JSI Seminar: The Conscience of TrustSpeaker: Professor Irit Samet, King’s College London At the heart of the modern trust lies a glaring paradox: how has a legal institution that is […]
JSI Seminar: Jealousy of trade, from the Scottish Enlightenment to neoliberalismSpeaker: Associate Professor Jessica Whyte, UNSW In this talk, I trace the Scottish Enlightenment debates about what David Hume termed […]
JSI Seminar: Children, families, and immigration enforcementSpeaker: Associate Professor Matthew Lister, Bond University What might otherwise seem like straight-forward instances of immigration enforcement can give rise to both practical and […]
JSI Seminar: LawmativityHybrid event Explaining the normativity of law – how it guides action by giving reasons – is one of the central questions of general jurisprudence. It is […]
Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of InjusticeIn-person event In The Faces of Injustice, Judith Shklar criticizes the ‘normal model’ of justice which views injustice as ‘a prelude to or a […]
JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theoryIn-person event In this talk, Dr Ntina Tzouvala sets out to defend the potential for legal […]
JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experienceIn-person event U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously maintained that “the life of the law […]
JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courtsIn-person event In Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. […]
JSI Seminar: Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?In-person event On 28 November 2023, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act will come into effect in NSW. The […]
JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal PhilosophyIn-person event There is a trend in current Anglo-American legal philosophy that is drawing the attention […]
JSI Seminar: The stability of bad thingsIn-person event Political philosophers have long been concerned with how best to ensure the stability of social orders. Stability is assumed to be […]
JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudenceIn-person event Modern jurisprudence has been tormented by a divide between description and evaluation in legal theory. Proponents argue that the distinction is […]