Internationale Vereinigung für Recths – und Sozialphilosophie (IVR), gegründet 1909

International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, founded in 1909

Association Intenationale de Philosophie du Droit et de Philosophie Sociale, fondée en 1909

IVR Newsletter

August 2002 – January 2003

Nº 30 ISSN 0256 –937X

Editor: Ricardo A. Guibourg. IVR Web Master: Pierluigi Perri.

IVR Newsletter is published twice a year in February and July to be distributed in March and August respectively. Material to be published should be sent to the Editor by 15 January for the first issue and by 15 July for the second.

IVR Newsletter is available too in Internet, at www.cirfid.unibo.it/ivr/, where present and previous issues can be consulted.

Addresses - Editor: Av. Callao 492 10 B, 1022 Buenos Aires, Argentina, tel/fax +54 11 4372 4613. E-mail: pachig@ciudad.com.ar . Web Master: perri@cirfid.unibo.it

CONTENTS

Section One: IVR Announcements – Message of IVR President (Page 1); 21^st IVR World Congress (Lund, Sweden, August 12-18, 2003) (Pages 2-6).

Section Two: National Sections News, Announcements and Records – Argentina; Canada; Chile; Colombia; France (AFPD); France (SFPJ); Germany; Spain (Pages 7-14).

SECTION ONE: IVR ANNOUNCEMENTS

MESSAGE OF IVR PRESIDENT

The President of IVR invites all IVR members to assist to the General Assembly which will take place in Lund, Sweden (Faculty of Law at the University of Lund), on August 15^th, 2003, at 7 p.m..

Eugenio Bulygin

21^st IVR WORLD CONGRESS – LAW AND POLITICS – IN SEARCH OF BALANCE (LUND, SWEDEN, AUGUST 12-18, 2003)

XXI. IVR WORLD CONGRESS
LAW AND POLITICS – IN SEARCH OF BALANCE

12- 18 August 2003, Lund, Sweden

http://ivr2003.net

The Faculty of Law at the University of Lund is proud to be the host of the 21^st World Congress of the IVR. The theme for the 2003 Congress is Law and Politics – In Search of Balance. Apart from plenary lectures, the Congress will consist of working groups and special workshops.

Working language is English but working groups in French, German and Spanish can be organized on request.

Plenary Session Speakers

Robert Alexy, Roger Cotterrell, John Gardner, Susan Haack, Jaap Hage, Virginia Held, Tatsuo Inoue, Cristina Lafont, Eerik Lagerspets, Lars Lindahl, Chibli Mallat, Beverley McLachlin, Michael Moore, Lech Morawski, Jare Oladosu, Enrico Pattaro, Philip Pettit, Richard Posner, Gerald Postema, Włodek Rabinowicz, Cristina Redondo, Giovanni Sartor, Ulises Schmill, Stig Strömholm, Robert S. Summers

Preliminary Topics for Working Groups

· Logical Analysis of Legal Argumentation

· Reality, Truth and Knowledge in the Normative Sphere

· Different Societies: Diversity and Common Ground

· Political Legitimacy and the Just Society

· Political Power, Legal Authority and Morality

· Injustice, Power and the Law

· Organized Political Violence

· New Technologies for Law and Politics

· Legal Theory and Philosophy

· Globalization, Human Rights and Minorities

· Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship

Preliminary List of Special Workshops

n Legal Practitioners’ Need of Reflective Application of Legal Philosophy

n European Citizenship in the New EU Member States

n Tampere Club Meeting - Democracy and Rule of Law

n Indigenous and Transplanted Legal Values in the Post-Colonial World

n East Asian Jurisprudence

n Practical and Theoretical Problems in Legislation. Research in Legisprudence

n Stressing Legal Decisions

n Law Scholarship and Law Teaching – Technical or Theoretical?

n Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship

n Law, Morality, Politics, Defeasibility

n Artificial Intelligence in the Law. Efficient Tools for Politicians and Lawyers

n Scandinavian Legal Realism in Theory and Practice

n Legal Positivism after Hart and Dworkin

n Law and Objectivity – Legal Positivism, Critical Theory and the New Wave of Natural Law

n Coherence Theory of Law and Analogy in Legal Reasoning

n Cognitive Science, Ethics and Law

n Politics of Human Rights

n The Actuality of Conceptual Jurisprudence

n Criminal Responsibility

n Electronic Government and Philosophy of Law

n Law and Social Theory

n Reformational Legal & Social Philosophy

n Material Review of Constitutionality of Statutes

n The new European Ius Commune and Legal Theory

n Legal Institutions and Economic Policies

IVR Congress, 12-18 August 2003, Lund, Sweden Congress and Hotel Registration Form Please register online, see www.ivr2003.net. If this is impossible, please send this form to Professor Aleksander Peczenik, Faculty of Law, Box 207, S 22100 Lund, Sweden.
Last Name			First Name(s)		Title
Postal Address					Country
Telephone ( + country code - area code - number)			E-mail Address
Telefax  ( + country code - area code - number)			Institution (if applicable)
Number of accompanying persons	Name(s) (if more than one person, begin each name in a new line by pressing enter)
Payment alternatives: Early 2300 SEK (ca. 255 €) Late 3200 SEK (ca. 355 €) Student Early 1700 SEK (ca. 188 €) Student Late 2200 SEK (ca. 244 €)	Early Registration Fee is applicable for payment received between 1 September 2002 and 31 March 2003. From 1 April 2003 the Late Registration Fee is applicable. Student fees are applicable proof if student status is sent to Professor Aleksander Peczenik.  Please also refer to the website concerning application for Young Researchers’ Grant. Payment by credit card at the website or by bank transfer to Account number 5624-33 006 at SEB Bank, Box 97, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
Social Programs			Social Programs are specified on the home page www.ivr2003.net
Call for papers		I will submit a paper to a working group.
Hotel Registration Lund has adequate hotel capacity for the congress.  However, if the number of participants is greater than expected, accommodation in Malmö can be arranged.  Local trains between Malmö and Lund take 15 minutes.
Number and type of room:	Single room        Double room
Arrival date        Departure date
Hotel standard Please specify the category	Category A		1,100 - 1,500 SEK* (ca. 122- 166 €)	* Breakfast included.  Prices per room per night.
	Category B		800 - 1,100 SEK* (ca. 88 - 122 €)
	Category C		600 - 800 SEK* (ca. 66 - 88 €)
	Sparta Guest House, Lund		2,400 SEK** (ca. 266 €)	** Breakfast not included.  Can only be booked for 6 nights 12-18 august.  Price for 6 nights.

Call for Papers

Participants are invited to submit a paper to one of the working groups at the Congress. Please register online, see www.ivr2003.net. If this is impossible, please send this form to Professor Aleksander Peczenik, Faculty of Law, Box 207, S 22100 Lund, Sweden. 

Abstracts will be published in paper form if they have been submitted before 31 March 2003. Abstracts submitted after this date will only be available on the Internet. If the abstract is received after 31 May, 2003, the paper will not be presented during the Congress.

We have no possibility to copy papers during the congress. However, papers presented during the congress and accepted by the Publication Committee will be published in the Congress Proceedings. The main Proceedings will be published as ARSP Beihefte within a year from the congress. See http://www.steiner-verlag.de/ARSP. There will also be thematic volumes, published elsewhere. The Publication Committee has liberal admission policy but there is no guarantee that all papers will be published. To be published in the Congress Proceedings, a paper must be delivered electronically in word format any time between the congress and 30 September, 2003. If the paper is received after 30 September, 2003, it will not be published in the Congress Proceedings.

There is no open call for papers for the special workshops. However, most working groups will have common meetings with the respective special workshops.

