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G. Tusseau (ed.), The Legal Philosophy and Influence of Jeremy Bentham. Essays on “Of the Limits on the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence” (Routledge, 2014) includes two contributions of TiLPh members: Francesca Poggi and Francesco Ferraro, A Commitment to Naturalism, Bentham and the Legal Realists, and Pierluigi Chiassoni, The Theory of the Legal order. For details and other contributors go here.
S. Figueroa Rubio (ed.), Hart en la teoría del derecho contemporánea. A 50 años de El concepto de derecho (Santiago: Universidad Diego Portales, 2014) has just been published with two contributions of TiLPh members: Riccardo Guastini, Releyendo a Hart, and María Cristina Redondo, Dos críticas metodológicas a la teoría de Hart. See details here.
News of interest: The German Law Journal has published the special issue on European citizenship, based on the international conference European Citizenship: 20 Years On held in Uppsala, March 2013.
:: CFA :: The Centre for Ethics of the University of Antwerp (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts), in collaboration with the Faculty of Law, is seeking to fill a full-time vacancy for a Doctoral student in the area of ethics and/or philosophy of law. Deadline for applications is 15 September 2014. More information is available here.
:: CFP :: The interdisciplinary academic network MetaLawEcon organises its 5th workshop on “What is law for? Philosophical, empirical and evolutionary perspectives” at the University of Debrecen, Hungary (Faculty of Law, Thursday – Friday, 11 and 12 December 2014) and is now calling for paper proposals. The workshop’s general theme, in broad terms, is whether law can be characterised and analysed in functional or instrumental terms, and if so, how. Economic analysis is a prominent but netiher (more…)
Pubblicazione di interesse: è disponibile il terzo numero del 2014 della rivista Nuevas Fronteras de Filosofía Práctica. Fra i contributi, un’intervista di René González de la Vega e Guillermo Lariguet a Ricardo Caracciolo.
:: CFP :: The Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference (EPGLC) 2014 will take place on 1-2 December 2014 at Edinburgh Law School’s historic campus, Old College, on the topic ‘Innovation in the Law: New Challenges, New Perspectives’. The conference programme will include a variety of panels, training sessions and keynote speakers: the full programme will be released once all speakers have been selected. (more…)
:: CFA :: The PERSP project invites applications for one full-time post-doctoral research position open in Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona). Research proposals should be on topics that fall within the remit defined by PERSP’s overall research objectives. The position is funded for one year. The deadline for applications is 22 August 2014. More information is available here.
:: CFP :: In celebration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the theme of the British Legal History Conference 2015 at the University of Reading (July 8-11 2015) is ‘Law: Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights’. While different forms and ideas of authority have shaped law historically, law has also been moulded by, and influenced, challenges to authority brought to assert and seek recognition of rights. Magna Carta resulted from one such challenge, but challenges to social, economic, political and (more…)
:: CFP :: The UCLA and University of Antwerp joint Conference on Law and Philosophy will take place on October 10-11 2014, at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA). Students, graduate students, recent law school graduates and recent Ph.D. recipients are invited to submit papers on law and philosophy,broadly construed, with an emphasis on ethics and law or philosophy of language (more…)