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Mental Disorder, Culpability, and Criminal Law

Joint international research conference organized by the projects DIMENSIONS and Roots of Responsibility.

Bilde av Grighallen
Grieghallen in Bergen is the conference venue.
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Lars Mæhlum (CC BY NC SA 3.0)

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About

This workshop aims to facilitate an inter-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary conversation focused around two driving questions:

  • How is the relationship between culpability and mental disorder best understood?
  • Where a defendant’s mental disorder potentially plays an exculpatory role, how can this be fairly and accurately accounted for within the culpability determinations that the criminal law makes?

Across two days, the conference will feature presentations by specialists in philosophy, law, psychology, and psychiatry, followed by comments and discussion.

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Program

Please note that the program is preliminary and may be subject to change.

Day 1 (Thursday 22nd Sept)

9:30 – Welcome and Introduction

  • Opening of the conference - Knut Rypdal
  • Introductions by John Hyman and Linda Gröning

Break

10:15 – Session 1: Insanity, Mental disorder and Crime

  • Linda Gröning
  • Stephen J. Morse

Break

  • Discussion

11:45 – Lunch

12:45 – Session 2: Mental Disorder and Moral Agency

  • Nomy Arpaly
  • Yuuki Otha (responding)

Break

  • Discussion

Break

14:30 – Session 3: Applying the Insanity Defence

  • Ronnie Mackay
  • Slavka Dimitrova

Break

  • Discussion

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19:30 – Conference Dinner

Day 2 (Friday 23rd Sept)

9:45 – Session 4: Philosophy, Psychiatry and the Criminal Law

  • Susanna Radovic
  • Gerben Meynen

Break

  • Discussion

Break

11:30 – Session 5: Integrated Models of Insanity

  • Tova Bennet
  • Claire Hogg

Break

  • Christopher Slobogin (responding)
  • Discussion

13:00 – Lunch

14:00 – Session 6: Roundtable

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15:30 – Conference End