The last meeting of the spring semester of 2024 Belgrade Legal Theory Group hosted Prof. Hrafn Asgeirsson (University of Surrey), who held a lecture on the topic “How Normative Functions “Shape” the Law: A Grounding Problem For Legal Positivism?” Prof. Asgeirsson focused on the issue of shaping the law by normative facts or functions based…
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Belgrade Legal Theory Group organized another event in the spring semester of 2024 with Prof. David Duarte (University of Lisbon), on the topic of deontic modalities. Prof. Duarte started by presenting Hohfeld’s schema of molecular and atomic rights, with different atomic legal positions and their logical relations. He outlined Hohfeld’s square of deontic modalities and…
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For the third BLTG meeting in May, we will host Dr Hrafn Asgeirsson Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Surrey, School of Law, and co-director of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy – on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 5:00 PM CET, who will speak about: “How normative functions “shape” the…
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Belgrade Legal Theory Group organized another event in the spring semester of 2024 with Professor Jorge Sampaio (University of Lisbon School of Law) on the topic of law’s normativity. Prof. Sampaio started his presentation with an outline of the concept of normativity by asking what are the reasons for complying with the law. Is it…
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For the second BLTG meeting in May, we will host David Duarte from the Faculty of Law University of Lisbon – on Monday, May 20th, at 5 PM CET, who will speak about: “Correlative Co-Action and the Square of Deontic Modalities”. You can access the meeting via the following link: https://pravni.webex.com/pravni/j.php?MTID=meaef5445750f0286c8471c491a39dcb5
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We are pleased to invite you to three new BLTG meetings during the month of May. For the first meeting, we will host Jorge Sampaio from the Faculty of Law University of Lisbon – on Monday, May 13th, at 5 PM CET, who will speak on the following topic: “Robustly Enough: A Constitutivist Explanation of…
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Belgrade Legal Theory Group organized the third event in the summer semester of 2024 with Luka Glušac (Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade) on the topic of the fourth branch of government. Glušac started the lecture by explaining the basic doctrine of the separation of powers into three…
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We are pleased to invite you to our new BLTG meeting. This time we will host Luka Glušac, Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory – on Monday, April 29 2024, at 5 PM CET. Luka will speak on the topic of the fourth branch of government. You can access the meeting…
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Belgrade Legal Theory Group organized its second event of the spring semester of 2024 with Piotr Bystranowski (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods as well as a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the Jagiellonian University) on the topic of self-refentiality of general jurisprudence. Piotr opened the lecture with raising two…
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Belgrade Legal Theory Group Meeting (04.03.2024.) Prof. Catherine Elgin “The Concept of Understanding” Belgrade Legal Theory Group organized its first event of the spring semester of 2024 with Prof. Catherine Elgin (Harvard University) on the concept of understanding within the philosophy of science. Prof. Elgin opened with general remarks about epistemic reliability, the concept of truth, and…
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