Professor Manuel Atienza, Seminar: 10 Thesis on judicial reasoning, 24 February, 2022.

On February 24, 2022 the Department of Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law and the Department of Theory and Philosophy of the State and Law organized the staff seminar with distinguished professor Manuel Atienza, an outstanding Spanish philosopher of law from the University of Alicante.

Professor Atienza, in his lecture titled 10 Thesis on judicial reasoning, pointed out that justifying a judicial decision consists  of offering good reasons organized in such a way that persuasion is possible. The argumentation can be considered as a method of solving legal problems and, therefore, in the elaboration of a justifying judicial reasoning it is useful to distinguish the following phases: identification and analysis of the problem, proposal of a solution, verification and review, writing a content. The seminar was followed by fruitful discussion and met with a great interest of distinguished professors of philosophy of law from different academic centers, in particular prof. J. Zajadło (UG), prof. A. Grabowski (UJ), prof. W. Lamentowicz (WSAiB), prof. L. Leszczyński (UMCS),  prof. S. Tkacz (UŚl.)