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Place: Badia Fiesolana, Theatre (on 10, 11, 12 and 15 July) and Refectory (on 13 and 14 July)
ABSTRACT
The Summer School on Law and Logic is being held for its sixth year, from 10-15 July 2017. This course
is designed to give students rigorous training in a wide variety of logical methods that can assist in the
analysis of law for all kinds of legal analysts, including students, lawyers, judges and scholars. 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.
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PROGRAMME
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)
11:00 12:30 Session 1.1.2: Logic and argumentation (Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor)
14:00 15:30 Session 1.2.1: Introduction to propositional logic: Part 1 (Henry Prakken and
Giovanni Sartor)
16:00 17:30 Session 1.2.2: Introduction to propositional logic: Part 2 (Henry Prakken and
Giovanni Sartor)
9:00 10:30 Session 2.1.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises from the first day link
(Scott Brewer, Henry Prakken, and Giovanni Sartor)
11:00 12:30 Session 2.1.2: Representing legal rules and legal arguments in propositional logic:
Part 1 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
14:00 15:30 Session 2.2.1: Representing legal rules and legal arguments in propositional logic:
Part 2 (Bartosz Brozek, Giovanni Sartor)
9:00 10:30 Session 3.1.1: From propositional to predicate logic: grammar and basic structure
(Bartosz Brozek, Nino Rotolo and Giovanni Sartor)
11:00 12:30 Session 3.1.2: From propositional to predicate logic: semantics and relations
link (Bartosz Brozek, Nino Rotolo Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
14:00 15:30 Session 3.2.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises on predicate logic link
(Bartosz Brozek, Nino Rotolo, Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
16:00 17:30 Session 3.2.2: Modelling the law in predicate logic (Bartosz Brozek, Nino Rotolo
Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
9:00 10:30 Session 4.1.1: Argumentation and argument schemes (Giovanni Sartor)
11:00 12:30 Session 4.1.2: Formalising argumentation / Burdens of proof and presumptions
(Giovanni Sartor)
14:00 15:30 Session 4.2.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises on argumentation theory
and tools (Giovanni Sartor and Bartosz Brozek)
16:00 17:30 Session 4.2.2: Analogical reasoning: Part 1 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
9:00 10:30 Analogical reasoning: Part 2 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
11:00 12:30 Session 5.1.2: Deontic and modal logic: Part 1 (Nino Rotolo and Giovanni Sartor)
14:00 15:30 Session 5.2.1: Deontic and modal logic: Part 2 (Giovanni Sartor and Nino Rotolo)
16:00 17:30 Session 5.2.2: Deontic logic and Hohfeldian concepts (Giovanni Sartor and Nino
Rotolo)
9:00 10:30 Session 6.1.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises on deontic logic (Giovanni
Sartor and Nino Rotolo)
11:00 12:30 Session 6.1.2: Induction: generalisation and specification (Scott Brewer)
14:00 15:30 Induction: Generalisation and specification (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
Bringing it all together: a master case for logocratic analysis (Scott Brewer,
Giovanni Sartor)