Please notice that the requested assignment to the working group will only serve as guidance for the organisers. The final assignment will be made shortly before the Congress on the basis of the content of the received papers.

Name_______________________________________________________________________________

Family name__________________________________________________________________________

Title_________________________________________________________________________________

University or Institute__________________________________________________________________

Postal code_________________Town/city________________Country____________________________

E-mail_________________________________________

Fax_________________________________Phone____________________________________________

Working Groups

Preliminary List of Special Workshops

First preference:

□ Logical Analysis of Legal Argumentation

□ Reality, Truth and Knowledge in the Normative Sphere

□ Different Societies: Diversity and Common Ground

□ Political Legitimacy and the Just Society

□ Political Power, Legal Authority and Morality

□ Injustice, Power and the Law

□ Organized Political Violence

□ New Technologies for Law and Politics

□ Legal Theory and Philosophy

□ Globalization, Human Rights and Minorities

□ Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship

Second preference:

□ Logical Analysis of Legal Argumentation

□ Reality, Truth and Knowledge in the Normative Sphere

□ Different Societies: Diversity and Common Ground

□ Political Legitimacy and the Just Society

□ Political Power, Legal Authority and Morality

□ Injustice, Power and the Law

□ Organized Political Violence

□ New Technologies for Law and Politics

□ Legal Theory and Philosophy

□ Globalization, Human Rights and Minorities

□ Law and Economics and Legal Scholarship

Title/Brief description of the paper (max. 300 characters)

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YOUNG RESEARCHERS

in Member States and
Associated States of the European Union

are invited to participate, at subsidised costs, in the

XXI. IVR World Congress

(International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy)

12 - 18 August 2003

Lund, Sweden

The EC has granted means to enable 25 young researchers from the Member States of the European Union or from Associated States to participate in the Congress.

The grant is open for persons born in 1968 or later, pursuing research in legal philosophy, theory of law, moral theory, political theory and related disciplines.

Application should be directed to

Professor Aleksander Peczenik, electronically to the E-mail address ap@ivr2003.net not later than 31 March 2003.

On request, each applicant should be prepared to send relevant written documents. Each applicant will be exempted from registration fee 2,300 SEK (ca. 255 €) and reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to 1,200 SEK (ca. 133 €).

For more information about the Congress, please visit the website

http://ivr2003.net

Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy	Juridiska fakulteten vid Lunds universitet Faculty of Law, University of Lund Lund, Sweden

Travel Arrangements and Accommodation

Lund is a university town in the south of Sweden: Copenhagen, the Danish capital, can be reached in less than one hour by train. Also, Lund is connected to the Copenhagen international airport by direct train service.

Participants should make their own travel arrangements to Lund. Participants requiring visas to enter Sweden or the Schengen area should be registered at least six months before the Congress, requests for proof of registration for visa purposes should be made together with the registration.

Beginning in autumn 2002, detailed information on the booking of hotel rooms (at different standards) will be forthcoming on the IVR website.

More information on the World Congress: http://www.ivr2003.net

SECTION TWO: NATIONAL SECTIONS NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND RECORDS

ARGENTINA

(Asociación Argentina de Filosofía del Derecho).

NEWS

The AAFD has at present 176 members.

In October 24-26, 2002, the XVI Argentine Meeting on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy was held in Azul. Invited speakers were Fernando Atria (Universidad de Talca, Chile), Julio C. Cueto Rúa (Univ. de Buenos Aires), Diego Duquelsky (idem), Santiago Legarre (Univ. Austral, Buenos Aires), Jorge Malem Seña (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), José Juan Moreso (idem), Andrés Ollero Tassara (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain) and Mario Portela (Univ. de Mar del Plata, Argentina). The local Young Scholar Award was granted to Jorge A. Cerdio Herrán (Univ. de Buenos Aires), whose paper “A propósito de Fuller y el uso lingüístico” was exposed and discussed in a plenary session. Other papers were submitted by Oscar B. Aguirre, Mercedes Alchourrón, Carlos Álvarez Chicano, José Juan Bentolila, Diana Cañal, Mario E. Chaumet, José L. Cristaldo Bustamante, María Isolina Dabove, Damián Dellaqueva, Ernesto Grün, Ricardo V. Guarinoni, María Soledad Muscato, Juan M. Pedreira Sammartino, Fernando Ricciardini, Adolfo Rocha Campos, Viviana Rosemblat, Mateo Schott, Sergio Splendore, Roxana Trípoli Acerbi and Juan Manuel Villarruel.

