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SPECIAL WORKSHOP TITLE: Legal Theory Education: Building

Bridges into the Future


CHAIR: Lorenz Schulz
LANGUAGE: English
CONTACT: l.schulz@jur.uni-frankfurt.de

The globalization and internationalization of law and, consequently, legal


education point to the need for reconsidering the foundations of law
(jurisprudence/legal theory/legal philosophy, legal sociology, legal history)
in order to provide students of law with the essential contexts of law and
with a tool-set for understanding complex legal problems properly thereby
enabling true solutions. A specific trait and momentum of contemporary
globalization is the increasing role of modern technology in general and
specifically for legal research and research technology skills within legal
education. Thus, the IT medium is not only one of several media of law but
the guiding one provoking a reconsideration of traditional issues of legal
theory (such as the rule of strictness or truth in law).
The organizing EALT (www.legaltheory.eu) provides long lasting
experience in developing and realizing educational programs in legal
theory as well as providing a platform for a mutual exchange of ideas and
experience in legal theory education among different institutions all over
Europe and on a global scale. This experience stems mostly from two
decades running an LLM program at Brussels roughly in between 1990 and
2010. More recently, this program was relocated at Goethe University
Frankfurt on broader European shoulders. Moreover, it has been adapted to
contemporary conditions for legal theory. It has been running now for three
years.
The workshop intends to share experience among international experts in
organizing educational programs in legal theory. This includes programs
focusing specific aspects of legal theory. Best practice examples among
current programs and/or projects and future trends and needs for new and
innovative responses from stakeholders in the field of legal theory
education shall be identified.
The workshop aims at treating essentials in teaching legal theory by
coming to terms with the international diversity in academic institutions.
More practically, the workshop intends to provide a global map in teaching
legal theory (eventually leading to a website service for students searching
for a program in legal theory and young scholars in legal theory looking for
an orientation in global studies in legal theory).
Presentations will address one of the following topics:
a) general aims of educating legal theory a transnational view facing
current challenges of legal theory education
b) solutions to current and future challenges specifically regarding new
research technologies
c) best practice examples of innovative legal theory and research
methodology & technology education.
The Workshop addresses these questions only partly based on papers
previously distributed amongst the participants. Most central are the reports
and considerations of leading scholars in international legal theory,
cooperating either within the IVR or the network of EALT. Thus, if there is
no abstract/paper presented in the congress materials, typically the program
headings will tell you what a presentation is about.
Congress participants may ask to get on the mailing list of the Special
Workshop to receive more information. There will be a reception of EALT
during the congress to enable informal contacts and communications.
Contact: l.schulz@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
Notabene (1) EALT plans to provide access to the presented papers in
the context of the mentioned online service.
(2) EALT plans to convene a gathering of EALT alumni and
interested students and other guests Wednesday evening.
List of lecturers/presentations (according to continents/countries):

Monday, 17 July, 2017

I. Teaching Legal Theory in Europe


14:30 Lorenz Schulz (Goethe University Frankfurt on
Main/Germany)

The LLM Legal Theory at Goethe University Frankfurt and


other universities of the EALT Network: European Co-
operation and Best Practice in Legal Theory Education - Past,
Present, Future (www.legaltheory.eu)

14.50 / 15.10
- Pierluigi Chiassioni (Genova University)
(tbc)
On the the LLM program Global Rule of Law and
Constitutional Democracy in Genova
(http://istitutotarello.org/studyprograms/master/)
- Emilios Christodoloudis and/or George Pavlakos (Glasgow
University) (tbc)
On the Ph.D.- program at Glasgow / Kiel / Tilburg
("Globalisation and Legal Theory")
(www.phdlegaltheory.org)

II. Teaching Legal Theory in Asia (esp. China)

15.30 / 15.50 n.n.


(on China)
16.30 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00
III. Teaching Legal Theory in the Americas

17.30 n.n.
(South America)
18.00 Fred Schauer (University of Virginia) (tbc)
Legal Education as Graduate Education: The North American
Model

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