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Thomistic
Understanding of Natural Law
as
the Foundation of Positive Law
PROGRAM
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Arrival of Participants
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Morning
Session:
10:00 Organizer’s Welcome:
Fulvio Di Blasi, Collegio Universitario ARCES - Thomas
International, Italy
Csaba Varga,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Law,
Hungary
Greetings:
György Fodor,
Rector of Pázmány University, Hungary
Gyula Bándi,
Faculty of Law, Dean, Pázmány University, Hungary
11:15 Coffee Break
Chair: Christopher Wolfe, Marquette
University, United States
11:45 Lecture:
Samuel Gregg,
Acton Institute, United States
“The Concept of Human Dignity in the Thought
of Thomas Aquinas”
Special
Session: John
Paul II and Natural Law Theory
Chair: Samuel
Gregg, Acton Institute, United
States
15:30 Lecture 1:
Max Torres,
Ave Maria School of Law, United States
“Natural Law and liberty in the landmark
encyclicals of John Paul II”
16:00 Lecture 2:
Nora O’Callaghan,
Ave Maria School of Law, United States
“Catholic
Politicians: Are they bound by Church Teaching and the
Natural Law?”
16:30 Break
16:45 Lecture 3:
Csaba Varga,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Law,
Hungary
“Goals and
Means in Law”
17:15 Lecture 4:
Pia de Solenni,
Family Research Council, United States
“Natural Law and John Paul II”
17:45 Discussion
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Morning
Session:
Chair: Janos Zlinszky,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Law, Hungary
9:30 Lecture 1:
Christopher Wolfe,Marquette
University, United States
“The Relation
Between Natural Law and Positive Law in American Judicial
Review”
10:15 Lecture 2:
Lee Strang,
Ave Maria School of Law, United States
“Where Natural and Positive Law Meet in
American Constitutional Adjudication: A Theory of Precedent”
11:00 Discussion
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 Lecture 3:
Fulvio Di Blasi,
Collegio Universitario ARCES - Thomas International, Italy
“Natural
Law and Ius Gentium in Aquinas”
12:45 Lunch Break
Special
Session: Aquinas’
thought in the work of Alexander Horváth
Chair: Fulvio Di Blasi, Collegio Universitario ARCES
- Thomas International, Italy
15:30 Lecture 1:
Géza Kuminetz,
Pázmány University – Postgraduate Institute
of Canon Law, Hungary
“La fondazione filosofica dell’ ordine giuridico
nelle opere di Alexander Horváth”
16:10 Lecture 2:
János Frivaldszky,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Law,
Hungary
“Come riempire con contenuti regolativi il
diritto naturale? Alexander Horváth e la prospettiva tomista”
17:30 Break
17:45 Discussion
Friday, July 15, 2005
Morning
Session:
Chair: Max Torres, Ave Maria School
of Law, United States
9:30 Lecture 1:
Andrzej Bryk,
Jagiellonian University – School of Law, Poland
“Natural Law and Limitations of Power in
The Middle Ages”
10:15 Lecture 2:
Máté Paksy & Szilárd Tattay,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Law,
Hungary
“Ius and Dominium in Mediaeval Legal Thought:
Notions”
11:00 Discussion
11:30 Coffee Break
11:45 Lecture 3:
Nicoletta Giganti, Collegio Universitario ARCES, Italy
“EU Constitution and Natural Law Theory”
12:45 Lunch Break
Evening
Session:
Chair: Erik Kussbach, Pázmány
University – Faculty of Law, Hungary
15:30 Lecture 1:
Janos Zlinszky,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Law, Hungary
“A Romanist's Reflections on Re-reading
Saint Thomas Aquinas”
16:10 Lecture 2:
Zoltán Rokay,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Theology,
Hungary
“Die Aktualität
des De veritate des Heiligen Thomas von Aquinas [The
timeleness of De veritate by Saint Thomas Aquinas]”
16:50 Lecture 3:
Tamás Gábor Juhász,
Pázmány University, Hungary
“A Systematic Anthropology (with Justice
as Virtue) in the Ontology of Saint Thomas Aquinas: From Mediaeval
Thomism to the Personalism of John Paul II”
17:30 Break
17:45 Discussion
18:15 Concluding Remarks
Christopher Wolfe,
Marquette University, United States
Organizer’s Farewell
Csaba Varga,
Pázmány University – Faculty of Law,
Hungary
Fulvio Di Blasi, Collegio Universitario ARCES - Thomas
International, Italy
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