics

Stockholm N.N.

(affiliation)

N.N. (affiliation)

N.N.

(affiliation)

Palermo Isabel Trujillo

(Palermo)

Giuseppe Falcone (Palermo) (tbc)

Maria Chiara Di Gangi (Palermo) Andrea Simoncini

(Firenze)

Enza Tramontana (Palermo)

Lorenz Schulz (Frankfurt/Main)

Fabrizio Marrella (Venezia)

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Febr. 18

Febr. 19

11 States' compliance with the R2P norms, 14 EU Tax Law 11 The Increasing Demand for Institutional Accountability 14 Soft Law and EU Harmonization, See module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): The conventionalist approach to legal obligation

Carla Monteleone (Palermo)

José RozasValdés (Barcelona)

José Luis Martì (Barcelona)

Linda Senden

(Utrecht)

March – mid-April vacation

spring term

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April 11 April 12

April 20

tba

April 20 (tbc)

tba

tba

April 21

April 11

E4 7 CP

Spring Term, modules E 3 - 7 The modules E3-7, all of them offered in the spring term are designed to focus on elementary issues thereby deepening again the programme of the winter term. As E3-5 are strongly interrelated, students may take them all together (although again examinations are only required in two of the modules E3-7). E6 pays tribute to the new medium of the law: the solely digital form of communication. E7 reiterates and deepens central aspects module C.

Formation of Normative Orders

• Global Legal Pluralism – descriptive and normative

- Legal pluralism: history and current debates April 11, 9:15-12:15, RuW 1.101

- Legal pluralism: descriptive

April 12, 9:15-12:15, RuW 1.101

- Legal pluralism: normative April 20, 9:15-12:15, RuW 1.101

• Human Rights and Democracy

Proportionality and Rationality April 20, 15:15 – 17:30, RuW 1.101 (tbc)

Special focus: The case of minorities

• International Criminal Justice

o theoretical aspects

o practical aspects

April 21, 15:00-18:00, law firm www.hammpartner.de

See module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): Legal obligation: the interpretivist perspective

Frankfurt Ralf Seinecke

(Frankfurt)

Matthias Goldmann (Frankfurt)

Klaus Günther

(Frankfurt)

Axel Honneth (Frankfurt)

Robert Alexy (Kiel)

Petra Bard

(Budapest/Frankfurt)

Kai Ambos (Göttingen)

Stefan Kirsch

(Frankfurt, Hamm & Partner)

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April 25 (tbc) April 26 (tbc) April 29 (tbc) April 27 April 28 (tbc) April 30-31

(tbc)

May 3 (tbc)

May 2-3

May 4

April 15-16

E5 7 CP

Legal Theory and Good Governance

• Governance, Compliance, Integrity

- Governance April 25 (tbc): 10-13; 14-16, RuW 1.101

Special focus: E-Governance

April 26 (tbc): 14-16, Deutsche Börse

- Integrity April 29 (tbc): 16-19, RuW 1.101

- Compliance

April 27 (tbc): 14-18, RuW 1.101

• Case studies (with practitioners) April 28: 14-18, at: DLA Piper UK LLP

Westhafenplatz 1, Frankfurt/Main

• Law and Economics (Foundations) April 30

10:00-11:30; 12:00-13:30, 14:30-16.00; 16.30-8:00 (tbc) April 31

10:00-11:30, 12:00-13:30 (tbc)

• Historical Aspects of Governance May 3: 12-13; 14-18, at: MPI:

Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte

Liam B. Murphy (New York University)

Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence, HZ Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stichweh (Bielefeld University)

Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence, HZ

5th Law and Economics Conference

Environmental Law and Economics In “The Problem of Social Cost”, the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase offered a paradigmatic shift in how externalities could be viewed and addressed. In a world with defined property rights and no transaction costs, parties will bargain and the most valuable activity will prevail. The role of law, it followed, was to clearly define property rights and reduce transaction costs. - However, such environmental externalities in Coase’s era were more often viewed as localized problems: pollution from a factory contaminated a town’s drinking water or smoke from a chimney polluted a town’s air. Today’s most salient environmental problems are global in scale. Interrelated problems of anthropogenic climate change, exploitation of resources (especially energy resources), species extinction, pollution of waterways and acidification of oceans all threaten irreversible harm to future generations.

