Law in the First Person: Phenomenological and
Critical Approaches
30 November - 1 December 2012
Roundtable conference hosted by the Research Group in Legal Philosophy at Tilburg
University on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Bert van Roermund.
Whereas the September 2012 workshop drew on insights from analytical philosophy to
conceptualize law in the first person, this November roundtable conference invites leading
phenomenologists and critical theorists, in a broad sense of the latter expression, to
engage with the theme. In what ways might they both support and undermine a theory of
law in the first person which grants conceptual pride of place to collective identity as
sameness and as selfhood?
Friday 30 November
Venue: C 186, Cobbenhagen Building
Morning session
09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Bert van Roermund (Tilburg)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Petra Gehring (Darmstadt)
12:15
Lunch break
Afternoon session
13:30 Bernhard Waldenfels (Bochum)
14:45 Neil Walker (Edinburgh)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:15 Thomas Vesting (Frankfurt)
17:30-18:30 Drinks
Saturday 1 December
Venue: DZ 5, Dante Building
Morning session
9:30
Emilios Christodoulidis (Glasgow)
10.45 Coffee break
11:00 Johan van der Walt (Luxemburg)
12:15 Closure
Abstracts will be circulated to discussants in advance of the workshop, and there will be
about 30 minutes for discussion after each of the presentations.
To register for the workshop and receive the workshop abstracts, please contact the
secretariat of the department of Philosophy: TSH.DFI@UvT.nl
A map of the campus is available at: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/contact/campusmap/