European University Institute – Harvard Law School
5. Programme
The readings for the Summer School will be shared with the selected participants before the school begins.
Detailed program
The programme below corresponds to the online edition of the school held in 2022, and the programme for the next edition will be released in early 2023. Classes will take place from Monday to Saturday in the morning and afternoon.
Each lecture day will be composed of four 90-minute sessions, with 30-minute breaks between sessions and a 90-minute lunch break after the second session. All times below are presented in Florence time (CEST).
Day 1 — Monday, July 3
Session
Start time
Endtime
Professors
Subject
1.1.1
09:00
10:30
Scott Brewer
Introduction: 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
1.1.2
11:00
12:30
Giovanni Sartor
Logic and Argumentation
1.2.1
14:00
15:30
Juliano Maranhão
Introduction to propositional logic: Part 1
1.2.2
16:00
17:30
Juliano Maranhão
Introduction to propositional logic: Part 2
Activities for the first day of the Summer School
Day 2 — Tuesday, July 4
Session
Start time
Endtime
Professors
Subject
2.1.1
09:00
10:30
Revision of basic concepts and exercises from the first day
2.1.2
11:00
12:30
Scott Brewer
Representing legal rules and legal arguments in propositional logic
2.2.1
14:00
15:30
Matthias Armgardt
Representing legal rules and legal arguments in propositional logic: Part 2
2.2.2
16:00
17:30
Revision of basic concepts and exercises on propositional logic
Activities for the second day of the Summer School
Day 3 — Wednesday, July 5
Session
Start time
Endtime
Professors
Subject
3.1.1
09:00
10:30
Nino Rotolo
From propositional to predicate logic: grammar and basic structure
3.1.2
11:00
12:30
Nino Rotolo
From propositional to predicate logic: semantics and relations
3.2.1
14:00
15:30
Revision of basic concepts and exercises on predicate logic
3.2.2
16:00
17:30
Nino Rotolo
Modelling the law in predicate logic
Activities for the third day of the Summer School
Day 4 — Thursday, July 6
Session
Start time
Endtime
Professors
Subject
4.1.1
09:00
10:30
Giovanni Sartor
Argumentation and argument schemes
4.1.2
11:00
12:30
Giovanni Sartor
Formalising argumentation / Burdens of proof and presumptions
4.2.1
14:00
15:30
Scott Brewer
Analogical reasoning 1
4.2.2
16:00
17:30
Scott Brewer
Analogical reasoning 2
Activities for the fourth day of the Summer School
Day 5 — Friday, July 7
Session
Start time
Endtime
Professors
Subject
5.1.1
09:00
10:30
Agata Ciabattoni
Deontic logic: Part 1
5.1.2
11:00
12:30
Agata Ciabattoni
Deontic logic: Part 2
5.2.1
14:00
15:30
Emiliano Lorini
Deontic logic: Part 3
5.2.2
16:00
17:30
Emiliano Lorini Giovanni Sartor
Deontic logic and Hohfeldian concepts
Activities for the fifth day of the Summer School
Day 6 — Saturday, July 8
Session
Start time
Endtime
Professors
Subject
6.1.1
09:00
10:30
Scott Brewer
Induction: generalisation and specification
6.1.2
11:00
12:30
Scott Brewer
Inference to the best explanation / Abduction
6.2.1
14:00
15:30
Closing session: Presentation of Certificates of Attendance
Activities for the sixth and final day of the Summer School
Summer School on Law and Logic 2023 