Serdecznie zapraszamy na wykład prof. Davida Dyzenhausa (Uniwersytet w Toronto) pt.: „The War Against International Law in the UK: The ‘Common’ vs. the ‘Public’ Good”, który odbędzie się w poniedziałek, 25 listopada 2024 r., godz. 15.00 w Sali audytoryjnej (nr 207) Collegium Rubrum, przy al. Niepodległości 53 w Poznaniu Poznań – oraz w formie zdalnej poprzez wideokonferencję przez MS Teams.
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Abstrakt: My focus is on a recent war waged in the UK against international law. But while international law was the main target of the war, it turned into a war against the rule of law. In particular, my focus is on two Oxford Law Professors, John Finnis and his protégé Richard Ekins, who have been largely responsible for providing the theoretical ammunition required in the kind of war that is waged entirely with words: the war of the extreme right within the Conservative governments of the past few years against the rule of law. The war is fought under the banner of the ‘common good’–the good of a particular kind of Christian community, most prominently an extreme rightwing version of Catholicism known as ‘Catholic integralism’. It seeks to ‘integrate’ state and society by gaining control over state institutions to enable the use of law to override the distinction between church and state, enforcing on its citizens a set of ‘moral virtues’ so that they can ‘flourish’ in the ‘community’ organized around a preordained common good. The network of common good constitutionalists stretches from Oxford to Harvard and then back to Europe—to prominent figures in Poland and Hungary. I will argue that this understanding of the ‘common good’ differs sharply from the ‘public good’ at which the rule of law aims with its intrinsic commitment to the authority of international law, a commitment as fundamental to ‘dualist’ legal orders such as the UK as it is to ‘monist’ legal orders.
