Rights Consciousness and Legal Cultures: Theoretical Perspectives
International workshop
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences
Institute for Legal Studies
Research Group for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
(This project is financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, NKFI-125520)
25 April 2018
Programme
9.30–9.40 Welcome addresses
Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz director, HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies
Balázs Fekete head of project, HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies
9.40–10.45 Keynote speech and discussion
- David Nelken (professor, King’s College London)
Legal culture and cultures of legality
10.45–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–12.30 Morning session
- Renata Uitz (professor, Central European University)
Human Rights as Counter-Culture: Troubles with Defending Counter-Majoritarian Claims in the Age of Populism - Petra Burai (legal advisor, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law; research partner, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
The cultural paradoxes of anti-corruption laws - Danilo Vuković (associate professor, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law)
Attitudes Towards the Rule of Law in Contemporary Serbia: A Coherent Legal Culture?
12.30–13.00 Buffet lunch
13.00–15.00 Afternoon session
- Mateja Čehulić (assistant, University of Zagreb Faculty of Law)
Conceptualization of legal culture within structural functionalism - Ioan-Mihai Popa (fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
From court to television: Legal mobilization and the ‘shadow’ of the European Court of Human Rights in the Romanian public sphere - Tilen Štajnpihler Božič (associate professor, Faculty of Law in Ljubljana) – Mojca M. Plesničar (research associate, Institute of Criminology Ljubljana)
Developing legal consciousness in legal education: Using Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and theory of the juridical field - Antonija Petričušić (associate professor, University of Zagreb Faculty of Law) – Dario Čepo (assistant professor, University of Zagreb Faculty of Law)
Legal Field as a Site of Value Contestation: Contesting Parental Religious Freedom to the Right to (Secular) Education
Workshop venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies
1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4. Institute for Legal Studies Meeting Room (wing T ground floor 0.25)
Participation is free upon registration.
Please register by 18 April 2018 at fekete.balazs@tk.mta.hu