Legal Theory Festival

Monday 2 June 2025 - Register to attend in person

10am-1pm (Quad Teaching Room)
Workshop: Methodology in General Jurisprudence

Organizers: George Dick (University of Edinburgh) and Tsampika Taralli (University of Edinburgh)

Speakers:
Ziyu (Claude) Liu (Cambridge University)
Samuele Chilovi (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Institute of Philosophy)
Miguel Garcia-Godinez (Bologna University)
Monika Zalewska (The University of Lodz)

2pm-5pm (Quad Teaching Room)
Workshop: Jurisprudence by Experiment

Organizers: Lucas Miotto (University of Surrey) and Tsampika Taralli (University of Edinburgh)

Speakers:
Karolina Prochownik (Bochum, Germany)
Jonathan Ichikawa (University of British Columbia)
Guilherme FCF Almeida (Insper, Brazil)
Eleonore Neufeld (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Mind Association and the Student Experience Grant at the University of Edinburgh.


 

Tuesday 3 June 2025 - Register to attend in person

9:30-4:15pm (Quad Teaching Room)
Workshop: Conforming Interpretation and Human Rights (co-hosted with the Global Justice Academy) 

Organizer: Martin David Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

Speakers:
Jacinta Dharmananda (University of Western Australia)
Conor Gearty (London School of Economics)
Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin)
Martin David Kelly (University of Edinburgh)

5-6:30pm (Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre)
Keynote Lecture: ‘The war against the rule of law’
David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto)

 

Wednesday 4 June 2025 - Register to attend in person

9:30-12:40 pm (Quad Teaching Room)
Workshop Disruptive yet Exhausted? The Paradox of Contemporary Critical Legal Theory

Organizers: Sara Canduzzi (University of Edinburgh) and Holly Hayes (University of Edinburgh)

Speakers:
Margaret Davies (Flinder University) (online)
Illan rua Wall (University of Galway)
Sahar Shah (University of Bristol)
Sidonia Lucia Kula (SOAS)
Patricia Tuitt (independent scholar)

This workshop is co-sponsored by Hart Publishing and the Subject Section Fund of the Society of Legal Scholars.

 
2-5pm (Quad Teaching Room)
Workshop ‘The Rights of War and Peace: 400 Years On

Organizers: Amalia Amaya (University of Edinburgh) and Guillermo Estrada (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Speakers:
Martine van Ittersum (Dundee University)
Ignacio de la Rasilla (Wuhan University) (online)
Stephen Neff (University of Edinburgh)
Justina Uriburu (Manchester University)