The Alexis de Tocqueville Centre for Political and Legal Thought, Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Łódź, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law at Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile, cordially invites participation in the Tocquevillian Workshops #2, titled The Moral Demands of Private Law.

The workshops, conducted in English, will be led by Prof. Alberto Pino Emhart from Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile.

Schedule:

Tuesday, 21 November 2023,, 16:30–19:30 - Coercion and Private Law Remedies (including a discussion of a paper by Alberto Pino Emhart, under the same title)

Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 16.30-19.30 - The Expressive Function of Law: The Case of Tort Law (including a discussion of a paper by Scott Hershovitz, Treating Wrongs as Wrongs: An Expressive Argument for Tort Law)
The event will take place in person at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź (Kopcińskiego 8/12, 90-232 Łódź), in Room 1.18.

Prof. Alberto Pino Emhart earned his doctorate in law from the University of Oxford in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. John Gardner. His research interests focus on the law of obligations, with a particular emphasis on the philosophy of tort law, which was the subject of his doctoral dissertation and several of his scholarly publications. Currently, his research explores the foundations of contractual and extra-contractual liability from a comparative legal perspective, as well as the concept of human dignity in private law.

To register for Tocquevillian Workshops #2, please contact the organizers via email at: mrupniewski@wpia.uni.lodz.pl