CEENJ Annual
Conference 2026
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- Anthropocene, Duties & Natural Law
- AI, Algorithmic Bias & Procedural Fairness
Fostering scholarly dialogue and cooperation in legal theory and legal philosophy across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
The Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence (CEENJ) is an academic network established in 2005 to promote cooperation among legal theorists, legal philosophers, and other researchers interested in jurisprudence.
It brings together scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond, providing a forum for scholarly exchange on fundamental questions of legal theory and philosophy and on contemporary legal and societal challenges. Through its annual conferences, CEENJ supports the presentation of ongoing research, critical academic dialogue, and the development of lasting cooperation among scholars and academic institutions.
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Three Views of Law
Social Constructivism and Naturalization as Approaches of Understanding Social Reality: New Methodological Models to Understanding Law as a Social Phenomenon
System, Order, Social Construct: What Should a Student Know About Law?
Law After the Anthropocene: Samuel Pufendorf, Marietta Auer, and the Return to the Primacy of Duties
Concepts of Social Individualism in 20th-Century Polish Philosophy of Law
The A Priori and the Person: Reinach and Possenti on the Pre-Positive Grounds of Law
"Oneself through the Other's Gaze: The Foundations of European Consciousness"
Socrates under Trial in the Context of Turbulent Athenian Democracy
Nomostasis in the Light of Artifact Legal Theory
How to Express Love in Legal Methodology? Oikonomia and Topical Legal Reasoning in Orthodox Canon Law
A Surrogate of Ownership as a Trap: The Cooperative Member's Proprietary Right to an Apartment and the Prospects for a Revival of Member-Based Housing Cooperativism after 1989
German Jurisprudence as a Synthesis of Roman Law and Classical Economy
Reception as Sublation: A Hegelian Model of Legal Reception and the Migration of Kelsenian Constitutional Review
Legal Persuasion in the Age of AI
Is Claude's Constitution Law? Constitutional AI Through the Lens of Different Legal Philosophy Traditions
Equality of Arms in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Procedural Fairness
Can Law Preserve Human Agency? AI, Automation and the Future of Legal Subjectivity
The Feedback Loop in Regulatory Impact Assessment: On the Need for Mandatory Ex Post RIA as a Condition of Rationality Sustained over Time
The Sublimation of Violence: Law, Authority, and the State
Euthanasia and End-of-Life Medicine as Bioethical Dilemmas: A Polish Perspective
The Theory of Competing Principles in the Latvian Legal System: The Case of the in dubio pro natura Principle
Incrementalism as a Driver of the Slippery Slope in Legal Debates on Socio-Cultural and Moral Issues
Legal and Bioethical Challenges of Posthumous Reproduction in Modern Armed Conflicts
Discriminatory Job Advertisements on the Grounds of Sex and Age as an Obstacle to Equal Access to Employment
Rethinking Mahlmann's Concept of Group Rights: Can Group Rights Be Reduced to Individual Rights?
Human Rights Defenders and the Rule of Law: Reassessing International Legal Subjectivity and the Role of Civil Society in Implementation
Trends in Constitutional Law Studies: Substance, Methodology, Deontology
Awakening of the Paper Tiger After Constitutional Court of Serbia Between Hibernation and Activism
Judicial Resilience in Uncertain Times: Perspectives from the Baltic States
Policing as the Boundary Between Law and Violence
Grey Zones of Freedom of Expression: Complex Symbols, Historical References and Controversial Opinion Statements
"The Marginalization of the Trial Stage in Criminal Proceedings and Its Implications on the Fundamental Principles of Criminal Proceedings - Publicity, Immediacy, and Orality"
Vulnerability and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Protection of Minorities against Hate Speech in International Human Rights Law
The Ontology of Vulnerability in the Context of International Human Rights Protection
Social Security: Balancing Labour and Capital with Nature by Law
Philosophical Anthropology as a Model of Human Legal Subjectivity
Upholding the Rule of Law: The Role of Academia in Preparing Lawyers under the New CoE Convention
'Geopolitical Context' in the Application of the European Convention on Human Rights: Contributions of the Baltic States to the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Restoring Rule of Law in Poland After the Period of Democratic Backsliding (2015-2023)
Drafting Laws in Baltic States: Rational Legislator in Practice
From Criteria to Conditions: Rethinking Statehood in Contemporary International Legal Doctrine
Political Obligation: Restating from Plato's "Crito"
Post-Sovereign Democratic Constitution-Making - Transformation of the Concept of Constituent Power
Legacy of Mykolas Romeris: Between National and International Jurisprudence
Digital "Fairness": Between Impossibility and Necessity
Smart Legislation: Principles of Law-Making for Technology Regulation
Traditional Legal Styles in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Toward Accelerated Legal Globalization?
Turning a Blind Eye to the Intersection of Religion and Gender in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
Law and Emotion: The Role of Pathos in Constitutional Decisions Regarding the Right to Abortion
The Sterilization Requirement for Legal Gender Change through the Lens of a Discrimination Test
The Law and a Right: The Non-Use and Overuse of Philosophy
The Legal Virtue of Reflexivity
Applied Philosophy of Law: New Name for Old Works
Between Naturalism and Legal Interpretation: Modern Debates on the Nature of Legal Realism
Argumentative Nature of the Rule of Law Argument
Sovereignty of Law as Postema's Element of the Rule of Law-Critically Reconsidered and Specified
Some Thoughts on Jeremy Waldron's Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Low
Infra-Law, Nudging, and the Rule of Law: A Challenging Relationship
Democracy in Korea at the Edge of History
Some Inconvenient Thoughts on The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and Its Scholarly (Re) Production
We the People Who Are Sovereign: Challenges to the Classic Concept of Constituent Power
Is This Caravaggio Caravaggio's?- On Property Rights, Contracts, and Productive Information
Regulating Modern Innominate Contracts - How, Why, and When
The Importance of Rawls's Social Contract for the Foundation of Law and Its Procedure
Is There a 'Dignity' for the Datafied Human Being?
Philosophy and Theory of Freedom and Empowerment in the Digital Environment
'Otherness' and 'Good' in Aristotle's General Justice
The Political Function of the Right to Do Wrong
A Cosmopolitan Duty to Naturalize Aliens?
Late Stage of Ronald Dworkin's Philosophy of Law and Legal Eliminativism
Narratives and the Quest for Justice: Sharing Experiences in Legal Education
Four Paradigms of Kelsenism
Affirmative Action as a Means to Achieve Equality? A Critique of Theoretical Approaches Defending Affirmative Action
Justiciability of Environmental Post-KlimaSeniorinnen Claims
Right of Access to Court: A Brief History of an Unwritten Right
Judicial Culture After Communism
The Crisis of the Judiciary System in Poland - Searching for Solutions or Stagnation in Jurisprudence?
Jurisprudence and the Changing Landscape of Legal Professions
Resurrection of Old Legal Acts, Determination of Decision-Making Standard, and the Responsibility of Constitutional Courts: Serbian Constitutional Court in Action
Organizing team for the 2026 Annual Conference at Trnava University
Trnava University / Slovak Academy of Sciences
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Trnava University, Slovakia
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