Theories of Legal Obligation - Workshop

For general inquiries about the event, please contact Dr Stefano Bertea at bertea.stefano@gmail.com

The programme of the workshop can be found below. 

Programme  

Wednesday 16^th February 2022 

8.45 – 9.00 – Stefano Bertea (University of Leicester): Welcome and Introduction  

9.00 – 10.00 – David Duarte (University of Lisbon): Legal and Moral Obligation and the Identity Criteria of Normative Systems 

Coffee break 

10.15 – 11.15 – Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki (Jagiellonian University): Natural Obligations  

11.15 – 12.15 – Lorenz Khäler (University of Bremen): The Ontological Ideality of Legal Obligations 

Lunch break 

13.15 – 14.15 – Deryck Beyleveld (University of Durham): Why Any Legal Positivist Idea of Legal Obligation is Untenable 

14.15 – 15.15 – Martin Borowski (University of Heidelberg): Gustav Radbruch’s Theory of Legal Obligation 

Coffee break 

15.30 – 16.30 – Noam Gur (Queen Mary University of London): Understanding Legal Normativity through Different Lenses: Obligations, Reasons for Action, and Reasons for Attitudes 

16.30 – 17.30 – Thom Brooks (University of Durham): Legal Obligation as a Matter of Interpretation