Wydział Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytet Warszawski

Dziekan Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
prof. dr hab. Tomasz Giaro
zaprasza na wykład im. Leona Petrażyckiego pod tytułem
The Autonomy of Legal Doctrine. Its Merit in the Process of Social Differentiation
który wygłosi prof. Ralf Poscher
z Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law.

Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw
prof. dr hab. Tomasz Giaro
cordially invites to a Leon Petrażycki's Lecture titled
The Autonomy of Legal Doctrine. Its Merit in the Process of Social Differentiation
which will be given by prof. Ralf Poscher
from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law.

Wykład odbędzie się w Sali Balowej w Pałacu Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich
12 października 2022 r. (środa) o godz. 18:00.

Wykład zostanie wygłoszony w języku angielskim.

The lecture will take place in Sala Balowa at the Pałac Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich
October 12th, 2022 (Wednesday) at 18:00.

The lecture will be conducted in English.

Zarys wykładu

In contrast to most positions in legal methodology, a careful analytical reconstruction of legal hermeneutics reveals that the doctrinal development of the law can be specifically legal, even in cases of legal indeterminacy. Phenomenologically speaking, modern Western legal systems have embraced this theoretical possibility and established a sphere of legal argumentation that is, to some degree, autonomous from other areas of knowledge and discourse. Early legal sociologists and kindred spirits of Leon Petrażycki, such as Eugen Ehrlich or François Gény, were exasperated by this characteristic of modern legal systems. Instead of relying on arcane doctrinal arguments, they recommended resorting to sociological findings or economic insights to develop the law in cases of legal indeterminacy. On the one hand, this talk will show that the bewilderment of these early socio-legal scholars was well founded; on the other hand, it will offer an explanation for this astounding feature of modern legal systems in the context of social differentiation.

O prelegencie

Legal scholar Ralf Poscher is a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (formerly Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law). At the Freiburg Institute he is setting up a Department of Public Law. Ralf Poscher has been a professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Freiburg since 2009. He has held the position of dean of the Faculty of Law since 2018. From 2013 to 2018, he was managing director of the Centre for Security and Society (CSS) at the University of Freiburg. He previously held a professorship at the Law Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. Earlier stations in his academic career include the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, the Faculty of Law of the University of Osaka, Japan, and the Humboldt University in Berlin.