Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy
9.00 Opening remarks 9.15-9.35 Martin Borowski (Heidelberg University) Formal Principles 9.35-9.55 Alex Portocarrero (Heidelberg University) Democratic Authority in the Balancing of Constitutional Rights: On the Definition and Structure of Formal Principles 9.55-10.15 Goran Dajović (University of Belgrade) Hart on Discretion … Continued
Across the globe, we have been witnessing the rise of what Carl Schmitt in his Political Theology famously coined as ‘decisionism’ – a form of politics based on the rule of a personal will, which is opposed to the rule … Continued
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law , 19 June 2017
International conference on Interpreting Law – The Role of Judges in Contemporary Democracies was held at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law on Friday, 14 October 2016.
International Conference Interpreting Law – The Role of Judges in Contemporary Democracies Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade October 14, 2016 Conference Hall 9.00 The Opening Address 9.15-9.40 Brian Leiter (University of Chicago), The Roles of Judges in Democracies 9.40-10.05 Pierluigi … Continued
by Petar Mitrović
Brian Leiter University of Chicago Paper: The Roles of Judges in Democracies Abstract There is no such thing as “the role” of a judge in democracies, since judges and democracies differ along a variety of relevant dimensions: the nature of the … Continued
Legal interpretation has been one of the predominant topics in contemporary jurisprudence. Forma descriptive issues regarding the proper characterization of legal interpretation legal hermeneutics has shaped decades of theorizing about law in general, and legal reasoning and adjudication in particular. … Continued
Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade and the Serbian Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR Serbia) are organizing the Third Student Conference on the theory and philosophy of law, which will be held on 21 October 2016.
Contemporary legal theory has for the most part been interested in the complex relation between language and legal normativity. This has been the crux of the essential debates between Herbert Hart, Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin. Hart maintained that normative … Continued