International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL Torino, 19-20 September 2019

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THE REASONABLE INTERPRETER
International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL
Torino, 19-20 September 2019
Location: Aula Blu, ground floor |Palazzo del Rettorato| Via Po 15, Torino

September 19
Opening and registration
9:00-13:00 | SESSION 1
INTERPRETATION AND REASON IN SEMIOTICS
Chair: Paolo Heritier (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Massimo Leone (University of Turin / Shanghai University) – Facing Digital Reasonability
Ugo Volli (University of Torino) – Argumentative Competence and Rationality in the Talmud

Coffee break

Jenny Ponzo(University of Torino) – “The Offering of Life” as a New Case for Sainthood:
Interpretations of Life Models in the Catholic Church between Law, Judicial Practices, and Doctrine
Gabriele Vissio (University of Torino) – Clinician as Reasonable Interpreter. Philosophical and Semiotic Implications of the Concept of Vital Normativity
Annamaria Lorusso (University of Bologna) – Between Truth, Legitimacy and Legality in the Post-Truth Era

Lunch
14:30-18:00|SESSION 2
INTERPRETATION AND REASON IN LAW
Chair: Massimo Leone (University of Turin / Shanghai University)
Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio (University of Coimbra) – Rationality and/as Reasonableness within Formal-Theoretical and Practical-Dialectic Approaches to Adjudication: Semiotic and Normative Perspectives
Miklós Könczöl (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) – Style Matters: Inferences from Style in (Legal) Interpretation and Argumentation

Coffee break

Clement Labi (University of Luxembourg) – “Kripkenstein” and the Problem of Consistency in Legal Interpretation
José Manuel Aroso Linhares (University of Coimbra) – The Reasonable Judicial Assessment in a Time of Scientific Evidence: a Methodologically Specific Problem?

September 20
9:00-13:00 | SESSION 3
LEGAL AND NON-LEGAL SEMIOTICS OF LAW
Chair: Jenny Ponzo (University of Torino)
Paolo Heritier (University of Eastern Piedmont) – ‘Scienza Nuova.’ The ‘Non-Legal’ Semiotics of Law: beyond the Reasonable/Non-Reasonable Distinction
Alessandro Campo (University of Torino) – Metaphorical Use of Algorithm in Legal Reasoning
Angela Condello (University of Torino) – Law, Writing and Digital Society. Who Interprets
What, Today?

Coffee break

Mario Ricca (University of Parma) – Legal Reasonableness as Creative Deixis and Trans-Categorical Re-Configuration
Claudius Messner (University of Salento)- Listen to Distant Voices

Lunch

14:30-18:00|SESSION 4
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON
REASONABLE INTERPRETATION
Chair: Angela Condello (University of Torino) – Devon Schiller (independent scholar)
Emoji v. Law: Saussure’s Reciprocal Difference in Legal Reasoning about Facial Signs
Bettina Bor (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) – Peirce on Law and Interpretation
Gabriele Marino (University of Torino) – Automatic for the People. A Brief Cultural History
of the Relation between Computation and So-Called Art

Coffee break

Leonardo Amorim (University of Panthéon-Sorbonne) – Can Reasonableness be Described? On the Impossibility of a Descriptive Discourse about Norms

CONCLUSIVE DISCUSSION

Organizing Committee: Angela Condello, Paolo Heritier, Massimo Leone, Jenny Ponzo