UCL BENTHAM PROJECT NEW DIRECTIONS IN BENTHAM STUDIES Friday 13 December 2013 9:30 am – 6:00 pm Moot Court, Bentham House Faculty of Laws, University College London Chair: Professor Philip Schofield (UCL) 9.30am Registration in Keeton Room 9.50am Philip Schofield (UCL) Welcome 10.00am Angela Marciniak (Universität Lüneburg) Bentham’s conception of security and its influences on his democratic theory 11.00am Tea and coffee in Keeton Room 11.30am Paola Rudan (Università di Bologna) The Constitutional Code of Society 12.30pm Lunch in Keeton Room 1.30pm Emmanuelle de Champs (Université Paris 8) Placing Jeremy Bentham in a French Context: problems and methods 2.30pm Anne Brunon-Ernst (Université Paris II) Bentham, Foucault and Biopolitics 3.30pm Tea and coffee in Keeton Room 4pm Guillaume Tusseau (Sciences Po) The Failure of Legal Emancipatory Discourse: Jeremy Bentham and the (Too Strong) Force of a Law 5pm Tim Causer (UCL) Kris Grint (UCL) An update on Transcribe Bentham 5.30pm Philip Schofield (UCL) Closing remarks