Almost 80 academics and professionals, mainly lawyers and advanced law students from 13 Central and Eastern European countries, gathered for this four day event. Participants included not only students but professors, trainees for judgeships and advisors to ministers from the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Slovakia. This was a conference designed as a short course in legal theory, led by the renowned legal scholar from the University of Tulsa, Dr. Russell Hittinger.

Professor Hittinger led the participants through the history of legal theory, focusing upon the definition of law, its force and essential characteristics. He compared the notion of legal positivism with the concept of natural law. By way of illustration, the professor analyzed several famous U. S. Supreme Court decisions. Participants received reading packets in advance, including Lon Fuller's The Morality of Law, as well as excerpts from Plato, Aristotle and other important figures in the history of philosophy of law.

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