CfP: 1st CALSP Student Conference

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.

Book promotion: Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity: Challenges to the European Union and Western Balkans

The international conference “Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity: Challenges to the European Union and Western Balkans” will be held on November 4, 2022, starting at 3:30 pm CET at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb (Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, hall IV).

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences, and the Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and the State (Croatian IVR section).

For remote online participation, please contact mario.kresic@pravo.hr

Extensive information and the Conference program can be found here.

Online book promotion: The Artifactual Nature of Law

The International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) and its Croatian section are pleased to announce that the promotion of the first book in the IVR book series, L. Burazin, K. E. Himma, C. Roversi, P. Banaś (eds.), The Artifactual Nature of Law (Edward Elgar 2022), will be held on October 17, at 7 pm (CET) at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88900107243?pwd=UUQ2QXVjNEZZNFgzQWpDNlk1cVlCdz09

Speakers include: Mortimer Sellers (IVR book series co-editor), Kenneth E. Himma and C. Roversi (co-editors of the book), Michael Giudice and Giovanni Tuzet (book reviewers). 

Forthcoming Seminar: Kenneth E. Himma (USA), Practical Authority as a Source of Reasons to Comply

28 June 2022: Kenneth E. Himma (Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb) – Practical Authority as a Source of Reasons to Comply (classroom V, Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, 12:00h – 13:30h)

The seminar is organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, Zagreb Legal Theory Group and Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State.

CfP: 9th Student Conference in Theory, Philosophy and Sociology of Law

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.

Forthcoming Seminar: Victor Garcia Yzaguirre (Chile), Antecedent of norms and implicit exceptions. An Analysis proposal.

9 July 2022: Victor Garcia Yzaguirre (Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile) – Antecedent of norms and implicit exceptions. An Analysis proposal.

The seminar is organised by the Department of Theory of Law and the State, Faculty of Law, University of Split.

(Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ndx-upov-spi, 6:00-7:00 PM)

CEE Forum 2022 Budapest – Call for Papers

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.