●《放棄死刑 走向文明》新書介紹
國家有資格殺人嗎？
第二屆模擬憲法法庭，邀集各方學者專家，以及有實際被害經驗的家屬，在法庭上從多方角度討論死刑存廢爭議，作為討論背景的案件故事，就是以1986年原住民青年湯英伸殺害雇主及雇主家人一案作為範本。本書收錄該次模擬憲法法庭之各方書狀，使讀者能夠透過各方專家精彩的論辯中，瞭解死刑存廢對於我們的意義。台灣是全球執行死刑的國家之一，在我們經濟、民主與法治不斷進步的同時，盼能藉由本書重新檢視死刑，確認我們的憲法價值。
作者：台北律師公會主編
出版社：新學林出版股份有限公司
出版日期：2015年9月1日
＊法實證文件資料庫已收錄了湯英伸案的起訴書和判決等資料，詳見法律文件資料庫：http://goo.gl/0nfXJU
●法理學經典導讀
11/24(二) 專書論壇：與作者對談
張永健（中央研究院法律學研究所副研究員）《物權法的經濟分析：第一冊「所有權」》
主持人：王照宇 （執業律師，東吳大學法學院兼任助理教授）
與談人：簡資修 （中央研究院法律學研究所研究員）
與談人：許政賢 （政治大學法律學系副教授）
12/10(四) 盧梭《社會契約論》(The Social Contract)
主持人：謝世民 （中正大學哲學系教授）
導讀人：陳嘉銘 （中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心助研究員）
*本系列活動無須報名，歡迎自由參加。
*本系列活動可抵法律系服務學習。
●女子．說．法：2015女性主義法學系列演講（下）
主題：代孕法制化之挑戰
時間：11月19日(四) 19：00－21：00
講者：林昀嫺（國立清華大學科技法律研究所副教授）
主持人：陳昭如（國立臺灣大學法律學院教授）
與談人：雷文玫（國立陽明大學公共衛生學科暨研究所副教授）
地點：臺灣大學法律學院霖澤館1301教室
●l Narrative and Metaphor In the Law
A Symposium
Time: Saturday, January 30, 2016 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Place: Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle
Room 180
Only quite recently have lawyers, judges and legal scholars come to notice that ‘narrative – storytelling – is a central component of legal practice and thinking’ (Peter Brooks). Competing narratives in the courtroom are the most obvious examples; law students are increasingly tutored in how to construct their own persuasive stories and critique those of their adversaries. Scholars and activists have, in addition, explored the narrative/law connection on many other levels, including: case law as narrative, problems about confessional narratives, narrative in promoting minority rights, gender and legal narrative.
Alongside the courses, research groups and conferences on ‘narrative law’ has grown up a parallel set of research initiatives on ‘metaphor and the law,’ focusing not only on the rhetorical use of metaphor in court, but on the conceptual metaphors employed in different cultures to define justice, punishment, and on such specific areas as the use in the media of standard narratives and metaphors around crime. There have been few attempts, however, to look at the ways in which these two ‘primary cognitive instruments’ (Louis Mink), narrative and metaphor, interact with each other in legal contexts.
This one-day symposium brings together scholars in law and related disciplines who have made the most outstanding contributions to the study of narrative or metaphor and the law (rarely the two in combination) for a series of eight conversations meant in part to bridge the narrative-metaphor gap. The eight papers that will serve as the basis for the conversations will be distributed during December 2015 to all who register for the symposium. There are no parallel sessions, so participants will be able to attend all the conversations.
The event is intended for faculty members in law and related disciplines, as well as lawyers, and graduate students in areas like law, rhetoric, psychology, sociology, and communications. It is hoped that the symposium will allow all participants to gain fresh theoretical insights, as well as contributing greatly to the professional skills of practitioners.
Participants in the symposium will be eligible for California Bar CLE credit.