Frankfurt

Tobias Tröger (Frankfurt)

Balazs Ratai

(Deutsche Börse)

Roman Reiß (Stuttgart, BOSCH) Lorenz Schulz

(Frankfurt)

Jürgen Taschke / Emanuel-Ballo

(Frankfurt, DLA Piper)

Klaus Mathis Ariel Steffen

(Lucerne) Benedetta Albani

(Frankfurt MPI)

Lucerne

convened by

Klaus Mathis (Lucerne)

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Understanding this, the UN and other international organizations have held various conferences, such as the Rio World Summits, and released numerous reports, attempting to spur change in domestic and international policy. Even the Pope, with his recent encyclical, Laudatio Si, has waded into the fray, arguing that it is a moral imperative for governments and people generally to work towards preserving the environment and ecosystems for future generations. Yet, critical questions remain to which scholars from all over the world have much to contribute. To what extent is it justifiable to rely on markets and continued technological innovation, especially as it relates to present exploitation of scarce resources? Or is it necessary for the state to intervene? Regulatory instruments are available to create and maintain a more sustainable society: command and control regulations, restraints, Pigovian taxes, emission certificates, nudging policies, etc. If regulation in a certain legal field is necessary, which policies and methods will most effectively spur sustainable consumption and production in order to protect the environment while mitigating any potential negative impact on economic development? The aim of this conference is to join together researchers from multiple disciplines such as law, economics and philosophy to discuss, and hopefully answer, these vital questions. {programme tba} see www.wageningenur.nl/en/article/Call-for-papers-5th-Law-and-Economics-Conference-University-of-Lucerne-1516-April-2016.htm

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May 9 - 20

May 16

May 18

E6 7 CP

Global Law

• Philosophy of Global Law

• Advanced Seminar in Global Legal Theory

• Global Law in Practice Seminar with practitioners

In terms of structure, the programme will follow the programme in May. Students of the LLM Legal Theory had the occasion to listen to and get into contact with the following teachers (resp. practitioners):

C. Bricteux (Brussels) Karim Benyehklef (Montréal)

Klaus Günther (Frankfurt)

Peer Zumbansen (Kings College London)

I. Rorive (Brussels)

I. Isailovic (Brussels)

MikhailXifaras (SciencePo Paris)

W. Twining (Univ. College London)

Benedict Kingsbury (NYU)

Arnaud van Waeyenberge (Brussels/Paris)

Didier Millerot (Brussels)

Nicolas Veron (Wash., D.C.)

Yael Almog (Brussels)

Lionel Zevounou (Paris Sorb.X.)

Isabelle Giraudou (Nagoya)

Paulo Barrozo (BostonCollege

Nicolas Levrat (Genova)

H. Pirotte (Brussels)

P. Bégasse (Brussels)

S. Peeters (Brussels)

D. Bassens (Brussels)

M. Berzin (Bordeaux III)

R. Fernandez (Leuven)

D. Haberly (Sussex)

Christophe Nijdam (Brussels)

E. Avgouleas (Edinburgh)

M. Goldmann (MPIHeidelberg

Francesco Papadia (Brussels)

see module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): Modest naturalism and legal obligation Prof. Dr. Joan Scott

Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence, HZ

Brussels

ULB Greg. Lewkowicz

(Brussels)

Benoît Frydman (Brussels)

David Restrepo (Paris)

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June June 1

June 15

June 13

June 29

July

E7 7 CP

Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence, HZ

Prof. Dr. Andrew Abbott Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence, HZ

See module A3: Reading Group Prof. Bertea (Leicester): Robust naturalism and legal obligation Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston

Public Lecture, Cluster of Excellence, HZ

Law, Language and Reasoning

• Philosophy of Language and Legal Semiotics

• Formal Logic and Legal Argumentation (Basic Course)

• Formal Logic and Legal Argumentation (Special Course)

see programme July 2015 for illustration at http://lawandlogic.org/

Florence

EUI Scott Brewer

(Harvard) Nino Rotolo

(Bologna) Giovanni Sartor

(EUI Florence) Henry Prakken

(Groningen) Bartosz Brozek

(Cracow)

summer term

mid-July – mid-Sept

D 16 CP

Master thesis Independent study and completion of Master thesis - at home, in Frankfurt or at partner universities or at EALT 3rd term network. In case of a supervision abroad there will be a co-supervision from Frankfurt:

