Logic and Law 6th Augustus De Morgan Workshop King's College London 15th - 18th November 2004

The Sixth De Morgan Workshop, to take place in November 2004 is on Logic and Law. There are strong connections and common themes in logic an din law. Legal reasoning in which temporal and psychological considerations play an indispensable role. Recent developments in the logics of agents and AI brought logic to a stage where it can be of serious service to the law on the technical as well as the conceptual level. The concepts of common interest are these:

• Proof
• Evidence
• Probability
• Relevance
• Precedent
• Presumption
• Plausibility
• Abduction
• Fallacies

We are therefore organising this conference bringing law professors and logicians in areas connected with law together to show how close logic and law are, and hope to initiate interest in the proposed research programme.

All the major areas involved are represented by the following speakers, all of whom are world-famous researchers:

• The attendance fee is £15 sterling (£10 for students).
• If you would like to attend please contact Jane Spurr.
• The workshop will take place in the Great Hall, King's College, Strand, London.

NB. We are offering attendees facsimile copies of two relevant books by De Morgan - "Probability" and "Formal Logic" - in paperback edition for £12 each. Please reserve your copies with Jane Spurr.

From EPSRC referees reports:

"I am normally rather critical of the value of conferences to inspire and promote research... The De Morgan conferences have been, at minimal cost, an outstanding exception to this bleak picture."

"These conferences are part of one of the most important and exciting interdisciplinary projects going on today."

Further information on the background of Augustus De Morgan Workshops.

Programme:

Monday 15th November

09.00-10.00		Registration
10.00-11.30		John Woods and Dov Gabbay: Logic and Law: Crossing the lines of discipline
11.30-13.00		Alan Norrie: "From criminal law to legal tehory: the mysterious case of the reasonable glue sniffer"
14.00-15.30		Ian Dennis: "Jury and character assessment"
16.00-17.30		Michel Parigot: "Trials of loic in law"
19.00-		Conference Dinner

Tuesday 16th November

09.30-11.00		Matthias Baaz: "General introduction to logic and law"
11.30-13.00		Michael Thaler: "Problems of philosophy of logic - problems of philosophy of law. More than a resemblance?"
14.00-15.30		Trevor Bench-Capon: "Modelling persuasive argument"
16.00-17.30		Lars Lindahl and Jan Odelstad: "Concpet formation in normative systems I: Intermediate concepts"

Wednesday 17th November

09.30-11.00		Lars Lindahl and Jan Odelstad: "Concpet formation in normative systems II: Further developments""
11.30-13.00		Lev Beklemishev: "On the idea of formalisation in logic and law"
14.00-15.30		Andrew Irvine: "Formalising the rule of law"
16.00-17.30		Panel Discussion: Parigot/Baaz/Gabbay

Accommodation:

London is quite expensive for accommodation, but the following alternatives are at the lower end of the price range:

• City of London Youth Hostel
  £20.50 under 18 / £24.60 over 18 per night bed and breakfast.
• Hotel Strand Continental
  143 Strand, London WC2R 1JA
  Tel. +44 20 7836 4880. Fax. +44 20 7379 6105.
  Single room £32, Double room £40, Family room £50, Twin room £45, Triple room £55. Prices include breakfast.
  This hotel is for those who favour convenience (it is right next to King's College) and cuisine (it contains the authentic India Club restaurant) over comfort.
• Cosmo Bedford House Hotel
  27 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1 2QA
  Tel. +44 20 7636 4661. Fax. +44 20 7636 0577. Email: cosmo.bedford.hotel@dial.pipex.com.
  Single room £38, Double room £50.
• Tavistock Hotel
  Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9EU
  Tel. +44 20 7636 8383. Reservations: +44 20 7278 7871/2/3
  Single room £61, Double room £82.

Food:

• King's College has a basic canteen in the student's union building.
• The India Club (143 Strand) serves authentic Indian cuisine.
• There is a Thai restaurant and a Pizza Express in the same row of buildings.
• Sarastro Restaurant - 126 Drury Lane - Turkish Food - early evening 'tenor menu' £10

We are grateful to the Kurt Gödel Society and for their sponsorship of this event.

Organised by Group of Logic, Language and Computation, King's College London.

Roman Kontchakov -- 14 October 2004