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Fairness to Excellence: A Value-Based Account of Cheating in Games and Sports (and its Relevance for Law) - Saladin Meckled-Garcia & George Letsas

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Location:

Virtual Event

Date/time

Thu 26 November 2020
15:00-16:30

The Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group presents

Fairness to Excellence: A Value-Based Account of Cheating in Games and Sports (and its Relevance for Law)

Dr Saladin D Meckled-Garcia, Associate Professor in Human Rights and Political Theory, UCL

and

Prof George Letsas, Professor of the Philosophy of Law, UCL

 

About Prof Letsas
Professor Letsas holds a chair in the Philosophy of Law at UCL since 2014. His main research interests are in jurisprudence and human rights with particular emphasis on the philosophy of rights, human rights theory, constitutional theory, theory of European law, theory of private law and the European Convention on Human Rights. He has written extensively on issues surrounding the interpretation of human rights (margin of appreciation, living instrument, proportionality) and the bearing of moral and political philosophy on legal theory (law and conventions, the normativity of law, pluralism, law and polity). He is the author of A Theory of Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (OUP) and co-editor of Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (OUP).

 

 

For more information or if you would like to attend please contact the Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group Convenors (Email)

 

 

 

 

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