Knowledge Centres

NOVA Argumentation

NOVA Argumentation, a Knowledge Centre within the NOVA School Law, is dedicated to advanced research and training in the field of legal argumentation. Established in January 2023, its goals are:

  • To develop and disseminate research in the areas of legal argumentation, legal reasoning, and legal theory, both general and applied to legal practice.
  • To design and deliver advanced training sessions on legal argumentation and legal writing aimed at the non-academic community of legal professionals (especially magistrates and lawyers).
  • To hold an international seminar series, as well as regular international conferences, on legal argumentation and legal theory.
  • To support the teaching and supervision of dissertations and research projects in the areas of legal argumentation, legal reasoning, and legal theory.

NOVA Argumentation has relied on the support of the law firm Morais Leitão since its creation. Through this active collaboration, the study of law and the methods of rational justification come closer to daily legal practice, reshaping the synergy between both.

Coordination

Luís Duarte d’Almeida

Collaborators

Álvaro Nuñez Vaquero
Universidad Austral de Chile

Barbara Baum Levenbook
North Carolina State University

Chiara Valentini
Università di Bologna

Claudio Michelon
University of Edinburgh

Damiano Canale
Università Bocconi

David Martínez Zorrilla
Universidad Oberta de Catalunya

Euan MacDonald
University of Edinburgh

Fábio Perin Shecaira
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Flavia Carbonell Bellolio
Universidad de Chile

Francesca Poggi
Universitá degli Studi di Milano

Frederick Schauer
University of Virginia

Gema Marcilla Córdoba
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Giovanni Tuzet
Università Bocconi

H. J. (José) Plug
Universiteit van Amsterdam

José Juan Moreso
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Katharina Stevens
University of Lethbridge

Kathryn M. Stanchi
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Kevin Toh
University College London

Lilian Bermejo-Luque
Universidad de Granada

Maksymilian del Mar
Queen Mary University of London

Marina Gascón Abellán
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Mark McBride
National University of Singapore

Martim Krupenski
Morais Leitão

Noel Struchiner
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Raquel Barradas de Freitas
NOVA School of Law

Rob Mullins
The University of Queensland

Ruth Chang
University of Oxford

Sue Provenzano
Georgia State University

Tania Groppi
Università di Siena

Torben Spaak
Stockholm University

Legal Argumentation Conference

19 and 20 October 2023

A two-day international conference with leading experts on legal argumentation, on topics including legal rhetoric, the judicial duty to give reasons, several of the most important types of legal argument and feminist perspectives on legal argumentation — among several others.

Programme, more information & registrations, please click here.