CfP: 17th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists

17th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists will take place on 25-26th September 2025 in Split, Croatia. The conference is aimed at students, PhD students as well as young post-docs and professors coming from all over the world (not only from Central and Eastern Europe).

The conference language is English. If you wish to participate, please send an abstract of about 300-500 words at ceeforum2025@pravst.hr by 10 June 2025.

A detailed CfP can be found here.

CfP: CEENJ 2025

The 2025 (CEE)NJ (Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence) Conference is to take place at the premises of the Mykolas Romeris University in VIlnius (Lithuania), Faculty of Law on September 18-20, 2025.

The topic of the the 2025 CEENJ conference is “Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe: Work in Progress 2025”.

Contributions to the whole gamut of jurisprudential issues, from legal philosophy and theory to social, psychological, economic or other theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and empirical (historical, sociological, economic, etc.) studies of law with a strong conceptual content are also acceptable. The 2025 CEENJ Conference will also be open to participants working and/or residing outside the European area.

The deadline for submitting applications is June 15, 2025.

For more detail, see please see the official Call for Papers.

The Second Legal Reasoning Conference (April 4th 2025)

The Second Legal Reasoning conference, organized by the Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (CALSP) and Zagreb Faculty of Law, will be held in Zagreb on April 4th 2025, 2:30pm-6:30pm, Zagreb Faculty of Law, Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, Room 3. For more information please see the attached conference programme.

K. E. Himma, The Practical Otiosity of Exclusionary Reasons

K. E. Himma (Legal Theory Department, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb) published The Practical Otiosity of Exclusionary Reasons in the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 37(2) 2024, pp. 457 – 473

Abstract

One of Joseph Raz’s most influential contributions to legal philosophy is the Exclusionary Thesis, according to which any prescription that counts as mandatory is identical with an exclusionary reason that bars acting on certain reasons favoring noncompliance. This essay argues that exclusionary reasons are otiose in the sense there is no deliberative work they are ever needed to do under objective norms of practical reasoning.

J. v. H. Holtermann, M. Krešić, M. Novak (eds.), Legal Consciousness (Springer 2025)

The book is based on presentations and discussions at the special workshop “The Concept of Legal Consciousness” held in Bucharest, Romania, on 7 July 2022, as part of the 30th Biennial World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). The workshop focused on the importance of this concept for legal theory, legal sociology and legal psychology (“psychology and law”). The book consists of fourteen contributions, divided into four thematic parts, dealing with the following topics: the concept of law, the methodology of legal science, the role of legal consciousness in legal theory and legal sociology, adjudication, constitutionalisation, modification of the legal system and deliberate normative change.

Raspisan natječaj za asistenta iz teorije prava na PF u Osijeku

Obavijest o natječaju objavljena je na: https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/oglasi/o8389173.html

Burazin, Keršić, Kritička analiza Guastinijeva shvaćanja sukoba između ustavnih prava i tehnike odvagivanja

Objavljen je članak L. Burazin, M. Keršić, Kritička analiza Guastinijeva shvaćanja sukoba između ustavnih prava i tehnike odvagivanja, Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, vol. 45, br. 3, 491-517 (2024). Članak je dostupan na: https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php/en/clanak/467729

New Appointment to the Zagreb Legal Theory Department

The Zagreb Legal Theory Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Marianela Delgado Nieves as Research and Teaching Assistant in Legal Theory. Marianela graduated from UNAM (Mexico), obtained her master’s degree in evidential reasoning from the University of Girona (Spain) and University of Genova (Italy), and is currently doing her PhD on evidential reasoning at the University of Girona. Welcome to our Department, Marianela!

S. Relac, Unatražno djelovanje normi

Iz tiska je upravo izišla knjiga Unatražno djelovanje normi, autora Svana Relca, asistenta na Katedri za teoriju prava Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu i člana Zagrebačke grupe za teoriju prava. Znanstveni doprinos djela očituje se u izgradnji nove, podrobne tipologije različitih vrsta unatražnog djelovanja (retroaktivnosti) normi i utvrđivanju načina upotrebe pojma unatražnog djelovanja u okviru pravnog rasuđivanja. Knjiga se može kupiti u knjižari Pravnog fakultet u Zagrebu (https://webshop.pravo.hr/proizvod/unatrazno-djelovanje-normi/).

Forthcoming Seminar: Authentic Interpretation of Laws

4 December 2024: Gordan Struić (Croatian Parliament) – Authentic Interpretation of Laws: A Critique of the Constitutional Court Decision (Zagreb Faculty of Law, Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, room IV, 3rd floor, 4:15-5:45pm).

Commentator: Mario Krešić, Associate Professor (Zagreb Faculty of Law).

The Seminar is organized by the Zagreb Legal Theory Group and Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (Croatian IVR section).