ABSTRACT
The Summer School on Law and Logic is being held for its sixth year, from 10-15 July 2017. This year it
will be a one-week course 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 this method can be a powerful tool for all legal analysts, including law students, lawyers, judges, and
legal scholars.
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PROGRAMME
Day 1, Monday 10 July
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 (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
9:00 10:30 Session 3.1.1: From propositional to predicate logic: grammar and basic structure
(Nino Rotolo and Giovanni Sartor)
11:00 12:30 Session 3.1.2: From propositional to predicate logic: semantics and relations
link (Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
14:00 15:30 Session 3.2.1: Review of basic concepts and exercises on predicate logic link
(Scott Brewer and Giovanni Sartor)
16:00 17:30 Session 3.2.2: Modelling the law in predicate logic (Scott Brewer and Giovanni
Sartor)
9:00 10:30 Session 4.1.1: Argumentation and argument schemes (Henry Prakken, Giovanni
Sartor, Samuel Brasil and Lorenz Schulz)
11:00 12:30 Session 4.1.2: Formalising argumentation / Burdens of proof and presumptions
(Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor)
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)
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 and
Henry Prakken)
14:00 15:30 Induction: Generalisation and specification (Scott Brewer and Henry Prakken)
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)