Thirty Years of “Imperia”

Abstract

The text celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Imperia seminars, dedicated to the analytical theory of law and founded in 1995 at the initiative of a group of European and Latin American jurists. Over twenty-nine editions, these meetings have fostered an international research network characterized by analytical rigor, cooperation, and friendship among generations of legal philosophers. However, the author notes signs of crisis: the impact of the pandemic, reduced institutional participation, and the shift of legal philosophy toward more moral and political approaches have weakened its identity. He therefore argues for keeping the seminars – and the network that sustains them – alive, in order to preserve an analytical philosophy of law, devoted to legal studies and committed to its academic future within law departments.