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

[IFILNOVA Instituto de Filosofia da Nova]

3 – 4 March 2022

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 [susana...@fcsh.unl.pt] or Jorge Silva Sampaio [jorgesil...@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 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). CONTACTOS + 351 217 908 300 Ext. 40311 ifil...@fcsh.unl.pt www.ifilnova.pt INSTITUTO DE FILOSOFIA DA NOVA Colégio Almada Negreiros  Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH Campus de Campolide 1099-032 Lisboa O IFILNOVA é financiado por fundos nacionais através da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia no âmbito do projeto UIDB/00183/2020