ELTRG: The Promise and the Limits of Grounding in Law - Dennis Patterson and Bosko Tripkovic

The Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group presents

The Promise and the Limits of Grounding in Law

Professor Dennis Patterson, Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Surrey and Dr Bosko Tripkovic, Associate Professor in Law, University of Birmingham 

 

About the speakers

Prof Dennis Patterson
Dennis Patterson is a leading scholar in the field of Law and Neuroscience. He is the author or editor of four books in this emerging subfield of legal philosophy. He is the author of Law and Truth (OUP) and the editor of the Oxford Introductions to US Law. He is also an expert in global trade law.

His book The New Global Trading Order (CUP) features a wide-ranging account of the evolution of global trade. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, The Humboldt Stiftung and three Fulbrights. He is a member of the editorial board of the leading journals in legal philosophy.

From 2009 - 2017, he held the Chair in Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy at the European University Institute in Florence.

Dr Bosko Tripkovic
Dr Bosko Tripkovic researches and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, constitutional law, and EU law. His book The Metaethics of Constitutional Adjudication (Oxford University Press 2017) develops an original theory of the role of values in constitutional reasoning, and combines insights from comparative constitutional law and metaethics. Dr Tripkovic has won the 2016 Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the best thesis in the field of comparative law defended at the European University Institute, and the 2020 Special Mention Award from International Journal of Constitutional Law for his article ‘The Morality of Foreign Law’.

 

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