Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition

26/01/2022

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION
in Experimental Legal Philosophy
(Experimental or Legal Philosopher, Moral or Cognitive Psychologist)

The Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition (CLBC) at the Faculty of Law invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral position (39,83 h/w TV-L E12/13). The position is fixed-term for 2 years. It is funded by DFG as part of a joint research project “Experimental Legal Philosophy: The Concept of Law Revisited“ with researchers from PUC-Rio. No teaching requirements apply. The position is to be staffed as soon as possible.

Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation to [email protected].

Closing date for application is 14th of February 2022.

For more information, please see the job advertisement below.

07/07/2021

For those interested in the behavioral analysis of public law, this workshop is highly recommended (it is open to the public)

Behavioural Public Law Teaching Session (Online) MPI for Research on Collective Goods Professor Dr Dr hc Christoph Engel (Director) Dr Dr Yoan Hermstrüwer (Senior Research Fellow) Dr Dr Pascal Langenbach (Senior Research Fellow) Dr Laurence O’Hara (Senior Research Fellow) Dr Frederike Zufall (Sen...

03/08/2020

JOB ADVERTISEMENT

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION
in Experimental Legal Philosophy
(Experimental or Legal Philosopher, Moral or Cognitive Psychologist)

The Ruhr-Universität Bochum is one of the leading research universities in Germany. The university draws its strengths from both the diversity and the proximity of scientific and engineering disciplines on a single, coherent campus. This highly dynamic setting enables students and researchers to work across traditional boundaries of academic subjects and faculties.
The Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition (CLBC) at the Faculty of Law invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral position (39,83 h/w TV-L E12/13). The position is fixed-term for 3 years. It is funded by DFG as part of a joint research project “Experimental Legal Philosophy: The Concept of Law Revisited“ with researchers from PUC-Rio (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/434400506?language=en). No teaching requirements apply. The position is to be staffed as soon as possible.
CLBC is an interdisciplinary research institute at the law faculty at Ruhr-University. It pursues naturalistic and experimental approaches in the philosophy of law and neighboring disciplines. At Ruhr-University, CLBC cooperates with the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany and the Center for Mind and Cognition.
For further information please contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Magen ([email protected]).
Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation to [email protected].
Closing date for application is 20th of August 2020.
Application by email only.

Travel expenses for job interviews will not be refunded. The Ruhr-Universität is an equal opportunities employer.

10/06/2019

We have compiled a bibliography of research papers, chapters, and books relevant to the field of experimental legal philosophy.
The bibliography is available at the website of CLBC:
https://zrsweb.zrs.rub.de/institut/clbc/legal-x-phi-bibliography/
If you would like to suggest adding published or forthcoming work to the list, please contact Karolina Prochownik([email protected]).

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22/01/2019

**TALK ANNOUNCEMENT**
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition at Ruhr-University Bochum, I cordially invite you to a talk by Kevin Tobia (Yale University, ETH Zurich)
"Testing Public Meaning: Do Originalist Methods of Corpus Linguistics and Dictionary-Use Reliably Track Public Meaning?".
Date: Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 16:00 pm
Location: GC 8/131 (Faculty of Law, Ruhr-University Bochum)
Abstract (kindly provided by Kevin):
"Influential theories of interpretation recommend using dictionaries or corpus linguistics to discover a legal text’s “original public meaning.” But do originalist methods of corpus linguistics and dictionary-use accurately reflect original public meaning? A series of experimental studies (N = 1,327) reveals systematic divergences among the verdicts delivered by modern concept use, dictionary use, and corpus linguistics use. I argue that the data suggest that the current originalist methods of dictionary and corpus linguistics use are often inaccurate measures of public meaning. Theories that rely on these tools, such as Public Meaning Originalism, have an empirical burden to demonstrate a reliable use of these methods in interpretation."
Please feel free to share the information about the talk with anyone that might be interested.
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

09/04/2018

“Experimental and Naturalistic Perspectives on the Philosophy of Law”

Ruhr-University Bochum, June 4th–6th 2018

The newly founded “Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition” at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) invites submissions for its inaugural conference on “Experimental and Naturalistic Perspectives on the Philosophy of Law”.

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“Experimental and Naturalistic Perspectives on the Philosophy of Law” Ruhr-University Bochum, June 4th–6th 2018 The newly founded “Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition” at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) invites submissions for its inaugural conference on “Experimental and Naturalist...