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 1^ère 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 2^ème session

Les séances sont ouvertes au public sans inscription, mais il est prudent de réserver une place dès que possible à l’adresse suivante : inst.mvilley@u-paris2.fr