Next Lectures: Dr. Marc Harreman

Program “Law & Franz Kafka”:

Lecture 1
‘Franz Kafka is Law-and-literature’ (Wednesday, 2 April 2008)
- Introduction to Franz Kafka, his life and his work

Lecture 2
‘The Trial (Der Prozess)’ (Thursday, 3 April 2008)
- Kafka’s most famous novel

Lecture 3
‘Franz Kafka in Law-and-literature’ (Friday, 4 April 2008)
- Franz Kafka in judicial opinions and scientific discussions (Robin Posner vs. Richard Posner)

READINGS:

Martha S. Robinson, The Law of the State in Kafka’s Trial, in “ALSA F.” 6(1982), p. 127-148

Robin West, Authority, Autonomy, and Choice: The Role of Consent in the Moral and Political Visions of Franz Kafka and Richard Posner, in “Harvard Law Review”, 99 (1985), p. 384-428

Richard A. Posner, The Ethical Significance of Free Choice: A Reply to Professor West, “Harvard Law Review”, 99 (1986), p. 1431-1448

Two parables of Franz Kafka:
- The problem of our laws (‘Zur Frage der Gesetze’)
- The gate-keeper (excerpt from “The Trial”)

Curriculum Dr. M.M.L. Harreman:

Marc Harreman is both guest teacher at the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Faculty of Law at the University Roma 3. He is an expert in the field of civil and procedural law and has published several articles in these fields. Mr. Harreman was born in Geleen in 1970 (The Netherlands). He completed his law degree in 1994 at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. During his law study, Mr. Harreman studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Germany under the Erasmus scholarship program. Mr. Harreman taught, as a guest professor, arbitration law at the University of Letland in Riga and worked for different law firms in Austria and in The Netherlands, including Reif-Breitwieser in Vienna and Russell in Amsterdam. From 2000 to 2007 Mr. Harreman was a Lecturer of Civil Law at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and holds a Ph.D. awarded by this University. He wrote his dissertation on: “Seizures for security in order to obtain consignment of goods, English translation of the Dutch title: A study regarding the application of art. 730 of the Code of Civil Proceeding, also from a historical point of view”, published by Boom Juridische Uitgevers, The Hague, 2007.