Conference Forms of Life and Law 2018

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Prelude/ Prélude

Round Table 1 Forms of Life, Law/ Formes de vie, Droit

Round Table 2 Persons, human nature and law/ Personne, nature humane et droit

Round Table 3 Forms of law, forms of life and social forms/ Formes du droit, formes de vie, formes sociales

Round Table 4 Law and indeterminacy of life forms/ Droit et indétermination des formes de vie

Forms of life and Law / Formes de vie et droit

Sciences Po Paris, 22/23 May 2018

Salle Goguel, 56 rue des Saints-Pères

"FOLIE" & GDRI "Formes de vie" 

Foreward Forms of Life and Law/ Formes de vie et droit (PDF, 262 Ko)

22 May

10.00 – 13.00:

Prelude / Prélude

Loïc Azoulai, Estelle Ferrarese & Sandra Laugier 

Forms of life, Law / Formes de vie, Droit

Round table moderated by Veronica Corcodel (FOLIE)

• Piergiorgio Donatelli (Rome Sapienza)
• Marielle Macé (EHESS)
• Alain Pottage (LSE)
• Mikhaïl Xifaras (Sciences Po)

15.00 – 16.30:

Forms of law, forms of life, social forms / Formes du droit, formes de vie, formes sociales

Round table moderated by Estelle Ferrarese (GDRI Formes de vie)

• Bruno Karsenti (EHESS)
• Olivier Jouanjan (Panthéon-Assas Paris II)
• Frédéric Audren (Sciences Po)

17.00 – 18.30:

Persons, human nature and law / Personne, nature humaine et droit

Round table moderated by Hanna Eklund (FOLIE)

• Paola Marrati (Johns Hopkins)
• Paolo Napoli (EHESS)
• Sarah Trotter (LSE)

23 May

10.00 – 13.00:

Law and Indeterminacy of Life Forms / Droit et indétermination des formes de vie

Round table moderated by Loïc Azoulai (FOLIE)

• Estelle Ferrarese (GDRI Formes de vie)
• Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez (Paris Nanterre)
• Julie Saada (Sciences Po)
• Carlo Salzani (Independent scholar)

About the participants:

• Frédéric Audren – Law and Social Sciences. “Bruno Latour's Legal Anthropology” in Reza Benakar, Max Travers (ed.), Law & Social Theory (Hart, 2013)
• Loïc Azoulai – European Law. Constructing the Person in EU law. Rights, Roles, Identities (Hart, 2016)
• Veronica Corcodel – Law & Critique. Modern Law and Otherness: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Comparative Legal Thought (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2018)
• Piergiorgio Donatelli – Moral Philosophy. Manières d’être humain (Vrin, 2015)
• Hanna Eklund – European Law. “Judicial Review and Social Progress – In the Work of Mauro Cappelletti and Today” International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) (2016)
• Estelle Ferrarese – Moral & Political Philosophy. “Politiques des formes de vie” Raisons politiques (2015)
• Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez – Law, Law & Gender.  L'analyse juridique de (x). Le droit parmi les sciences sociales (Kimé, 2016)
• Olivier Jouanjan – Law, Legal Thought. Justifier l’injustifiable. L’ordre du discours nazi (PUF, 2017)
• Bruno Karsenti – Philosophy and Social Sciences. La société en personnes. Etudes durkheimiennes (Economica, 2006). 
• Sandra Laugier – Philosophy. Recommencer la philosophie. Stanley Cavell et la philosophie en Amérique (Vrin, 2014)
• Marielle Macé – French Literature. Styles. Critiques de nos formes de vie (Gallimard, 2016)
• Paola Marrati – Philosophy & Gender Studies. “The Novelty of Life” Constellations (2011)
• Paolo Napoli – Law & Normativity. Aux origines des cultures juridiques européennes. Yan Thomas entre droit et sciences sociales (Editions de l’École Française de Rome, 2014)
• Alain Pottage – Law, Legal theory, Anthropology. “Law after anthropology. Object and technique in Roman law'” Theory, Culture & Society (2014)
• Julie Saada – Philosophy and Law. Le droit, entre théorie et critique, avec M. Xifaras, Chambéry, (Lextenso, 2017)
• Carlo Salzani – Philosophy & Humanities. Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
• Sarah Trotter – Law, Legal theory and Human Rights. “The ethos of replaceability in European human rights law” in On Replacement. Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations (MacMillan, 2018)