1. Seminar NiklasLuhmann:
20 Years of DasRecht der Gesellschaft
Wednesday 11/09/2013
9:00 - Registration
10:00 - Opening
Flávio Alves Martins (Dean of FND/UFRJ)
Juliana Neuenschwander Magalhães (Coordinator of PPGD/UFRJ)
Marcelo Mello (President of ABRASD)
10:30 - Openening Conference: Niklas Luhmann and the Law’s Paradoxes
Chair: Fernanda Busanello (FDUFPR)
Speaker: RaffaeleDeGiorgi (UNILE,Itália)
14:00 – 16:00 Papers presentations
16:00 – 18:00 Session 1: Luhmann’s Sociological Theory of Law between
Sociology and Theory of Law
Chair: Marcelo Pereira de Mello (UFF e ABRASD)
Speaker: Germano Schwartz
Speaker: Darío Rodriguez (Universidad Católica, Chile)
Thursday 12/09/2013
10:00 – 12:00 - Session 2: Autopoiesis and the Differentiation of Law
Chair: GuilhermeAzevedo
Speaker: Artur Stamford (UFPE)
Speaker: Javier Torres Nafarrate (UIA, Mexico)
12:00 - 14:00 – Lunch brake
14:00 – 16:00 Papers presentations

2. 16:00 – Session 3: Society and its Law.
Chair: Juliana Neuenschwander Magalhães
Speaker: Cristiano Paixão (UnB)
Speaker: Giancarlo Corsi (Unimore, Italy)
Friday 13/09/2013
10:00 – Workshop: The creation of a latin american network of studies on
System’s Theory.
12:00-16:00 – Lunch brake
16:00 – 18:00 – Session 4: Law and structural coupling: constitucionalism e
transconstitucionalism
Chair: Francisco Duarte (UFPR)
Speaker: Leonel Severo Rocha (Unisinos)
Speaker: Marcelo Neves (UnB, Brasília)
18:00 Closing Conference: Political Structure, Constitutions and Transnational
Law
Chair: Menelick de CarvalhoNetto (UnB)
Speaker: Christopher Thornhill (University of Manchester, England)