Javier de Lucas will make a “moderate demand for Right” in La Nau

With this conference, the Institute of Human Rights will close the 9^th edition of the official Master in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice of the Universitat de València, which was inaugurated by the poet and professor Luis García Montero. Javier de Lucas, professor of Moral and Political Legal Philosophy, will launch a diatribe against the widespread contempt for the Rights that are rampant in the media, in order to defend the rule of law in a moderate way. “Today – claims- we do not live the utopian theses so much that from Hume to Marx, passing through Saint Simon or Comte, have dreamed of the disappearance of law and jurists, the substitution of the domain of people (through law) by the administration of things. We live in the foolish and ignorant theory that politics and negotiation solve everything and that law is an expendable or very secondary instrument, because everything in law can be changed”. In the face of these considerations, the professor Lucas will propose the hypothesis that if the law does not exist (Etsi ius non daretur) to base, from there, his balanced claim to just laws and his primacy in social and political relations.

The programme of the Master of Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice of the Universitat de València, led by professors Cristina García Pascual and Rosario Serra, has received a Mention of Excellence from the Ministry of Education, which in Spain has only obtained eight master's degrees in the field of law.

The Institute of Human Rights of the Universitat de València began in 2018 a wide variety of activities, coinciding with the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Created in 2005, the Institute takes part of the project Consolider in which participate twelve research groups of different Spanish universities, coordinated by the Institute of Human Rights Bartolomé de las Casas of the University Carlos III of Madrid.