Edinburgh Festival of Legal Theory

The website for this event has now been launched: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/festivaloflegaltheory/

A five day event, from 28 May to 1 June 2008, this Festival will host:

• Dead/Lines: Contemporary Issues in Legal and Political Theory - an AHRC Doctoral Colloquium, held on 28 - 29 May 2008.
• New Directions in Legal and Social Theory - the UK IVR Conference, held on 30 May - 31 May 2008
• Social Events
• Independent Workshops
• Research Project Pitches

Calls for abstracts for the Colloquium is available here and for the UK IVR Conference here.

Upendra Baxi and Sammy Adelman this Thursday

Upendra Baxi and SAmmy Adelman, both from Warwick, will conduct the following workshops at Edinburgh this Thursday, 8 November:

11am - 12pm - Teaching Jurisprudence as if the Third World Existed, Upendra Baxi - held in Sydney Smith Room, Medical School, Teviot.
12pm - 1pm - Reading Terror, Upendra Baxi - held in Sydney Smith Room, Medical School, Teviot.
4pm - 6pm - Postmodern Sovereignty, Sammy Adelman - held in Moot Court


All welcome

Legal/Political/Ethics Philosophy Group in Stirling Events

Here is the schedule for this semester's Stirling political philosophy group meetings. All are welcome to attend. The meetings are at 5.30pm in Room A7, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling.

31 Oct. Rowan Cruft (Philosophy, Stirling), 'Assisted dying: law and the moral foundations of human rights'.

7 Nov. Andrew Hass (Religious Studies, Stirling), 'From One to O: the Venturing of Nothingl'.

21 Nov. Stephen Penn (English studies, Stirling), 'John Wyclif on Civil and Divine Dominion'

5 Dec. Bill Munro (Applied Social Science, Stirling), 'From Philosophy to Social Theory'

School of Law Research Seminars at Glasgow

Autumn 2007 Calendar

3rd October Jason Frank, Cornell University, Revolution and Reiteration: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Constituent Power (Respondent: Adam Tomkins)
(N.b. This seminar will take place in the Melville Room, Gilbert Scott Building)

17th October Bronwen Morgan, Bristol University, Competition for the Rules at the Intersection of Rights and Regulation: Access to Water and the Contested Fate of the Social

*26th October* Martti Koskiennemi, Helsinki University, Workshop on From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (with respondents)

14th November Laura McGregor, University of Edinburgh, Rethinking Agency Law

28th November Sybille van der Walt, University of Glasgow, A platonic relationship? Britain’s History with International Human Rights

12th December Han Somsen, Tilburg University, Regulating Human Genetics in a Non-Eugenic Era

All seminars take place on Wednesdays in the Tartu Room, First Floor, Stair Building, 5-9 The Square, 3.30-5:00pm (except *Friday 26th October*, 2:30-5:00pm, Seminar Room 1, Wolfson Medical Building, University Avenue)

ALL WELCOME

Kevin Walton to speak at Edinburgh

Kevin Walton (University of Sydney) will present a paper entitled "The Nature of Political Obligation" on Wednesday 31 October, 4pm to 6pm, Old College, Edinburgh, room TBC.

Correction to Legal Theory events in Edinburgh

Correction - please note that the events below begin at 4pm, not 5pm as originally advised

Wednesday 10 October, 4pm - 6pm- First meeting of the Edinburgh Legal Theory Reading Group, reading Chapter 1 of Wil Waluchow's A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree (CUP, 2007). Introduction by Conrado Hübner Mendes. Lecture Room 4, Minto House, Chambers Street.

Wednesday 21 November, 4pm to 6pm - Jamie MacLean, PhD student at Edinburgh, will present a paper based on his thesis, which is provisionally entitled "Towards a Process Theory of Law". This is likely to be in Room L05, Old College (TBC).

Upcoming events in political theory at Edinburgh

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY 2007-2008
Wednesdays, 2:30-4pm, room G18
Organiser: Professor Cecile Fabre, Politics, Edinburgh (c.fabre@ed.ac.uk)

NOTE: papers marked * will be precirculated via the seminar’s list a few days before the seminar, on the assumption that they will be read in advance (so that the seminar will be entirely given over to discussing them.) If you wish to be included in the list, please get in touch with me at the above email address.

