https://ifilnova.pt/en/events/the-bridge-between-metaethics-and-jurisprudence/

Lisbon Conference on Law and Ethics
The Bridge Between Metaethics and Jurisprudence

3 – 4 March 2022
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / University of Lisbon – School of Law & Online

IFILNOVA and Lisbon LxLTG – Legal Theory Group are organizing a joint conference on the relationship between metaethics and jurisprudence – both essential for the comprehension of ethics and law –, aiming to bring together philosophers and legal scholars discussing the possible interactions between both disciplines, and questions lying at their intersection.

The conference will have an online day with several presentations following a call for papers (3 March) and an in-person day with, among others, keynote talks by Connie Rosati, Maria Alvarez, Scott Shapiro and Luís Duarte d’Almeida (4 March).

To join the online sessions, please send an e-mail to one of the convenors, Susana Cadilha [susanacadilha@fcsh.unl.pt] or Jorge Silva Sampaio [jorgesilvasampaio@fd.ulisboa.pt], asking for access data. If you wish to participate in-person, please also send an e-mail expressing your interest.

 

PROGRAMME

3 March
Online Sessions

Morning session
Chair: Susana Cadilha (NOVA University; IFILNOVA)

10:00
Claudia Wirsing (University of Braunschweig)
Legal Norms and Normative Attitudes: Challenges for a Pragmatist Account of Recognition

10:30
Stanislaw Jedrczak (University of Warsaw)
Fuller’s Clock: A Case for Legal Non-Positivism in Artefactual Theory of Law

11:00
Break

11:30
Maciej Juzaszek and Adam Dyrda (Jagiellonian University)
Duties to believe in institutions: moral or epistemic? On institutional moral encroachment

12:00
Tomáš Sobek (Masaryk University)
Faultless disagreement and jurisprudence

12:30
Lunch

Afternoon Session
Chair: Susana Cadilha (NOVA University; IFILNOVA)

14:30
Linda Eggert (Stanford University)
Who’s Afraid of Morality? Facts, Principles, and the Law

15:00
Xi Zhang (New York University)
Valuing and Valuable

15:30
Break

16:00
Pablo Rapetti (ITAM)
A Critique of Strong Anti-Archimedeanism: Metaethics, Conceptual Jurisprudence and Legal Disagreements

16:30
Samuele Chilovi (University of California)
On the (in)significance of Hume’s Law

 

4 March
Faculdade de Direito (FDUL)

Morning session
Chair: Susana Cadilha (NOVA University; IFILNOVA) / Jorge Silva Sampaio (FDUL; CIDP; LxLTG)

10:00
Opening Session

10:15
Keynote address
Connie Rosati (University of Texas)
The Objectivity of Law

11:00
Coffee break

11:30
Keynote address
Maria Alvarez (King’s College London)
Responsibility and Choice: Reasons and Character

12:15
Alma Diamond (New York University)
Membership as Authority

12:45
Lunch

Afternoon Session
Chair: Pedro Moniz Lopes (FDUL; CIDP; LxLTG)

14:15
Keynote address
Scott J. Shapiro (Yale Law School / New York University)
TBA

15:00
Keynote address
Luís Duarte D’almeida (NOVA University, Law School / University of Edinburgh)
The Search for Underlying Principles

15:45
Rafael Giorgio Dalla Barba (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Metaethical Contributions for Explaining Hard Cases in the Law

16:15
Coffee break

16:30
Jorge Silva Sampaio (FDUL; CIDP; LxLTG)
Groundhog Principles: balancing and legal particularism

17:00
Sérgio Mascarenhas (CEDIS)
Law and Ethics across the Moral-Practical vs. Techno-Practical divide 

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Convenors: Susana Cadilha (NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities; IFILNOVA – NOVA Institute of Philosophy) and Jorge Silva Sampaio (University of Lisbon – School of Law; CIDP – Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law; LxLTG – Lisbon Legal Theory Group).