Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy

This new series of lectures has been designed to reintroduce Vienna as a node in international debates. 

Upcoming Events

• 27 April 2023, George Pavlakos (Glasgow University), "Kant’s Principle of Right as a Principle of Collective Freedom", lecture hall 1, Protestant Faculty, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 1^st staircase, 5^th floor, 6:30 pm.

Prior Lectures

• 30 March 2023, Anna-Bettina Kaiser (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), "Vom totalen Staat zur totalen Verfassung"
• 16 March 2023, William Scheuerman (Indiana University), "Hans Kelsen, Leo Strauss, and the Crisis of American Democracy"
• 16 December 2022, Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt), "Deep Disagreements: Contradicting Constitutions of Reality"
• 18 November 2022, Michaela Hailbronner (University Gießen), "Constitutional Disagreements or Institutional Failure? Legal Flexibility and Rigidity in Democratic Societies"
• 20 October 2022, Stephan Kirste (University of Salzburg), "Procedural Legitimation and Substantive Legitimacy in the current Crisis of Democracy"
• 19 May 2022, Andrei Marmor (Cornell Law School, New York), "Interpretation in Law and Elsewhere: Meaning, Object, and Truth"
• 05 May 2022, Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo (University of Helsinki), "How to study conceptions of personhood in law: The case of European privacy law"
• 28 April 2022, Katharina Isabel Schmidt (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und
  internationales Privatrecht Hamburg), "Free Legal Reasoning: A History"
• 7 April 2022, Yaniv Roznai, Ph.D. (Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University IDC Herzliya), "When the constitution is like a house: On metaphors in legal reasoning"
• 31 March 2022, Marie Luisa Frick (Universität Innsbruck), „Constitutional Law in the Pandemic: Contested Self-Images and Popular/Populist Appropriations”
  
• 20 January 2022, Alon Harel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  "On the Political Significance of Classifying Norms as Constitutional Statutory or Adjudicatory: A Political Theory of Legal Institutions"
• 19 November 2021, George Letsas (UCL University College London)
  "Balancing as a Legal Method: A Modern Myth"
• 14 October 2021, John Tasioulas (Oxford University)
  "Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Achieve the Rule of Law?"
• 8 October 2021, Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia) "Rules of Order"
• 30 September 2021, Matthias Jestaedt (University of Freiburg i. Breisgau)
  "Von Eigengesetzlichkeiten und Fremdgesetzlichkeiten: Interdisziplinärer Konzepttransfer in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft"
• 6 May 2021, András Jakab (University of Salzburg)
  "How to Establish the Meaning of Constitutional Principles"
• CANCELLED due to the current Coronavirus situation - 12 March 2020
  Frederick Schauer (School of Law, University of Virginia)
  "Rules of Order"
• 9 January 2020, Anna Gamper (University of Innsbruck)
  "'Geschriebene' Regeln der Verfassungsinterpretation"
• 28 November 2019, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (University of Surrey, UK)
  "Tracing Finnis’s criticism of Hart’s Internal Point of View: Instability and the ‘Point’ of Human Action in Law"
• 19 June 2019, Aditi Bagchi (Fordham University, School of Law, New York)
  "On the Boundaries of Normativism"
• 9 May 2019, Sylvie Delacroix (University of Birmingham) "A Social Artefact that Binds Us? Understanding Law and its Normative Force"
• 14 March 2019, Jiří Přibáň (Cardiff University)
  "Antinormativism and Legal Autopoiesis"
• 24 January 2019, Ino Augsberg (University of Kiel)
  "Die Normalität der Normativität"
• 29 November 2018, Oliver Lepsius (Chair for Public Law and Constitutional Theory, University of Münster)
  "Aggregatzustand der Normen"
• 25 October 2018, Stanley Paulson (Sometime Mercator Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel)
  "Normativity and Normativism"
• 21 June 2018, Torben Spaak (Professor of Law, University of Stockholm)
  "Legal Realism and Legal Reasoning: A Quasi-Realist Approach"
• 11 April 2018, Urška Šadl (Professor of Law, EUI-European University Institute, Florence) and Jakob v. H. Holtermann (Associate Professor, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen)
  "The Relevance of the Network Approach for Legal Studies: A Letter from Europe"
• 22 March 2018, Anne van Aaken (Professor of Law and Economics, Legal Theory and Public International Law, University of St. Gallen)
  "The Concept of Law revisited: An Essay in Descriptive Psychology"
• 18 December 2017, Peter Koller (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
  "Die Bedeutung moralischer Tugenden im Feld des Rechts: Braucht das Recht tugendhafte Menschen?"
• 18 May 2017, Dieter Grimm (Professor of Public Law, HU Berlin)
  "Die demokratischen Kosten der Konstitutionalisierung - Der Fall Europa"
• 4 May 2017, Martin Loughlin (Professor of Public Law, LSE London School of Economics and Political Science)
  "Why read Carl Schmitt?"
• 23 March 2017, Mattias Kumm (Inge Rennert Professor of Law, NYU Law School; Research Professor of Global Rule of Law, WZB Berlin)
  "Rechtsherrschaft, legitime Autorität und globaler Konstitutionalismus"
• 1 December 2016, William Scheuerman (Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)
  "Carl Schmitt Goes Global?"
• 14 November 2016, Christoph Kletzer (King's College, London)
  "Primitives Recht - Über den Keim der Rechtsordnung"
• 31 May 2016, Dennis M. Patterson (European University Institute, Florence)
  „Global Economic Constitutionalism“
• 12 May 2016, Otto Pfersmann (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  „Dogmatik oder nicht Dogmatik, das ist hier die Frage. Zum Stand der Rechtstheorie/-Philosophie in Frankreich
• 6 April 2016, Michael S. Green (William and Mary School of Law)
  „Legal Monism and the Conflict of Laws“