The XXXI World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), entitled: “The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy”, was held from 7 to 12 July at Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea. The IVR congresses, held every two years, are the world’s largest academic conferences on philosophy of law and social philosophy. Representatives of the Department attended the congress: Prof. Marek Smolak, Michał Krotoszyński, PhD, Weronika Dzięgielewska, MA, Mateusz Grabarczyk, MA, and Wojciech Rzepiński, MA.
The head of the Department, Prof. Marek Smolak, gave a presentation on “Choosing Judicial Philosophies in Constitutional Interpretation” during a working group on the Methodology of law, which he also moderated.
Members of the Department organized two working panels. The first of these, entitled “Is Law (just) Code? Natural Language Processing and Law”, was organized by Weronika Dzięgielewska, MA, and Wojciech Rzepiński, MA, in cooperation with Dr Łukasz Szoszkiewicz (Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and Wojciech Biernacki, MA (Department of European Law, Faculty of Law, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań). During this panel, W. Dzięgielewska presented a paper entitled: “Translating Reasons to Defaults: Default Reasoning in Law and NLP”, while W. Rzepiński presented a paper entitled: “What We Need and What We Can Achieve: NLP and Legal Vocabulary, Concepts, Reasoning” – both presentations within the research project “Semantic analysis of reasons in legal situations”, financed by the Polish National Science Centre (2021/41/N/HS5/02507).
Dr. Michal Krotoszynski and M.A. Mateusz Grabarczyk organized a panel on “Conceptualizing Transitional Justice” to discuss transitional justice’s scope, meaning and theoretical framework. During this panel, M. Krotoszynski presented a paper entitled “Towards a Value-Driven Theory of Transitional Justice”, while M. Grabarczyk presented a paper entitled “Normative Model of Judicial Accountability: Transitional Justice Perspective” – presentation within the research project “Judging judicial independence – Judges’ liability from a transitional justice viewpoint” financed by the Polish National Science Centre (2021/41/N/HS5/02006).
In addition to the researchers mentioned above, the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań was also represented by Prof. Teresa Chirkowska-Smolak, who presented a paper entitled “Challenging the Rule of Law: Stress and Burnout in the Polish Judiciary During Constitutional Crisis” during the working group on Rule of Law.
The congress schedule can be found on the conference website.
