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.
