2018 Workshops
This year’s Legal Theory Festival will take place on 4-8 June 2018. You can find a map including the location of each venue HERE.
The Workshops are free and open to all but registration is required: please register HERE
This year’s Workshops are:
Monday 4 June 2018, 3-5pm
Globalisation, the Rule of Law, and the Danger of Taking Legal Pluralism Too Far
Speaker: Matthew Grellette (McMaster University)
Location: David Hume Tower, Room LG.06
Organiser: Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory
Tuesday 5 June 2018, 8.30am-4.45pm
Virtue Ethics, Markets, and the Law
Speakers: Chapin Cimino (Drexel University); Dominic Burbidge (Oxford); Irit Samet-Porat (KCL); Prince Saprai (UCL); René Urueña (Universidad de los Andes)
Location: David Hume Tower, Room LG.08
Organiser: Joaquín Reyes (Edinburgh)
Wednesday 6 June 2018, 8.30am-5pm
40 Years of Neil MacCormick’s “Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory”
Speakers: Luís Duarte d’Almeida (Edinburgh); John Gardner (Oxford); Eveline Feteris (Amsterdam); Claudio Michelon (Edinburgh); Zenon Bankowski (Edinburgh)
Location: Old College, Raeburn Room
Organiser: Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory
Thursday 7 June 2018, 8.30am-5pm
Conceptual Analysis and the Future of Jurisprudence
Speakers: Teresa Marques (Universidad de Barcelona); Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (Surrey); Kevin Toh (UCL); Scott Shapiro (Yale University)
Location: Old Surgeons Hall, Room G10 (Drummond Library)
Organiser: Ismael Martínez (Edinburgh)
Friday 8 June 2018, 12:30-5pm
Book Symposium: Hans Lindahl – “Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion”
Speakers: Hans Lindahl (Tilburg); Emilios Christodoulidis (Glasgow); Neil Walker (Edinburgh); Claudio Michelon (Edinburgh)
Location: Old Surgeons Hall G.10 (Drummond Library)
Organiser: Neil Walker (Edinburgh)