BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260616T082746Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20120415T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20120415T100000 SUMMARY:Quantitative Justice and Fairness UID:20260620T152145Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:

The Quantitative Justice network aims to develop an open interdisciplinary \;discussion on addressing legal and ethical issues through formal and \;quantitative models and their computable implementations.

In particular\, this conference in Lisbon 22-24th May will focus on Inference \;and Causality. It aims at investigating the extent to which formal and \;quantitative models can be brought to bear on issues pertaining to balancing \;interests and values of different individuals\, social groups and \;institutions as well as to balancing different sources of information\, in \;different legal\, political or social contexts.

Specific themes

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  1. The emergence of the concepts of inference and causality in different \;philosophical\, cultural\, religious and legal traditions
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  2. Inference and \;causality\, conceptionalism and justice in tort and criminal law.
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  3. Inference or causality and the assessment of evidence
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  4. Quantitative and \;non-quantitative models of inference\, causality or \;(distributive) justice and fairness
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  5. Telelological arguments\, goals\, values and deontology in legal and moral \;thinking
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  6. Multicriteria decision-making and social choice
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  7. Proportionality in distributive and corrective justice
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  8. Balancing rights \;and values in moral and legal reasoning
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\nThe conference takes place 22-24th May at University Lisbon\, Portugal.
Paper / abstract submission not later than: 15 April 2012
Notification: 30 April 2012
Submission of full paper and slides: 15 May 2012 ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR