How Judges Decide

How Judges Decide

Friday 29^th and Saturday 30^th April 2016

Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD

Foundation for Law Justice and Society

In association with Wolfson College & the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Friday 29^th April

17:30              Lecture: How Judges Decide

Speaker: Justice Robert J Sharpe, Ontario Court of Appeal and Visiting Professor, University of Oxford

                        Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College

Saturday 30^th April

09:15-13:00    Workshop

Moderator: Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and Director, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

                        Venue: Haldane Room, Wolfson College

09:15              Coffee and pastries

09:30-10:45    Comments on How Judges Decide

Sir Stephen Sedley, Visiting Professor, University of Oxford

Appellate Judicial Decision-Making

Professor Alan Paterson, Director, Centre for Professional Legal Studies, University of Strathclyde

10:45-11:00    COFFEE

11:00-12:00    Judicial Attitudes: Neither Valid Nor Variable

Dr Scot Peterson, Bingham Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Balliol College, University of Oxford

                       

The Attitudinal Model and the Legal Model Reconsidered

Lindsay Stirton,  Professor of Law, University of Sussex

12:00-12:45    Judges and the Mechanics of Democracy: Adjudication on Parties and Elections

Daniel Smilov, Programme Director, Political and Legal Research, Sofia University

12:45-13:00    Concluding Remarks

                        Justice Robert J Sharpe

13:00              Lunch for speakers