Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy ConferenceRegistration is now open for the annual conference of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy, which will be hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School on 14 and 15 July 2022. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Kirsty Gover (University of Melbourne) […]
JSI Seminar: Louise Richardson-Self & Gabrielle Mardon, “Stuck in Suffering: A Philosophical Exploration of Violence”Speakers: Louise Richardson-Self, University of Tasmania and Gabrielle Mardon, PhD candidate, University of Tasmania This paper considers and evaluates some of the elastic applications of the term “violenceâ€. Some of the most well-known applications are structural, symbolic, epistemic, psychosocial, and linguistic […]
JSI Seminar: The Modern Approach to Statutory InterpretationSpeaker: Professor Dale Smith, The University of Melbourne It is now common, in Australia and in a number of other jurisdictions, to speak of “the modern approach to statutory interpretationâ€. Many of the details of this approach are unclear or contested. However, the modern approach consists at least […]