This seminar is the second in a series of four international seminars organised by the European Research Group on Normativities (GERN). Their aim is to analyse what civil disobedience in the context of the ecological emergency does to the law and, in turn, what the law does to ecological civil disobedience – from the perspective of different disciplines: sociology, law, criminology, political science, etc. In particular, normative circularity will be at the heart of the discussions: mobilised by various parties – from activists to action groups, from businesses to the state – the law is transformed through successive adjustments, according to how it is used.

Four seminars are offered: from the study of the theoretical and historical foundations of civil disobedience (1), through the exploration of public space as a “theatre” for confrontation between actors and the analysis of its backstage (2), to hearings and trials as arenas for struggle, legitimisation and interpretation of the law (3), to the impact of ecological civil disobedience on the law (4).

Seminars organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Deviance and Penalisation (CRID&P, UCLouvain), the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology (INCC) and the Centre for Sociological Studies on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP, CNRS). This session is supported by the Scientific Research Fund (F.R.S.-FNRS).

Scientific committee:

• Marie Jadoul - CRID&P, UCLouvain

• Fabien Jobard - CESDIP, CNRS

• Alexia Jonckheere - INCC

• Valentine Mahieu - INCC

• David Scheer - CRID&P, UCLouvain

Registration: here