{"id":1295,"date":"2020-06-03T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp3.law.cuhk.edu.hk\/conf\/20200619\/?page_id=1295"},"modified":"2020-06-15T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:44:24","slug":"legal-education-in-the-time-of-oxymora","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webapp3.law.cuhk.edu.hk\/conf\/20200619\/legal-education-in-the-time-of-oxymora\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Education in the Time of Oxymora"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1295\" class=\"elementor elementor-1295\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f4ddc3e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f4ddc3e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6888253a\" data-id=\"6888253a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12dec88f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"12dec88f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br>Today, the future role of the lawyer and the legal profession is often seen being threatened, notably by the advent and rapid development of technologies generally referred to as \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d (AI) including or being related to other concepts or fields, such as big data, nanotechnology or synthetic biology. In the future, AI and related technologies, it is argued, may even replace major tasks handled by the legal profession or the lawyer as a whole. <br>\nIn this regard, it is noteworthy that the concept of \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d and other technologies were all qualified as oxymora or paradoxes, that is to say a rhetorical figures \u201cin which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction\u201d. <br>\nHowever, technology is not the only field where such contractions occur. Virtually every scientific field and also legal science as well as life in general is today a fertile breeding ground for and witnesses a considerable rise in the use of oxymora and paradoxes, from \u2018coopetition\u2019 in competition law to \u2018sustainable development\u2019 in international law to mention but two. <br>\nThis paper will first provide an overview of some relevant oxymoronic concepts in the field of law. As a second step, it will show how these concepts, by virtue of their contradictory nature, challenge the predominant modes of legal logic and legal reasoning. Third and last, it will outline some linguistic and cognitive skills future lawyers should acquire as a result of the challenges provided by the rise in oxymora and paradoxes, or so-called \u201cessentially oxymoronic concepts\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br>Prof. Rostam J. NEUWIRTH, Professor of Law, Head for Department of Global Legal Studies, University of Macau \u2013 Faculty of Law  <br>LL.M. (McGill), PhD (EUI)<br>Rostam J. NEUWIRTH is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of University of Macau where he also serves as the Head of Department of Global Legal Studies. He received his PhD degree from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy) and also holds a Master\u2019s degree in Law (LL.M.) from the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal (Canada). His undergraduate studies he spent at the University of Graz (Austria) and the Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Auvergne (France). Previously, he taught at the West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkata (India) and the Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU) in Raipur (India). 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