Two definitions of illegality have come down from Ulpian. Those two definitions were  developed by the French ius commune into two theories of illegality. In the course of the Austrian and French codifications the differences between the two theories were, to a large extent, lost in the background. However, in the second half of the 19th century, they remerged due to developments in Swiss law and have since then given rise to the discussion about so-called “objective” and “subjective” illegality.

On November 18, 2010, 19:30 s.t. at Juridicum II – Hörsaal Schenkenstrasse Prof. Bénédict Wininger will outline  – in a lecture in German – the historical and theoretical background of this debate and assess whether, 2000 years later, Ulipan was right with his two, apparently controversial, definitions after all.

The Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, The Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law, Vienna, and FOWI – Research Institute for Central and Eastern European Business Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business announce their first annual IGLP Austrian Workshop “Law as a Regulatory Device”, 15 to 21 August 2010 at Schloss Seggau, Austria.

The IGLP Austrian Workshop is modelled on the annual IGLP Workshop, the first of which took place at Harvard Law School in June 2010. It is an intensive six day residential program designed for doctoral and post-doctoral scholars. The IGLP Austrian Workshop 2010 focuses on one general theme: the discussion of law as a regulatory device. This topic will be discussed in the context of debates on the current economic and social crisis. In the tradition of IGLP (and the European Law Research Centre) research, the IGLP Austrian Workshop aims at promoting alternative approaches and innovative ideas about global law, economic policy and social justice. It aims to bring together scholars from different areas of expertise such as law, economics and finance. (more…)