Joaquín Reyes Barros

Thesis title: A Reassessment of Just Price Theory

Biography

Background

Licenciate in Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Licenciate in Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Teaching experience in legal theory, ethics, and civil law. Professional experience in civil and commercial litigation.

Qualifications

LLM by Research in History and Philosophy of Law  (with distinction), University of Edinburgh.

Licentiate in Philosophy (maximum distinction), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Licentiate in Law (maximum distinction), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Responsibilities & affiliations

Tutor in Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking, School of Law, University of Edinburgh.

Convenor, Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group.

Member of the Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG).

Undergraduate teaching

Tutor in Jurisprudence

Tutor in Critical Legal Thinking

Research summary

Primary research interest: Just price theory and the interconnections between virtue ethics, theories of economic value, and private law theory.

Secondary research interests: value theory; theories of corrective justice; Scholastic metaphysics.

Current research interests

Joaquín's current research interests include the analytical, historical, and normative implications of the concept of the 'just price' for contemporary contract law institutions and the underlying normative structure of private law. He is also interested in the relationship between normative ethics, markets, and the law; distributive and corrective justice; exploitation; virtue ethics and virtue jurisprudence.

Past research interests

Medieval theories of natural law (Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suarez, Gabriel Vazquez); the Scholastic doctrine of the just price, and debates concerning the primacy of the common good vis-á-vis human dignity.

Affiliated research centres

Current project grants

Full Scholarship for Doctoral Studies Abroad, granted by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), Chile, to study a PhD in Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Innovative Initiative Fund, Global Justice Academy, to organise the 2018 Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival, Workshop on 'Virtue ethics, markets and the law'.
Go Abroad Fund, University of Edinburgh, to participate in the 2018 PhD summer school on Ethics and Economics of the Dutch Research School for Philosophy, in Tilburg, Netherlands.
Go Abroad Fund, University of Edinburgh, to participate in the XXIX IVR World Congress (7-12 July 2019)

Past project grants

Full Scholarship for Master Studies Abroad, granted by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), Chile, to study an LLM by Research in History and Philosophy of Law, at the University of Edinburgh.

Invited speaker

(21 October 2019) “Private law, justice, and just prices”, Maastricht Law and Philosophy Platform, Maastricht University, Netherlands. (7 October 2019) “Just prices, market prices, and corrective justice”, ‘Law and Political Economy (LPE) in Europe’, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.

(23 September 2019) “Derecho privado, justicia, y justo precio”, Seminario Filosofía del Derecho, Cátedra de Cultura Jurídica, Universidad de Girona, Spain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnvUShQUik&list=PLkf6kBA56LKwI4XS_ypVoctuS6cjyANJO

Organiser

▪    Workshop on Justice and Contract, University of Edinburgh (12 December 2019) ▪    2019-2020 Edinburgh Legal Theory Seminar Series (September 2019 – May 2020) ▪    2019 Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival, Workshop on ‘Equality in Exchange’ (May 2019) (more information: https://www.legaltheorygroup.law.ed.ac.uk/events/edinburgh-legal-theory-festival-workshop-on-equality-in-exchange-and-the-law/) ▪    2019 Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival, Book Symposium: The Humanity of Private Law: Part I – Nicholas J. McBride (Pembroke College, Cambridge) (more information: https://www.legaltheorygroup.law.ed.ac.uk/2019/05/09/1797/) ▪    2018-2019 Edinburgh Legal Theory Seminar Series (September 2018 – May 2019) ▪    2018 Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival, Workshop on Virtue Ethics, Markets and the Law (more information: http://www.legaltheorygroup.law.ed.ac.uk/spring-workshops/2018-workshops/virtue) ▪    2017-2018 Edinburgh Legal Theory Seminar Series (September 2017 – May 2018)

Participant

2019 MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory (9-11 September), University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

2019 29th IVR World Congress, Lucerne, Switzerland.

2018 PhD summer school on Ethics and Economics of the Dutch Research School for Philosophy.

Papers delivered

▪    (21 October 2019) “Private law, justice, and just prices”, Maastricht Law and Philosophy Platform, Maastricht University, Netherlands. ▪    (7 October 2019) “Just prices, market prices, and corrective justice”, ‘Law and Political Economy (LPE) in Europe’, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.

▪    (23 September 2019) “Derecho privado, justicia, y justo precio”, Seminario Filosofía del Derecho, Cátedra de Cultura Jurídica, Universidad de Girona, Spain. ▪    (9 September 2019) (with Matías Petersen) “Human flourishing and virtue in a polycentric social order”, Workshop on Political Theory Beyond the State, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory (9-11 September), University of Manchester, United Kingdom.  ▪    (12 July 2019) “Price Normativity in Contract Law”, Special Workshop: The Philosophy of Private Law, 29th IVR World Congress, Lucerne, Switzerland. ▪    (29 May 2019) “Conceptions of Human Flourishing in Private Law”, Book Symposium: The Humanity of Private Law: Part I – Nicholas J. McBride (Pembroke College, Cambridge), 2019 Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival, School of Law, University of Edinburgh.  ▪    (31 August 2018) “The Private Sphere and the Role of Private Law”, PhD Summer School on Ethics and Economics, Tilburg, Netherlands. Organised by the Dutch Research School for Philosophy (OZSW).

▪    (2020, forthcoming) “The just price and the normative structure of contract law” 5 Latin American Legal Studies (special issue, forthcoming)

▪    (2019) “The Humanity of Private Law: Part I: Explanation, by Nicholas J. Mcbride, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2018, pp. 296, £80.00 (Hbk), ISBN 9781509911950" 10 (4) Jurisprudence 597-606. https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/20403313.2019.1672356

▪    (2019) “Gardner, John (2018): From Personal Life to Private Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 242 pp.” 46 (2) Revista Chilena del Derecho. https://scielo.conicyt.cl/pdf/rchilder/v46n2/0718-3437-rchilder-46-02-00579.pdf

▪    (2017) “Reasoning with persuasive precedent: the role of persuasive precedent in the law” 2 (1) Teoria Juridica Contemporanea 194-213. https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rjur/article/view/8653

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