(Source: IE Law School)
We learned of a workshop at IE
Law School on the concept of strict liability and early modern jurists.
Together with: The Grotiana
Foundation. We would like to invite you to the workshop “Non-consequential
theories of strict liability in historical perspective”.
Early modern jurists have
struggled to come to terms with the concept of strict liability, as they
thought primarily in terms of fault and culpability. Even today, when lawgivers
and jurists reflect on the concept – for instance in the present debate on the
liability for artificial-intelligence based robots – strict liability is hard
to explain from a non-consequentialist perspective. In preparation of the
quattrocentenary of the publication of the De Jure Belli ac Pacis, the workshop
takes the ideas of Hugo Grotius as its starting point, to look at his sources
and his influence on seventeenth and eighteenth century authors.
At this workshop, hosted at IE
University, IE Law School on January 10, 2020 in Madrid, academic scholars will
come together to discuss these topics.
Please confirm your attendance
through the registration link. Registration is free.
Featuring:
Dr. James Gordley, W.R. Irby
Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, with a paper on “The Natural Law Schools
and the Passing of Strict Liability”.
Dr. Joe Sampson, Associate
Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, with a paper on “The Place of
Fault in Grotius’ Analysis of Delict”.
Dr. Wouter Druwé, Assistant
Professor of Roman Law and Legal History at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law, with
a paper on “Qualitative liability in the early modern Low Countries”.
Dr. Bart Wauters, Assistant
Professor of Legal History and Legal Theory at IE Law School – IE University,
with a paper on “Strict liability in Grotius, Smith, Kant and beyond”.
More information here
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