Séminaire: PG Monateri - Délit poltique de sorcellerie Angleterre XVI-XVII siècles - Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Le délit politique »,  nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir

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Pier Giuseppe Monateri

Professeur de droit privé comparé à l'Université de Turin

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Le délit politique de sorcellerie en Angleterre

sous Elisabeth 1ère et Jacques 1er

  

salle 7

105 bd Raspail

Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

15h à 17h

CENJ "Yan Thomas" - 105 Boulevard Raspail - 75006 PARIS - 01.53.63.51.68

Methods in Comparative Law: An Intellectual Overview (Russian)

The article is intended to be a brief summary of the basic tenets of this kind of approach to Law, in order to introduce the reader to the steps to be followed in using this method. In this sense, the Author will apply the formant approach with the aim both to dismantle the ideological substrate veiled by conventional views and to discover the deeper potentialities of Comparative Law. This kind of «aletheic» operation, meant as the generative source of the interpretative tradition, allows to discuss and to reassess three main issues: 1. the nature of comparative law as academic discipline and its aiming to provide tools for global governance of the legal field in today’s world; 2. the process of definition of Legal Origins and law reforms made by the World Bank; 3. the Jurisprudential implications of this approach.

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Four Lives of Liberal Scholars (Vite di Giuristi Liberali)

In a 4 articles set P.G.Monateri connects the lives and thoughts of four among the major law and liberal Italian thinkers : Pasquale Mancini, Emanuele Gianturco, Guido Astuti and Gino Gorla.

All the articles, to be inserted in the forthcoming Dizionario del liberalismo, are downloadable at academia.edu clicking HERE

Pasquale Mancini is the well-known founder of Italian International Law, a deep thinker of the concept of nation, who became the private educator of King Umberto I, and ended his rich political career within the context of the rising Italian imperialism in Eritrea.

Emanuele Gianturco has been one of the most intriguing and controversial figures of liberalism and legal theory ranging his activities from the clash between classical and modern legal paradigms, from participation to many cabinets, to the nationalization of railroads.

Guido Astuti, a prominent legal historian, became member of the Constitutional Assembly, and led the liberal party during the crucial decisions which framed the Italian political landscape in the second after-war.

Gino Gorla is deemed to be the founding father of modern Italian comparative law as an academic discipline. He based his reflections on a study of Tocqueville which is still of great and innovative impact, especially opposing an "aristocratic" versus "democratic" notion of individual rights and liberalism.

Schmitt as Comparative Lawyer

In questo articolo la teoria di Schmitt viene apprezzata più dal punto di vista del diritto comparato che della filosofia del

diritto, mostrando come tale chiave di lettura offra più possibilità interpretative, specie in relazione a Leo Strauss, da un lato, e al sorgere del realismo politico

americano di Morgenthau, dall'altro.

...Tutto ciò impica, ovviamente, un ritorno, attraverso della comparazione, del pensiero giuridico al pensiero del politico. Nel senso preciso per cui il maschile del termine italiano vuole tradurre il neutro del tedesco Das Politisch, con punto o alcun riferimento alla politica, e meno che mai alla mera questione del governo efficace del mondo, ma alla dimensione stessa dell’esistenza storica in quanto esistenza sospesa tra la possibilità dell’ auto-affermazione e dell’annichilimento.

Una tale ‘teoria del politico’, fondata sullo stato di eccezione, cessa quindi di essere una mera teoria della ‘decisione per la risolutezza’, come disse una volta Loewith,^[1] e diviene invece la concreta rappresentazione di origini genealogiche, mantenute come principi legali di ordinamento....

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^[1] Cfr. K. Loewith, Marx, Weber, Schmitt, Laterza, Roma, 1994, p. 137.

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The Language of Law

La lingua della Legge: Traduzione, Ontologia e Governo. [Formato Kindle]

P. G. Monateri (Autore)

Sinossi

Sinossi. Un coroner non è un medico legale, uno Czar non è un Kaiser, e un contract non è un contratto. Se la legge è performativa, e crea i suoi oggetti, allora da un punto di vista ‘scientifico’ la legge non può essere tradotta. Tuttavia è ormai tempo di abbandonare questi stilemi dello scientismo linguistico, e tornare verso una considerazione ‘iconica’ della lingua. Si tratta quindi, forse, di reimpostare la ‘traduttologia’ ripartendo esplicitamente dall’ ontologia linguistica di Benjamin, verso la considerazione della intralingua come soglia fra le lingue, per giungere alla fine, proprio in relazione con lo ‘stato di eccezione’, a considerare quella che l’A. Individua come la natura ‘letteraria’ del politico. 

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Understanding the Civil Law

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This a brief sketch of the Civil Law Tradition. Conceived mainly for teaching purposes, it lays out the historical background of Civil Law and its two main versions: the French and the German. Finally it outlines few notes on the difficulties to compare Civil and Common Law, and it includes major standard references on the topic.

