News
Sir Donald Neil MacCormick is gone
Neil MacCormick was a Professor at the University of Edinburgh (Professor Emeritus of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, QC (Hon), FBA, FRSE, MA, LLD, Hon LLD, Hon D Litt). He significantly developed the legal philosophy, especially in the fields of institutional legal theory and legal argumentation theory. He is a former Member of the European Parliament, former member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, and former officer of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Neil MacCormick was a big friend of Finland. From the late 1970s he visited many times in Finland for lectures and seminars. He also enjoyed many hollidays in Finland. Professor MacCormick was one of the central members of the Tampere Club. The Club organized a special seminar devoted to his extensive work in 2005.
The members of the Tampere Club remember Neil MacCormick's sunny and genuine Scottish character as well as his high class knowledge in many sectors of society. Members of the Club and Finnish legal philosophers mourn the loss of their good friend and colleague.
Argumenta-project
The Tampere Club received a significant funding from the
Finnish Cultural Foundations Argumenta funding.
The Tampere Club's Argumenta-project aims
to produce new openings in the dialogue of democracy and
social innovations. The project is also intended to establish
an open discussion between the legistlators and the scientific
community.
Visit
our Argumenta web-page to learn more.
The VIII Tampere Club Meeting
The meeting will take place on 7-9 September 2009 at the
Tampere Hall. More details will be posted later this year.
Russell Hardin holds the VIII Tampere
Lecture
Professor Hardin will hold the VIII Tampere Lecture
9 September 2009 on "Corporate Democracy". The
Lecture venue is the Tampere Hall. More
details to be announced later this year.
Martti Ahtisaari receives Nobel
Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee has chosen member of the Tampere Club,
President Martti Ahtisaari as the laureate of the Nobel
Peace Prize 2008.
Martti Ahtisaari was elected President of
the Republic of Finland in February 1994. He held office
from the 1st of March 1994 to the 29th of February 2000.
Upon leaving office, President Ahtisaari founded the Crisis
Management Initiative. In this capacity he facilitated the
peace process between the Government of Indonesia and the
Free Aceh Movement in 2005. This process lead to the signing
of a peace treaty which ended the three decade-long war
in Aceh.
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Aulis Aarnio Received Honorary Doctorate
Secretary General of the Tampere Club, Professor
Emeritus Aulis Aarnio, has received honorary doctorate from
the University of Pécs (Hungary) because of his significant
input for international legal philosophy. He has also strengthen
the scientific relationship between Finland and Hungary.
Professor Aarnio has previously been
nominated honorary doctorate at University of Lund (Sweden)
and University of Lapland (Finland). He is also a member
of several foreign associations including Academia of Russia
and Académie Européenne.
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The Varieties of Freedom Seminar
was held at the Tampere Hall on 3rd September 2008. Speakers
were: President of the Tampere Club, Professor Ernesto Garzón
Valdés (Opening Words) and Plenum lectures by Professors
Ilkka Niiniluoto and Jose Luis Marti.
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