The second issue of “Ideas y Derecho” (AAFD Annuary) is already prepared and is expected to be printed in May 2003. With a short introduction by AAFD Vice President, Rodolfo L. Vigo, the issue contains papers by Manuel Atienza (Univ. de Alicante, Spain), Mauricio Beuchot (UNAM, Mexico), Miguel Á. Ciuro Caldani (Univ. de Rosario), Eros Roberto Grau (Univ. de Sao Paulo, Brazil), Riccardo Guastini (Univ. di Genova, Italia), Enrique P. Haba (Univ. de Costa Rica), Guillermo Lariguet (Univ. de Córdoba), Santiago Legarre (Univ. Austral, Buenos Aires), Pablo López Ruf (Univ. de Buenos Aires), Andrés Ollero Tassara (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), Pablo M. Perot and Jorge Rodríguez (Univ. Mar del Plata, Argentina).

The XVI Argentine Meeting on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy will be held in Córdoba, from October 30 to November 1, 2003.

In October 25, 2002, the General Assembly elected the Board of Directors for the next four years:

President: Ricardo A. Guibourg; Vice president: Rodolfo L. Vigo; Secretary: Pablo López Ruf; Treasurer: Eduardo Barbarosch; Other members: Ariel Álvarez Gardiol, Abel J. Arístegui, Eugenio Bulygin, Miguel Ángel Ciuro Caldani, Julio C. Cueto Rúa, José Rolando Chirico, Diego Duquelsky, Ricardo V. Guarinoni, Carlos I. Massini, Mario Portela and Renato Rabbi-Baldi. Board surrogates: Armando Andruett, Eduardo Barcesat, Juan Cianciardo and Pablo Navarro. Account reviewers: Eloy Emiliano Suárez and Carlos M. Fernández.

CONTACT

Prof. Ricardo A. Guibourg, President

Av. Callao 492 10 B – 1022 Buenos Aires – Argentina

Tel/fax: +54 44 4372 4613 (home); +54 11 4374 2711 (office)

E-mail: pachig@ciudad.com.ar

AUSTRIA

Secretary: Alfred Schramm, Institüt für Rechtsphilosophie Karl-Franzens

Universität Graz

Universitätstrasse 27

A-8081 Graz – Austria

CONTACT

Univ.-Ass.Dr. Christian Hiebaum

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Instit für Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtssoziologie un Rechtsinformatik

Universitätsstrasse 15

8010 Graz, Austria

e-mail: christian.hiebaum@kfunigraz.ac.at

BRAZIL

CONTACT

Prof. Luiz Fernando Coelho (President)

luizfernandocoelho@academus.pro.br

CANADA

Nathan Brett is the new Executive Director of the IVR Canadian Section, replacing Michael Milde. Brett oversees membership of the Canadian Section, general correspondence, and matters of liaison with the IVR. Other members of the executive are:

President: Bob Bright (bright@cc.umanitoba.ca)

Vice-President: Susan Dimock (dimock@yorku.ca)

Past President: Eldon Soifer (Eldon.Soifer@uregina.ca)

Member of IVR EC: Brenda Baker (bmbaker@ucalgary.ca)

CONTACT

Nathan Brett (nbrett@dal.ca)

CHILE

(Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Jurídica y Social)

NEWS

In July, 2002, the 19th issue of Anuario de Filosofía Jurídica y Social was published. This volume reproduces several texts presented at the celebration of 20th anniversary of Chilean IVR National Section (December, 2001), among them papers by Eugenio Bulygin and Fernando Atria about creation and application of law.