Anyway the main purpose of this writing is to question the relevance of legal origins as stated by the World Bank and the movement of Law and Finance.

My theory is that the major differences between common law and civil law are due to political modernity and not to romantic distant origins.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 14

Keywords: Civil law, common law, english law, french law, german law, legal history, comparative law, roman law, sources of law, legal theory, legal origins, world bank

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Diritto e Letteratura. "Apocalypse Now" tra lo Stato di Eccezione e l'analisi letteraria

Il paper analizza la rappresentazione della Legge in Apocalypse Now. L'intero film è infatti costruito su problemi legali e intorno ad una trama in cui si ripiegano in modo nuovo gli ovvi riferimenti a Conrad, che ne sostengono la storia. In questo modo la trama stessa finirà per mostrarsi nella produzione del proprio senso grazie al ‘lavoro della citazione’ che apre dei link , molto rigorosi, verso altri autori, restituendo non già una dispersione del senso, ma anzi una sua definita chiusura rispetto alle molteplici letture possibili del lavoro su cui si basa. Quello che potremmo chiamare ‘effetto Coppola’ appare quindi come una torsione barocca, necessaria per dare un significato preciso alla legge, e specialmente ai diritti umani, quale tipica ‘ossessione americana’ con riferimento alla guerra e alle situazioni di eccezione...

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Ginsburg, Monateri and Parisi on the "Classics of Comparative Law"

Classics In Comparative Law Tom Ginsburg , Pier G. Monateri , Francesco Parisi Download the introduction at ssrn.com Edited by Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago, US, Pier Giuseppe Monateri, Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law of New York, US and Professor of Law, University of Turin, Italy and Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, US and Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy 2800 pp  See the Book...click Here Description Comparative law is a field with a rich history, and one to which scholars from many disciplines have contributed. This four-volume set includes an original introduction by the editors, who trace the major developments in the field, covering both private and public law, as well as legal institutions and methodological debates. Encompassing more than a century of scholarship, the collection includes a number of the most enduring articles from several disciplinary perspectives and will be an essential resource for the study of comparative law. Contents 76 articles, dating from 1903 to 2010 Contributors include: P.S. Atiyah, G. Calabresi, M. Damaška, J. Elster, L. Fuller, H. Kelsen, K. Llewellyn, R. Posner, R. Pound, A. Watson Further information Comparative law is a field with a rich history, and one to which scholars from many disciplines have contributed. This four-volume set includes an original introduction by the editors, who trace the major developments in the field, covering both private and public law, as well as legal institutions and methodological debates. Encompassing more than a century of scholarship, the collection includes a number of the most enduring articles from several disciplinary perspectives and will be an essential resource for the study of comparative law. Full table of contents Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Tom Ginsburg, Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Francesco Parisi PART I THE METHOD OF COMPARATIVE LAW 1. Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. (1903), ‘The History of Comparative Jurisprudence’ 2. Roscoe Pound (1955), ‘Comparative Law in Space and Time’ 3. Alan Watson (2000), ‘Law Out of Context’ 4. O. Kahn-Freund (1974), ‘On Uses and Misuses of Comparative Law’ 5. H.C. Gutteridge ([1949] 1971), ‘The Process of Comparison’ PART II LEGAL TRANSPLANTS AND GLOBALIZATION OF LAW 6. Alan Watson (1993), ‘Comparative Law as an Academic Discipline’ 7. Pierre Legrand (1997), ‘The Impossibility of “Legal Transplants”’ 8. Roderick A. Macdonald (1985), ‘Understanding Civil Law Scholarship in Quebec’ 9. A.N. Yiannopoulos (1980), ‘Louisiana Civil Law: A Lost Cause?’ 10. Edward M. Wise (1990), ‘The Transplant of Legal Patterns’ 11. Duncan Kennedy (2006), ‘Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850–2000’ 12. William Twining (2004), ‘Diffusion of Law: A Global Perspective’ 13. Pierre Legrand (1996), ‘European Legal Systems Are Not Converging PART III COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY 14. E. Adamson Hoebel (1954), ‘The Cultural Background of Law read more.....

Il Riccardo di III di Ian McKellen e l'Angelo dell'Anomia

The aim of this paper, written in Italian, is to uncover the subtle links created by McKellen's relocation of Shakespeare's drama in the context of Nazism, passing through the varying political theories on Tyranny, Dictatorship and Despotism, to show how much this work of art anticipated the oncoming debate on the state of exception as the black hole around which the whole of the western legal tradition has been built and crafted.

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RULES V. OUTCOMES: NEW RADICAL APPROACHES TO THE INCOSISTENCIES OF PROPERTY RIGHTS ANALYSIS

Abstract:  the aim of my paper is to show that a consistent economic analysis brought to its logical conclusions should destroy any theory of property rights, and as such it is inconsistent with its own premises, and especially with the ideological presuppositions of quite all of its folloers. The suggested alternative here is a kind of “reversed” Hayek: I mean an active use of historicism and institutional analysis from a political stendpoint that is preciseply contrary to the right wing approach that has been sponsorized by Hayek.

