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Law as Culture Max Weber‘s Comparative Cultural Sociology of Law

Bonn, October 25-27, 2012Käte Hamburger Centre “Law as Culture”

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Law as Culture Max Weber‘s Comparative Cultural Sociology of Law

programThursday, 25 October 2012

10:00 am Welcome address:Werner Gephart (Bonn)

Word of welcome:Paul Geyer (Bonn)

10:30 am Opening lecture:Dieter Engels (Bonn):Max Weber und die Entwicklung des parlamentarischen Minderheitenrechts

10:45 am I. On the genesis of the workModeration: Louis Assier-Andrieu

Werner Gephart (Bonn):The “Rechtssoziologie” as a cultural sociology of law

Siegfried Hermes (Bonn):The “meat grinder” of concepts. Conceptualization and editorial philology

Francois Chazel (Paris):Lire la sociologie weberienne du droit

12:30 pm Lunch

2:00 pm II. Receptions and images of WeberModeration: Sam Whimster

Edith Hanke (Munich):Recht als Herrschaft und die Herrschaft des Rechts. Anmerkungen zum komplizierten Verhältnis von Herrschafts- und Rechtssoziologie

Christopher Adair-Toteff (Tampa, FL):Max Weber’s legal thing: Why read his “Recht” (law and legitimacy)?

Uta Gerhardt (Heidelberg):Talcott Parsons‘ unknown sociology of law: A Weberian legacy?

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Masahiro Noguchi (Kyoto):The experience of legal-cultural interaction and selective reception of Weber’s so-called sociology of law in Japan

4:00 pm Break

5:00 pm III. Contexts and controversies for the history of science: Max Weber’s sociology of law as an “interdisciplinary” projectModeration: Philipp Stoellger

Gerhard Dilcher (Frankfurt):Historical social science as a means of handling modernity – Max Weber and Otto von Gierke compared

Hubert Treiber (Hannover):The legal pluralism movement’s ambivalence towards Max Weber

6:30 pm Vernissage to the exposition by Werner Gephart – “Max Weber and the law”Introduction: Dieter Ronte (Bonn)

Reception

Friday, 26 October 2012

9:30 am IV. In the realm of the normative: Normative ordersModeration: Werner Gephart

Andreas Anter (Leipzig):Order in law. What does Weber mean when he speaks of “order” in his sociology of law?

Hinnerk Bruhns (Paris): Wirtschaftsordnung, -stufe, -system und -verband. Zur Begrifflichkeit Webers

11:00 am V. In the sea of legal histories: Conditions for the development of law (I)Moderation: Andreas Anter

Eckart Otto (Munich):Max Weber’s image of Jewish law

Martin Schermaier (Bonn):Jus and fas in the process of occidental rationalization

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12:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm VI. In the sea of legal histories: Conditions for the development of law (II)Moderation: Martin Schermaier

Andreas Thier (Zurich):Max Weber’s interpretation of medieval canon law and the narratives of Western legal history

Philipp Stoellger (Rostock):Max Weber und das Recht des Protestantismus

Xujun Gao (Shanghai):Max Weber on traditional Chinese law

3:30 pm Break

4:30 pm VII. In the sea of legal histories: Conditions for the development of law (III)Moderation: Christopher Adair-Toteff

Olivier Beaud (Paris):Ce qu’un juriste de droit public peut apprendre de la lecture de Weber

Sam Whimster (London):Property in law. Max Weber and Henry Sumner Maine

Marta Bucholc (Warsaw):Max Weber and the contemporary Polish sociology of law – a case of a missing perspective?

6:30 pm Dinner

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9:30 am VIII. The formal qualities of modern law and the irrationality of modernityModeration: Johannes Weiß

Magdi Youssef (Cairo):Intercultural reflections about Max Weber’s substantive vs. formal rationality

Joachim Savelsberg (Minneapolis, MN): The role of formal and substantive rationality in Max Weber’s sociology of law in the context of international criminal law

José M. González García (Madrid):Legal analysis as “cultural science”: Max Weber and Kafka

11:00 am Break

12:00 pm IX. Universal history of law and the project of globalizationModeration: Werner Gephart

Matthias Koenig (Göttingen):Freedom of religion – an occidental pattern of differentiation and its global institutionalization

Upendra Baxi (Delhi):Max Weber and the human rights debate in a globalized world

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Christopher Adair-Toteff (Tampa): Philosopher, senior researcher at the University ofKent, professorships and teaching activities at the American University in Bulgaria and at Mississippi State University, on research committee of the American Sociological Association, founding member of the International Social Theory Consortium.

Martin Albrow (London) Sociologist, principle research associate at the London Schoolof Economics, China in Comparative Perspective Network, professor emeritus at the University of Wales, fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law asCulture”.

Andreas Anter (Leipzig): Political scientist, sociologist and German studies scholar, professor for political science at the University of Leipzig, senior research fellow at theCentre for European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen, formerly program director at Reclam publishing Leipzig.

Upendra Baxi (Delhi): Legal scholar, professor at the Universities of South Gujarat andDelhi, the law schools of Washington College, Duke University, the Universities of Warwick,New York and Toronto, currently fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study“Law as Culture”.

Olivier Beaud (Paris): Legal scholar, professor of public law at the University of PanthéonAssas (Paris-II), director of the Michel Villey institute, president of the association Qualitéde la science française.

