Friday, March 20, 2020 - 12:30pm to Saturday, March 21, 2020 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Falconer Hall, 84 Queens Park, Solarium (FA2)

CANCELLED

Legal Theory Workshop

Presents:

George Letsas
University College London, Faculty of Law

The Normativity of Social Roles

Friday March 20, 2020
12:30pm -2:00pm
Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park
Room: Solarium(FA2)

George Letsas holds a chair in the Philosophy of Law at UCL since 2014. His main research interests are in jurisprudence and human rights with particular emphasis on the philosophy of rights, human rights theory, constitutional theory, theory of European law, theory of private law and the European Convention on Human Rights. He has written extensively on issues surrounding the interpretation of human rights (margin of appreciation, living instrument, proportionality) and the bearing of moral and political philosophy on legal theory (law and conventions, the normativity of law, pluralism, law and polity). He is the author of A Theory of Interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (OUP) and co-editor of Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (OUP).

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