O professor Lars Vinx dará uma série de palestras na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo em novembro, das 9 às 11h, nos dias 6 (quarta), 12 (terça), 13 (quarta) e 14 (quinta), com vagas presenciais e remotas. Na segunda-feira dia 11/11 a palestra será às 14h.
As palestras serão em inglês, sem tradução simultânea.
Inscrições gratuitas (basta uma inscrição – os certificados serão emitidos conforme a carga horária de participação, em 1 a 5 palestras): https://doity.com.br/course-lars-vinx-cambridge-at-the-university-of-sao-paulo-law-school-hans-kelsen-and-carl-schmitt-on
Professor Lars Vinx will be giving a series of lectures at the University of São Paulo Law School in November, from 9am to 11am, on the 6th (Wednesday), 7th (Thursday), 12th (Tuesday), 13th (Wednesday) and 14th (Thursday), with places available in person and remotely.
The lectures will be in English, without simultaneous translation.
Free registration (one registration is enough - certificates will be issued according to the number of hours attended, in 1 to 5 lectures): https://doity.com.br/course-lars-vinx-cambridge-at-the-university-of-sao-paulo-law-school-hans-kelsen-and-carl-schmitt-on
Course Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Problem of Constitutional Guardianship
Professor Lars Vinx, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, UK (https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/l-vinx/78311 )
Organization committee: Professor Lucas Fucci Amato (Department of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, USP), Nicolas Bortolatto Garcia Costa (Master candidate USP), Rodrigo Marchetti Ribeiro (PhD candidate USP) and Daniela Gueiros Dias (PhD by the University of Cambridge)
Recommended texts (readings for each lecture): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z9Lw1yGMJ_WrvL7kUolH0NmmV1QddlJv?usp=drive_link
First Lecture (6 November): Weimar Perspectives on the Problem of Constitutional Guardianship (Auditório Rubino de Oliveira, 1o andar; link: https://meet.google.com/sxb-psms-jdb ). Invited Chair: Professor Ricardo Spindola Diniz (UFT)
The lecture will situate the Kelsen-Schmitt debate in the context of the constitutional theory and practice of the Weimar Republic. The legal response to von Papen’s coup d’état in 1932 will be used to introduce the problem of constitutional guardianship.
Readings: David Dyzenhaus, Legality and Legitimacy. Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar (OUP, 1997), 1-37.
Hans Kelsen, ‘The Judgment of the Staatsgerichtshof of 25 October 1932’, in: Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, The Guardian of the Constitution. Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law, ed. and trans. Lars Vinx (CUP, 2015), 228-253.
Lars Vinx, ‘Introduction’, in: The Guardian of the Constitution, 1-21.
Second Lecture (11 November): Carl Schmitt’s Legal Theory (Auditório Rubino de Oliveira, 1o andar; link: https://meet.google.com/udo-jiun-hqd ). Invited chair: Professor João Costa-Neto (UnB)
The lecture will give an overview of the development of Schmitt’s legal-theoretical ideas, which form an important but neglected background to his Schmitt’s constitutional ideas. It will be argued that Schmitt’s legal theory motivates Schmitt’s theory of constituent power and accounts for his hostility to legal constitutionalism.
Readings: Carl Schmitt, Statute and Judgment, in: Carl Schmitt, Carl Schmitt’s Early Legal-Theoretical Writings. ‘Statute and Judgment’ and ‘The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual’, ed. and trans. Lars Vinx and Samuel G. Zeitlin (CUP, 2021), 39-141.
Carl Schmitt, Constitutional Theory, ed. and trans. Jeffrey Seitzer (Duke University Press, 2008), 75-88 (§ 3), 125-135 (§ 8) and 140-166 (§ 10).
Carl Schmitt, On the Three Types of Juristic Thought, ed. and trans. Joseph W. Bendersky (Praeger, 2004).
Lars Vinx and Samuel G Zeitlin, ‘Carl Schmitt and the Problem of the Realization of Law’, in: Carl Schmitt’s Early Legal-Theoretical Writings, 1-36.
Third Lecture (12 November): Kelsen’s Political and Constitutional Theory (Sala João Mendes Jr, térreo; link: https://meet.google.com/vkh-qqoa-tnu ). Invited Chair: Professor André Luiz Freire (PUC-SP) and Professor Ricardo Spindola Diniz (UFT)
The lecture will discuss the theoretical background for Kelsen’s argument for constitutional review in Kelsen’s political and constitutional theory. The focus of the lecture will be on Kelsen’s theory of democracy, which is to be understood as a counterproposal to Schmitt’s theory of democracy.
Readings: Hans Kelsen, The Essence and Value of Democracy, ed. Nadia Urbinati and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, trans. Brian Graf (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).
Hans Kelsen, ‘Verteidigung der Demokratie’ [‘The Defence of Democracy’], in: Hans Kelsen, Verteidigung der Demokratie, ed. Matthias Jestaedt and Oliver Lepsius (Mohr Siebeck 2006), 229-237.
Carl Schmitt, Constitutional Theory, 255-307 (§§ 17-21).
Lars Vinx, Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law: Legality and Legitimacy (OUP, 2007), 101-144.
Fourth Lecture (13 November): The Kelsen- Schmitt Debate on Constitutional Guardianship (Sala Ada Pellegrini, 2o andar, térreo; link: https://meet.google.com/ssv-nvab-akd )
The lecture will analyse the exchange between Kelsen and Schmitt in the early 1930’s on whether the President or a Constitutional Court should exercise the power of constitutional guardianship. It will address the question which measures of constitutional guardianship, if any, could have prevented the destruction of the Weimar Republic.
Readings: Hans Kelsen, ‘The Nature and Development of Constitutional Adjudication’, in: The Guardian of the Constitution, 22-78.
Hans Kelsen, ‘Who Ought to be the Guardian of the Constitution?’, in: The Guardian of the Constitution, 174-221.
Carl Schmitt, The Guardian of the Constitution (extracts), in: The Guardian of the Constitution, 79-173.
David Dyzenhaus, Legality and Legitimacy, 38-160.
Fifth Lecture (14 November): Kelsen, Schmitt and Contemporary Debates on Constitutional Guardianship (Auditório Ruy Barbosa Nogueira, 2o andar; link: https://meet.google.com/mov-wxap-fbm ). Invited chair: Alexandre Travessoni Gomes Trivisonno (UFMG / PUC-MG)
Drawing on the presentation of the Kelsen-Schmitt debate in the previous four lectures, this lecture will discuss the contemporary relevance of the Kelsen-Schmitt debate on Constitutional Guardianship. It will be argued that the Kelsen-Schmitt debate provides resources to refocus the contemporary debate on the legitimacy of constitutional review between legal and political constitutionalists.
Readings: Ronald Dworkin, ‘The Moral Reading and the Majoritarian Premise’, in: Ronald Dworkin, Freedom’s Law. The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (Harvard University Press, 1996), 1-38.
Jeremy Waldron, ‘The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review’, in: Yale Law Journal 115 (2006), 1346-1406.
