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Law and Literature seminar

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This is the second Law and Literature-seminar within the VU-UM Law & Literature Consortium.

Like its forebear, the seminar intends to provide a friendly environment in which we may exchange ideas, and meet other researchers in the field. The seminar is pre-read for all participants: short statements of all presentations (up to 2500 words) will be distributed the week before. Part of this year’s seminar will be used to discuss expanding the Law and Literature Consortium to include other universities. The day will be closed with a guided city walk of Maastricht, using our dean Jan Smits’s recent A Legal Walk Through Maastricht.

Programme

10.00 - 10.20 hrsWelcome (coffee)
10.20 - 10.30 hrsOpening words by Arthur Willemse
 Session 1: Fiction and Truth
Chair: Arthur Willemse
10.30 - 10.40 hrsSyamsuriatina binti Ishak (UM): Technology from the Perspective of
Science Fiction: Cautionary Tales or Regulatory Phronesis?
10.40 - 10.50 hrsRemo Verdickt (KU Leuven.): 5 - 4 = 9 : George Orwell, the US 
Supreme Court, and First-Amendment Doublethink 
10.50 - 11.00 hrsJeanne Gaakeer (EUR): Philosophical hermeneutics, legal narratology 
and the double bind of judicial decision-making 
11.00 - 11.20 hrsDiscussion
 Session 2: Literature and Politics
Chair: Ted Laros
11.30 - 11.40 hrsRachid Benharrousse (Tilburg University): Beyond Diplomatic Narratives: 
A Literary Analysis of the EU-Morocco Mobility Partnership Declaration 
11.40 - 11.50 hrsAna Van Liedekerke (KU Leuven): American constitutionalism and the 
rule of text
11.50 - 12.10 hrsDiscussion
12.10 - 13.10 hrsLunch
 Session 3: Genre and Technology
Chair: Agustín Parise
13.10 - 13.20 hrsNguyen Nhat Minh Le (VU): Nam Cao’s Chí Phèo (1946) and the 
Absence of Law in Colonial Tonkin
13.20 - 13.30 hrsCarinne Elion-Valter (EUR): The concept of truth applicable to texts produced 
by GenAI in the light of Philippe Claudel's novel 'Twilight'
13.30 - 13.40 hrsYuliia Khyzhniak (RUG): Genre as an instrument of critique: 
reading international human rights law
13.40 - 14.00 hrsDiscussion
 Dialogue on the Law & Literature Consortium
Chair: Wouter Werner
14.10 - 15.00 hrsNetworking and dialogue on the Law & Literature Consortium: all speakers and guests
15.00 - 16.00 hrsCity walk

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