Applications are invited to the Summer School on Law and Logic 2012, to be held 16-20 July 2012, in Florence, Italy.
Here is a description of the school:
The Summer School on Law and Logic is the first course ever to provide a comprehensive introduction to the wide variety of uses of logic in the law. Our aim at this Summer School is to provide law students, graduate law students, and legal professionals with a knowledge of the methods of formal logic and the ability to apply those methods to the analysis and critical evaluation of legal arguments and sources of law (including statutes, cases, regulations, constitutional provisions).
The Summer School includes the basics of propositional and predicate deductive logic, as well as the use of logic for capturing representing deontic and Hohfeldian modalities, analogical reasoning and inference to the best explanation. It also addresses presents some aspects of non-deductive reasoning in law, such as defeasible reasoning, including argumentation schemes and inductive reasoning.
The school’s faculty are:
The hosts and sponsors of the school are:
- European University Institute
- Harvard Law School
- Cardozo School of Law
- CIRSFID-University of Bologna
- University of Groningen
- European Academy of Legal Theory
For more information, please see the school’s Website.
HT Giovanni Sartor.
