There is a thriving reading group in legal theory at Edinburgh. This spring/summer we are reading Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, Volume 1 (2011) by Leslie Green and Brian Leiter (eds).
The meetings will take place on Mondays in room L04:
- Monday 30th April 16.00 - 18.00
- Monday 21st May 16.00 - 18.00
- Monday 11th June 15.00 - 17.00
- Monday 25th June 15.00 - 17.00
- Monday 9th July 15.00 - 17.00
For the second meeting we will read chapter 2, 'The standard picture and its discontents' by Mark Greenberg.
Everyone is welcome to join the reading group. If you have any questions or like to be added to our mailing list, please contact the
Convenors of the Group.
In 2010-2011, the Group read Alain Supiot's Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law (Verson Books, 2007).
In 2009, Prof. Terry Eagleton's Trouble With Strangers. A Study of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) was our focus. The group was privileged enough to have a workshop with Prof. Eagleton shortly after finishing the book. In 2008 we read Wil Waluchow's A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree (Cambridge, 2007) and Scott Veitch's Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering (Routledge,2007) which led to a workshop with Professor Waluchow in June 2008 and a workshop with Professor Veitch in December 2008. Geoffrey Samuel’s Epistemology and Method in Law (Ashgate, 2003) was our focus in 2007. A follow-up workshop was held with Professor Geoffrey Samuel in October 2007.
