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, 1st staircase, 5th 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“