C. Fabre

SEMESTER 1
Wed 19/9: Asaf Sokolowski (Edinburgh) “ A Lockean Foundation for Liberal Nationalism” *

Wed 3/10: Craig Wilkie (Edinburgh) ‘The Political Paradigm of the Nation-State’ *

Wed 17/10: Tim Hayward (Edinburgh) Either ‘Soldiers and Citizens’ or ‘Human Rights v. Intellectual Property Rights’

Wed 24/10: Clare Chambers (Cambridge) "Coercive redistribution and public agreement: re-evaluating the libertarian challenge of charity"

Wed 7/11 Matteo Bonotti (Edinburgh) "Political Parties and the Limits of Political Liberalism" *

Wed 14/11 Katrin Flikschuh (LSE) Cosmopolitanism/Kantian Theory

Wed 21/11 Lynn Dobson (Edinburgh) EU theory/democratic theory

Wed 28/11 Arabella Millet (Edinburgh) 'Redistribution of Resources based on Negative Rights' *


SEMESTER 2
Tuesday 8/1 5pm-6:30pm: Henry Shue (Oxford) (lecture on climate change), room L175

Wed 9/1 Henry Shue (seminar on war), room L05

Wed 16/1 Dominik Zahrnt (Edinburgh) tba *

Wed 23/1 Zofia Stemplowska (Manchester) distributive justice/egalitarianism

Wed 30/1 Ben Hawkins tba *

Wed 13/2 Axel Gosseries (Louvain) Justice and Future Generations

Wed 20/2 Michal Rozynek (Edinburgh) tba *

Wed 5/3 Andy Dobson (Keele) Environmental theory

Wed 19/3 David Howarth (Essex) Discourse theory/radical democracy

Upcoming events in legal theory at Edinburgh

Wednesday 10 October, 5pm - 6pm- First meeting of the Edinburgh Legal Theory Reading Group, reading Chapter 1 of Wil Waluchow's A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree (CUP, 2007). Introduction by Conrado Hübner Mendes. Lecture Room 4, Minto House, Chambers Street.

Wednesday 21 November, 5pm to 6pm - Jamie MacLean, PhD student at Edinburgh, will present a paper based on his thesis, which is provisionally entitled "Towards a Process Theory of Law". This is likely to be in Room L05, Old College (TBC).

Thursday 18 October, 11am - 1pm - Workshop with Professor Geoffrey Samuel on his book, Epistemology and Method in Law. Professor Samuel will introduce the book, and a discussion will follow. All welcome. 11am-1pm, Raeburn Room, Old College.

Thursday 8 November, 11am- 1pm - Workshop with Professor Uprenda Baxi and Dr Sammy Adelman (both from Warwick). This workshop is entitled "Teaching of Jurisprudence as if the Third World Existed". Sydney Smith Room, (Floor 02), Medical School, Teviot Place.

Upcoming events in legal theory at Edinburgh

Wednesday 10 October, 4pm - 6pm
First meeting of the Edinburgh Legal Theory Reading Group, reading Chapter 1 of Wil Waluchow's A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree (CUP, 2007). Introduction by Conrado Hübner Mendes. Seminar Room L05 Old College, South Bridge.

Thursday 18 October, 11am - 1pm
Workshop with Professor Geoffrey Samuel on his book, Epistemology and Method in Law.
Details to follow soon.

Edinburgh podcast in legal theory #2

The second Edinburgh podcast in legal theory is now available!

It includes interviews with Professor Zenon Bankowski, Dr. Claudio Michelon and Oche Onazi.

Click here and follow the links.

Constitutional Dilemmas

is now available in the best bookshops

The First Number of Law and Humanities

Another new journal sponsored by Hart publishing.
Have a look here

The First Number of Legisprudence

A new journal of legal theory focussing on legislation.
It is published by Hart and features an interesting list of contributors.
If you want to have a look, here's a link: http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/legisprudence/
and here's the editor's preface: http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/samplepdf/legisprudence.pdf

Edinburgh Podcast in Legal Theory

A podcast series in legal theory has been established at Edinburgh.

The first episode contains interviews with Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, Dr. Sundram Soosay and Conrado Hubner Mendes.

To listen, please follow this link: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/blogsandpodcasts/podcasts.aspx

Hope you all like it!

Upcoming events in legal theory at Edinburgh

First of all: many thanks to Lorenzo Zucca for taking the excellent initiative to set up this blog!

The Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group has a few upcoming events. To register your interest please email me.

Tuesday 5 June 2007, 3pm, Room L05, Old College, Edinburgh: Professor Cecile Fabre presents a paper entitled "Rights and Non-Existence". Commentary will be provided by Dr. Scott Veitch.

Wednesday 20 June 2007, Room L05 4.00 - 6.00pm, Old College, Edinburgh: Octávio Ferraz (Warwick) will present a paper entitled "Two models for the justiciability of social rights."
Claudio Michelon and Oche Onazi will comment on the paper.

Friday 22 June 2007, 3pm Lorimer Room, Old College, Edinburgh: Roundtable discussion with Professor Martha Nussbaum. Seats for this one are limited: please email me. There is also a preliminary meeting on Thursday 7 June 2007, 2-3pm, in preparation for the roundtable.

Max

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