Workshop on Professor Robert Alexy's Legal Theory

10/29/2018 - 09:00 - 18:30

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Programme:
  • 9:00 – 9:45      Registration + coffee break (Researchers’ Forum, Astra building)
  • 9:45 – 10:00    Opening words by Katrin Niglas (Vice-Rector for Research at Tallinn University)

I session Chairman Massimo La Torre

  • 10:00 – 10:30     Brian Bix – "A Critique of the Claim to Correctness"
  • 10:30 – 11:00     Peter Koller - "On the Connection between Law and Morality. Some Doubts about Robert Alexy’s View”
  • 11:00 – 11:30     Ralf Poscher "Resuscitation of a Phantom? On Robert Alexy's Latest Attempt to Describe the Object of the Principles Theory"
  • 11:30 – 12:00     Torben Spaak - ”Robert Alexy and the Dual Nature of Law"
  • 12:00 – 13:00     Discussion
  • 13:00 – 14:30     Lunch (not provided by the organizer)

II session Chairman Indrek Grauberg

  • 14:30 – 15:00     Timothy Endicott - "Principles of Interpretation"
  • 15:00 – 15:30     Jan-Reinard Sieckmann - "The Dual Nature Thesis: Which Dualism?”
  • 15:30 – 16:00     Mart Susi - "Internet Balancing Formula"
  • 16:00 – 16:30     Coffee break (Researchers’ Forum, Astra building)
  • 16:30 – 17:30     Discussion
  • 17:30 – ...            Closing words by Professor Alexy

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