16th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists will take place on 12-13th September 2024 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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 ceeforum2024@gmail.com by 30th of May 2024.

A detailed CfP can be found here.

Juraj Rogić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law), Legal Principles. The seminar will take place on March 6th, 2024, 2pm, Frankopanska 5a/2nd floor (Društvo sveučilišnih nastavnika).

The Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (CALSP/IVRCroatia) is organizing a new edition of a student conference in legal theory.

The 2nd CALSP Student Conference: “Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory andPhilosophy of Law, 2024” will be held in person at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb on May 3, 2024.
Contributions to a wide range of legal issues, from legal philosophy and analytic legal theory to social theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and historical, sociological, economic, etc., studies of law with strong conceptual, theoretical or philosophical content are also acceptable. Applications are open to all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and run until February 29, 2024.

Full text of the call can be found here.

The 2023 CEENJ (Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence) Conference is to take place at the premises of the University of Padova (Italy), School of Law, Department of Private law and Critique of Law; on September 21 and 22, 2023. 

CEENJ was founded in 2005. Previous conferences of CEENJ were held in Pécs (Hungary), Osijek (Croatia), Graz (Austria), Rijeka (Croatia), Maribor (Slovenia), Belgrade (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Skopje and Ohrid (Macedonia), Łódź (Poland), Brno (Czech Republic), Vilnius (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), Zagreb (Croatia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Warsaw (Poland).

The topic of the the 2023 CEENJ conference – as in previous editions – is very broad: “Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe: Work in Progress 2022”. The deadline for submitting papers is 10 July 2023.

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15th CEE Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists will take place on 14-15th September 2023 in Kraków, Poland.

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 cee.forum2023@gmail.com by 30th of June 2023.

A detailed CfP can be found here.

10th Student Conference in Theory and Philosophy of Law will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade on 13-14 November 2022 in a hybrid format. The topic of the Conference is “Law and Digital Technologies”.

The application deadline is August 20th 2023.

Please find here the extensive Call for Papers (in Serbian).

The Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (CALSP/IVRCroatia) is organizing a student conference in legal theory.

The 1st CALSP Student Conference: “Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory andPhilosophy of Law, 2023” will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb on May 5, 2023, with the possibility of online participation.
Contributions to a wide range of legal issues, from legal philosophy and analytic legal theory to social theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and historical, sociological, economic, etc., studies of law with strong conceptual, theoretical or philosophical content are also acceptable. Applications are open to all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and run until February 28, 2023.

Full text of the call can be found here.

The Annual Workshop is an intensive small two‐day event for those wishing to discuss Kelsen, the Pure Theory or the Vienna School of Jurisprudence, to be held on 3–4 April 2023 near Freiburg, Germany.

Application deadline: 30 November 2022.

Please find an extensive call for papers here.

9th Student Conference in Theory, Philosophy and Sociology of Law will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade on 2 December 2022. The topic of the Conference is “The Future of International Rule of Law”

The application deadline is September 1st 2022.

Please find here the extensive Call for Papers.

Aditionally, students are also invited to submit a paper, on the topic of their own choosing, for the journal Eudaimonia – Journal of Legal, Political and Social Theory and Philosophy.

The application deadline for submitting a paper is also September 1st 2022.

Legal Culture and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

The 14th CEE Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists Conference is to take place at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, on 6-7 October 2022.

We welcome contributions that engage these topics from a complex socio-legal perspective:

Theories of legal culture in Central and Eastern Europe

Characteristics of Central and Eastern European legal cultures

Experiences of periphery and its impact on social theory

Central and Eastern Legal Family: myth or reality

Experiences of Empire and Socialist law in Central and Eastem Europe

Central and Eastern European constitutional identities

We also welcome papers sharing a similar methodological focus on related topics for an open panel. The conference language is English. Please submit an abstract of 500-700 words vía EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/tconf-14thceeforumconferen no later than 10 July 2022. We will communicate acceptance of papers by 30 July 2022. If you would ike to participate without submitting a paper (but with meals and conference materials included) please contact us directly at the address below.

The conference fee for all participants is 100 EUR, which covers conference material, drinks and snacks during the breaks, as well as lunch meals. We kindly ask participants to make arrangements and pay for their travel and accommodation individually. We will distribute information on lodging and directions as well as payment instructions for the accepted participants via email and through the conference website.

After the conference, selected participants will be invited to submit their papers for publication in a volume of the conference proceedings, our Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal Political, and Social Theory Yearbook.

The conference is organised by the Bibo István College for Advanced Studies of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. The conference venue is the newly refurbished building of the College located in the centre of Budapest. All questions about submissions should be emailed to the conveners, Marton Matyasovszky Németh and Aron Fabian, to konferencia@bibokoll.elte.hu.

An extensive call for papers can be found here.