Emerging Voices in Latin America & European Criminal Theory

Friday, May 15, 2015

University at Buffalo School of Law ~ BCLC (Buffalo Criminal Law Center) Conference

Program

8:00 a.m. - Registration, coffee and light breakfast

8:25 a.m. - Welcome

Luis Chiesa, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor and Director of the BCLC (Buffalo Criminal Law Center), UB School of Law

8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.- Reason and Emotion in Public Opinion about Punishment and Criminal Justice
15 minute presentation of paper
5 minute reply

Presenters: Paul Robinson (University of Pennsylvania Law School) & Daniel Varona Gómez (Universitat de Girona, Spain)

9:50 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. - What are the limits of criminal legislation? A German perspective
15 minute presentation of paper
5 minute reply

Presenters: Douglas Husak (Rutgers University) & Elisa Hoven (Universität zu Köln, Germany)

11:10 a.m. - Break

11:20 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. - Justification: Only the Right or also the Permissible?
15 minute presentation of paper
5 minute reply

Presenters: Mitchell Berman (University of Pennsylvania Law School) & Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)