Category: Events

Book Symposium: ‘The Humanity of Private Law: Part I’ – Nicholas J. McBride (Pembroke College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 29th May, 2019.

Raeburn Room, Old College.

Full schedule:

09:20-09:40 Welcome coffee

09:40-9:50 (Welcome)

09:50-10:20 Nicholas McBride (Pembroke College, Cambridge): Book Overview

10:20-11:20 Joaquín Reyes (Edinburgh): ‘Conceptions of Human Flourishing in Private Law’

11:20-11:40 Coffee Break

11:40-12:40 Claudio Michelon (Edinburgh): ‘The ABC of Private Law and Basic Obligation’

12:40-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Dan Carr (Edinburgh): ‘The Law of Transactions’

15:00-16:00 Lene Korseberg (EUI): ‘Preserving Legitimacy’

16:00-16:20 Coffee Break

16:20-17:00 Nicholas McBride (Pembroke College, Cambridge): ‘The Humanity of Private law – Part II‘

Workshop on Legal Content

Tuesday 28th May.

Moot Court Room, Old College.

Full Schedule:

9:15-9:30 Gathering & Coffee

9:30-11:00 Lorena Ramirez-Ludeña (Pompeu Fabra): ‘On Whales and Fish. Two models of interpretation’

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 Hrafn Asgeirsson (Surrey): ‘Authority, Communication, and Legal Content’

12:45- 13:45 Lunch break

13:45- 15:15 Barbara Baum Levenbook (NCUS): ‘Prolegomena to Any Future Theory of Legal Content (With Apologies to Kant)’

Discussant: Miguel Ángel García-Godinez (Glasgow)

15:15-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Stefan Sciaraffa (McMaster): ‘The Philosophical Problem of Political Legitimacy‘

Discussant: Euan MacDonald (Edinburgh)