Legal Theory Festival 2023

Workshop: The Rule of Law in the Global South

Speakers: Siddharth Peter de Souza, Tilburg University, Deval Desai,

University of Edinburgh, Dimitri van den Meerssche, Queen Mary University of London, Kristina Simion, Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Discussants: Andrew Lang, University of Edinburgh, Gail Lythgoe, University of Edinburgh, Lesley McAra, University of Edinburgh, Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh

Session 1: 9.15 am-10.45 am (Moot Court Room)

10.45 am-11 am: Coffee Break (Moot Court Room)

Session 2: 11 am-12.30 pm (Moot Court Room)

12.30 pm-13.30 pm: Lunch (Raeburn Room)

Session 3: 13.30 pm-15.30 pm (Raeburn Room)

Coffee break (Raeburn Room)

Annual Jurisprudence Keynote Lecture: Ruth Chang, Oxford University, ‘Hard Cases’ (Usha Kasera)

18:15: Drinks reception (Moot Court Room).

Book symposium: Federico Picinalli's Justice in Between: A Study on Intermediate Criminal Verdicts (Raeburn Room)

9:30 am Coffee and introductory remarks

Session 1: Chair: Guillermo Estrada, National Autonomous University of Mexico

• 10 am-10:20 am Federico Picinalli, LSE
• 10:20 am-10:40 am Anthony Duff, University of Stirling
• 10:40 am-11:00 am Gabrielle Watson, University of Edinburgh

11:00 am-11:20 am Coffee

Session 2: Chair: Sharon Cowan, University of Edinburgh

• 11:20 am-11:40 am. Fiona Leverick, University of Glasgow
• 11:40 am-12:00 pm. Martin Smith, University of Edinburgh
• 12:00 pm-12:10 pm Federico Picinalli, LSE
• 12:10 pm- 13:00 pm. Q&A

Workshop: Law's Objectivity and the Rational Reconstruction of the Law (Raeburn Room)

Session 1-Chair: María Besomi

• 14:00 pm-14:25 pm: ‘Law, time, and humanism’- Nils Jansen, Münster University
• 14:25 pm-14:50 pm: ‘The Rational Reconstruction of the Law and the Objectivity of Legal Doctrinal Scholarship’ Prof. Mátyás Bódig, University of Aberdeen
• 14:50 pm-15:15 pm: ‘Law as an objective abstract object’, Anne Ruth Mackor, Groningen University
• 15:15 pm-15:40 pm: Should Law be Rationally Deconstructed? Geoffrey Samuel, Kent University

15:40 pm-15:50 pm: Coffee Break

Session 2-Chair: Tsampika Taralli, University of Edinburgh

• 15:50 pm- -17:00 pm: Q&A

Workshop: Virtue, Argumentation, and Law (Raeburn Room)

9:30 am : Coffee and introductory remarks

Session 1

• 10:00 am-10:50 am: Lilian Bermejo-Luque, University of Granada, “Overcoming falsehood and dishonesty. On the role of truth, the occasion for rationality and the essence of argumentation”, Chair: Claudio Michelon, University of Edinburgh
• 10:50 am-11:40 am: José Ángel Gascón, University of Murcia, “When external goals outweigh argumentative virtue: the case of argumentative bullshit", Chair: Claudio Michelon, University of Edinburgh

11:40 am-12:00 pm: Coffee Break

• 12 pm-12:50 pm: Patrick Bondy, Wichita State University, "Epistemic and Legal Normativity: Reasons, Guidance, Rights, and Virtues", Chair: Felipe Oliveira de Sousa, Ruhr University Bochum

12:50 pm-14:00 pm: Lunch (Elder Room)

Session 2

• 14:00 pm-14:50 pm: Amalia Amaya, University of Edinburgh and UNAM. “Exemplary Arguers (For Example, in Law)”, Chair: Maksymilian del Mar, Queen Mary University of London
• 14:50 pm-15:40 pm: Sherman Clark, Michigan Law School, “Distracted and Diminished: The Machinery of Marketing and the Virtues of Attention”, Chair: Maksymilian del Mar, Queen Mary University of London.

15:40 pm-16:10 pm: Coffee Break

• 16:10 pm-17:00 pm: Andrew Aberdein, Florida Institute of Technology, “Arguer’s Intent”, Chair: Euan McDonald, University of Edinburgh