Aix-en-Provence

Antwerp

Barcelona Pompeu Fabra

Belgrade

Berlin FU

Bologna

Brno

Brussels ULB

Cracow

Florence EUI

Frankfurt or 3rd term research network partner Jean-Y. Chérot

G. Pavlakos

Josep J. Moreso Miodrag Jovanovic

Juliane Ottmann

Nino Rotolo Tatjana Machalova

B. Frydman G. Lewkowicz Woijciech Cyrul Bartosz Brozek Giovanni Sartor

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Frankfurt

Geneva (Themis)

Groningen

Halle (MPI)

Lucerne

Oxford

Palermo

Paris EHESS Sciences Po Sorbonne-Nanterre

Stockholm

Vienna

Vilnius

Thomas Duve Klaus Günther Katja Langenbucher Lorenz Schulz Thomas Vesting and any module teacher such as

Michael Bothe Joachim Rückert Gunther Teubner

Nicoletta Bersier

Pauline Westerman

Marie-C. Foblets

Klaus Mathis

John Gardner

Isabel Trujillo

Otto Pfersmann Mikhail Xifaras Eric Millard

Mauro Zamboni

Marina Brandtner

Vigita Vebraite

Occasions at Goethe University

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conferences/lectures/seminars (regularly open to the LLM students) in German or English; in part by special invitation I. Trans- / interdisciplinary institutions (insofar as they focus on normativity) 1. Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Since its establishment in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has devoted itself to investigating the history of law in Europe and beyond. Its research, its specialized library with more than 400,000 media items and its numerous co-operations has made it one of the central research hubs for the worldwide scientific community concerned with investigating our past and present national and transnational legal orders.

The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History regards one of its most important tasks to be making a specific contribution to the basic research in legal studies and social sciences, as well as in historical humanities through historical research based on theoretical reflection in the field of law and other forms of normativity (see www.rg.mpg.de)

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directors

Thomas Duve Stefan Vogenauer For lectures etc. see www.rg.mpg.de/veranstaltungen. In the programme 2014-15, there were presentations by

Simone Glanert, Kent Law School (UK)

Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin)

Javier Fernández Sebastián, Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao, Spain)

Peter Burke, Cambridge “Translating norms: strengths and weaknesses of a concept”

Frankfurt Summer Academy 2016

The Max-Planck Summer Academy for Legal History provides an in-depth introduction to methods and principles of research in legal history. Although its main focus is on European legal history, there is special emphasis on global perspectives on legal history. It addresses a selected group of highly motivated early-stage researchers, usually PhD candidates, working on a research project with an interest in the basic research of historical formation and transformations of law and other normative orders.

(special application required)

2. Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” Researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, such as philosophy, history, political science and legal studies, as well as ethnology, economics, theology and sociology, cooperate within this research alliance. Their goal is to be able to reach conclusions informed by all of these perspectives concerning the extent to which we live in an era of the formation of new normative orders. The Cluster of Excellence is funded by the German Research Foundation in the context of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments.

For lectures see www.normativeorders.net

Directors:

Rainer Forst (Institute of Political Science / Institute of Philosophy)

Klaus Günther (Institute of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law). Public Lectures: see entries in the study plan Conferences: „Proceduralisation of the Law“ (Dec 3-5, 2015) see www.normativeorders.net/de/component/content/article/69-veranstaltungen/4025-proceduralisation-of-the-law

With contributions by: Samantha Ashenden (Birkbeck, University of London)

Hauke Brunkhorst (University of Flensburg)

Catherine Colliot-Thélène (University of Rennes)

Klaus Günther (University of Frankfurt)

Karl-Heinz Ladeur (University of Hamburg)

Aliki Lavranu (University of Crete)

Emmanuel Melissaris (London School of Economics)

Christoph Menke (University of Frankfurt)

Kolja Möller (University of Frankfurt)

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Tatjana Sheplyakova (University of Frankfurt)

Christopher Thornhill (University of Manchester)

Thomas Vesting (University of Frankfurt)

Continuous workshop

Klaus Günther

„Rechtstheoretischer Arbeitskreis“

Monthly meetings; presentations/texts in German or in English mostly in presence of the authors.

