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Reminder: Law and the Relevance of Social Values is on tonight

Thu Mar 11 2010

The first of a series of lectures on law, social values and advocacy, 'The Law Instinct', will be held this evening at 5.15pm. Professor Dutton, a world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling book The Art Instinct, will address evolutionary aspects of law and legal values. Professor Dutton will discuss issues such as the values that predate the emergence of law within communities, and whether such values - for example, proportionate punishment - have a continuing role in developed legal systems.

Justin Gleeson SC will then address the persuasive use of values in legal advocacy; for example, when it is useful to construct arguments which, self-consciously or otherwise, identify and appeal to the values (for example, autonomy, dignity) which underpin the legal rule or principle in question.

16 March 2010

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