CONFERENCE: Grotius on Contract and Force (Leuven: KULeuven, 15-16 NOV 2018)

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Legal Theory and Doctrine in Grotius’s De Jure Belli ac Pacis

Grotiana Conferences for the Preparation of the Quattrocentenary of De Jure Belli ac Pacis

GROTIUS ON CONTRACT AND ON FORCE

Organised by the Department of Roman Law and Legal History, University of Leuven

Auditorium Zeger Van Hee, Tiensestraat 41, B 3000 Leuven

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 15 November 2018: Grotius on Contract

Convener: Wim Decock

12.00-13.00                Registration and Lunch

13.00-13.30                Opening Session

Welcome by Randall Lesaffer

Introduction by Wim Decock

13.30-15.30                Suarez and Grotius

MARK SOMOS (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law)

Suárez v Grotius: James Brown Scott’s Enduring Revival

SYDNEY PENNER (Asbury University)

Grotius and Suárez on Natural Law

ORAZIO CONDORELLI (University of Catania)

"Grotius' Doctrine of Alliances with Infidels and the Idea of Respublica Christiana"

FRANCESCA IURLARO (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies)

The ‘Fate’ of Legal Voluntarism: Suárez and Grotius Reading Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate and Free Will

15.30 – 16.00             Coffee Break

16.00 – 18.00             Grotius on Consent, Contract and the Polity

GIOVANNI CHIODI (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Jus Commune Origins of Grotius’ Contract Law

PAOLO ASTORRI (KU Leuven)

Grotius’ Contract Theory: Between Moral Theology and Natural Law

SÖREN KOCH (University of Bergen)

The Reception of Grotius’ Contract Law in Scandinavia

CHRISTOPH A. STUMPF (University of Halle)

Consent and the Ethics of International Law - Revisiting Grotius’ System of States in a Secular Setting

18.00 – 18.30             Grotius on the Use of Force: Perfect War

                                   VALENTINA VADI (Lancaster University)

Gentili on the Use of Force and the Early Modern law of Nations

Friday, 16 November 2018: Grotius on the Use of Force

Conveners: Viktorija Jakjimovska and Randall Lesaffer

9.00 – 10.30               Grotius on the Use of Force: Perfect War [continued]

CAMILLA BOISEN (New York University Abu Dhabi)

Grotius and Humanitarian Intervention

AGATHA VERDEBOUT (Université Catholique de Lille)

Grotius’s Impact on the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries

GUGLIELMO VERDIRAME (King’s College London)

Is Grotius's Idea of Perfect War Relevant to International Law today?

           

10.30 – 11.00             Coffee Break

11.00 – 13.00             Grotius on the Use of Force: Imperfect War

PHILIPPINE VAN DEN BRANDE (KU Leuven)

The Pre-Grotian Development of Reprisals

RANDALL LESAFFER (Tillburg University/KU Leuven)

Reprisal in the Grotian System

ROTEM GILADI (University of Helsinki)

A Corporate History of the Laws of War: Corporate Belligerency from Grotius to the Delegation Theory

TOM RUYS (University of Ghent)

                                   Grotius on Self-Defence and Defensive War: A Contemporary Perspective

13.00 – 14.00             Lunch

14.00 – 16.00             Grotius on the Use of Force: Internal Strife and War

DANTE FEDELE (KU Leuven/Université d'Artois)

Before Grotius: Some Remarks on Rebellion and Civil Strife in the Late-Medieval Ius Commune

RAYMOND KUBBEN (Associate fellow at i-Hilt Tilburg)

A Prodigy Child of the Dutch Revolt or Eighty Years’ War: Immediate ‘Precursors’ to Grotius on War and Revolt

VILLE KARI (University of Helsinki)

Hugo Grotius and the Law of Civil War in De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres  

VIKTORIJA JAKJIMOVSKA (KU Leuven)

                                   From ‘Pirates’ to ‘Belligerents’: A Post-Grotian Reading of the Debate on Enmity​

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