About us
“I teach suffering and the end of suffering.
— Attributed to Gautama Buddha
“I teach argument and the playful contest of argument.”
— Attributed to Logocrates
Meet the Founder
Prof. Scott Brewer
Professor of Law at Harvard Law SchoolScott Brewer joined the Harvard Law School faculty full-time in 1991, having been a lecturer in 1988. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University (1997) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1988), where he was the Editor-in-Chief for Volume 97 of the Yale Law Journal. He was a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals (1989-90) and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court (October Term 1990).
He teaches the basic courses on contracts and evidence as well as a variety of courses in jurisprudence and philosophy of law. In 2011 he co-founded and continues to co-administer (with Professor Giovanni Sartor of the European University Institute) the annual Summer School on Law and Logic. Professor Brewer writes and teaches about the nature and uses of arguments (including but not limited to legal arguments), the role of arguments in law (and specifically, contract law and the law of evidence), politics, and “everyday life.” He also teaches and writes about the central question of what constitutes a fulfilled life, as for example, in the course The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law, taught at Harvard Law School and in universities in Europe and Asia.
“Argument is a great master.”
— Gorgias of Leontini, Encomium to Helen of Troy
Our Leadership
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Prof. Scott Brewer
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Dr. Georgios Stathis
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Oleg Pavliv
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Our Logo
Our logo is inspired by the Harvard Law School logo. Instead of a medieval shield, to honour Ancient Greek tradition we utilised an Ancient Spartan shield. We also added the Ancient Spartan gold to honour the Spartans and kept the deep red color to honor Harvard University. The Λ (Ancient Greek letter Lamda) refers to Logocratic instead of Lacaedemon.
The Ancient Greek Meander is depicted on the sides. We preserved the circular lines behind Λ from the Harvard Law School logo because, based on our interpretation, they refer to a medieval window which looks like the reader is looking through the window. That is similar to a Logocratic belief that each argument is offered from a point of view.
On the Λ the phrase “λόγος μέγας δυνάστης ἐστίν” is depicted, which originates from Gorgias and means: “argument is a great master.”
Finally, the term ΛΟΓΟΠΑΓΚΡΑΤΙΟΝ ΠΑΙΓΝΙΟΝ refers to a word-play that combines Logos (reason), Pankration (Ancient Greek martial art) and Paignion (play), elevating the Logocratic Method into a playful contest of arguments.