Conferences and Workshops

This international multidisciplinary conference on alternative methods of legal argumentation has been held every two years since 2011. It is dedicated to exploring alternative methods of legal argumentation - especially those that are not regularly used in practice - and to opening up a space for debate describing law and its impact on society from the perspectives of other scientific disciplines. It provides a unique space for the exchange of current professional views in an international context.
In addition to the main theme, the conference consists of four workshops, each specializing in a specific method of studying legal argumentation.

Formal Methods in Legal Reasoning

The workshop provides a platform suitable for discussing alternative ways of structuring and presenting legal arguments. Likewise, it addresses argumentation leading to the removal of ambiguity from natural language and increasing the scope of its possible automatic processing while preserving its natural form and general intelligibility.

Law and Literature

This workshop aims to create a space for discussion on the contemporary applicability of literature in law and legal studies. It enables the exchange of findings among lawyers, legal academics, experts and academics from different social science disciplines. Participants will also discuss how the results can be applied in practice.

Law and Language

Modernity and postmodernity in legal theory and criticism have brought language and law into close proximity. Criticisms related to language, imagination, narrative or rhetorical devices have found their way into analyses of legal argumentation and justification, which is reflected in the content of this workshop. The aim is to provide a space for discussion of these and related issues in the context of legal argumentation.

Law and Visualisation

Today's society is becoming increasingly visual thanks to the rapid development of information and communication technologies. The workshop will therefore focus on both the theoretical aspects and the practical implications of the visualization of law. Participants are encouraged to share their views and experiences on the use of images in legal communication. In particular, the impact on speeding up legal communication, its complexity and its limitations (i.e. legal interpretation of images) can be discussed.

More information can be found on the conference website: https://argumentation.law.muni.cz/

For many years, the successful scientific workshop has organized meetings in both Czech and English several times a year. The workshop is usually thematically focused, with one or two guests presenting their scientific publication and then discussing it with the audience. For those unable to attend in person, remote access is always available via MS Teams. International speakers are also welcome at the meetings. If you are interested, please contact teorka@law.muni.cz.

A selection of past performances:

• Héctor Morales: On the Distinction between Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation
• Adam Dyrda, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki: The Limits of Theoretical Disagreements in Jurisprudence
• Szymon Mazurkiewicz: Explanation of Human Rights in Light of Contemporary Analytic Metaphysics
• Zdeněk Červínek: Proportionality, Balancing and Legal Certainity: Deflecting the Ad Hoc Objection
• Mark Goodale: Reinventing Human Rights
• Kosuke Kiyama: How Should Human Dignity be a Ground for Human Rights? A Preliminary Exploration
• Jorge Silva Sampaio: I, robot have rights! Haven't I? An Essay on Conceptual and Normative Restraints on Holding Legal Positions
• Pedro Moniz Lopes: Relevance and Equality: An Analytical Account
• Raquel Franco: Naturalizing Interpretation
• Alexander Somek: Constituting the Legal Relation
• Maciej Próchnicki: Numerical Decision-making