Dr Edward Kanterian, from the Department of Philosophy, is organising a one-day workshop, focusing on the relation between the legal and political order in constitutional democracies in a time of crisis.
Entitled ‘Legality and Legitimacy: From Weimar 1932 to Bucharest 2012?’, the workshop will take the Weimar crisis of 1932 as a departure point, to investigate the contrast between Carl Schmitt’s and Hans Kelsen’s approach to this crisis in order to gain insights about the recent constitutional crises in Romania and Hungary.
The workshop will be based on a close reading of selected chapters in David Dyzenhaus’ monograph Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar (1999), and the application of his findings to recent developments in Romania and Hungary.
The workshop is interdisciplinary. Participants include members of the departments of philosophy, law and international studies of the University of Kent, and members of the EU Commission, and decision-makers in the Romanian and Hungarian political and legal systems.
The workshop will be held on Saturday, 6 April 2013, 11:00-16:00, at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) at Brussels Pleinlaan 5, 1050 Brussels.
Participating institutions include the Kent’s departments of BSIS, Philosophy, Law, the University of Bucharest’s Department of Political Science, and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice.