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IVR 2024 Seoul, Programme
The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy
The 31st World Congress of the International Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Date: July 7(Sun)-July 12 (Fri)

Venue: Soongsil University

Sunday, July 7
  • 18.00-21.00
  • Registration & Reception with Concert
    (Grand Ballroom, THE PLAZA Seoul, Autograph Collection)
  • Congratulatory Remarks
  • Se-hoon Oh (Seoul Mayor)
  • Ki-su Lee (President of Korean Society of Law)
Monday, July 8
  • 08.00-18.00
  • 09.00-09.30







  • 09.30-11.00


  • 11.00-11.30
  • 11.30-13.00


  • 12.30-14.00
  • 14.00-16.00

  • 14.00-16.00

  • 14.00-16.00
  • 16.00-16.15
  • 16.15-18.15
  • 18.15-19.15
  • Registration (Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall, Soongsil University)
  • Opening Ceremony
    Matthias Mahlmann (President of IVR)
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
    Congratulatory Remarks
    Sang-Hyun Song (Former President of the International Criminal Court)
    Beom Sik JANG (President of Soongsil University)
    Hong Sik CHO (President of Korea Law Professors Association)
  • Martin Krygier, Moving the Goalposts: From the Rule of Law to Well-Tempered Power
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Coffee Break
  • Claudina Orunesu, Rule of Law, Legal Adjudication, and Invisible Law
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Lunch
  • Special Panel: Gender and Law
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Special Panel on Regional Section
    Small Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • Coffee Break
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • Meeting of IVR Section Heads
    Small Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
Tuesday, July 9
  • 08.00-18.00
  • 09.00-10.30

  • 10.30-11.00
  • 11.00-12.30

  • 12.30-14.00

  • 14.00-16.00
  • 16.00-16.15
  • 16.15-18.15
  • 18.30-20.00
  • Registration (Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall, Soongsil University)
  • Michael J. Sandel, Democracy Today(Via Video and Zoom)
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Coffee Break
  • Young Joon Kwon, The Dynamic Nature of Legal Interpretation and the Role of the Judiciary
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Lunch
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • Coffee Break
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • IVR Young Scholar Prize Lecture
    Yuichiro Mori, Defending the Universal Right to Flee against the Duty to Fight for One’s Nation
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
Wednesday, July 10
  • 08.00-20.00
  • Excursions
Thursday, July 11
  • 08.00-18.00
  • 09.00-10.30

  • 10.30-11.00
  • 11.00-12.30


  • 12.30-14.00

  • 12.30-14.00
  • 14.00-15.00


  • 14.00-16.00
  • 16.00-16.15
  • 16.15-18.15
  • 18.15-19.15

  • 19.30-21.30
  • Registration (Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall, Soongsil University)
  • Julie Saada, Three Dialectics of Human Rights
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Coffee Break
  • Yuko Kamishima, Gender Equality and Rawls’s Political Liberalism: Our Common Aspirations
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • IVR Encyclopedia
    Small Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Lunch
  • IVR Book Prize: Gerald J. Postema, Law’s Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law
    Small Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • Coffee Break
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • Reception for the First Printed Edition of the IVR Encyclopedia
    Small Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Concert (Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall, Soongsil University)
Friday, July 12
  • 08.00-18.00
  • 09.00-10.30

  • 10.30-11.00
  • 11.00-12.30

  • 12.30-14.00
  • 14.00-15.00

  • 14.00-16.00
  • 16.00-16.15
  • 16.00-18.00
  • 18.30-21.30
  • Registration (Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall, Soongsil University)
  • Maria Grahn-Farley, The Child being Heard but unable to Speak
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Coffee Break
  • IVR President’s Plenary Panel, Democracy in War and Peace
    Main Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Lunch
  • General Assembly of the IVR
    Small Auditorium, Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • Coffee Break
  • Special Workshops & Working Groups
  • Farewell Reception and Gala Dinner
  • (Han Kyungchik Memorial Hall, Soongsil University)
    Yongkul Won (President of University of Seoul)
    Jin-Sook Yun (Organizer of IVR 2024)