[PHILOS-L] Law's Many Users - Conference (Nov 12th - 14th) - Registration Open

[Alex Davies]

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Registration is open for the cross-disciplinary conference "Law's Many Users: Legal Interpretation Within and Beyond Legal Institutions" (November 12th-14th): https://filsem.ut.ee/en/news/conference-laws-many-users-legal-interpretation-within-and-beyond-legal-institutions (includes timetable, book of abstracts and registration forms).

WHEN AND WHERE?

The conference will take place in Tartu, Estonia 12th - 14th November, and talks will be broadcast on Zoom to those who register. If you're in the area, you're welcome to join in person. But please register for that as well, so we have enough coffee and snacks for everyone.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Law is interpreted and implemented by many hands. Some of them belong to judges, legislators, or lawyers—but many belong to nurses, teachers, municipal officials, or department heads: professionals who encounter law not in courtrooms or casebooks, but in institutional documents, contracts, checklists, and internal protocols. These actors do not interpret law as legal theorists or as abstract "laypeople," but as role-bound individuals embedded in specific organisational contexts. Their understanding of legal norms is shaped by institutional incentives, bureaucratic hierarchies, resource constraints, inherited routines, and pressures to defer to internal authorities. They are interpreters, but also implementers—conduits through which law acquires practical meaning. While experimental jurisprudence has deepened our understanding of how legal concepts like causation, intention, or rights are grasped by legal experts and ordinary citizens, it has rarely focused on this middle terrain: how individuals interpret legal rules as part of their job, within the constraints and affordances of organisational life. The conference brings together scholars with an interest in the interpretation of law by both legal practitioners and "implementers" like those just described.

WHO'S GOING TO BE THERE?

Alex Davies (Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu)

Emmi Kaaya (Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu)
Ivar R. Hannikainen (Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada)
Mario Armando Sandoval Islas (Department of Law, University of Genoa)
Salima Issina-Shorman (Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University)
Katarina Kovacevic (Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University)
Jekaterina Nikitina (Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, University of Milan)
Elena Pedroni (Faculté des Lettres, UFR de Philosophie Sorbonne, Sorbonne University)
Karolina Prochownik (Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition, Ruhr University Bochum)
Kati Rantala (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki)
Kevin Toh (Faculty of Laws, UCL / the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Johanna Vanto (Faculty of Law, University of Turku)
Michał Wieczorkowski (Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Alexander Wulf (Centre for Social Legal Studies, University of Oxford / SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg, Campus Berlin)

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