Book Symposium - Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP 2023)

BOOK SYMPOSIUM

Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP 2023), edited by Timothy Endicott, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson, and Sebastian Lewis 

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023

Place: Old Library, All Souls College, University of Oxford 

Registration: If you wish to attend, please write an email to Sebastian Lewis (sebastian.lewis@law.ox.ac.uk). Please note that the Old Library of All Souls College has a limited capacity of 60 people, so the places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. The event will not be recorded, but it will be live streamed. Please send an email to the same address if you would like to receive a link to the event. 

PROGRAM

1:30 pm:  I. The Nature of Precedent: Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (University of Surrey) and Annalise Acorn (University of Alberta)

2:20 pm:  II. Precedent and Legal Argument: Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin) and Lord Sales (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) 

3:10 pm:  III. Precedent and Legal Theory: David Owens (King's College London) and Joshua Pike (London School of Economics and Political Science)

4:00 pm -tea- 

4:30 pm:  IV. Precedent and Judicial Power: Thomas Adams (University of Oxford) 

5:05 pm:  V. Effects of Precedent in Morality and Law: Achas Burin (Oxford Brookes University) and Jeff King (University College London)

5:55 pm:  Remarks from Sebastian Lewis, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson, and Timothy Endicott (University of Oxford)

6:15: Reception