12th LEGARG 2023 Conference Program
12th LEGARG 2023 Conference Program
Legal Argumentation and Rhetoric in the Age of AI
30 November & 1 December 2023
Venues: European Faculty of Law, New University, Mestni trg 23, Ljubljana (1st Floor,
P1 Lecture Hall)
Catholic Institute, Faculty of Law and Economics, Krekov trg 1, Ljubljana (3rd Floor, Mara & Vinko Lipovšek Lecture Hall)
Catholic Institute, Faculty of Law and Economics, Krekov trg 1, Ljubljana (3rd Floor, Mara & Vinko Lipovšek Lecture Hall)
1st Day: Thursday, 30 November 2023 (venue: European Faculty of Law)
| 12:30 – 13:20 | Registration |
| 13:20 – 13:30 | Welcome Address and Introduction (Marko Novak, on behalf of the Organizers) |
| Panel 1: Introducing AI to Legal Reasoning (chair: M. Novak) | |
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| 13:30 – 14:00: | Hanna Maria Kreuzbauer, What is Intelligence? |
| 14:00 – 14:30: | Miklós Könczöl, Virtue, Law, and AI: A Look at the Arguments |
| 14:30 – 15.00: | Maurizio Manzin, Meno’s Android. Could (or Should) AI Replace Human Legal Reasoning? |
| 15:00 – 15:30: | Matej Avbelj, Constitutionalism in the Algorithmic Society |
| 15:30 – 16:00: | Coffee Break |
| Keynote Speech 1 | |
| 16:00 – 16:45: | Christopher Tindale, Rhetorical Invention, Argumentation, and the AI Challenge (online) |
| 16:45 – 17:00: | Coffee Break |
| Panel 2: AI Impacts Legal Reasoning (chair: M. Avbelj) | |
| 17:00 – 17:30: | Marko Novak, What Can AI Contribute to the Rhetorical Proofs in Legal Argumentation? |
| 17:30 – 18:00: | Viktor Olivér Lőrincz, Stagnating Legal Cultures, Creativity and the AI |
| 18:00 – 18:30: | Fabio Ratto Trabucco, AI, Intelligence, Neuroscientific Knowledge |
| 18:30 – 19:00: | Blaž Marinčič Udvanc, Comments and Views on Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Profession |
| 20:00: | Conference Dinner (Venue: Old Ljubljana – exact address TBA) |
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2nd Day: Friday, 1 December 2023 (venue: Faculty of Law and Economics) | |
| Panel 3: Some Core Issues in Legal Theory (chair: H. M. Kreuzbauer) | |
| 9.00 – 9:30: | Ivana Tucak, Rethinking Group Rights |
| 9:30 – 10:00: | Ivan Padjen, Arguing Efficacy of International Law |
| 10:00 – 10:30: | Luka Burazin, Application of Constitution by (Croatian) Ordinary Courts |
| 10:30 – 11.00: | Elena Marchese, Legal Reasoning in the European Asylum System |
| 11:00 – 11:15: | Coffee Break |
| Keynote Speech 2 | |
| 11:15 – 12:00: | Ernest Petrič, The New World Order |
| 12:00 – 12:30: | Coffee Break |
| Panel 4: Back to AI and Legal Reasoning (chair: L. Burazin) | |
| 12:30 – 13:00: | Davor Petrić, Constructing Interpretive Arguments: What Place for AI? |
| 13:00 – 13:30: | Polona Brumen, Legal Reasoning and AI: The Case of Japan |
| 13:30 – 14:00: | Sebastjan Svete, Addressees of Legal Argumentation and AI |
| 14:00 – 14:30: | Dragana Savić, AI Neural Plasticity in Legal Decision Making |
| 14:30: | Closing of the Conference |