Legal Conventionalism

Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña is Lecturer in the Law Department of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Legal Philosophy from the Pompeu Fabra University. She has been visiting researcher in prestigious universities such as the University of Oxford and Yale University. Her research interests include theories of reference, legal interpretation, legal positivism and objectivity in law. Her publications include books, articles and book chapters in well-known journals and publishers such as Springer, Doxa, Analisi e Diritto and Marcial Pons. Josep M. Vilajosana is Professor of Legal Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona. His research lines include legal theory, legal system's dynamics, conventionalism and the right to self-determination. He is the author of many books and articles on legal and political philosophy. From 2010 to 2016, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the UPF.

Part 1 The Notion of Convention.- Pre-conventions. A Fragment of the Background.- Re-examining Deep Conventions: Practical Reason and Forward-Looking Agency.- Part II Conventions and The Rule of Recognition.- Conventions, Reasons, and the Law.- The Rule of Recognition as a Constitutive Convention.- Social Facts and Law: Why is the Rule of Recognition a Convention?.- Cooperative Conventions, Rule of Recognition and Institutional Practices.- On Identifying the Law and Its Supposed Conventional Foundations. A Set-Theory Approach.- Part III Conventions and Legal Interpretation.- Conventionalism Unchained and Sceptical. A Defence of a Quasi-Realist Account of Legal Statements Against Dworkin's Criticisms.- Conventionalism and the Causal Theory of Reference.- The Interpretation of Plans.