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
Prior lectures
- CANCELLED due to the current Coronavirus situation - 12 March 2020, 6:00 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th floor
Ino Augsberg (University of Kiel)
"Die Normalität der Normativität" - 29 November 2018, 6:30 pm, REWI-lecture hall, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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, 5th 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, 2nd staircase, 4th 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“