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May 2017
18th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law 2017
May 25, 2017
May 27, 2017
18th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law 2017
The 18th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL 2017, hosted by the Cardozo Law School 55 5th Ave, New York, in collaboration with the University of Roma Tre – Law School), will take place from 25 May to 27 May 2017. The use and practice of exemplarity are rooted in classic rhetoric, literature, politics and law. Because of the shift from pre-modern to modern ways of thinking – […]
International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
Singularity, Generality and Exemplarity in Legal
Discourse
New York, 25-27 May 2017
Thursday May 25
Cardozo Law School
55 5th Ave, New York
15 – 16 Introduction
Peter GOODRICH (Cardozo Law School)
Angela CONDELLO (University of Roma Tre, University of Turin)
16 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 17.30 Exemplarity: Singularity, Generality, Concreteness, Abstraction, Hypoteticals
Silvia NICCOLAI (University of Cagliari), Rediscovering the dialectic between singularity and generality: a chance for diversity, and freedom
José Manuel AROSO LINHARES (University of Coimbra), Exemplarity as concreteness or the challenge of institutionalizing a productive circle between past and present, old and new
Karen PETROSKI (Saint Louis University School of Law), Harnessing Hypotheticals: How to Argue About Meaning
Chair – Peter GOODRICH (Cardozo Law School)
17.30 – 18.15 Discussion
DINNER
Friday May 26
Cardozo Law School
55 5th Ave, New York
9 – 10 Aesthetics of Exemplarity
Julen ETXABE (University of Helsinki), Seeing the Whole in a Fragment: ThePanecastic Method of Jacques Rancière
Pedro de OLIVEIRA and Tiago PIMENTEL ANDRADE, The View of
Understanding of as Art and its Contribution to the Systematic Prospective
Mark ANTAKI (McGill University), title t.b.a.
Chair – Thomas GIDDENS (St Mary’s University)
10 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.15 – 12.15 Deduction, Induction, Exemplary reasoning
Carel SMITH (University of Leiden), Deduction and the Rhetoric of Literality
Anita SOBOLEVA (University of Moscow), Sources of Law v. Sources of Arguments: Positivist and Rhetorical Approach to Law and Legal Reasoning
Ana Margarida SIMÕES GAUDÊNCIO (University of Coimbra), From the dichotomy norms/facts to the connection system/problem in the judicial organization of law: logical deduction vs. analogical judgment in adjudication
Chair – Angela CONDELLO (University of Roma Tre, University of Turin)
12.15 – 13 Discussion
13 – 15 LUNCH BREAK
15 – 16 Humanism of Exemplarity
Paolo HERITIER (University of Turin), Aesthetics of singularity in Law and Humanities: the conception of the example in philosophical jurisprudence and in the poetic Iconomics of Vico
Massimo LEONE (University of Turin), The Doodling of Jesus: The Aspectuality of Law
Fabiana PINHO (University of Kiel, University of Sao Paulo), Human dignity at the European Court of Human Rights: how do problems become solutions?
Chair – Erica WEITZMANN (Northwestern University)
16 – 16.45 Discussion
16.45 – 17.15 COFFEE BREAK
17.15 – 18.15 Fictionality of Exemplarity
Thomas GIDDENS (St Mary’s University), Law and the Multiframe: On Comics and Other Ways of Knowing
Terezie SMEJKALOVA (Masaryk University, Brno), Showing by fiction: Audience of extra-legal references in judicial decisions
Chair – Silvia NICCOLAI (University of Cagliari)
18.15 – 19 Discussion
DINNER
Saturday May 27
NYU Production Lab
16 Washington Place
9 – 10 Exemplarity between Rituals, Morality, and Normativity
Michał DUDEK and Mateusz STĘPIEŃ (Jagellonian University, Krakow), Power Distance in Courtroom – An Outline of Variables Constituting the Phenomenon
Elisabeth ENEROTH (University of Frankfurt, Normative Orders), Exemplarity in Critical Substantive Validity Testing of Legal Norms
Leandro SANTOS DA GUARDA (University of Roma Tre), A possible compromise? Legal individualism and individual morality in criminal law
Chair – Paolo HERITIER (University of Turin) and Massimo LEONE (University
of Turin)
10 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.15 – 12.30 Discussion of Hans Lipps’ Instance, example, case, and the relationship of the legal case to the law
Erica WEITZMAN (Northwestern University)
Angela CONDELLO (University of Roma Tre, University of Turin)
12.30 – 13 Conclusions