Dear all

The next JSI Seminar will take place at 6pm on Thursday 24 October. Anthony 
Connolly from the ANU will deliver a paper entitled "Naturalised Jurisprudence 
as an Experimental Philosophy of Law". See below for further information. If 
you would like to attend, please register 
here<http://sydney.edu.au/news/law/457.html?eventcategoryid=40&eventid=10452>.

If you would like to join us for dinner after the seminar, please let me know 
as soon as possible.

Forthcoming seminars: Mark Bennett (31 October); Ruth Higgins (21 November).

Cheers,
Kev



Naturalised Jurisprudence as an Experimental Philosophy of Law

In a number of his recent forays into the methodology debate in legal 
philosophy, Brian Leiter has claimed that the methods of the emerging field of 
experimental philosophy may have a significant role to play in any future 
naturalised jurisprudence. In this paper, Anthony Connolly sets out to explore 
this claim. It turns out that doing so implicates a series of broader questions 
about the nature and goals of a naturalised philosophy of law, the place within 
such a philosophy of a concept of law, and the role of philosophy itself within 
the naturalistic scheme of things.



Dr Anthony J. Connolly is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the 
Australian National University, specialising in legal philosophy, indigenous 
rights law, and public law. He completed his BA.LLB (Hons) at the University of 
Western Australia, after which he practiced law for a number of years, 
predominantly as a human rights lawyer working with indigenous people. He holds 
a Ph.D. in philosophy, supervised by Professors Philip Pettit (Princeton) and 
Robert Goodin (ANU), and a Masters degree in education. He is the author of 
Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding 
(Ashgate Publishing (UK): 2010) and the editor of Indigenous Rights (Ashgate 
Publishing (UK): 2009). He has also published a number of book chapters and 
journal articles on legal philosophy and indigenous rights.



KEVIN WALTON

Sydney Law School | Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence
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