My conclusion is then that maybe we must start afresh from the Scottish Enlightment, which founded the basis of the present analysis of ownership and ownerhip economies, following the Austrian School of Economics toward  radically very different political positions.

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Judges as an "Elite": The Case of Italy

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In the last decades, several factors have transformed the morphology of Italian legal system, so to create a perceptible different assess of the equilibrium among powers and formants and to mould, in a renovated way, the overall relationship between Law, Politics and Justice. The Italian judiciary (magistratura) has been re-organized along lines radically dissimilar to those followed in common law systems.
After examining all the data: the number of judges in office, the percentage of represented genders, the amount of cases and the overloading of the legal system, the aim of this paper is to show that a major characteristic of the legal professions in Italy is the almost complete lack of lateral movement among personnel. Career decisions must be made early; for example, applicants for the judiciary must be no more than thirty years of age. Promotion of judges, prosecutors, and state’s attorneys is largely dependent on seniority.
My theory is that the unwanted result of all this has been both a Judicialization of Italian Legal System and a politicization of the judiciary through the CSM as a peculiar Italian institution, re-defining the Italian Legal Style

Presented at the Proceedings of the International Academy of Comparative Law

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The Ontology of Non Peculiary Losses

Author follows the Supreme Court evolving cases in delineating a real 'ontology' of non pecuniary losses and damages, distinguishing pure moral and physical injuries from 'existential' suffering, as a damage to the Person, and not to her Body, recoverable per se, when her fundamental rights are infringed.


L'autore condivide e apprezza l'opera di chiarificazione effettuata dalla Corte di Cassazione nel delineare le differenze ontologiche tra danno morale, biologico ed esistenziale, consentendo la risarcibilità di quest'ultimo in modo del tutto autonomo e scganciato da ogni riferimento al biologico. Si tratta non solo di un'operazione giuridicamente corretta, ma di civiltà : impedire la riduzione della Persona al suo corpo.

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Monateri on Tobacco Litigation in Italy

P.G.Monateri commenting the Italian Supreme Court decision 

Author tries to show that the case in favor of tobacco producers strict liability is very feeble,and its adoption would insulate Italian Law from world developing theories on tort law and its functions.


"L' autore non condivide il precedente di Cassazione che applica l'art. 2050 alla produzione e smercio di sigarette. Si tratta di una decisione unica nel mondo nel senso di rivolgersi alla 'strict liability' in casi regolati dalla colpa o da dolo (i punitive damages cases negli USA). 
Non vi sono ragioni per ricorrere alla responsabilità oggettiva, questa è costraria al diritto europeo, e isola l'Italia dal resto del mondo."

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Monateri on Cir vs Fininvest

Commento a CIR vs FININVEST. Cass. 21255-2013. A Government from the Judges, by the Judges and for the Judges.

L'autore contrasta la decisione della Cassazione sulla base di considerazioni generali. La principale della quali è il ritorno attuale alla pratica dello Judicare tamquan Deus dei Grandi Tribunali prima dell'avvento della modernità... more

Research Interests: 

Risarcimento Del Danno, Responsabilità Civile, and Torts

Monateri and Chiaves on Italian Tort Law

A newer Book from Kluwer international

A new International book is forthcoming,

affording the whole area of Italian Tort Law in English.

Monateri and Chiaves, International Encyclopaedia for Tort Law - National Monographs   - Italy

The book reached its 3d edition, as a classic in transitional fields;  a complete textbook in comparative law courses for Erasmus and foreign students; a useful guide for worldwide lawyering ….

http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?area=Looseleafs&mode=bypub&level=6&values=Looseleafs~~IEL+Tort+Law~National+Monographs~Italy

In the Shadow of an Absent Law. Human Rights and Terror from Eliot to Coppola via Conrad and Brooks

"A Presentation Held at the Annual Meeting of Italian Association of Law and Literature (AIDEL) analyzing the way Coppola produces meaning through deferral giving the Human Rights content to the faceless horrors of Conrad's Kurtz, via... more

Publication Date: 2013

Publication Name: Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin

Research Interests: 

Law and Literature, Literary Theory, Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola, T.S. Eliot,and 3 more

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Legge, Linguaggio e Costume. Lezioni Magistrali a Suor Orsola Benincasa

L'autore cerca di analizzare l'ambiguo senso dei termini legge e costume con riferimento al problema della articolazione linguistica della legge, per giungere alla considerazione controintuitiva di rivalutare i valori della 'modernità'... more...

More Info: http://www.ibs.it/code/9788863425529/monateri-p--giuseppe/legge-linguaggio-costume.html
Publisher: ESI
Publication Date: 2013

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Research Interests: 

Soft Law, Globalizzazione, Globalization, Hayek, Savigny's Volkgeist Theory, and 6 more