In October 2002, the V Chilean Meeting on Philosophy of Law was held. Its general subject was “The Chilean legal culture”.

In December, 2002, the Chilean Society distinguished as Honorary Members Chilean professors Jorge Iván Hübner and Máximo Pacheco, old scholars at the Chile University. Other Honorary Members were already Chilean Aníbal Bascuñan and Juan Enrique Sierra and foreigners Norberto Bobbio, Roland Dworkin, Genaro R. Carrió, Eugenio Bulygin and Ernesto Garzón Valdés.

Papers of the V Chilean Meeting will be published on the 20^th Anuario, in April 2003.

CONTACT

Agustín Squella Narducci, President

Universidad de Valparaíso

Casilla 3325, Correo 3, Valparaíso – Chile

Fax 50 71 43

secretaria.rectoria@uv.cl

Or Patricia Whittle: pwhittle@presidencia.cl

COLOMBIA

(Asociación Colombiana de Filosofía Jurídica y Social)

NEWS

The Universidad Externado de Colombia published in 2002 Hasso Hofmann’s “Filosofía del Derecho y del Estado”, translated by Luis Villar Borda.

The review Temas del Derecho, directed by prof. Benigno Mantilla Pineda (Univ. de Medellín), celebrated its 90^th anniversary with a special issue. Prof. Mantilla Pineda published an outline of Hans Kelsen’s biography.

Within the first months of 2003, The Colombian Association will held its second National Congress, preparatory to the IVR World Congress in Lund.

On the series Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, the following volumes are next to publication: “Derecho y Socialismo”, by Carlos Miguel Herrera, and “Estructura de los derechos fundamentales”, by Martin Borowski.

Executives of the Colombian section of the IVR are: Luis Villar Borda (Honorary President), Numas Armando Gil (President), Rodolfo Arango (Vice-president), Miguel Rujana (Treasurer).

CONTACT

Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Arango, Vice-president,

Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Cuidad Universitaria

Bogotá, Colombia

email: rodolfo_arango@hotmail.com

FINLAND

(Suomen oikeusfilosofinen yhdistys SOFY ry)

Current officials: President: Heta Gylling, Vice-president: Kimmo Nuotio, Secretary: Kaisa Mäkelä, Members of the board: Jussi Kotkavirta, Kevät Nousiainen, Juha Pöyhönen, Juha Räikkä, Hannu Tolonen, Jarkko Tontti. Honorary President: Aulis Aarnio.

CONTACT:

Sanna Sinnemaki

Sanna.sinnemaki@kelsinki.fi

copy to: sofy-ivr@helsinki.fi

FRANCE 1

(Association Française de Philosophie du Droit)

The AFPD next event is the 2003 Colloquium “Globalization: between illusion and utopia?” It will take place at the Institut de France - 23 quai Conti - 75006 Paris, in February 28 and March 1, 2003.

President: François Terré, 10, square de l’Alboni, 75016 Paris, tel. 01 45 20 93 68, fax 01 45 25 83 23.

Vice President: René Sève, 18, place Adolphe Chérioux, 75015 Paris, tel 01 53 18 46 15, fax 01 53 18 97 30.

Secretary General: Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, 25, avenue Rapp, 75007 Paris, tel. 01 445 56 07 09, fax 01 53 59 93 24, e-mail frison.roche.ed@wanadoo.fr

Treasurer: Philippe Reigné, 12, rue Ernest Psichari, 75007 Paris, tel. 01 40 62 98 59

Adjoint Treasurer: David Sankowicz, 6, rue Saint-Paul, 75004 Paris, tel. 01 48 87 55 66.

CONTACT.

Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Secretary General.

Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), rue d´Assas, 75006 Paris.

mafr@noos.fr

FRANCE 2

(Société Française pour la Philosophie et la Théorie Juridiques et Politiques – SFPJ)

The SFPJ will held in March 21, 2003, a meeting for the research in legal theory and political philosophy at the IUF (Paris). There, young doctors and graduate students will be able to submit their current researches to the judgment of other scholars. Participation is open, but presentations are subject to a selection. Please contact Eric Millard (millard@univ-tlse2.fr).

In October 12, 2002, the SFPJ General Assembly elected a new board:

President: Jean-François Kervégan, professor of philosophy at the Université de Paris I (kervegan@univ-paris1.fr).

Secretary General: Eric Millard, professor of public law at the Université de Paris XI (millard@univ-tlse2.fr).

Treasurer: Carlos Miguel Pimentel, professor of public law at the Université de Versailles – Saint Quentin (carlosmiguelpimentel@hotmail.com).

Philippe Raynaud was elected as Honorary President.

GERMANY

NEWS

The last conference of the German section took place in September 27-28, 2002, at Frankfurt/Oder, organized by Professor J. Joerden / R. Wittmann from the Law Faculty of the “Viadrina”. The general subject was “Law and Politics“, lectures dealt with thematical fields such as “Law Becoming Political – Adjudication of Politics”, “Political Ethics“, “Law, Politics, Religion” or “Globalization of Law and Politics”. Speakers were J. Habermas, W. Hassemer, H. Hofmann, P. Koller, M. Losano, W. Naucke, M. Pawlik, B. Schünemann, D. von der Pfordten and others (for details see www.rechtsphilosophie.de).

The next bi-annual conference of the German section will take place in 2004 at the university of Kiel, organized by Professor Robert Alexy.

In memoriam of the former president of the IVR and of its German section, Arthur Kaufmann (died April 11th, 2001), there will be a congress at Munich in early May, 2003 (see www.rechtsphilosophie.de).

Study Group on “History of Ideas in Legal Philosophy”

This IVR Study Group will hold its second meeting in fall 2003, about issues of late scholasticism (for details see www.rechtsphilosophie.de; on the publication of the first meeting, see www.arbeitskreis-ideengeschichte.uni-hd.de).

Junges Forum Rechtsphilosophie (JFR)

The next conference will take place in Salzburg, Austria, April 25 – 27, 2003 on the topic of “Der juristische Streit. Recht zwischen Rhetorik, Argumentation und Dogmatik“ (for details see www.rechtsphilosophie.de). Speakers: A. Augustin, LL.M. (Basel) and Silke R. Laskowski (Hamburg).

At the general meeting of the German section of the IVR Sept. 27, 2002, in Frankfurt (Oder), the following executives were re-elected for four years:

Ulfrid Neumann (President), Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften und Rechtsphilosophie der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Senckenberganlage 31-33, D-60054 Frankfurt/Main, tel. 069-798- 22921/2, fax 069/798-22204; e-mail: U.Neumann@jur.uni-frankfurt.de.

Lorenz Schulz (Vice-President and Treasurer), same address; e-mail: L.Schulz@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

CONTACT:

Priv.Doz. Dr. Lorenz Schulz

Vice-President and Treasurer.

L.Schultz@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

Homepage: www.rechtsphilosophie.de

ITALY

(Società Italiana di Filosofia Giuridica e Politica)

CONTACT

President: Prof. Gaetano Carcaterra

carcaterra@libero.it or gaetano.carcaterra@libero.it

Copies to Paolo Comanducci: comanducci@unige.it

Homepage: www.fildirg100.giu.uniroma1.it/SIFGP.htm

JAPAN

The executive committee of the Japan section has been reorganized and has a new president and a new member. The following is the list of the present members.

President: KATSURAGI Takao, professor at Seikei University, Tokyo. Email: katuragi@law.seikei.ac.jp

General secretary: ISHIYAMA Fumihiko, professor at Daito Bunka University, Tokyo.

