About Prof. Julen Etxabe
Julen Etxabe is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights at Allard School of Law, UBC. He is the author of The Experience of Tragic Judgment (2013) and editor and co-editor of three other books: Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White (2014), Rancière and Law (2018) and Cultural History of Law in Antiquity (2019). His current research combines legal and literary theory to identify a new dialogical model of judgment emerging in the area of human rights.
Abstract:
This presentation will elaborate the contours of a new dialogical model of adjudication arising from the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. The dialogical model is characterized by a form of reasoning that is not autonomous or self-reliant, but internally constituted by a polyphony of voices, which confer upon the judgements much of their force and authority. In contrast to the two main theoretical frameworks for adjudication, namely, the rights-based model and proportionality analysis, the dialogical model discloses a collective judgment about the self-definition of democratic societies, which are, just as the decisions themselves, plural, many-voiced, and inherently in tension.
Location :
University of Luxembourg
Campus Kirchberg - Weicker Building
4, rue Alphonse Weicker, L-2721 Luxembourg
Room B001 (ground floor)
Language :
English
This is a free conference. Registration is mandatory.
