Seminar: The Social Rechtsstaat: Nonsense Upon Stilts? – June 12, 2025 (Tilburg University)

June 6, 2025

See here for more information and the program.

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Call for abstracts – SAFI Annual Conference – University of Amsterdam

May 8, 2025

In the upcoming academic year, the UvA will be hosting the SAFI Conference. We warmly invite you to submit an abstract and attend the conference. This year’s conference theme is Reimagining Justice: Justice has long been a guiding principle in both law and philosophy, yet its realization within legal systems remains fraught with contradictions. While law enforces order […]

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Legal Philosophy Workshop – June 30-July 1 – University of Amsterdam

April 29, 2025

On June 30-July 1, at the University of Amsterdam, the 12th annual Legal Philosophy Workshop will take place. You can find the program and register here.

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ACLPA Annual Legal Ethics Symposium with W. Bradley Wendel – March 27, 2025 – University of Amsterdam

February 13, 2025

This instalment of the ACLPA Annual Legal Ethics Symposium will focus on W. Bradley Wendel’s latest book Canceling Lawyers. It aims to bring together both academics and practitioners to discuss the practice of “canceling” (or public shaming) of lawyers. Lawyers take pride in a professional tradition of representing unpopular clients, understanding it as a contribution to […]

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CFP: Legal Philosophy Workshop

February 4, 2025

Dear colleagues and friends, We are writing to announce the 12th annual Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW), and to invite you to participate. We are excited to host the 2025 workshop in-person on June 30-July 1 at the University of Amsterdam. LPW is an annual pre-read workshop designed to foster reflection on the nature of law […]

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VWR Wintervergadering (postponed Winter meeting) – 11/04/2025 – University of Amsterdam

January 9, 2025

The yearly VWR Winter meeting will take place at the University of Amsterdam on April 11, 2025. 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.” Eric Boot, Dorota Mokrosinska, Frank Hindriks, Élise Rouméas and Patrick Overeem will provide […]

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Maastricht Foundations of Law Colloquia-series with Professor Stefano Cattelan – “Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350-1650)” – 15/01/2025

January 9, 2025

Stefano Cattelan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) will present a paper on 15 January (16-18h) in the Maastricht Foundations of Law Colloquia-series (on-site and online). The paper is entitled: Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350-1650). More information on Stefano’s colloquium can be found here. More information on the Maastricht Foundations of […]

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Launch of the Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence – 23/01/2025 – Maastricht University

January 9, 2025

On 23 January 2025, the Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence (MCLJ) will officially be launched. The MCLJ is embedded in the Department of Foundations of Law of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. The Centre aims to promote excellence in research in the areas of legal philosophy, legal theory, (international) legal history and the intersection of these fields.  The public program of […]

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A conversation with Bonnie Honig on the defence of democracy- 6 February 2025 – Leiden University

December 12, 2024

In its special anniversary year, Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates. One of the three recipients is democratic theorist and legal philosopher Bonnie Honig. She was nominated to receive the honorary doctorate by Leiden Law School. The honorary supervisor is Bastiaan Rijpkema. On the occasion of the presentation of her honorary doctorate and […]

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ACLPA Legal Ethics Lecture Series (UvA) with Professor Sylvie Delacroix – “Lost in Conversation? Uncertainty, ‘value-alignment’ and Large Language Models” – 3 October 2024

September 17, 2024

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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