Friday, 5 June 2015

2:30 PM

Registration/Refreshments

Opening Address

Dr Fabien Girard, Maison Française d'Oxford

Dr Simone Glanert, University of Kent

3:00 PM

Opening Keynote Presentation

Professor Jean Grondin, Université de Montréal

On Gadamer's Interest for Legal Hermeneutics

4:00 PM

Coffee/Tea Break

4:30 PM

Panel 1 – A Matrix and a Dissent

Chair: Dr Fabien Girard, MFO

Professor Oren Ben-Dor, University of Southampton

Estranging Hermes Or, Heidegger 'After' and Nearer Plato

Dr Simone Glanert, University of Kent

How Germane Is Gadamer to the Interpretation of Foreign Law

Professor Pierre Legrand, Sorbonne

Derrida's Gadamers

7:00PM

Saturday, 6 June 2015

9:00 AM

Panel 2 – Concurrences

Chair: Dr Simone Glanert, University of Kent

Fabien Girard, Maison Française d'Oxford

Ricoeur's Legal Hermeneutics:

Between Critique and Argumentation

Professor Francois Ost, Université Saint-Louis, Brussels

Interprétation et narration:

la place du récit dans l'interprétation juridique

10:30 AM

Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 AM

Panel 3 – Variances

Dr Julia Tanney, University of Kent

Wittgenstein on Rule-Following and Interpretation

Dr Cosmin Sebastian Cercel, University of Nottingham

Law's Disappearance: The State of Exception and the Destruction of Experience

Professor William Outhwaite, Newcastle University

Habermas, Law and the EU

1:00 PM

Sandwich Lunch/Refreshments

2:00 PM

Closing Keynote Presentation

Professor Ralf Poscher, Universität Freiburg

The Hermeneutic Character of Legal Construction

3:00 PM

Closing Address

Dr Fabien Girard, Maison Française d'Oxford

Dr Simone Glanert, University of Kent