The brainers

Ugo Bellagamba – Legal historian

Ugo Bellagamba is a writer and lecturer in the history of law and political ideas at the Université Côte d’Azur. He works mainly on cultural representations of law and justice in utopias and science fiction. As an author, he has published several uchronies, including Tancrède, a novel that revisits the First Crusade and has won several awards. He is also the organiser of the next national science fiction convention in Valbonne.

This brainer takes part in round-table discussions, offers improvisation sessions and the following solo talks:

How do you define chance in legal terms?

Can civil and criminal law regulate chance? How does fair justice measure chance against the premeditation that forms the basis of a crime? Is the drawing of lots legitimate in the case of military conscription or the allocation of rights, privileges or enjoyments? Is a random interception by a police officer legal?