On the 5th of June, the School of Law and Criminology hosted a workshop on a new approach to legal theory, 'experimental jurisprudence', convened by Dr Brian Flanagan.
The School hosted a workshop on a new approach to legal theory, 'experimental jurisprudence'. Bringing leading critics and practitioners together, the workshop debated the nature of legal expertise, the true role of laypeople's intuitions in general legal philosophy; and whether experiments and case studies can be complementary. Towards the end the of the discussion, X-Jur was memorably described as a 'gold rush'. Held in Renehan Hall in MU's beautiful South Campus, the workshop was streamed to an international group of academics.
Speakers:
Prof Kenneth Himma is a Continuing Guest Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb.
Dr Grant Lamond is a University Lecturer in Legal Philosophy at Oxford University and the Felix Frankfurter Fellow in Law, Balliol College, Oxford.
Prof Fernanda Pirie is the Professor of the Anthropology of Law at Oxford University.
Dr Karolina Prochownik is Senior Researcher at the Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Prof Kevin Tobia is an Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy (by courtesy) at Georgetown University.
Prof Kenneth Ehrenberg is the Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy at the University of Surrey.
Dr Ivar Hannikainen is a professor at the University of Granada, Department of Philosophy.
Dr Miguel Garcia-Godinez is a post-doctoral fellow at University College Cork, Department of Philosophy.
Dr Kenneth Silver is an Associate Professor in Business Ethics within Trinity Business School and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Oisin Suttle is an Associate Professor of Law at Maynooth University.
Dr Donal Coffey is an Associate Professor of Law at Maynooth University and an Affiliate Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main.
Dr Brian Flanagan is an Associate Professor of Law at Maynooth University