Treasurer: Professor WAKAMATSU Yoshiki, professor at Seijo University, Tokyo. Email: wakamatu@seijo.ac.jp

NAKAYAMA Ryuichi, associate professor at Osaka University, Osaka.

TSUNODA Takeshi, professor at Osaka Prefectural University, Osaka.

SAKURAI Tetsu, associate professor at Kobe University, Kobe.

SUMIYOSHI Masami, associate professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.

ex officio: MORIGIWA Yasutomo, professor at Nagoya University, Nagoya, and EC member of the IVR.

CONTACT

Correspondence to the Japan Section should be sent to Professor ISHIYAMA at: ishiyama@ic.daito.ac.jp

Mail address: Professor ISHIYAMA Fumihiko

Faculty of Law

Daito Bunka University

1-9-1 Takashima-daira, Itabashi-ku

Tokyo 175-8571

JAPAN

Phone: +81-3-3935-1113-#4017

Fax: +81-3-5399-7377 attn: Prof. ISHIYAMA

RUSSIA

CONTACT:

Dr. Lyudmila Lapteva

Institute of State and Law

Russian Academy of Sciences

Znamonka, 10

119841 MOSCOW – RUSSIA

e-mail: l_lapteva@mail.ru

Fax: 7-095-2918574 (att. V.Nercessiants)

SPAIN

(Sociedad Española de Filosofía Jurídica y Social, SEFJP)

The next conference of the Spanish Section will take place in Las Palmas, March 2003, organized by Prof. L. Miraut Martín. There, the next meeting of the General Assembly of the Section will be held.

Number XIX of the Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho is under preparation. The release of this volume is expected for the spring of 2003.

Executives of the Spanish section of the IVR are: B. De Castro (President), E. Gayo (Treasurer), J. Ansuátegui (Secretary), F. Puigpelat, J. García Amado, M. Gascón, M. J. Añón, M. Calvo and C. Alarcón.

CONTACT:

Prof. Carlos Alarcón Cabrera (carlos@cica.es)

UKRAINE

(Ukrainian Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy - UAPLSP)

President: Prof. Boris Chmil

Other founding members: Mykhajlo Kostitsky, Olexandr Manoxa, Oleg Bandura, Nadiya Semenova.

CONTACT

Nadiya Semenova

lclck@oldbank.com; lclck@iatp.kiev.ua

Internationale Vereinigung für Recths – und Sozialphilosophie (IVR), gegründet 1909

International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, founded in 1909

Association Intenationale de Philosophie du Droit et de Philosophie Sociale, fondée en 1909

Honorary Presidents: Junichi Aomi (Japan), Norberto Bobbio (Italy), Hermann Klenner (Germany), Enrico Pattaro (Italy), Miguel Reale (Brazil), Carl Wellman (USA), Arthur F. Utz (Switzerland)

President: Eugenio Bulygin (Argentina).

Vice-Presidents: Manuel Atienza (Spain); Rex Martin (USA); Aleksander Peczenik (Sweden); Arend Soeteman (Netherlands).

Other Members: Elspeth Attwool (UK); Brenda Baker (Canada); Alexander Bröstl (Slovakia); Tom Campbell (Australia); Paolo Comanducci (Italy); Attracta Ingram (Ireland); Tscholsu Kim (Korea); Werner Krawietz (Germany); Burton Leiser (USA); Yasutomo Morigiwa (Japan); François Ost (Belgium); Rolando Tamayo (Mexico); Michel Troper (France); Kaarlo Tuori (Finland); Marek Zirk-Sadowski (Poland).

Secretary General: Pablo López Ruf (Argentina). Treasurer: Carlos E. Pettoruti (Argentina).

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie Editors: Werner Maihofer, Gerhard Sprenger (Germany) and Annette Brockmöller. IVR Newsletter Editor: Ricardo A. Guibourg (Argentina). IVR Webmaster: Pierluigi Perri (Italy).