Participants: Frankfurt legal theorists from the philosophy and law department, from the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, from the Max Planck Institute on European History, and scholars from the metropolitan area of Frankfurt (Gießen, Heidelberg, Mainz)

2015-16:

Uwe Volkmann (Oct 21, 2015)

Rechts-Produktion oder: Wie die Theorie der Verfassung ihren Inhalt bestimmt (DER STAAT 54, 2015, S. 35 –62)

Stefan Kadelbach (Nov 4, 2015

Konstitutionalisierung und Rechtspluralismus – Über die Konkurrenz zweier Ordnungsentwürfe

Dec 09, 2015; Jan 20, 2016; Febr 10,2016 Guests/topics tba

3. Institute for Social Research (Institut für S ozialforschung / IfS)

This Institute is a research organization for sociology and continental philosophy, best known as the institutional home of the Frankfurt School and critical theory by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer. Scholars at the Institute were also Erich Fromm, Friedrich Pollock, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Löwenthal and Jürgen Habermas.

Sponsored by citizens and the city, the Institute was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1923, where it was affiliated with the University of Frankfurt am Main. Under the directorship of Horkheimer, who edited the group's journal “Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung” (Journal for Social Research), the Institute became the home of the Frankfurt School. After the exil in New York, the Institute re-opened in Frankfurt in 1951. Its current director is Axel Honneth.

The Institute offers lectures and seminars being also open to the students of the LLM Legal Theory.

see www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/veranstaltungen/.

4. Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften

www.forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de Am Wingertsberg 4 - 61348 Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe

director Matthias Lutz-Bachmann

Fellow Paper Presentations

In the programme 2014-15, there were presentations by

Emmanuel Melissaris (LSE)

“Solidarity and State Punishment”

and Markus Dubber (University of Toronto)

“The Schizophrenic Jury and Other Palladia of Liberty. A Critical Historical Analysis”

Fellows 2015-16:

Brian Milstein, Ph.D. (New York) (working on transnational justice). In the fall/winter term, Milstein offers a weekly seminar in English on the concept of crisis (“Theorizing Crisis “) –

Mondays, 14-16 hr –

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access of LLM students by individual arrangement

II. Law Faculty (dpt 01)

Besides the regular programme that the Frankfurt Law Faculty has to provide its profile is characterized by laying stress on:

- Legal foundations - Law and finance

There are many professors and young scholars focusing on foundational aspects. The students of the Master program me of the LLM Legal Theory will get to know them either by having them in class or by meeting them occasionally.

The following seminars are open to students of the LLM Legal Theory:

1. Thomas Vesting / Rudolf Wiethölter / Ricardo Campos

„Frankfurter Rechtstheoretisches Kolloquium“ weekly seminar, since 1966, based on reading texts, often in presence of the authors 2015-16 “Die Veränderung der Staatlichkeit in der (Post-)Mo derne. I. Zur Genealogie des modernen Staates” http://www.jura.uni-frankfurt.de/58252321/0_Programm.pdf Oct. 21: with Michael Stolleis

In the programme 2014-15, the topic was:

„Politische Theologie und liberale Demokratie“

including meetings with Jan Assmann, Hans Lindahl and Gunther Teubner

2. Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften und Rechtsphilo sophie

“Dienstagsseminar“

(weekly meeting of the institute´s teaching body including teaching assistants since 1968) 3. Ulfrid Neumann

„Aktuelle Probleme der Strafrechtsphilosophie“

(2-weekly seminar in criminal law and legal theory for visiting scholars, teaching assistants and young scholars concerned with their doctoral or habilitation thesis) 4. Institute for Law and Finance

In the LLM Legal Theory, the focus on law and finance is visible at several instances (notably in module C and E4 at Goethe University and E5 at ULB). Within the faculty this perspective is at home in the House of Finance hosting legal and financial scholarship at once. On the legal side, there is the Institute for Law and Finance (www.ilf-frankfurt.de). There, well-trained specialists in banking and capital markets enjoy excellent opportunities for professional advancement, especially in today’s financial and business capitals.

