KDEC 9055 - Legal Regulation in postmodern times through a Benthamian Lens — Pedagogical Programmes and Course Directory

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Description

This research seminar intends to examine what insights and perspectives can be drawn from the thought of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in order to understand several aspects of contemporary legal phenomena and open new and original perspectives for legal and political analysis, The major assumption is that what Bentham wrote about the nature and goals of legislation is relevant and illuminating and allows imagining new theoretical and practical perspectives. Several scholars will successively ponder over the following topics:

Can there be a moral calculus?

From Law to Indirect Legislation: Norms and Actions in Bentham's Philosophy

Law and literature, law as literature, law in literature

Post-Modern Regulation: Non-legal Normativity in "From Bentham to Biopolitics and Nudges"

Explaining the 'force' of the law: is epistemic panlegalism a safe political stance?

Conceptual transfers and circulation of legal ideas: a comparative study of Bentham's English and French Writings

Assessment

Attendance

Workload

Attendance and debate

Readings

Main readings 1

Bentham J., An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996, also available at http://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html.

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Teaching units

Unit no.	Unit type	Teaching units	Teachers	Number of hours	Credits
52300	Cours séminaire	Legal Regulation in postmodern times through a Benthamian Lens	Claire WROBEL, Malik BOZZO-REY, Emmanuelle DE CHAMPS, Anne BRUNON-ERNST, Benjamin BOURCIER	12	2

KDEC 9055 - Legal Regulation in postmodern times through a Benthamian Lens