Hinnerk Bruhns (Paris): Historian, social scientist, emeritus research director at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CNRS), editor of the e-journal Trivium, member of the editorial board of Max Weber Studies, chairman of the scientific advisory council of ZiF, Bielefeld.

Marta Bucholc (Warsaw): Sociologist, assistant professor for sociology at the Universityof Warsaw, holder of i.a. the Florian Znaniecki award of the Polish Sociological Association,currently fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Culture”.

François Chazel (Paris): Sociologist, emeritus professor at the University of Paris-Sor-bonne (Paris IV), professor at the Université de Bordeaux II and researcher at GEMASS,director of the Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées (ISHA).

Gerhard Dilcher (Frankfurt): Legal historian, emeritus professor for German history of law, church law und civil law at Goethe University, teaching activities and professorship atthe law faculty of Freie Universität Berlin, currently visiting professorship at the Universityof Trent, Italy.

Dieter Engels (Bonn): Lawyer, president of the German Federal Court of Auditors, honorary professor at the Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften in Speyer,chairman of the Federal Personnel Committee.

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Xujun Gao (Shanghai): Director of the German- and EU-Law Center at the law school ofTongji University (Shanghai), chair for private economic law at the Chinesisch-DeutschesHochschulkolleg (CDHK), currently fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for AdvancedStudy “Law as Culture”.

Werner Gephart (Bonn): Legal scholar, sociologist and artist, director of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Culture”, numerous visiting professor-ships, editor of the volume “Recht” of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe (MWG I/22,3).

Uta Gerhardt (Heidelberg): Sociologist, teaching activity and professorships inter alia atthe Universities of Berlin, Konstanz, London and Heidelberg, research stays in the UK andUSA, former member of the directorate of the German Sociological Association (GSA).

Paul Geyer (Bonn): Romance languages scholar, professor for romance philology anddean of the faculty of philosophy at the University of Bonn, former chairman of the Deut-scher Romanistenverband, director of the Bonn Italy Centre.

José M. González García (Madrid): Philosopher, sociologist, professor at the ConsejoSuperior de Investigaciones Científicas, numerous visiting professorships, recipient of Premio Nacional de Ensayo, former fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for AdvancedStudy “Law as Culture”.

Edith Hanke (Munich): Historian, scientific editor at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, director general of the Max Weber complete edition, member of the editorial board of “Max Weber Studies”.

Siegfried Hermes (Bonn): Sociologist, co-editor of the volume “Recht” of the Max-Weber-Gesamtausgabe (MWG I/22,3), doctoral thesis on the representation of patri-monialism in Max Weber‘s Herrschaftssoziologie, currently project manager at ASIIN.

Matthias Koenig (Göttingen): Sociologist, professor for sociology of religion at the University of Göttingen, teaching activities and visiting professorships inter alia at the Universities of Michigan and Paris, currently fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity.

Masahiro Noguchi (Kyoto): sociologist, assistant professor at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, doctoral thesis on Max Weber’s sociology of culture and political theory: “Kampf und Kultur. Max Webers Theorie der Politik aus der Sicht seiner Kultur-soziologie”, Berlin 2005.

Eckart Otto (Munich): Theologian, professor in ordinary for the Old Testament at the University of Munich, numerous guest professorships, editor of volume I/21.1–2 of theMax-Weber-Gesamtausgabe: Die Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen. Das antike Juden-tum. Schriften 1911–1920.

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Dieter Ronte (Bonn): Art historian, former director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, member of the scientific advisory board of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Lawas Culture”, numerous publications, especially on the art of the 20th century.

Joachim Savelsberg (Minneapolis): Sociologist, professor at the department of sociology,University of Minnesota, numerous publications on law, human rights, and collective memory, co-author of “American Memories: Atrocities and the Law” (2011).

Martin Schermaier (Bonn): Legal scholar, director of the Institute for Roman Law andComparative Legal History, teaching activities in Salzburg and Regensburg, co-editor ofthe Savigny-Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte, former fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centrefor Advanced Study “Law as Culture”.

Philipp Stoellger (Rostock): Theologian and philosopher, professor for systematic theo-logy and philosophy of religion, fellowships i.a. at Yale University Law School, the Institutefor Advanced Study in Berlin and the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Lawas Culture”.

Andreas Thier (Zurich): Legal scholar, Professor for Legal History, Church Law and LegalTheory in connection with Civil Law and Director of the Centre for Legal History at the lawfaculty of the University of Zurich, member of the editorial board of the Savigny-Zeitschriftfür Rechtsgeschichte.

Hubert Treiber (Hannover): Sociologist, political scientist and philosopher, emeritus professor for Administrative Studies, science award “Recht und Gesellschaft” of the Christa-Hoffmann-Riem-Stiftung awarded by the Deutsche “Vereinigung für Rechts-soziologie”, numerous fellowships.

Sam Whimster (London) Sociologist, London Metropolitan University, along with HansHenrik Bruun editor of Max Weber’s “Collected Methodological Writings”, currently fellowat the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Culture”.

Magdi Youssef (Cairo): Professor of Arabic literature, president of the International Association of Intercultural Studies (IAIS), visiting professorships inter alia at the Uni-versities of Cologne, Bonn and Dublin.

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