The ILF provides its students with a springboard for their careers in international corporations, banks, law firms, accounting and auditing firms. The ILF offers advanced, postgraduate elite law degree programmes along the lines of law programmes offered by British and American law schools. Both LL.M. programs at the ILF distinguish themselves by focusing the interdisciplinary courses on the special skills needed by both legal and finance professionals engaging in the field of international finance. In the LL.M. Finance program, students are also given the opportunity to participate in internship programs organized by the ILF.

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The LLM Legal Theory treats issues of justice connected with economy and finance. Not only methodologically it is concerned with law and economy. In substantial respect it treats the issue of justice in a global world that is largely dominated by the financial logics of the markets.

The students of the LLM Legal Theory may take the opportunity to get in contact with students of the mentioned programmes at the ILF. In addition to its primary goal of providing excellent education to students from all over the world, the ILF also prides itself on its role as a leading Research and Policy Center. It promotes the constant exchange of ideas between academics, regulatory bodies, credit institutions and the legal community. Regular series of conferences and guest lectures on topical issues related to international business and the financial markets are delivered at the ILF by leading academics from all over the world (see www.ilf-frankfurt.de/seminars/upcoming-conferences-guest-lectures/).

These lectures are open to the students of the LLM Legal Theory. Frankfurt Summer School - Legal Studies:

“Law in Modern Societies – Fundamental, International and Interdisciplinary Aspects“

(http://summerschool.uni-frankfurt.de/)

III. Faculty Philosophy & Hist. (dpt 08) Institut für Philosophie

(visiting scholar) Stefano Bertea (Leicester)

“Contemporary Debates on Obligation in Morality and Law” (reading group, monthly)

IG-Hochhaus - 2.501 Monday 18.00-20.00 - see A3

Oct 19: Moral obligation in contemporary Kantian scholarship

Reading: C. Korsgaard, “Kant’s Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork I”, in Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 43-76

Nov 16: Rationalism & moral obligation

Reading: D. Owens, “Rationalism about Obligation” European Journal of Philosophy 16: 2008, 403-431

Dec 14: Second-person perspective & moral obligation

Reading: S. Darwall, “Moral Obligation: Form and Substance” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 110: 2010, 31–46

Jan 25, 2016: Conventionalist approach to legal obligation

Reading: K. Gunther, “Voluntary Action and Criminal Responsibility”, in S. Maasen and others (eds.), Voluntary Action, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003

Febr 15: Law-as-Social-Practice view and legal obligation

Reading: S. Shapiro, “The Making of a Legal System”, in Legality, Harvard University Press, 2011, 154-192

March 21: Legal obligation: the interpretivist perspective

Reading: A. Marmor “Conventions and The Normativity of Law” in Positive Law and Objective Values, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, 25-48

April 11: Modest naturalism and legal obligation

Reading: R. Dworkin, “Integrity in Law”, in Law’s Empire, Harvard University Press, 1986, 225-275

May 16: Modest naturalism and legal obligation

Reading: J. Finnis, “Obligation”, in Natural Law and Natural Rights (2nd edition with Postscript), Oxford University Press, 2011, 297-350

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June 13: Robust naturalism and legal obligation

Reading: Beyleveld, D. & Brownsword, R., Law as a Moral Judgement, Sweet and Maxwell, 1986, 325-381 In the programme 2014-15, there were the following presentations:

Peter Niesen (TU Darmstadt) David Owen (Univ. of Southampton)

"Earth Citizenship and some of its Manifestations" Michael Walzer (Princeton University) "States and Communities"

Robert E. Goodin (Australian Nat´l Univ.) „Rough Justice“ Marcus Willaschek (Goethe Univ. Frankfurt) "Freiheit, Unterlassenkönnen und Verdienst: Verantwortung ohne Alternativen"

Students Conference on Derek Parfit´s book "On What Matters"

III. Faculty Psychology etc (dpt 05)

Institut für Psychologie

From the perspective of legal theory, there are two relevant subject matters treated by this institute:

cognitive psychology (decision making and reasoning)

legal psychology (mediation)

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Partner universities (contributing to this curriculum)

with

Additional partners of the LLM Legal Theory consortium are:

Partner institution at Goethe University

Stakeholders

The central stakeholder of the programme is the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR)

LLM Legal Theory Best Master Thesis Award by This programme was developed by support of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme: Erasmus Curriculum Development Project AMELIE 2011-2013, 518290-LLP-1-2011-1-AT-ERASMUS-ECDCE