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Law and Political Philosophy Network
International programme held by the Graduate Research Program in Law of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in association with the Brazilian Association of Constitutional Law and Political Philosophy and the Graduate Programmes in Law of UFPR, UFPA, UnB, UERJ and USP
2020 Sessions
Dec 14th, 2020
Tracking the Resilience of Hybritity in the Theory of Rights
Mark McBride
University of Singapore
Discussant: Franklin Marques Dutra (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Link to session removed at the author's request
Nov 9th, 2020
Book Discussion session:
Justifying Injustice: Legal Theory in Nazi Germany
Herlinde Pauer-Studer
University of Vienna
Discussant: Cristiano Paixão. University of Brasília
Link for seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ8r18EE9lE&t=728s
Link for publication:https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/justifying-injustice/AE985FA27BA97BD982703071F18309F0
Oct 21st, 2020
Round-Table: Judicial Independence under Anti-Liberal Governments
Kim-Lane Scheppele
Princeton University
Renata Uitz
Central European University
Wojciech Sadurski
University of Sydney
Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Link for session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxRsJs9QEOQ&t=232s
Oct 7th, 2020
The Necessity and Fragility of Constitutional Norms
Gerald Postema
Emeritus, University of North Carolina
Discussant: Thomas Bustamante, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Link for seminar:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-HslQrovO0&t=414s
Sept 28th, 2020
Making Sense of Nonsense Jurisprudence
Dan Priel
Osgood Hall Law School, University of York
Discussant: Thiago Lopes Decat, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Link for seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oW5jIMC1Nk&t=5876s
Link for paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3696933
Sept 9th, 2020
Identity Politics in the Age of Censorship
Margaret Martin
Western University
Discussant: Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Link for seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUnKgq_R11M&t=4s
Aug 3rd, 2020
Round-Table & Book Session Discussion: Integrity and Protestant Interpretation
Thomas Bustamante
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Dennis Patterson
Rutgers University & University of Surrey
Brian Bix
University of Minnesota
Discussing a session in the book "Philosophy of Law as an Integral Part of Philosophy: Essays in the Jurisprudence of Gerald J. Postema (T Bustamante & TL Decat, eds). Hart Publishing, 2020. Link for book: https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/philosophy-of-law-as-an-integral-part-of-philosophy-9781509933907/
Link for seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDUFDzqI8A&t=318s
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