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FC Talks – Thony Gillies & Simone Sepe

December 5, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Thony & Simone
Thony & Simone

SBS 22412:30pm - 1:30pm

The Logic of Legal Formalism

Bio:

Simone Sepe
Professor’s Sepe areas of expertise include business organizations, corporate finance, contract theory, law and economics, law and philosophy, and empirical methods. His main scholarship focuses on theoretical and empirical problems related to corporate governance, although he has recently expanded his research interest to contract law, the theory of institutions, and political philosophy. He holds doctoral degrees in both law and economics. Professor Sepe practiced banking and finance law at Clifford Chance, an international law firm based in London, and worked as an investment banker at Fortress Investment Group in London and New York.
Anthony Gillies
Anthony (Thony) Gillies works on stuff about how rational(ish) but imperfectly informed agents like us communicate about and operate in an unpredictable world like ours full of other agents. This cross-cuts topics in formal semantics, philosophical logic, formal epistemology, and various parts of the decision sciences.
Prior to returning to Arizona, Thony was a member of the philosophy department at Rutgers for 11 years and has held appointments at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Abstract:

One theory of legal adjudication (legal formalism) is entirely law-internal: applying the law is a matter of inference from the laws and the facts of a case to an outcome. Formalism is widely viewed as fundamentally flawed: the main argument against legal formalism is that applying the law essentially involves exception-making and exception-making in applying the law requires appeals to extra-legal resources. In this paper we present this argument precisely and show that it relies on assuming that laws are monotonic in two specific ways and present a nonmonotonic formal framework for a family of legal formalisms.

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Date:
December 5, 2024
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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SBS 224
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