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\n\t\t[UPCOMING] The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory AY2026 “Consenting, Promising, and the Power to Contract” by Dr Irina Sakharova, Durham University\u00a0\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

In moral and legal philosophy, there are different approaches to understanding consent as a normative power. It might be fair to observe that when a reference to consent is made, consenting is often understood as giving permission, but consent as a normative power has been conceptualised in two (different) ways: as a ‘proprietary gate’ (eg giving a license) or as a ‘normative rope’ (eg assuming an obligation).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t[UPCOMING] The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory AY2026 Roundtable: “Rights Under the Criminal Law and the Continuity Thesis” by Professor James Penner, National University of Singapore\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

Individuals have moral rights not to be the victims of wrongs which the law criminalises and the violation of which the law also punishes (though not in all cases). These moral rights are recognised elsewhere in the law, of course, in particular in private civil law and human rights law. They are clearly ‘protected’ in some sense by the criminal law and the criminal justice system. But filling in what that sense is is not trivial. For example, what does the statement ‘Individuals have rights under the criminal law’ actually mean?<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t[UPCOMING] The Singapore Symposium in Legal Theory AY2026 “Methodology of (Continental European) Legal Science: Research Objectives, Questions, and Methods” by Professor Luka Burazin, University of Zagreb\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

The basic aim of the paper is to expound a more elaborate and rigorous methodological framework of legal science that is grounded in the insights of contemporary analytical legal theory. The paper focuses on five key objectives of legal scientific research: describing law, explaining law, evaluating law, recommending better law and better interpretation and application of law, and systematising law. It lays out these objectives and, for each objective, formulates possible research questions and hypotheses, and describes the appropriate methods for testing the hypotheses.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t[UPCOMING] CLT Roundtable: “Collaboration or Confrontation: The Nature of the Theoretical\/Academic Enterprise” by Professor Luka Burazin, University of Zagreb in Conversation with Andrew Halpin and Lynette Chua\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

In a loosely structured discussion, the Panelists will consider the questions whether the research we undertake should be regarded as part of a collaborative enterprise (the pursuit of knowledge), or as the advancement of an independent research profile (the promotion of my knowledge) as superior to other work in the field; whether or not these two objectives are mutually exclusive; and, whether the answers given will vary depending on the field of research, the state of existing knowledge, and the temperament of the researchers.<\/p>\n

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CLT Roundtable: \"Collaboration or Confrontation: The Nature of the Theoretical\/Academic Enterprise\" by Professor Luka Burazin, University of Zagreb in Conversation with Andrew Halpin and Lynette Chua<\/h5><\/div>
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