The workshop is designed to explore the application of new forms of logic, and notably multivalent logic, to the relations of legal orders in a time of globalisation. The workshop will bring together logicians, legal philosophers and specialists in public and private international law, EU law, constitutional law and private law.
Confirmed speakers include:
Nicholas Barber, Oxford
Christine Bell, Ulster
Janneke Gerards, Nijmegen
Patrick Glenn, McGill/NIAS/HiiL
Jaap Hage, Maastricht
Andrew Halpin, Swansea
John Horty, Maryland/NIAS
Vicki Jackson, Georgetown
Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan
Henry Prakken, Utrecht/Groningen
Graham Priest, Melbourne
Chaim Saiman, Villanova
Lionel Smith, McGill
Programme Friday, 17 June 2011
08:30 – 09:00
Registration and coffee
09:00 – 09:15
Opening remarks by Sam Muller, Director, Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law, H. Patrick Glenn
09:15 – 10:00
H. Patrick Glenn, ‘Choice of Logic and Choice of Law’
10:00 – 10:45
Henry Prakken, ‘Formal Models of Legal Argumentation’
10:45 – 11:15
Pause
11:15 – 12:00
Janneke Gerards, ‘Pragmatism, Minimalism and the Margin of Appreciation: The European Court of Human Rights’ Answer to Diversity’
12:00 – 12:45
Jaap Hage, ‘Different law, different logic’
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
Vicki Jackson, ‘Multivalence and U.S. Constitutional Law’
14:45 – 15:30
Andrew Halpin, ‘The Move from Bivalent to Multivalent Logic, as Misapplication’
15:30 – 16:00
Pause
16:00 – 16:45
Graham Priest, ‘When Laws Conflict: an Application of the Method of Chunk and Permeate’
16:45 – 17:30
Chaim Saiman, ‘Jewish Law: One God, No State, and (too) many legal answers’
18:30
Dinner
Saturday, 18 June 2011
09:00 – 09:45
Oren Perez, ‘Fuzzy Law’
09:45 – 10:30
Lionel Smith, ‘The Trust and Multivalence’
10:30 – 10:50
Pause
10:50 – 11:35
Nicholas Barber, ‘Legal Pluralism and the European Union’
11:35 – 12:20
Christine Bell, ‘Constituent Power and the Move from Binary Legal Analysis in Deeply Divided Societies’
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:45
(circa) Departure of shuttles
