CFP: Facts, Evidence and Standards of Proof

The conference seeks to convene Latin American philosophers and legal scholars devoted to the study of the epistemological aspects of the practice of law, or whose experience in the legal field is relevant to legal epistemology, One of the goals of the conference is to build an academic community of Latin American scholars interested in legal epistemology, and to provide a space for the discussion of current work on the subject. Among the topics suggested are the following:

• Legal reasoning and legal rules of inference
• Burden and standards of proof
• Criteria for legal relevance
• Scientific evidence
• Expert testimony
• Evidence, causation, and responsibility
• Epistemic and procedural virtues
• Presumptions
• Bayesian vs. non-Bayesian approaches to the Law
• The relation between legal and social epistemology

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract in Word, PDF, or RTF format. The abstract should be between 500 and 1000 words, and it should present the main argument of the paper. The allocated time for delivering contributed papers at the conference will be 40 minutes, including discussion. The language of the conference is Spanish.

The submission deadline is April 15, 2013.

Accepted abstracts will be announced on May 1st, 2013

Abstracts of contributed papers should be submitted to:

[email protected] 

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