:: Calls :: La Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales ha creado el programa de Doctorado en Derecho, mención Constitucionalismo y Derecho, de carácter eminentemente académico, orientado a la formación avanzada de juristas en los diferentes ámbitos del Constitucionalismo y Derecho. Los postulantes al Programa de Doctorado en Derecho completar el Formulario de Postulación a través de la página web del Programa de Doctorado: http://www.derecho.uach.cl/doctorado/Derecho/postulacion.php. El programa de Doctorado prevé un dos períodos de postulación: (i) desde el día miércoles 04 de enero hasta el día miércoles 18 de enero de 2017; (ii) desde el día jueves 23 de febrero hasta el día viernes 03 de marzo de 2017. (more…)
:: Calls :: The European Consortium for Political Research has organized the 11th General Conference, which will be held on September 6-9, 2017 (University of Oslo). The panel will be about “Rights and Duties in Kantian Political and Legal Philosophy” and contributions that reflect on the relationship between pre-institutional and legal rights that are sensitive to the intricacies that come with the contrast between ideal and non-ideal theorizing are very much welcomed. If interested, brief abstracts (max 400 words) can be submitted to bernstei@ohio.edu and hanisch@ohio.edu. Deadline February 6, 2017. (more…)
:: Calls :: The Department of Philosophy at York University (Toronto) is organizing a graduate conference to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Donald Davidson, which will take place in Toronto, on April 27-28, 2017. Anyone interested is invited to submit an extended abstract (max 1000 words) regarding one of the very many topics Davidson was interested in. DL January 15, 2017.
:: News :: The Program of Residential Lectures of the Master Global Rule of Law and Constitutional Democracy (VI Edition, Academic Year 2016-2017) is now available here.
:: Calls :: The LUISS University in Rome will host a roundtable on “Constitutional Adjudication: Traditions and Horizonts” on May 5-6, 2017. Interested PhD candidates and young scholars are invited to submit an abstract (500 words) addressing the theme “Constitutional Adjudication, between Pluralism and Unity” by January 16, 2017 to pfaraguna@luiss.it . (more…)
:: Calls :: The College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, is offering 20 scholarships to study for a PhD in an area of research linked to the college’s school/subject areas. Applicants must identify a potential supervisor prior to submitting an application, in order to secure a reference and develop a research proposal. DL February 3, 2017.
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This year’s third and last issue of Revus. Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law (2016) 30 includes a rich discussion of Bruno Celano‘s paper on Pre-Conventions as normative facts, as well as Alberto Puppo’s contribution Reasonable stability vs. radical indeterminacy. A disanalogy between domestic rule of law and humanity-based international law. Discussants of Celano’s paper in this issue are Marco Brigaglia, Dale Smith, Federico Arena, and José Juan Moreso. See all contributions here.
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…)