Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy

 

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

The series is a joint venture of the Department of Legal Philosophy and the Institute for Austrian and European Public Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

 

Upcoming events

• 20 January 2022, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Alon Harel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  "On the Political Significance of Classifying Norms as Constitutional Statutory or Adjudicatory: A Political Theory of Legal Institutions"

 

Prior lectures

• 19 November 2021, 2:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  George Letsas (UCL University College London)
  "Balancing as a Legal Method: A Modern Myth"
• 14 October 2021, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  John Tasioulas (Oxford University)
  "Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Achieve the Rule of Law?"
• 8 October 2021, 2:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia)
  "Rules of Order"
• 30 September 2021, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Matthias Jestaedt (University of Freiburg i. Breisgau)
  "Von Eigengesetzlichkeiten und Fremdgesetzlichkeiten: Interdisziplinärer Konzepttransfer in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft"
• 6 May 2021, 6:00 pm, Zoom-Conference
  András Jakab (University of Salzburg)
  "How to Establish the Meaning of Constitutional Principles"
• CANCELLED due to the current Coronavirus situation -                                                                          12 March 2020, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Frederick Schauer (School of Law, University of Virginia)
  "Rules of Order"
• 9 January 2020, 6:00 pm, Juridicum, SEM 61
  Anna Gamper (University of Innsbruck)
  "'Geschriebene' Regeln der Verfassungsinterpretation"
• 28 November 2019, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  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, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Aditi Bagchi (Fordham University, School of Law, New York)
  "On the Boundaries of Normativism"
• 9 May 2019, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Sylvie Delacroix (University of Birmingham)
  "A Social Artefact that Binds Us? Understanding Law and its Normative Force"
• 14 March 2019, 6:00 pm, Juridicum, SEM 51
  Jiří Přibáň (Cardiff University)
  "Antinormativism and Legal Autopoiesis"
• 24 January 2019, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Ino Augsberg (University of Kiel)
  "Die Normalität der Normativität"
• 29 November 2018, 6:30 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Oliver Lepsius (Chair for Public Law and Constitutional Theory, University of Münster)
  "Aggregatzustand der Normen"
• 25 October 2018, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Stanley Paulson (Sometime Mercator Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Kiel)
  "Normativity and Normativism"
• 21 June 2018, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Torben Spaak (Professor of Law, University of Stockholm)
  "Legal Realism and Legal Reasoning: A Quasi-Realist Approach"
• 11 April 2018, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  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, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  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, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Peter Koller (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
  "Die Bedeutung moralischer Tugenden im Feld des Rechts: Braucht das Recht tugendhafte Menschen?"
• 18 May 2017, 5:00 pm, Event Center, Constitutional Court of Austria (VfGH)
  Dieter Grimm (Professor of Public Law, HU Berlin)
  "Die demokratischen Kosten der Konstitutionalisierung - Der Fall Europa"
• 4 May 2017, 6:00 pm, HS 1, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 5^th floor
  Martin Loughlin (Professor of Public Law, LSE London School of Economics and Political Science)
  "Why read Carl Schmitt?"
• 23 March 2017, 6:00 pm, WU D3.0.218
  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, 6:00 pm, top floor Juridicum
  William Scheuerman (Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington)
  "Carl Schmitt Goes Global?"
• 14 November 2016, 5:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2^nd staircase, 4^th floor
  Christoph Kletzer (King's College, London)
  "Primitives Recht - Über den Keim der Rechtsordnung"
• 31 May 2016, 6:00 pm, WU TC 3.21
  Dennis M. Patterson (European University Institute, Florence)
  „Global Economic Constitutionalism“
• 12 May 2016, 6:00 pm, WU, EA.6.026
  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“