Maastricht Foundations of Law Colloquia

9 October 2024
Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson (University of Iceland) 
Title: The Boundary of a Legal System: The Significance of Norms of Legal Method for Answering the Membership Question

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30 October 2024
Monica Garcia Salmones (Maastricht University, Foundations of Law) 
Title: Now and Yet Not New: Principles of Global Law-Making in UNCITRAL Working Group III

6 November 2024
Henrique Marcos (Maastricht University, Foundations of Law) 
Title: Discretion in International Environmental Law

27 November 2024
Don Loeb (University of Vermont) 
Title: The (Im)possibility of Law

4 December 2024
Neil Walker (Edinburgh Law School) 
Title: The EU as a Utopian Project

15 January 2025
Adelheid van Luipen (Maastricht University, Foundations of Law) 
Title: Questioning rights of nature for a more-than-human world

5 February 2025
Eva Bernet Kempers (University of Antwerp) 
Title: Do rights of nature include animal rights?

18 September 2024
Marc de Wilde (University of Amsterdam) 
Title: Protecting Non-Christian Allies: 
Hugo Grotius’s Justification of Dutch Overseas Expansion in the East Indies

19 June 2024 
Lukasz Dziedzic (Maastricht University, Foundations of Law)
Title: Legal Personhood and Agency in the Age of the Rights of Nature

22 May 2024
Ulf Linderfalk (Lund University)
Title: The International Legal System as a System of Knowledge
This event was co-organized with the Globalization & Law Network

15 May 2024
Sebastian Reyes Molina (Maastricht University, Foundations of Law)
Title: A Matter of Pedigree: Judicial Review & Legal Interpretation

10 April 2024
David Duarte (University of Lisbon)
Title: Discretion: An Analytical Approach

20 March 2024
Hylkje de Jong (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Title: Disinheritance and passing over of heirs in late Byzantine law

13 March 2024
Giovanni Tuzet (Bocconi University)
Title: Can Machines Make Statements? On AI and Testimony 

28 February 2024 
Manon Moerman (Maastricht University, Foundations of Law)
Title: Normative hybridity in private partnerships: an exploration into the rules of conduct for business partners in early modern Amsterdam (1601-1791)

21 February 2024 
Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)
Title: The Law of an International Society - A Road Not Taken

7 February 2024
Hans Lindahl (Tilburg University, Queen Mary University of London)
Title: Political Reflexivity and Authoritative Lawmaking in the Anthropocene

31 January 2024
Andrej Kristan (Tarello Institute for Legal Philosophy, University of Genoa)
Title: Algorithmic Modelling of Norms Efficacy

13 December 2023
Michele Ubertone (Maastricht University, Department of Foundations of Law)
Title: Questions of Application

22 November 2023
Eline Couperus (Maastricht University, Department of Foundations of Law)
Title: The Freedom to conduct a business: searching for “Openness"

1 November 2023
Dirk Heirbaut (University of Ghent)
Title: Redefining Codification

11 October 2023
Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin's School of Law)
Title: The Collaborative Constitution

20 September 2023
Kenneth Ehrenberg (The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy)
Title: Moral Facts cannot Ground Legal Facts if Law is an Institution

21 June 2023
Tamar de Waal (University of Amsterdam)
Title: Unconditional Belonging: the case for welcoming refugees as if they will stay

31 May 2023
Stijn Smet (Hasselt University) In collaboration with the Montesquieu Institute
Title: How to Build Constitutional Resilience Against Democratic Erosion (by Populists)?

10 May 2023
Daniel Augenstein (Tilburg University)
Title: As Beyond So Below: European Sovereignty and Economic Globalisation

19 April 2023
Donald Bello Hutt (Universidad de Valladolid)
Title: The State and the Rule of Law

29 March 2023
Antonia Waltermann (Maastricht University)
Title: Can zombies make law?

15 March 2023
Prof. J. J. Moreso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Title: On the scope of the exclusion of "Razian" reasons