LAW AND LOGIC SUMMER SCHOOL 2015

Date: 13-18 July 2015

Place: Badia Fiesolana, Theatre

ABSTRACT

The Summer School on Law and Logic is being held for its fourth year, from 13-18 July 2015. This year it
will be a one-week course from 13-18 July 2015. This course is designed to give students rigorous training
in a wide variety of logical methods that can assist in the analysis of law. The overall framework for the
course is the Logocratic Method, a systematic method for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of
arguments, including, but not limited to, legal arguments. Since so much legal analysis consists in making
and evaluating arguments, this method can be a powerful tool for all legal analysts, including law students,
lawyers, judges, and legal scholars.

Organized in collaboration with

 PROGRAMME
Day 1, Monday 13 July

8:30 9:00

Registration

9:00 10:30

Session 1.1.1: Perceptions of cooperation and clash of logic and law opening
thoughts about the utilities of logic for law Basic definitions and methods of the
Logocratic Method (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)

10:30 11:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

11:00 12:30

Session 1.1.2: Logic and argumentation (Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor)

12:30 14:00 Lunch, Mensa, Badia

14:00 15:30

Session 1.2.1: Introduction to propositional logic: Part 1 (Henry Prakken and

Giovanni Sartor)

15:30 16:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

16:00 17:30

Session 1.2.2: Introduction to propositional logic: Part 2 (Henry Prakken and

Giovanni Sartor)

Day 2, Tuesday 14 July

9:00 10:30

Session 2.1.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises from the first day (Scott
Brewer, Henry Prakken, and Giovanni Sartor)

10:30 11:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

11:00 12:30

Session 2.1.2: Representing legal rules and legal arguments in propositional logic:
Part 1 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)

12:30 14:00 Lunch, Mensa, Badia

14:00 15:30

Session 2.2.1: Representing legal rules and legal arguments in propositional logic:
Part 2 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)

15:30 16:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

16:00 17:30

Session 2.2.2: Review of basic concepts and exercises on propositional logic

(Scott Brewer, Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor)

Day 3, Wednesday 15 July

9:00 10:30

Session 3.1.1: From propositional to predicate logic: grammar and basic structure
(Nino Rotolo and Giovanni Sartor)

10:30 11:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

11:00 12:30

Session 3.1.2: From propositional to predicate logic: semantics and relations

link (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)

12:30 14:00 Lunch, Mensa, Badia

14:00 15:30

Session 3.2.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises on predicate logic link
(Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)

15:30 16:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

16:00 17:30

Session 3.2.2: Modelling the law in predicate logic (Scott Brewer and Giovanni
Sartor)

Day 4, Thursday 16 July

9:00 10:30

Session 4.1.1: Argumentation and argument schemes (Henry Prakken, Giovanni

Sartor, Samuel Brasil and Lorenz Schulz)

10:30 11:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

11:00 12:30

Session 4.1.2: Formalising argumentation / Burdens of proof and presumptions

(Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor)

12:30 14:00 Lunch, Mensa, Badia

14:00 15:30

Session 4.2.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises on argumentation theory

and tools (Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor, Samuel Brasil and Lorenz Schulz)

15:30 16:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

16:00 17:30

Session 4.2.2: Analogical reasoning: Part 1 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)

19:30

Social dinner at La Pentola DellOro

Day 5, Friday 17 July

9:00 10:30

Session 5.1.1: Analogical reasoning: Part 2 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)

10:30 11:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

11:00 12:30

Session 5.1.2: Deontic and modal logic: Part 1 (Nino Rotolo and Giovanni Sartor)

12:30 14:00 Lunch, Mensa, Badia

14:00 15:30

Session 5.2.1: Deontic and modal logic: Part 2 (Giovanni Sartor and Nino Rotolo)

15:30 16:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

16:00 17:30

Session 5.2.2: Deontic logic and Hohfeldian concepts (Giovanni Sartor and Nino
Rotolo)

Day 6, Saturday 18 July

9:00 10:30

Session 6.1.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises on deontic logic (Giovanni
Sartor and Nino Rotolo)

10:30 11:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

11:00 12:30

Session 6.1.2: Induction: generalisation and specification (Scott Brewer and

Henry Prakken)

12:30 14:00 Sala Rossa, Badia

14:00 15:30

Session 6.2.1: Inference to the best explanation (Scott Brewer and Giovanni
Sartor)

15:30 16:00 Coffee break, Lower Loggia, Badia

16:00 17:30

Session 6.2.2: Bringing it all together: a master case for Logocratic analysis (Scott
Brewer, Henry Prakken, Nino Rotolo and Giovanni Sartor)

17:30 18:00

Closing Session. Certificates of attendance