Perspectival Legal Discourse
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Sponsor(s):
- The Consolider-Ingenio Persp Project (WPS3)
- Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy
- Communication in Context (CCCOM) Project
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Organised by Jordi Ferrer (Girona), Juan José Moreso (Barcelona), Luís Duarte d’Almeida (Girona and Cambridge) and Matthew H. Kramer (Cambridge)
The organisers invite submissions for an international workshop on ‘Perspectival Legal Discourse’. The workshop will take place in Cambridge on July 5th and 6th, 2012.
Is legal discourse perspectival? Does the sincere utterance of statements of law hinge on the adoption of any particular point of view? Do we appeal to a distinctively legal viewpoint when we speak of legal duties, rights, or powers? More generally, is the truth (or even the truth-value) of propositions of law dependent on any characteristic perspective, presupposition, fiction, or standpoint?
These have been important questions in legal theory and philosophy of law at least since HLA Hart’s 1961 ‘The Concept of Law’. Hart’s views on such issues were subject to much exegetical and critical scrutiny over the past decades, as have Hans Kelsen’s or Joseph Raz’s. This workshop aims to move the debate further by discussing original papers that directly tackle the general topic of perspectival legal discourse in any of its aspects.
Programme:
Thursday 5 July
09h30-11h10: Kevin Toh (San Francisco), ‘Perspectival normative discourses of law and fictions’
11h30-13h10: Corrado Roversi (Bologna), ‘Five kinds of perspectives of institutional phenomena’
14h20-16h00: Robert Mullins (Oxford), ‘Relativism, centered worlds, and the legal point of view’
16h20-18h00: Triantafyllos Gkouvas (Antwerp), ‘Resisting perspectivalism about law’
Friday 6 July
09h30-11h10: Ralf Poscher (Freiburg), ‘The common error in theories of adjudication’
11h30-13h10: Bruce Chapman (Toronto), ‘Defeasible rules, interpersonal accountability, and the second-personal point of view’
Registration: Participation is free, but if you would like to attend please do let us know ([email protected]) until 2 July.
This workshop is sponsored by: The Consolider-Ingenio Persp Project (WPS3) (http://www.ub.edu/persp/); the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy (http://www.cflpp.law.cam.ac.uk/); the CCCOM (Communication in Context) Project (http://www.cccom.ut.ee/).
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July 5, 2012, 10:00am BST
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