Présentation
Titulaire de la Chaire Villey 2019, Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence (Emeritus), Harvard Law School a choisi de consacrer sa chaire à deux séances de discussion sur ses travaux avec des doctorants et étudiants avancés
Programme
Jeudi 13 juin 2019
The Rise and Fall of The Western Legal Tradition
16h00 : Professor Duncan Kennedy
I) Method and objectives
Method of analysis : selection of sources and the research method in law
The concept of legal consciousness and the problem of unity within the system
II) The classical legal thoughtat the end of the 19th century : neutral private lawand state neutrality
Creating the public-private divide and defending the minimal state
Expression of this ideology in contract law
III) The realist and CLS critique of private law in the 20th century : ideology, background rules and state action
Questioning the public-private divide and state neutrality : conflicting considerations model, background rules of permission and how they directly structure economic struggle for ressources
A public law critique of contractlaw : redefining the freedom of contract
IV) Current usefulness of realist's and CLS' insights
What about Law and Economics ?
19h00 : Fin de la 1ère session
Vendredi 14 juin 2019
Legal Reasoning & Adjudication
16h00 : Professor Duncan Kennedy
I) Terms of the debate
Ideology
Liberalism/conservatism
Legal elite/intelligentsia
II) Adjudication vs Legislation : The specificity of the judge's function
The distinction between legislation and adjudication from a CLS's perspective
What are the specific constraints in adjudication ? Questionning the CLS's theory of interpretation in comparison with the US and french realist approach
III) The denial of ideology in adjudication and its consequences
Meaning and scope of themyth of the presence of ideology in adjudication : Birth and survival of this collective denial
Effects of adjudication in this context : moderation, empowerment, legitimation
IV) The critique of rights
Use of rights in adjudication and the influence of partisanship
Loss of faith in rights
19h00 : Fin de la 2ème session
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Deux séances de discussion des travaux du Pr. Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence (Emeritus), Harvard Law School, titulaire de la Chaire Villey 2019.