Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy

Upcoming Events

Prior Lectures

• 2025 06 26, Mike Wilkinson: "The end of the end of history, and the unfinished conjuncture of Europe" 

• 2025 01 08: Prof. Dr.Dr. Dietmar von der Pfordten (Georg August Universität Göttingen) provides the lecture on the topic "Recht als Vermittlung - Was das Recht ist und was es von anderen Sozial- und Kulturgebilden unterscheidet".

• 2024 11 06, Matthias Mahlmann (University Zürich) speaks about "Unwiderstehlich? Gerechtigkeit, Rechte und der neue Charme antidemokratischer Ideologien".

• 2024 01 29, lecture by Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, about "Judicial Dialogue and Constitutional Disagreements: Bridging the Gap"

• 2023 11 30, Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh, Law School) "Dworkin on Disagreement".

• 2023 06 15,  Adrian Vermeule (Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School), "Who decides? Monstrous government and the dangers of private power"

• 2023 06 01, Martin Loughlin (LSE Law School), "Enlightenment, Myth, and the Total Constitution"

• 2023 05 25, Roni Mann (Barenboim-Said Akademie Berlin), "The Dethroned Forum of Principle: Re-drawing the Power/Knowledge Matrix in Constitutional Theory".

• 2023 05 11, Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs (Princeton University), "Restoring Democracy Through International Law"

• 2023 04 27, George Pavlakos (Glasgow University), "Kant’s Principle of Right as a Principle of Collective Freedom".

• 2023 03 30, Anna-Bettina Kaiser (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), "Vom totalen Staat zur totalen Verfassung".

• 2023 03 16, William Scheuerman (Indiana University), "Hans Kelsen, Leo Strauss, and the Crisis of American Democracy".

• 2022 12 16, Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt), "Deep Disagreements: Contradicting Constitutions of Reality".

• 2022 11 18, Michaela Hailbronner (University Gießen), "Constitutional Disagreements or Institutional Failure? Legal Flexibility and Rigidity in Democratic Societies".

• 2022 10 20, Stephan Kirste (University of Salzburg), "Procedural Legitimation and Substantive Legitimacy in the current Crisis of Democracy".

• 2022 05 19, Andrei Marmor (Cornell Law School, New York), "Interpretation in Law and Elsewhere: Meaning, Object, and Truth".

• 2022 05 05, Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo (University of Helsinki), "How to study conceptions of personhood in law: The case of European privacy law".

• 2022 04 28, Katharina Isabel Schmidt (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und
  internationales Privatrecht Hamburg), "Free Legal Reasoning: A History".

• 2022 04 07, Yaniv Roznai, Ph.D. (Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University IDC Herzliya), "When the constitution is like a house: On metaphors in legal reasoning".

• 2022 03 31, Marie Luisa Frick (Universität Innsbruck), „Constitutional Law in the Pandemic: Contested Self-Images and Popular/Populist Appropriations”.
  

• 2022 01 20, Alon Harel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  "On the Political Significance of Classifying Norms as Constitutional Statutory or Adjudicatory: A Political Theory of Legal Institutions".

• 2021 11 19, George Letsas (UCL University College London)
  "Balancing as a Legal Method: A Modern Myth".

• 2021 10 14, John Tasioulas (Oxford University)
  "Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Achieve the Rule of Law?".

• 2021 10 08, Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia) "Rules of Order".

• 2021 09 30, Matthias Jestaedt (University of Freiburg i. Breisgau)
  "Von Eigengesetzlichkeiten und Fremdgesetzlichkeiten: Interdisziplinärer Konzepttransfer in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft".

• 2021 05 06, 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".

• 2020 01 09 , Anna Gamper (University of Innsbruck)
  "'Geschriebene' Regeln der Verfassungsinterpretation".

• 2019 11 28, 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".

• 2019 06 19, Aditi Bagchi (Fordham University, School of Law, New York)
  "On the Boundaries of Normativism".

• 2019 05 09, Sylvie Delacroix (University of Birmingham) "A Social Artefact that Binds Us? Understanding Law and its Normative Force".

• 2019 03 14, Jiří Přibáň (Cardiff University)
  "Antinormativism and Legal Autopoiesis".

• 2019 01 24, Ino Augsberg (University of Kiel)
  "Die Normalität der Normativität".

• 2018 11 29, Oliver Lepsius (Chair for Public Law and Constitutional Theory, University of Münster)
  "Aggregatzustand der Normen".

• 2018 10 25, Stanley Paulson (Sometime Mercator Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel)
  "Normativity and Normativism".

• 2018 06 21, Torben Spaak (Professor of Law, University of Stockholm)
  "Legal Realism and Legal Reasoning: A Quasi-Realist Approach".

• 2018 04 11, 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".

• 2018 03 22, 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".

• 2017 12 18, Peter Koller (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
  "Die Bedeutung moralischer Tugenden im Feld des Rechts: Braucht das Recht tugendhafte Menschen?".

• 2017 05 18, Dieter Grimm (Professor of Public Law, HU Berlin)
  "Die demokratischen Kosten der Konstitutionalisierung - Der Fall Europa".

• 2017 05 04, Martin Loughlin (Professor of Public Law, LSE London School of Economics and Political Science)
  "Why read Carl Schmitt?".

• 2017 03 23, 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".

• 2016 12 01, William Scheuerman (Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)
  "Carl Schmitt Goes Global?".

• 2016 11 14, Christoph Kletzer (King's College, London)
  "Primitives Recht - Über den Keim der Rechtsordnung".

• 2016 05 31, Dennis M. Patterson (European University Institute, Florence)
  „Global Economic Constitutionalism“.

• 2016 05 12, 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" .

• 2016 04 06, Michael S. Green (William and Mary School of Law)
  „Legal Monism and the Conflict of Laws“.