Cambridge Doctoral Workshop in Legal Theory 2017

The third edition of the Cambridge Doctoral Workshop in Legal Theory will be held on 6 June 2017 at the University of Cambridge. Our keynote speaker is Professor Stanley L. Paulson, the William Gardiner Hammond Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis. He will be delivering a keynote address on 'Hans Kelsen's Purity Postulate'.

The programme of the Workshop is as follows:

9:00 – 9:30: Registration

9:30 – 10:30: Keynote Address

Professor Stanley Paulson (William Gardner Hammond Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis; since 2011 a guest of Robert Alexy’s in the Faculty of Law, University of Kiel): ‘Hans Kelsen’s Purity Postulate’

10:30 – 12:30: Panel I: Core Concerns of Jurisprudence

Chair: Jason Allen (University of Cambridge)

• Sébastien Lacroix (University of Amsterdam and Université Laval): ‘Vagueness in the Law (and How to Overcome It)’
• Jyr-Jong Lin (University of Cambridge): ‘Legal Powers and Law’s Social Basis: Debunking the Official-Centered Approach to Law’
• Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University ): ‘The law of fiction or the fiction of law? A study about what language can reveal about mixed inferences’

12:30 – 12:50: Talk ‘Publishing One’s PhD Dissertation’

Bill Asquith, Commissioning Editor, Hart Publishing

12:50 – 13:40: Lunch

13:40 – 15:40: Panel II: Hans Kelsen’s Legal Theory

Chair: Joshua Neoh (University of Cambridge)

• Marcin Baranski (European University Institute): ‘A Kelsenian Theory of the European Juridical Constitution? A Rejoinder to Kaarlo Tuori’s European Constitutionalism’
• Martin Koloušek (Charles University): ‘Justice in the context of the pure theory of law and normative theory of law’
• Jorge C. Restrepo Ramos (Tilburg University): ‘Unity: The Last Myth in the Theory of the Legal Order’

15:40 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00: Panel III: Theories of Rights

Chair: John Adenitire (University of Cambridge)

• Joseph Bowen (University of St Andrews and University of Stirling): ‘The Interest Theory of Rights and Overdetermination: What Else is of Interest?’
• Adi Goldiner (King’s College London): ‘Membership Rights’
• Elias Moser (University of Berne): ‘A Hartian Will-Theory of Rights applied to Claim-Rights Conferred by the Criminal Law’

All sessions will be held in Room 119, the Department of Politics and International Studies (Alison Richard Building), 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.