The Legal Philosophy Workshop (second annual)

The LPW is a conference designed to foster reflection on the nature of law and the philosophical issues underlying its different areas. Our aim is to promote work that connects legal philosophy with other branches of philosophy (e.g., moral and political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, or philosophy of action) and to create a venue for the critical examination of different viewpoints about law.

The LPW is an annual event, hosted in venues alternating between North America and the United Kingdom. The inaugural LPW took place on 3-4 May 2014 at the University of Pennsylvania. The 2015 LPW will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh on 13-14 June 2015.

 The format of the workshop is pre-read. We will be discussing 5 to 6 papers, circulated about three weeks in advance. Each session will start with a very short presentation by the author (5-10 minutes). A commentator will then kick-off discussion, the author will respond to the comments, and then the remainder of the session will be dedicated to Q&A.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the workshop, please submit an abstract to us by December 1, 2014. Please limit your abstract to 1,000 words or less. Once we have received abstracts, we aim to put together a diverse programme that we hope will be of interest to a wide range of people within legal philosophy.

Please email the abstract to Dimitrios Kyritsis ([email protected]). Please also let Dimitrios know if you would be interested in commenting on a paper and, if so, on what range of topics in legal philosophy.

The LPW is open to everyone who is interested in attending, space permitting. There will be no registration fees. In order to register for attending the event, please send an email to Luís Duarte d’Almeida ([email protected]).

We should also note that we cannot cover expenses, so you would need to secure your own funding for travel and lodging.

This is an open call for abstracts, so you should feel free to forward this information to anyone who you think might be interested in presenting a paper, commenting on a paper, or attending the workshop.