Public Exemplarity, Character, and Legal Culture
Location:
Raeburn Room,
Old College
Date/time
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09:00-17:00
The Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory is hosting an international workshop on June 17th-18th, 2024, on the topic of ‘Public Exemplarity, Character, and Legal Culture’.
The event, which is funded by the British Academy, is organised by Amalia Amaya and Claudio Michelon, who will be joined by a group of scholars from across philosophy, legal theory, political science, education, classics, and literary studies. Our speakers will engage in a lively debate about the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of public exemplarity, in both past and contemporary legal culture.
This event is in person only.
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:25-9:30 Preliminary remarks with Amalia Amaya and Claudio Michelon
9:30-12:20 Session I (Chair: Claudio Michelon)
Javier Gomá (Juan March Institute) - The concept of exemplarity and its effects on the law
Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter) - Making and breaking public exemplary models
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (University of Genova) – Moral exemplars and moral influencers as counterspeakers
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-16:10 Session II (Chair: Amalia Amaya)
Sherman Clark (University of Michigan) – Socratic Show and Tell: Eudaimonist Professional Virtues in Law Teaching
Alfred Archer (Tilburg University) & Alice Bosma (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement) - Exemplary Victims
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
Angela Condello (University of Messina) - The Force of Exemplary Cases in the Age of Datafication
16:10-17:00 Group activity (led by Claudio Michelon and Amalia Amaya)
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-12:20 Session I (Chair: Guillermo Estrada, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Hans Petter Graver (University of Oslo) - Do we need legal heroes?
Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology) - Empathy tailor-made: self-knowledge, exemplarity, and trustworthy emotions in the courtroom
11:10-11:30 Coffee break (20 minutes)
Gabrielle Appleby (University of New South Wales) – Exemplary judicial conduct
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-15:00 Session II (Chair: Michelle Burgis-Kasthala)
Edward Brooks (University of Oxford) – Exemplarity in public life
Jan Klabbers (University of Helsinki) – Exemplarism in International Organizations
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:10 Roundtable (Chair: Amalia Amaya) with Gustavo Ortiz (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London)
16:10-16:30 Concluding remarks