Seminar Programme – Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Justice (Dijus)
Corporal damage assessment: the difficult relations between experts and jurists

January 27th, 2009, 18h,  CES Seminar Room

Lecturers
Rita Sanches – Forensic Medicine Expert, INML
Carlos Ferrer – Lawer
Carlos Guiné – Public Prosecutor

Moderator – João Pedroso (CES)

Comentator – António Casimiro Ferreira (CES) 


Free entrance


Abstract
The forensic medicine techniques, through which one assesses corporal damage, are daily submitted, in our courts, to interpretation conflicts between physicians and the various forensics science professionals. The recent legal system tables for assessment and measurement of corporal damage, be it in labour law, be it in civil law, has deserved generalized critics.

This seminar aims to discuss and identify the divergences of concepts and discourses, the (in)comprehensions, the translation mechanisms that exist between forensic medicine experts and forensic science professionals in this matter of valorization of corporal damage, namely if the tables are the most adequate method in order to asses corporal damage.

Each of the intervenients shall have an initial 15 minutes presentation, followed by a debate period between them and the audience.



Presentation of the Dijus Project
The Dijus Project deals with a seminar programme on the (in)comprehension relations between the juridical discourse and other sciences’ discourse(s). By recording these dialogues we seek to, at the end of the Project, through content analysis, analyze the convergences and divergences of knowledges, discourses and the manner these are “translated” and used in the occultation/deoccultation of facts and in the construction of a truth that may be apprehended and recognized by the judicial system.

This Research Project/Seminar Programme will be composed, in a first phase, by twelve seminars, taking place up till the end of 2009, with the participation of professionals and researchers proceeding from various knowledges and disciplines related with administration of justice, from medicine to management sciences, and from psychiatry and psychology to social service