:: Call for Submissions :: The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) is pleased to announce a Call for Abstract Submissions for the panel discussion for Thematic Area 5: “Legal Interpretation” as part of the 5th ILLA General Conference “Language and the Law in the Age of Migration”, organised by the International Language and Law Association (ILLA), which will take place at the University of Alicante (Spain), 7th — 9th September 2021.
The deadline for abstract submission for Thematic Area 5: “Legal Interpretation” has been extended to Wednesday, 31st March 2021. You can find more information about Thematic Area 5 and abstract submission below.
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:: Publications :: Mindus, P. & Spaak, T. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) includes contributions from several TILPh members: Pierluigi Chiassoni‘s “From Savigny to Linguistic Analysis: Legal Positivism through Bobbio’s Eyes”; Riccardo Guastini‘s “The Italian Tradition of Legal Positivism”, and María Cristina Redondo‘s “Bulygin’s Analytical Legal Positivism”. Other contributors are Leslie Green, Frederick Schauer, Brian Leiter, Stephan Kirste, Michel Troper, Gerald J. Postema, Philip Schofield, Michael Lobban, Jens Kersten, Michael S. Green, Matthew H. Kramer, Brian H. Bix, Stefano Bertea, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Torben Spaak, Andrei Marmor, W.J. Waluchow, Brian Z. Tamanaha, Kevin Toh, J.J. Moreso, Martin Borowski, Kenneth Winston, Dennis Patterson, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Jan Sieckmann, Barbara Baum Levenbook and David Dyzenhaus.
You can find all the relevant information about the book and its full index here.
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:: Events :: Los días 13, 14 y 15 de abril de 2021 se celebrará, en modalidad telemática, el II Congreso “En teoría hay mujeres (en teoría)“. Entre las ponentes de esta edición, Isabel Fanlo Cortés y Natalia Scavuzzo.
Toda la información sobre el congreso, incluyendo el programa completo y el formulario de inscripción, puede encontrarse a continuación.
(more…):: Events :: Venerdì 22 gennaio alle ore 15, si terrà, presso l’Università degli Studi di Genova, nella piattaforma teams, la discussione della tesi di dottorato di Alessandro Senaldi, dal titolo Il “campo giuridico” tra diritto e politica. Il caso del TAV/TAC in Val di Susa. La commissione di esame sarà composta dal prof. Adalgiso Amendola, Università di Salerno; prof. Claudio Sarzotti, Università di Torino; prof.ssa Elena Valentini, Università di Bologna.
::Events:: A schedule of Zoom online seminars organized by Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group has been published. The seminars start on 21/01 with a seminar from Frederick Schauer: “Statistical Evidence and the Problem of Specification”. More information about other seminars and registration can be found on the link.
::Events:: A Zoom webinar on the topic Positivism and International law will be held on 25 January from 15:00 to 18:00 (CET). The webinar is designed to provide for the opportunity for a conversation. Three one-hour panels will discuss questions that lie at the overlap of contemporary legal positivism and philosophy of international law. For more information, visit the following link.
:: Events :: Il Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche “Cesare Beccaria” dell’Università degli Studi di Milano e da Politeia, in occasione della pubblicazione del volume di Massimo La Torre, Il diritto contro se stesso (Olschki, 2020) invita al Webseminar sul tema “Il diritto contro se stesso”. L’iniziativa si terrà online il 19 gennaio 2021 (ore 11:00-13:00). Con l’Autore discuteranno, Aldo Schiavello (Università di Palermo), Susanna Pozzolo (Università di Brescia) e Mario Ricciardi (Università di Milano; Politeia). Presiederà l’incontro Claudio Luzzati (Università di Milano; Politeia).
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::Jobs:: The Faculty of Law at Uppsala University, Sweden, announces a vacancy for a doctoral student position in jurisprudence. The main area of research is ethical, logical, epistemological and ontological analyses of theories and concepts which are common to different jurisprudential disciplines. The deadline for application is March 1, 2021. For more information, see the link.
::Calls:: An international conference ‘Rule of Law Beyond the Nation-State’ will be held in Belgrade from May 14 to May 15, 2021. The goal of the conference is to provide further elucidation and evaluation of the process of appropriation of the Rule of Law principle in various contexts beyond the nation-state. All those interested in participating must submit an abstract (up to 500 words long) by April 10 to the email: zdr.anna@gmail.com Selected participants will be informed by April 25. More information about the conference can be found on the link.
Le componenti e i componenti dell’Istituto Tarello per la Filosofia del Diritto, profondamente colpiti dalla scomparsa del Professor Michele Taruffo, collega e amico carissimo, si uniscono al dolore di quanti serberanno il ricordo del suo altissimo magistero di giurista, ricercatore, e difensore della ragione e della giustizia.
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