Archive of Events

Archive of Events

Room: Seminar room (F 113)
Legal hermeneutics could be deemed a broader notion than just legal interpretation. When legal practitioners cope with the law, they often do much more than merely interpret it. Arguably, they engage in legal construction, apply the law to a case at hand, and exercise discretion. In this spirit, the workshop aims to take this more comprehensive perspective of legal hermeneutics ­seriously by inviting its participants to address these various hermeneutic activities in legal adjudication. [more]
The fields of criminal sentencing and punishment have continu­ously been confronted with complex societal, ethical, and legal challenges. While some of these challenges have existed for decades, notably over-punishment and the over-representation of marginalized groups within the purview of punishment, others have more recently emerged from novel developments within society and policy, such as the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the employment of modern science and new technologies in criminal justice, which warrant further analysis. Against this backdrop, this workshop brings legal scholars from different jurisdictions together to discuss novel perspectives and alterna­tive models addressing important diachronic issues and current questions within these fields. The talks will provide a broad analysis of current debates that surround the state of the art and future of sentencing, including its theoretical goals, principles, and factors, its implications for different groups of defendants and types of offenses, and the concrete potential of empirical and cross-disciplinary knowledge to aid in sentencing authorities. The overall goal is to offer a forum for discussing the dynamics, shortcomings, and comparative significance of modern sentencing trends and sanction models, with special focus on the aspects that are most in need of reform. [more]
This two-day course examines growing concerns with counter-extremism and democratic rule. Each facet explores different means by which counter-extremism measures reveal that conventional democratic models tend to undertheorize and/or overlook important values and justifications. Engaging at individual, state, supranational, and international levels, its multi-disciplinary program aims to stimulate discussion on a wide range of substantive and procedural questions. [more]

Challenges of Rape Law Reform

Academic Workshop
We are pleased to announce the upcoming workshop on rape law, featuring distinguished legal scholar Stephen Schulhofer as our special guest. This workshop will bring together a panel of esteemed experts in the field to delve into the complexities and implications surrounding rape law within our legal system. [more]

Conceptual Engineering and the Law

Workshop
Conceptual engineering aims to replace imprecise, misleading, or contradictory concepts with more accurate ones. Rather than asking how a concept is being used, it questions whether it is right to use it that way. It offers a new way of understanding many of our disagreements: even when we mean different things by the words we argue about, we don’t always talk past each other. Sometimes, we engage in a fundamental dispute about what these words ought to mean, and by extension, about the best way to describe reality. [more]

Citizenship and Fragmentation in Criminal Law

Workshop
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