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NOTES AND NEWS

ASLP SEMINARS

Professor Franco Venturi, Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin, and Visiting Fellow in the History of Ideas Unit, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, will give a public seminar on 'The Right to Punish: Cesare Beccaria and the Rise of Philosophical Radicalism1. The seminar will be held in the Staff Common Room, 13th floor , Law School, on Wednesday, 2 September, at 5.30 p.m. Discussion will be opened by Associate Professor Gordon Hawkins, Director of the Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney.

Professor Gianfranco Poggi, Professor of Sociology in the University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, will deliver a paper on 'Two Themes from Niki as Luhmann's Sociology of Law' (infra pp.4-19) on Thursday, 10 September, at 5.30 p.m. Discussion will be opened by Dr. Lyndel V. Prott of the Department of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney. The seminar will be held in the Staff Common Room, 13th floor, University of Sydney Law School.

Members are reminded of the ASLP National Seminar on Legal Theory and Social Philosophy, to be held at the University of Sydney Law School on 4-5 September. Prompt registration would be appreciated.

TENTH I.V.R. WORLD CONGRESS - MEXICO CITY, 29 JULY - 6 AUGUST, 1981.

Some 160 I.V.R. members from 30 countries attended the World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, hosted by the Mexican National Section of the I.V.R. under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Curiel y Benfield. The Congress, on the theme 'Law - The Principle of Economic, Political and Cultural Life in the Contemporary World', was opened by the President of the United States of Mexico, Lie. Jose Lopez Portillo, and discussed the role of law as a guiding principle in economics, politics and culture and the relation of law to social philosophy. Special symposia considered the ontological basis of law, legal obligation, natural law and positivism, the control of human behaviour and freedom, Eastern and Western conceptions of law, the analysis of law and problems of interpretation.

While the major speakers were drawn from a range of countries, including , German, Scandinavian, Japanese and Latin American legal philosophers were especially active in the more detailed discussions and symposia. Professors Eugene Kamenka and Alice Tay, from Australia, 2 presided over CongressIsessions as well as presenting papers; two other Australians, the Hon. Mr. Justice M.D. Kirby and Mr. A.W. Sparkes, submitted papers for publication in the Proceedings though they were unable to attend. The first four volumes of the Proceedings were published during the Congress; three more are scheduled to appear shortly.

The four Australian papers included in the Proceedings will be reprinted in the next issue of the ASLP Bulletin. They are A.E.-S. Tay, 'The Concept of Justice as Social Regulator - in Law, Politics, Economics and Culture', Eugene Kamenka, 'Marxism, Economics and Law', M.D. Kirby, 'Law, Reform and Economics', and A.W. Sparkes, 'The Right to be let Alone?'

ELEVENTH I.V.R. CONGRESS

The Eleventh I.V.R. World Congress will be held on 14-20 August, 1983, in Helsinki, Finland and will be hosted by the Philosophical Society of Finland and the Finnish Society for Legal Philosophy, under the chairmanship of Professor Aulis Aarnio. The Congress, devoted to the theme 'Philosophical Foundations of Legal and Social Sciences', will be held in the Finlandia Hall and will discuss ontological, epistemological and methodological problems of the legal and social sciences.

I.V.R. members wishing to attend, to submit papers or to receive further information should write to:

I.V.R. - 83 PL 157 SF-00171 Helsinki 17 FINLANDE.

LUND SYMPOSIUM

As a follow-up to the Eleventh World Congress, three Professors of Lund University in Sweden - Soren Hallddn, Aleksander Peczenik and Carl-Martin Roos - are organizing a conference on Legal Theory and the the Philosophy of Science to be held in Lund on 12-13 December, 1983. The Conference will discuss data of legal research; sources and evaluation of the law; the applicability of various methodological schools to legal research; rational legal discourse; paradigms of legal research; and cooperation between legal research and social science. Interested persons may write to:

Lundasymposiet i rattsfilosofi c/o Aleksander Peczenik Kallarekroken 34 S-222 47 LUND, SWEDEN. 3

VISITOR IN THE FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

Professor D.N. MacCormick, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the U.K. Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, is Visiting Professor in the Departments of Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney between July and September. For the Department of Jurisprudence, he has taught Undergraduate courses on Philosophical Jurisprudence and Law and Social Justice, and post-graduate courses on The Uses of Logic in the Service of Law and Aspects of Law and Justice. For the Department of Law he has taken tutorials in Administrative Law. He has also given a Public Lecture for the Faculty, on 'What is Wrong with Deceit?1.

Professor MacCormick has given lectures and papers to seminars in Law, Philosophy, and History of Ideas in Canberra, Wollongong, Melbourne, Sydney, and in New Zealand. He will also be participating in the ASLP National Seminar to be held in Sydney on 4-5 September, and will be lecturing in Brisbane.

Apart from his numerous articles in legal, philosophical and political journals, Professor MacCormick has published Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 1978) and H.L.A. Hart (Edward Arnold, 1981), the first volume in the series Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory under the general editorship of Professor William Twining. He has recently completed work on a book of his essays, to be published by Oxford University Press.

NEW EDITOR OF ASLP BULLETIN

Dr. Martin Krygier will shortly leave the Department of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney, to take up a position in the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. He will be replaced as Editor of the ASLP Bulletin by Mr. Roger Wilkins.