Between the 19th and 20th of October, Morais Leitão, as part of the IMGT (Miguel Galvão Teles Institute) conference programme, and the NOVA Argumentation Knowledge Centre at NOVA School of Law organised the Legal Argumentation Conference.
The two-day meeting was dedicated to discussing major themes such as legal rhetoric, types of legal argumentation and feminist perspectives on legal argumentation, among many others.
The conference featured some of the most important speakers: Carel Smith (Netherlands), Chiara Valentini (Italy), Claudio Michelon (UK), Damiano Canale (Italy), David Martínez Zorrilla (Spain), Euan MacDonald (UK), Fábio Perin Shecaira (Brazil), Flávia Carbonell (Chile), Giovanni Tuzet (Italy), Guilherme Almeida (Brazil), Harm Kloosterhuis (Netherlands), José Juan Moreso (Spain), José Plug (Netherlands), Kathryn Stanchi (USA), Kevin Toh (UK), Luís Duarte d'Almeida (Portugal), Mark McBride (Singapore), Martim Krupenski (Portugal), Minghui Xiong (China), Lilian Bermejo-Luque (Spain), Rachel Herdy (Chile), Raquel Barradas de Freitas (Portugal), Sharon Cowan (UK), Silvia Zorzetto (Italy), Sue Provenzano (USA), Torben Spaak (Sweden), and Zihan Niu (China).
As an independent organisation responsible for promoting conferences, colloquia and training activities, the IMGT organises conferences every six months to support scientific research and establish relations with academia and other knowledge-oriented institutions.
The conference took place in the João Morais Leitão Auditorium.
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