Tarello Institute for Legal Philosophy

::Events:: An online seminar, organized by Maastricht Law and Philosophy Platform will be held by Fábio Shecaira, who will present and discuss his work “Precedent and the ‘Source-Norm’ Distinction”. The seminar will be held via Zoom on Thursday, February 25th from 18:00 to 19:30 (Amsterdam time). The event is free and open to everyone. Interested participants can register on the following link. In case of any questions, please contact Lucas Miotto via e-mail lucas.miottolopes@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

::Calls:: Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence is a monthly, online working-paper seminar series, open to everyone working in the philosophy of law. The seminar series began in June 2020. A Call has been opened for three seminars (to be held in May, June and July 2021). More information can be found on the link.

::Jobs:: The University of Turin invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher (“assegnista di ricerca”) in the field of logic and philosophy of science. The position is for a period of 18 months (12 + default extension of 6). The successful candidate will work in the PRIN project Logic and Cognition: Theory, Experiments, and Applications. The default starting date is 1 May 2021, but starting sooner or later can be mutually agreed. The deadline for applications will be 22 February 2021 at 13:00 Central European Time. Interviews will presumably be held on 18 March (via Skype), and information about the outcome will be sent as soon as possible afterwards.For further information on the position, please contact Prof. Vincenzo Crupi, at vincenzo.crupi@unito.it. Please make sure to include the string “PRIN postdoc” in the subject line.

::Jobs:: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, announces that the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (4th edition) is now open. The call is aimed at PhD holders of any nationality or stateless with a background in any scientific area who wish to develop their scientific research or technological development activity in Portugal. The call is open until 26 February 2021, 5 p.m. (Lisbon time). For more information, see the link.

:: 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.

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:: 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.

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