Visiting Chair from Collège de France to the University of Trento
- Professor Alain Supiot holds the Chair of "The Social State and Globalization: a Legal Analysis of Forms of Solidarity” at Collège de France
Titles of the Conferences:
26 February 2018
14.30 pm
Conference Room, Faculty of Law, Via Verdi 53, Trento
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- The Dogmatic Bases of Democracy
Human societies are not reducible to herds and political communities to a "living together".
Men cannot access reason without society, nor can they create a society without submitting to a common reference, that is to say, without obeying a logic of prohibition that allows them to exchange words rather than blows.
Resuming the question of democracy at this basic level makes it possible to understand what brings it closer to and what distinguishes it from other forms of political organization.
What brings it closer is the need for a common reference and the logic of prohibition. What distinguishes it is the way to impose these bans.
27 February 2018
14.30 pm
Conference Room, Faculty of Law, Via Verdi 53, Trento
***Video archive***
- The Refeudalization of the Law
The ebb of the government by the laws is accompanied by a resurgence of the feudal legal structure. Since their security is not guaranteed by a law that equally applies to all, men have no other solution than to seek this guarantee in the bonds of allegiance they weave between them. Allegiance makes it possible to obtain more powerful protection than oneself, whereas to grant this protection makes it possible to obtain the support of less powerful than oneself.
Alain Supiot is Professor at Collège de France as holder of the Chair of "The Social State and Globalization: A Legal Analysis of forms of Solidarity".
He presides over the Strategic Committee of the Institute of advanced studies of Nantes, which he founded in 2008 and directed until 2013.
During his career, he has been professor of Law at the Universities of Poitiers and Nantes, and fellow scholar in various foreign institutions including the Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations, the European University Institute in Florence (EUI), and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
He is a corresponding member of the British Academy, and was awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Universities of Leuven and Thessaloniki.
In 2017 the International Labour Organisation appointed him as a member of the World Commission on the Future of Work.
Located at the crossroads of law, anthropology and philosophy, his work has mainly focused on two complementary fields: labour law and social security, and theory of law.
Scientific coordinator
Professor Giuseppe Nesi, Dean of the Faculty of Law
Contact details
Faculty of Law
via Verdi, 53, Trento
+39 0461 281818
