The Methodology of Legal Philosophy
This Workshop will take place on Tuesday, 2 June 2015 from 9.00 – 16.00 in the Raeburn Room (Old College)
This session is pre-read. Authors will only give a brief presentation of their papers. Presentations will be followed by a 10 min discussion session, and then a longer Q&A session open to all participants. Papers are now available at this password-protected page. Please, contact the workshop organiser for the password.
Organizer: Lucas Miotto
Schedule:
8:30 – Tea/Coffee served
9:00 – 10:20
Dan Priel (Osgoode Hall Law School): Some Realism About Conceptualism
Discussant: Luís Duarte d’Almeida (University of Edinburgh)
Coffee Break – 10:20 – 10:40
10:40 – 12:00
Kenneth Ehrenberg (University of Alabama): Law as Artifact: Function and Method
Discussant: Claudio Michelon (University of Edinburgh)
Lunch Break – 12:00 – 13: 00
13:00 – 14:20
Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh): Legal Risk, Legal Evidence, and the Arithmetic of Criminal Justice
Discussant: Andrew Cornford (University of Edinburgh)
Coffee Break – 14:20 – 14:40
14:40 – 16:00
Torben Spaak (University of Stockholm): The Canberra Plan and Legal Positivism
Discussant: Silvan Wittwer (University of Edinburgh)
This Workshop is kindly sponsored by:
Postgraduate Research Student Board Community
University of Edinburgh School of Law