{"id":1335,"date":"2015-11-04T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2016-12-13T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:38:13","slug":"wias-visiting-fellow-seminardr-laurent-de-sutter-professor-of-legal-theory-vrije-universiteit-brussel-bruxelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/news-en\/2015\/11\/04\/1335\/","title":{"rendered":"WIAS Visiting Fellow Seminar
Dr. LAURENT DE SUTTER (Professor of Legal Theory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles)"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIAS Visiting Fellow Seminar
\nSemiars by Dr. LAURENT DE SUTTER
\n(Professor of Legal Theory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles)<\/h3>\n

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Seminar 1\u3000”The Supremacy of \u2018Nomos\u2019 and the Crisis of Western Normativity”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date & Time<\/td>\nNovember 4, 2015\/ 14:0-16:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Venue<\/td>\nMeeting room of Institute of Comparative Law on the 5th floor of 9th building<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outline<\/td>\nDuring the first session of the seminar, I would try to describe how the inherited conception of normativity in the Western world is actually not satisfactory, if one is to understand not only the most recent legal development (both a the level of Nation-States and at the international level), but also the everyday life of law. I will argue that this dissatisfaction can be traced back to the inscription of Western normativity under the rubric of \u2018Nomos\u2019 (originating in Greece\u2019s ancient philosophy), namely of \u2018law\u2019, understood as a set of rules, norms or provisions defining a positive \u2018ought to\u2019. During this first session, I will then describe at length the meaning and importance of the concept of \u2018Nomos\u2019 in the understanding of Western law, and try to describe what I consider to be its main flaws.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Seminar 2\u3000”A Short Archeology of the Supremacy of \u2018Nomos\u2019 in Western Law”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date & Time<\/td>\nNovember 17, 2015\/ 15:30-17:30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Venue<\/td>\nMeeting room of Institute of Comparative Law on the 5th floor of 9th building<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outline<\/td>\nDuring the second session of the seminar, I would try to present a short account on the long history of the conflict between the defenders of the idea of \u2018Nomos\u2019 and the defenders of another, more Roman, conception of law \u2013 and the progressive triumph, through history, of the formers over the latters. If the idea of \u2018Nomos\u2019 can be traced back to Greek philosophy, it is in Rome that its opposition to another, more practical and less general, conception of law has been staged first. This staging has taken the form of the distinction between \u2018ius\u2019 and \u2018lex\u2019, a distinction that has irrigated the entire history of Western law, and has been most often understood as the distinction between formal law (rule, norm, etc.) and its practical application (right, action, etc.).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Seminar 3\u3000”Watsuj\u00ee Tetsur\u00f4\u2019s \u2018Fud\u00f4\u2019 and the Distinction between \u2018Rules\u2019 and \u2018Models\u2019”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date & Time<\/td>\nNovember 19, 2015\/ 16:30-18:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Venue<\/td>\nTBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outline<\/td>\nDuring the third session of the seminar, I would try to present a personal, Western, reading of Watsuj\u00ee Tetsur\u00f4\u2019s \u2018Fud\u00f4\u2019, which, despite its importance, has not yet been properly read in the Western world. I will mainly focus on the incidental distinction, drawn in the fourth chapter of the book (devoted to art), between \u2018mohan\u2019 and \u2018kisoku\u2019. Even though these words are not central in the Japanese legal lexicon, they still do imply a dimension of normativity \u2013 and offer two different, and, to some extent, opposite, understanding of what an \u2018ought\u2019 can be. With the help of the Japanese colleagues that I would have contacted during the first two weeks of the stay, I hope to be able to offer an acceptable account of this distinction, and a reliable reading of Watsuj\u00ee\u2019s use of it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Seminar 4\u3000”What Western Law can Learn from the Japanese Concept of Model”
\n(Sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Law)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Date & Time<\/td>\nNovember 25, 2015\/ 14:00-16:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Venue<\/td>\nMeeting room 303\uff5e305 on the 3th floor of 8th building<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outline<\/td>\nThe fourth session of the seminar would be the more speculative one, given its necessary reliance upon what would have been achieved during the third session. Yet, if my intuition is correct, I think that the Japanese understanding of the idea of \u2018model\u2019 could offer an exit from the millennium-long debate between the tenants of \u2018lex\u2019 (or \u2018Normos\u2019) and the tenants of \u2018ius\u2019. Because, what is a \u2018model\u2019? It is not a standard to which compliance would be measured, as is a rule (\u2018lex\u2019) \u2013 or with which an individual could perform an action, as is a right (\u2018ius\u2019). A \u2018model\u2019 is a standard that is not conservative, but progressive: it provides of point from which to depart and create. It is this intuition that I would like to put to test, and see how it can affect the Western conception of normativity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Language<\/th>\nEnglish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eligibility<\/th>\nOpen to public<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Registration<\/th>\nNo advanced registration required<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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