17th Annual Legal Research Network Conference

The Faculties of Law of the Universities of Bristol, Budapest (ELTE), Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen, Krakow, Lille, Roma Tre, Turku and Uppsala cordially invite researchers to the 17th annual Legal Research Network Conference on 23 and 24 September 2025. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Law of Roma Tre University (Italy).

Theme of the conference: Duties

The theme of the 2025 LRN Conference is Duties. Since the great revolutions of the XVII and the XVIII centuries, rights have dominated the legal discourse in the western world. Either individual or collective, constitutional, fundamental or human, rights dominate modern understandings of what actions are permissible and which institutions are just: “[r]ights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality. To accept a set of rights is to approve a distribution of freedom and authority, and so to endorse a certain view of what may, must, and must not be done” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

For the purpose of the call for papers, the theme Duties should be understood broadly. The deadline for the Call for papers is 7 January 2025.

For more information, you can contact Nynke Kleinenberg via n.kleinenberg-scheurer rug.nl.