http://www.cermeg.it/eng Research Center on Legal Methodology Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:47:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 11th Conference on Rhetoric in Trento (GTR 11) will be held on June 16-17 at the Faculty of Law. The Conference, as tradition, brings together scholars interested in argumentation, judges, lawyers, professors in law. It is intended as a regular forum in which the most current events, as far as ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/06/08/11th-conference-on-rhetoric-in-trento-is-the-positive-law-as-the-arab-phoenix/ The Centre for Research on Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) at the University of Windsor is organizing a Summer Institute on Argumentation from May 9 to May 27, 2011. The institute has the dual purpose of offering a course for graduate students who have an interest in reasoning, argumentation, artificial ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/05/17/summer-institute-on-argumentation-and-ossa-2011/ An international seminar on argumentation took place in Verona and Padua on 19th-20th April 2011. The seminar focused on different perspectives and approaches to argumentation in a legal context, with special emphasis on judicial reasoning, strategies of arguing and proof procedure. The main presentation has been held by dr Evelin Feteris, senior ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/05/13/april-19-20-2011-international-seminar-on-argumentation-in-verona-and-padua/ On December 3rd 2010, Professor Frans Van Eemeren, the preeminent representative of pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation, gave some lectures at the Doctorate School in European and Trans-National Law (SGET) in Trento, Italy. The pragma-dialectical theory is usually applied to several different types of argumentative discourse and also for the analysis and ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/05/13/strategic-maneuvering-in-argumentative-discourse-van-eemeren-at-the-university-of-trento/ The proceedings of the Conference on Hermeneutics and Legal Interpretation held at the Faculty of Law ICADE, University  Comillas in Madrid (April 21-22,  2010) have been recently published. The meeting was organized in strong collaboration with Cermeg: it was the first Conference of such kind in Spain. The proceedings are collected in ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/05/12/legal-hermeneutics-and-interpretation-just-published-the-proceedings-of-madrid-conference-2010/ From the 29th of April to the 5th of May, Prof. Maurizio Manzin has given a series of invited lectures at the Faculty of Law in the University of Comillas in Madrid. Within the courses of Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethic, in charge of Proff. J. Almoguera, M. Grande, R.Vega, ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/05/12/lectures-on-legal-methodology-in-madrid/ Lyon is one of the major centres in Europe for the study of argumentation. Its importance is due to the particular linguistic approach to the argumentation theory, propounded by the French linguists O.Ducrot, J.C. Anscombre and Ducrot's scholar C. Plantin. The crucial idea of this account is that  "argumentativity" has ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/03/01/the-cermeg-at-argulyonuniversite-lyon-2/ Legal Rhetoric - 1 CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY. CASES AND METHODS FOR THE DEFENCE Edited by P.Moro Milan (Italy): Giuffrè (language: Italian) The brand-new Series of Cermeg is called "Legal Rhetoric": it is a collection of judicial acts expressly devoted to lawyers. It is not a mere set of forms, it is more. As Aristotle shows, the ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/01/27/forensic-rhetoric-the-new-series-of-cermeg/ Acta Methodologica - 5 Series of the Research Centre on Legal Methodology LEGAL ETHICS AND RHETORIC Edited by M.Manzin & P.Moro Milan (Italy): Giuffrè Is it possible to imagine a dimension of legal ethics not limited by discussions about codes of ethics and their positiveness? Following the thread of legal ethics in order to ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2011/01/11/5th-issue-of-cermeg-series/ 1. If guaranteed by the principle of non-contradiction, the rhetorical conclusions are as consistent as the formal or empirical ones. 2. Argumentative persuasion is logical, not psychological. 3. ‘Probable’ premises can lead to ‘certain’ conclusions. 4. No more divide between the "two cultures" (science and the humanities): they are strictly connected. 5. Rhetoric is ... http://www.cermeg.it/eng/2010/08/24/the-heptalogue-of-cermeg/