On Thursday, April 7, 2022, Triantafyllos Gkouvas (Carlos III University of Madrid) will participate in the 81st session of the TDJ workshop to present the paper: "Getting Enough Is Said In Many Ways: The Social Minimum as a Distributive Concern".

This essay is the first part of a series of research articles that includes three more essays on philosophical theories of the social minimum. Each part will provide a critical examination and an original reconstruction of the existing literature from the perspective of a dimension of political economic activity: the market viewpoint (commutative perspective), the perspective of labor and production (contributive viewpoint), the perspective of public institutions (distributive viewpoint), and, finally, the perspective of unproductive expenditure or giving (donative viewpoint). Part I, titled “Getting Enough Is Said In Many Ways,” will explore the distributive perspective. Part II, titled “Providing Enough Is Said In Many Ways,” will focus on the production perspective. Part III, titled "Offering Enough Is Said In Many Ways," will explore the market perspective. Part IV, titled “Giving Enough Can Be Said In Many Ways,” will center on the economy of gift-giving.

This research has been generously funded by the postdoctoral fellowship program at the Carlos III University of Madrid within the parameters of the research project “Productive Justice: A Case for a Work-Conditional Social Minimum” under the supervision of Professor José Maria Sauca Cano.

Triantafyllos Gkouvas obtained his Ph.D. in legal philosophy from the University of Antwerp in January 2015, with the thesis "Law’s Humility: The Possibility of Metajurisprudence". The scope of his doctoral research covered various domains of philosophical research, including metaethics, philosophy of law, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. His first postdoctoral position at Monash University allowed him to interact with an internationally distinguished team of Australian legal philosophers from the University of Melbourne (Jeff Goldsworthy, Patrick Emerton), Charles Sturt University (Tom Campbell), and Monash University (Dale Smith). His appointment as a part-time lecturer in legal theory at the School of Law, University of Glasgow (a position he held until April 13, 2020) enabled him to enhance his teaching experience. He was invited to teach both undergraduate (in Jurisprudence, a seminar on Law, Justice and Morality, and an honors course titled Advanced Seminar in Legal Theory) and postgraduate courses (Master in Law Research). Currently, he is undertaking a 3-year postdoctoral stay at Carlos III University under the supervision of Professor José María Sauca Cano, where he is conducting research on economic and social justice theories. He also teaches in human rights, sociology and legal theory, and philosophy of law. His research project, titled "Productive Justice: A Case for a Work-Conditional Social Minimum," provides a critical assessment of the strategy of prioritizing the legislative introduction of a generous basic income over the traditional objectives of labor policy. Gkouvas's publications cover a wide range of topics in legal philosophy, theories of justice, human rights, and bioethics. He is the author of two monographs, Law's Humility: Enlarging the Scope of Jurisprudential Disagreement (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Force in Law: Rethinking the Legal Inexorability of State Coercion (Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Law series, forthcoming in 2022).

Useful Information

Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022
Time: 12:00 (Madrid)
Virtual Activity: Zoom Registration

This activity is part of the R&D&I project "Construction of Emerging Rights. Debates for the Foundation of New Parameters of Constitutionality" ref. PID2019-106904RB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/.

The activity has received financial support from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the Carlos III University of Madrid.

About TDJ

TDJ is a space for discussion on legal and political philosophy issues where young researchers participate to share their doctoral and postdoctoral research and get accustomed to the interaction of academic activities.

The invitation to submit papers is not limited to members of the Carlos III University of Madrid community, but extends to any researcher, regardless of their origin. Anyone interested in participating and receiving information about TDJ can join the distribution list by sending an email to derechoyjusticia@uc3m.es.

Prior to the session, a paper will be distributed among the attendees for discussion.

The Workshop is organized by David García and Digno Montalván.