I am a Researcher at the Lisbon Public Law Research Group, Lisbon Legal Theory Group, University of Lisbon, where I am developing my research at the intersection between Legal Theory and Social Ontology, especially on collective acceptance.
From 2022 to 2023, I was a Visiting Lecturer of Legal Theory and Legal Argumentation at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), from 2020 to 2022 at the Technological Institute of Monterrey (ITESM), and from 2018 to 2019 at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). During those years, I also was a Researcher for the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT).
In 2016 and 2017, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy of Law at the Institute for Legal Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
In 2012, I joined the Tarello Institute for the Philosophy of Law as a Doctoral Researcher, obtaining my PhD from the University of Genoa in October of 2015.
After completing my studies in 2010 and 2011, I obtained a master’s in Law and Argumentation from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. As an undergraduate student, I have studied Law, obtaining my bachelor’s degree in 2009, and philosophy.
You can see my CV here and contact me at pcaballeroelbersci@gmail.com
RESEARCH
My research focuses on the study and analysis of law from a theoretical and philosophical point of view. It lies at the intersection between legal theory, philosophy of language and contemporary social ontology.
Some of the questions this research tries to answer are the following. If law exists, what kind of entity of reality is it? Is law a social construction? Is law a normative social construction? If so, what distinguishes it from other social and normative constructions, such as morality, religion or costumes? How does law come into existence? How is the content of law constituted? How is the content of law determined?
The methodology used in this research is conceptual engineering. The philosophical and metatheoretical (regarding legal theory) perspective used is the sociolinguistic, normative, and historical pragmatism of Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom, and other contemporary philosophers.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Journals’ Articles
Metateoría pragmatista para una teoría de las normas jurídicas, DOXA: Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho, 2023, Nº 47, pp. 73-103. https://doi.org/10.14198/DOXA2023.47.4
Sobre la ontología y metafísica de las normas jurídicas, Isonomia: revista de teoría y filosofía del derecho, 2022, No. 57, pp. 34-68. https://doi.org/10.5347/isonomian57/2022.455
The Explanatory Problem of Law’s Normativity: A Proposal Based on Practical Attitudes and Normative Statuses, Analisi e Diritto Journal, 2021, pp. 117-146. https://doi.org/10.4454/analisiediritto.v21i1.361
Judicial Decisions: A Normativist and Inferentialist Notion of Justification, Cogency Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation, 2020, pp. 9-42. https://doi.org/10.32995/cogency.v12i2.358
Las decisiones judiciales: justificación y racionalidad, Problema: Revista de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho, 2019, No. 12, pp. 67-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iij.24487937e.2019.13.13716
Sobre la teoría de los conceptos jurídicos de Alf Ross: explicitando sus presupuestos verificacionistas e inferencialistas, Isonomia: revista de teoría y filosofía del derecho, 2017, No. 47, pp. 81-108. https://doi.org/10.5347/47.2017
Teoría jurídica y análisis del derecho: problemas actuales. Introducción. Analisi e Diritto: Journal for Analytical Jurisprudence, 2015, No. 2015, pp. 117-123, Marcial Pons. ISBN 100982523
Book’s Chapters
Metaética, razonamiento jurídico y justificación lógica, en El encanto del método: diálogos latinoamericanos con Paolo Comanducci, (Arena, F., Puppo, A., Cuautle, E. eds.), Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, 2022. ISBN: 978-607-306499-6.
La teoría de la interpretación jurídica de Guastini y las teorías del significado, en L’arte della distinzione: Scritti per Riccardo Guastini Vol. II, in Chiassoni P., Comanducci P., Ratti G. (eds.), 2019, pp. 127-146, Marcial Pons. ISBN: 9788491235187
Comentarios sobre el método de la filosofía analítica del derecho, en Otras Distinciones, Guastini, R., 2014, pp. 6-17, El Externado. ISBN 978-958-772-144-7
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book
Articulating the Law: from the Sociolinguistic, Normativist and Inferentialist Pragmatism
COURSES
Since 2017 I have been teaching university courses related to the Philosophy of Law, such as Legal Theory, Legal Interpretation (Adjudication), Legal Argumentation and Legal Reasoning. These are some of my latest courses:
2023: Legal Theory, University of Monterrey (UDEM)
2022: Methodology in Legal Research, University of Monterrey (UDEM)
2020-2022: Legal Theory, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higer Education (TEC)
2020-2022: Legal Argumentation, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (TEC)
2022: Lega Reasoning, Masters in Human Right, Judicial Federal School, Mexico
2021-2022: Legal Interpretation, Specialization in Judicial Reform, Judicial Federal School, Mexico
2018-2019: Legal Theory, Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM)
2018-2019: Hans Kelsen Seminar, Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM)
2018-2019: Ronald Dworkin Seminar, Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM)
2018-2019: H.L.A. Hart Seminar, Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM)
2018: Legal Reasoning, Human Rights Master, Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM)
2017: Alf Ross and Legal Realisms Seminar, Technological Autonomous Institute of Mexico (ITAM)
RESEARCH GROUPS
I have joined the following research groups since 2010:
October 2023: Member of the Lisbon Legal theory, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
April to August 2022: Visiting researcher at Tarello Institute for the Philosophy of Law, University of Genova, Italy.
August to December 2021: Visiting researcher at Philosophy Department, University of Southampton, UK.
Trinity term 2018 and 2019: Visiting researcher at University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, UK
2017 to 2020: Lecturer and researcher at ITAM, Mexico City
June to November 2017: Visiting researcher at University of Edinburgh, Legal Theory Group, UK.
2016 and 2017: Postdoc researcher at Institute for Legal Research (IIJ) and Philosophical Research (IIF), UNAM, Mexico City
2012 to 2016: PhD researcher at Tarello Institute for Legal Philosophy, University of Genoa, Italy.
2010 to 2012: Master student at Legal Theory Research Group at National University of Córdoba, Argentina.