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Capone & Poggi (eds.), Pragmatics and Law. Vol. 2: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives (Springer 2016) includes contributions by Kasia Jaszczolt, Marina Sbisà, Damiano Canale, Hrafn Asgeirsson, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Nicola Muffato, Ekkehard Felder, Michael S. Green, Teresa Marques, Alessio Sardo, Leticia Barrera, Pompeu Casanovas, Victor Rodríguez-Doncel and Jorge González-Conejero, Mauro Barberis, Louise Cummings, Federico José Arena, Sune Sønderberg Mortensen and Janus Mortensen, Florencia Rimoldi and Hernán Bouvier. For the list of contents and further info click here.

Reason(s), Reasonableness and Law (Papers)

:: Events :: Five papers of the conference “Reason(s), Reasonableness and Law” are now available: Reasons, Rules, Exceptions: Towards a Psycological Account; Brigaglia-Celano. Economic Concepts in the Analysis of Proportionality Reasoning; Esposito. Models of Rational Law-Giving; Ratti. On Reasonableness and Evidence; Reyes Molina. The Rationality in the Cognitive Approach to Legal Reasoning; Zambon.

Check the last issue of Revus. Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law (2016) 29 with three individual contributions of TiLPh members and more: Mauro Barberis, For a truly realistic theory of law; Cristina Redondo, A legal order’s supreme legislative authorities; Vojko Strahovnik, Defeasibility, norms, and exceptions: normalcy model; Pierluigi Chiassoni, Legal interpretation without truth; Jan Woleński, How deontic logic contributes to the analysis of legal (more…)

:: News :: El Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC) ha instituido el premio “Luis Díez del Corral”, para tesis doctorales en Historia de las Ideas y de las Formas Políticas, Teoría Política Normativa y Filosofía Política. La dotación del premio es tres mil euros y se pueden presentar tesis doctorales (presentadas entre el 1 de enero y el 31 de diciembre de 2016), leídas y calificadas con Sobresaliente Cum Laude en las universidades españolas o su equivalente de máxima calificación en las universidades extranjeras. Deadline: 20 de enero de 2017 a las 14:00 horas (huso horario español).  (more…)

:: Calls :: The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities is seeking full submissions for a symposium section of the Spring 2017 issue. The journal seeks submissions that employ methods of philosophy to investigate practical legal issues. Please submit papers prepared for anonymous review to yjlh@yale.edu by December 31, 2016.  (more…)

Conference – Reason(s), Reasonableness and Law

:: Events :: The conference Reason(s), Reasonableness and Law will be held on December 5-6, 2016, at the University of Genoa. Our speakers are: Bruno Celano and Marco Brigaglia (University of Palermo), Hasan Dindjer (University of Oxford), Fabrizio Esposito (European University Institute), Giovanni B. Ratti (University of Genoa), Sebastián Reyes M. (Uppsala University), Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia), Adriano Zambon (University of Milan), Silvia Zorzetto (University of Milan) (…more information).

:: Events :: The Universidad Austral de Chile, the Universidad Diego Portales and the Universitad Alberto Hurtado have organized the conference “Normas constitutive: definir, juzgar y legislar”. The event will take place on November 24, 2016 (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) and on November 25, 2016 (Universidad Diego Portales). Among the speakers, Alejandro Calzetta (Universidad Alberto Hurtado), Álvaro Núñez (Universidad Austral de Chile), Julieta Rábanos (Universitá degli Studi di Genova), Natalia Scavuzzo (Universitá degli Studi di Genova).  (more…)

:: Calls :: University College London, Faculty of Laws, will host its 2017 Postgraduate and Early Careers Conference on March 20-21, 2017, at University College London. The Conference theme is “The Role of Law in Reconciling Competing Interests” and scholars are invited to submit papers, which may concern any field of law. Anyone interested should email an abstract (up to 750 words) along with a short bio (no more than two paragraphs) by December 25, 2016 to the following: PGC2017@ucl.ac.uk. (more…)

:: Jobs :: Aquellos interesados en realizar estudios doctorales en la Universidad de Girona pueden postularse a diferentes becas, algunas ofrecidas por la Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, otras por la Generalitat de Catalunya y otras por la propia Universidad de Girona. Fecha de presentación: 7 de diciembre. (more…)

:: Conference :: The graduate students in the Department of Philosophy at York University (Toronto) are organizing a graduate conference in celebration of Donald Davidson’s work.
Submissions, engaging with any of the wide variety of topics that Davidson himself was preoccupied with, are welcomed. The conference will take place on the 27th and 28th of April, 2017 at York University (Toronto). Please submit contributions to yorkgradconference@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2017.  (more…)