This event has been postponed. A new date (early 2025) will follow soon. The yearly VWR Winter meeting will take place at the University of Amsterdam on November 22, 2024. This year the keynote speaker is Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva). She will present her article “Navigating Institutional Uncertainty: The Cognitive Grounds of Officeholders’ Mutual Trust.” […]

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Join us on 3 October from 15:30-17:00h for an in person event with Sylvie Delacroix (Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law, King’s College London Fellow, Alan Turing Institute). The lecture is titled “Lost in Conversation? Uncertainty, ‘value-alignment’ and Large Language Models.” Comments will be given by Eva van der Graaf. Abstract How could talk […]

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The Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence, ACLPA, ACCu and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam cordially invite you to a law in context- lecture with David Dyzenhaus, entitled: The legal experience of injustice Abstract In The Faces of Injustice, Judith Shklar criticizes the “normal model” of justice that views injustice as an […]

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Vacancy: PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Law: Philosophical Foundations of Migration Law

August 26, 2024

Do you have or shortly expect to obtain a Master’s degree in Law and do you have a special interest in the philosophy of law? Or do you have or shortly expect to obtain a Master’s degree in Philosophy and do you have a special interest in law? If so, then you may be the […]

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Workshop ‘Emergencies and Exceptional Law’ – Open University Amsterdam – 20/09/2024

May 27, 2024

Call for participation We would like to invite you to the workshop ‘Emergencies and Exceptional Law’ that will be held on Friday 20 September 2024, from 10:30-17:00H at the Study Centre of the Open University in Amsterdam (7th floor of the OZW-building), organized by the Open University in collaboration with Ghent University. Hans Lindahl (Tilburg […]

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CfA: Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age – 19/20 June 2025 – The Hague

March 5, 2024

We are happy to announce an international conference on Hugo Grotius, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis. The aim of the conference is to foster new narratives on the thought of Grotius, both in general legal theory and in international law. The core question is to […]

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Call to legal philosophers who have been granted a permanent appointment at assistant professor level since 2021

February 19, 2024

Call to legal philosophers who have been granted a permanent appointment at assistant professor level since 2021 Partly due to the Corona period, many of us may have lost sight of legal philosophers who have received permanent appointments in recent years. That is why we dedicate part of the next Meeting of the VWR in […]

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Call for Applications for the Law and Political Economy Summer Academy – University of Glasgow (in cooperation with Erasmus University Rotterdam_

February 5, 2024

Attached you can find the Call for Applications for the Law and Political Economy Summer Academy that is to take place from 19-21 June at the University of Glasgow, in cooperation with the Erasmus University Rotterdam. All relevant documents can be found on the website https://lpeineurope.org/summer-academy-2024-glasgow/ CfA_LPE in Europe Summer Academy_2024

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International Legal Ethics Conference – University of Amsterdam – 17-19 July, 2024

January 15, 2024

On July 17-19, 2024 the Amsterdam Centre on the Legal Professions and Access to Justice will host the tenth edition of the International Legal Ethics Conference at the Amsterdam Law School. The main topics that will be addressed during the conference are: 1.   Digitalisation, Innovation and Access to Justice 2.   Empirical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Ethics and the […]

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ACLPA Legal Ethics Lecture Series (UvA) with Professor Michael Huemer – “The Ethics of Unjust Advocacy” – 28 March 2024

January 15, 2024

On March 28, 2024 at 16:15-17:30, join us for an online lecture with Michael Huemer (University of Colorado, Boulder) titled, The Ethics of Unjust Advocacy, as part of our Legal Ethics Lecture Series. About the speaker Michael Huemer received his BA from UC Berkeley and his PhD from Rutgers University. He is presently professor of […]

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