About The Workshop
SW 24- On Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights: Critical Reflections and Considerations
Convenors: Žarko Puhovski, Bojana Čučković, Jasminka Hasanbegović
Contact: hasanbegovic.j@gmail.com
Guided by the conviction that only genuinely important books merit sustained critical engagement, we propose to organise a special workshop entitled On Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights: Critical Reflections and Considerations. Mind and Rights offers a comprehensive and ambitious analysis of one of the most important contemporary phenomena—not only in law, but well beyond it—namely human rights. There is, in our view, no doubt that this work deserves the time and effort required for careful analytical and critical examination.
Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights is available in open access at:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mind-and-rights/60B80CAD62F0B831CC9DC755D3549ACF
The author of Mind and Rights has been informed of the idea for this special workshop. We are pleased to share that Professor Matthias Mahlmann has indicated that he would be honoured by such interest and would also be happy to participate.
Presenters and non-presenting participants interested in taking part in the workshop are kindly asked to apply to the contact person by 31 January, provided that they are validly registered for the Congress.
Presenters should submit the title of their proposed contribution by 28 February. The (working) title must be formulated with the utmost precision. Accordingly, all presentation titles in the workshop must contain the phrase Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights. Overly general, vague, or off-topic titles or proposals cannot be considered.
Abstracts should set out a clearly formulated thesis (or theses) concerning the book, that is, a specific question (or questions) addressed by Mahlmann, together with the main line of argument supporting the presenter’s position. Abstracts must be between 750 and 1,000 words and should be submitted by 31 March (or, upon individual request, by no later than 30 April).
All workshop participants will be encouraged to remain in contact throughout the preparatory phase prior to the Congress, with a view to substantive discussion of the submitted contributions. A detailed description of the workshop—including a list of all registered participants and presenters, their topics, and abstracts—will be published on the Congress website no later than 31 May.
Following the Congress, we aim to publish an edited volume devoted to Mind and Rights, should a sufficient number of high-quality contributions emerge. If not, selected contributions will be developed into journal articles or review essays.
Contact person: Jasminka Hasanbegović, email: hasanbegovic.j@gmail.com
On Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights: Critical Reflections and Considerations
List of participants (presenters with their topics and non-presenters)
in reverse alphabetical order of first names:
- Žarko Puhovski, University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb (Croatia), convener, non-presenter
- Zeynep Ispir, University of Ankara Faculty of Law, Ankara (Turkey), presenter, Moral Cognition and the Normative Foundations of Human Rights: A Critical Engagement with Matthias Mahlmann
- Wojciech Zaluski, Jagiellonian University Faculty of Law and Administration, Krakow (Poland), participant non-presenter
- Tanasije Marinković, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Belgrade (Serbia), presenter, Human Rights Universalism Revisited: Mahlmann’s Mentalist Theory of Ethics and Law
- Sergiy Maksymov, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv (Ukraine), presenter, Protecting Human Dignity in War: Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights Approach to Justification of Human Rights in the Context of the War in Ukraine
- Pierluigi Chiassoni, University of Genova Department of Law, Genova (Italy), presenter, Does Mind and Rights Genuinely Provide “Good Reasons” for Human Rights?: A Meta-ethical Enquiry
- Mortimer Sellers, University System of Maryland Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore (USA), presenter, Reality in Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights
- Milica Novaković, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Belgrade (Serbia), presenter, Right to a Fair Trial from Judicial to Non-judicial Dispute Settlement in the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence as a Litmus Test of Mahlmann’s Universality of Human Rights Concept
- Matthias Mahlmann, University of Zurich Faculty of Law, Zurich (Switzerland), author’s opening speech: Human Rights in Times of War and Injustice – Ethical Crisis and the Necessary Work of Legal Philosophy
- Marcelo Galuppo, Federal University of Minas Gerais Faculty of Law, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), presenter, What Is It Like to Be a Human Being?: Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights Perspective
- Konstantinos Farmakides, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Law, Thessaloniki (Greece), participant non-presenter to be confirmed by the end of April
- Jinsook Yun, Soongsil University College of Law, Seoul (South Korea), presenter, Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights from the Perspective of Self-care
- Jasminka Hasanbegović, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Belgrade (Serbia), convener, presenter, The Importance of Human Rights for Modernity According to Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights and Beyond: Some Emphases and Refinements
- Ivana Tucak, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Law, Osijek (Croatia), presenter, Rethinking Mahlmann’s Concept of Group Rights: Can Group Rights Be Reduced to Individual Rights?
- Isabel Trujillo, University of Palermo Department of Law, Palermo (Italy), presenter, On Mahlmann’s Contribution to the Normative Architecture of Human Rights: A Proposal of a Tripartite Model
- Igor Milinković, University of Banja Luka Faculty of Law, Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), presenter, A Sandcastle in an Open-ended Sandbox: Human Enhancement and the Anthropological Justification of Human Rights in Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights
- Gulriz Uygur, Ankara University Faculty of Law, Ankara (Turkey), participant non-presenter
- George Pavlakos, University of Glasgow School of Law, Glasgow (UK), participant non-presenter
- Elena Pariotti, University of Padua Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies, Padua (Italy), presenter, On Mahlmann’s Contribution to the Normative Architecture of Human Rights: A Proposal of a Tripartite Model
- Denitza Toptchiyska, New Bulgarian University Department of Law, Sofia (Bulgaria), presenter, Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights and the Philosophy of Digital Rights: Some Reflections
- Claudio Sarra, University of Padua Faculty of Law, Padua (Italy), forced to withdraw for family reasons
- Bojana Čučković, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Belgrade (Serbia), convener, presenter, Between Foundation and Practice: Human Dignity as a Catalyst of Rights Expansion in Light of Mahlmann’s Mind and Rights
- Ana Dimiškovska, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Faculty of Philosophy, Skopje (North Macedonia), presenter, Artificial Minds as a Challenge to Mahlmann’s Theory of Moral Cognition and Human Rights
- Amalia Amaya, University of Edinburgh School of Law, Edinburgh (UK), participant non-presenter
