Join us for a thought-provoking online talk: Monday, June 16, 2025, 17:00 CET Sebastián Reyes Molina Augmented Justice: A Case of Legitimate Authority Webex Meeting ID: 2740 354 4010 Password: 8JVy5kMAkm3 Sebastián Reyes Molina is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Law at Maastricht University. His research focuses on legal philosophy, epistemology, and metaethics. Don’t…
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On March 24th, 2025, Belgrade Legal Theory Group organized another event of the spring semester of 2025 with Elena Marchese (Bocconi University) on the concepts of truth and knowledge, as well as their application in asylum decisions. Marchese examined the interplay of truth and knowledge in asylum decisions, advocating for an integrated epistemic approach that…
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Join us for an engaging discussion with Professor Thom Brooks from Durham University’s Law School, as he presents his lecture: Is Penal Pluralism Possible? Defending a Unified Theory of Punishment 📅 Monday, March 31, 2025 ⏰ 17:00 CET 🌍 Online via Webex 💻 Meeting ID: 2741 909 5901 🔑 Password: DYmgDrAX645 Professor Brooks is a…
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Join us for an engaging discussion on truth and knowledge in asylum decisions with Elena Marchese! Speaker: Elena Marchese, Postdoctoral Researcher at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) Topic: Truth and Knowledge in Asylum Decisions Monday, March 24, 2025 17:00 CET Webex – https://pravni.webex.com/pravni/j.php?MTID=m650b72ffe6ac9669961bc3386674faf1 Marchese specializes in legal philosophy, with research interests in theories of truth, evidence,…
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On March 3, 2025, a new session of the Belgrade Legal Theory Group (BLTG) was organized with Virginia Mantouvalou as the guest speaker. She delivered a lecture titled “Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights”, which is exploring how legislative frameworks, despite being designed with prima facie legitimate aims, often create or reinforce exploitative structures that trap workers…
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On January 27, 2025, Stefanie Lemke, PhD, Founder and Director of the Rule of Law Initiative and elected Board Member and Secretary-Elect of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), delivered a guest lecture for the Belgrade Legal Theory Group (BLTG) titled “Law in the Books and Law in Action: Using Socio-Legal Methods to Support…
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Next meeting of the Belgrade Legal Theory Group within the ALF supported series of events will feature Professor Virginia Mantouvalou from University College London (UCL), where she is a professor at the Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Human Rights. The discussion will focus on structural injustice and workers’ rights, covering topics such as…
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Join us for the next Belgrade Legal Theory Group Meeting! 🗓 Monday, January 27, 2025 🕔 17:00 CET 💻 Webex – Meeting ID: 2743 477 0367 | Password: mRcPrQiy636 🎤 Speaker: Dr. Stefanie Lemke 📚 Topic: Law in the books and law in action: Using socio-legal methods to support and empower society to seek justice…
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The last meeting of the spring semester of 2024 Belgrade Legal Theory Group hosted Prof. Hrafn Asgeirsson (University of Surrey), who held a lecture on the topic “How Normative Functions “Shape” the Law: A Grounding Problem For Legal Positivism?” Prof. Asgeirsson focused on the issue of shaping the law by normative facts or functions based…
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Belgrade Legal Theory Group organized another event in the spring semester of 2024 with Prof. David Duarte (University of Lisbon), on the topic of deontic modalities. Prof. Duarte started by presenting Hohfeld’s schema of molecular and atomic rights, with different atomic legal positions and their logical relations. He outlined Hohfeld’s square of deontic modalities and…
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