Law, Morality, Politics, Defeasibility
Special Workshop of IVR 2003

The Workshop on Law, Morality, Politics, Defeasibility is a special event in connection with IVR 2003. The Workshop is organised by Jaap Hage and Giovanni Sartor and will be held during the IVR Conference 2003 (12-18 August, Lund, Sweden).

The topics of the workshop are:

• The nature of legal logic
• Defeasible reasoning in the law
• Legal reasoning and artificial intelligence
• The logic of case law
• Logical relations between law, morality and policies
• Logical theories of legal coherence and theory formation
• Deontic logic and the analysis of normative positions
• The ingredients of legal reasoning: factors, rules, principles and goals

Contributions must be sent to Jaap Hage and Giovanni Sartor by August 3, 2003.

The provisional list of participants is the following:

• Åqvist, Lennart
• Artosi, Alberto
• Bayon, Juan Carlos
• Brouwer, Bob
• Bulygin, Eugenio
• Golding, Martin
• Haack, Susan
• Hage, Jaap
• Lindahl, Lars
• Mazzarese, Tecla
• Odelstad, Jan
• Prakken, Henry
• Redondo, Christina
• Rotolo, Antonino
• Sartor, Giovanni
• Sergot, Marek
• Sieckmann, Jan-R.
• Soeteman, Arend
• Verheij, Bart
• Vida, Silvia

For any further information please contact us:

Jaap Hage, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Giovanni Sartor, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

Silvia Vida, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy

Jonathan Gelati, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy