Thursday, June 14, 2007

The First Number of Law and Humanities

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

Friday, June 8, 2007

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

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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!

Monday, June 4, 2007

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

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Welcome

Welcome to Scottishprudence, a blog for scholars interested in Legal and Political theory in Scotland and beyond.