Units

Perelman Center for legal philosophy

Henri Buch, Paul Foriers and Chaim Perelman created the Center Perelman for Philosophy of Law in 1967. The history of the Center is linked to the ''School of Brussels'' which was born of the meeting between the observation of the legal practice and the new rhetoric of Perelman. The Centre jointed the Faculty of Law in 1982. The Centre carries on the ''Brussels School 's spirit'' The centre develops its activities in the respect of the philosophy of '' Free Examination'' and with the three concerns of excellence, independence, and openmindedness, especially, on the international level. Transdisciplinary approaches are prioritesed. The main goal of the Centre is to further collective and individual researches in the field of philosophy of law in a large sense. It includes the followings: theory of law and legal methodology, legal logic and rhetoric, natural law, philosophy of law and political philosophy, and in general, all the aspects of the practical reason dealing with law.

Projetcs

Global Law - Philosophy of International Law and of International Relations

This program intends to study, in a new perspective, political and legal philosophy. International law and international relations were indeed almost ignored in the field of philosophical research for a long time. The fact that boundaries between the national and the international are less clear challenges the way to approach legal and political philosophy. More specifically, researches concerning the philosophy of international relations and of international law are needed. In this perspective, this program aims at reaching three targets. First, to build a comprehensive frame to understand history of the international aspects of political and legal philosophy; second, to identify the main contemporary paradigms of the philosophy of international relations and international law; and, finally, to outline the philosophical background needed to think the contemporary globalization of law and policy and to assess the development of a new cosmopolitanism.