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Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence

Fostering scholarly dialogue and cooperation in legal theory and legal philosophy across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.

About the Network

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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Conference Sessions & Speakers

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CEENJ 2026 • Session I & II

General Jurisprudence

Chairs Tomáš Gábriš (S. I) / Timotej Práznovský (S. II)
  • Ivan Padjen

    Three Views of Law

  • Damir Banović

    Social Constructivism and Naturalization as Approaches of Understanding Social Reality: New Methodological Models to Understanding Law as a Social Phenomenon

  • Liliana Tymchenko

    System, Order, Social Construct: What Should a Student Know About Law?

  • Tomáš Gábriš

    Law After the Anthropocene: Samuel Pufendorf, Marietta Auer, and the Return to the Primacy of Duties

  • Anna Kryniecka-Piotrak

    Concepts of Social Individualism in 20th-Century Polish Philosophy of Law

  • Malwina A. Tkacz

    The A Priori and the Person: Reinach and Possenti on the Pre-Positive Grounds of Law

CEENJ 2026 • Session III & IV

Legal History and Artifact Theory

Chairs Mikołaj Iwański (S. III) / Tomáš Gábriš (S. IV)
  • Stefano Fuselli

    "Oneself through the Other's Gaze: The Foundations of European Consciousness"

  • Federico Reggio

    Socrates under Trial in the Context of Turbulent Athenian Democracy

  • Rafał Mańko

    Nomostasis in the Light of Artifact Legal Theory

  • Timotej Práznovský

    How to Express Love in Legal Methodology? Oikonomia and Topical Legal Reasoning in Orthodox Canon Law

  • Piotr Eckhardt

    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

  • Anna Siemińska

    German Jurisprudence as a Synthesis of Roman Law and Classical Economy

  • Michał Pietrzak

    Reception as Sublation: A Hegelian Model of Legal Reception and the Migration of Kelsenian Constitutional Review

CEENJ 2026 • Session V & VI

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech

Chairs Timotej Práznovský (S. V) / Mikołaj Iwański (S. VI)
  • Claudio Sarra

    Legal Persuasion in the Age of AI

  • Mikołaj Iwański

    Is Claude's Constitution Law? Constitutional AI Through the Lens of Different Legal Philosophy Traditions

  • Igor Milinković

    Equality of Arms in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Procedural Fairness

  • Sára Kubiszová

    Can Law Preserve Human Agency? AI, Automation and the Future of Legal Subjectivity

  • Dawid Kostecki

    The Feedback Loop in Regulatory Impact Assessment: On the Need for Mandatory Ex Post RIA as a Condition of Rationality Sustained over Time

  • Adolfo J. Sánchez Hidalgo

    The Sublimation of Violence: Law, Authority, and the State

CEENJ 2026 • Session VII & VIII

Bioethics and Human Rights

Chairs Tomáš Gábriš (S. VII) / Mikołaj Iwański (S. VIII)
  • Tatiana Chauvin

    Euthanasia and End-of-Life Medicine as Bioethical Dilemmas: A Polish Perspective

  • Artūrs Šuspāns

    The Theory of Competing Principles in the Latvian Legal System: The Case of the in dubio pro natura Principle

  • Marek Káčer

    Incrementalism as a Driver of the Slippery Slope in Legal Debates on Socio-Cultural and Moral Issues

  • Kinga Majchrzak-Telega

    Legal and Bioethical Challenges of Posthumous Reproduction in Modern Armed Conflicts

  • Tatiana Machalová & Martin Bukovič

    Discriminatory Job Advertisements on the Grounds of Sex and Age as an Obstacle to Equal Access to Employment

  • Ivana Tucak

    Rethinking Mahlmann's Concept of Group Rights: Can Group Rights Be Reduced to Individual Rights?

  • Liudmila Ulyashyna

    Human Rights Defenders and the Rule of Law: Reassessing International Legal Subjectivity and the Role of Civil Society in Implementation

CEENJ 2026 • Session IX & X

Public Law, Judiciary and Procedure

Chairs Timotej Práznovský (S. IX) / Tomáš Gábriš (S. X)
  • Tanasije Marinković

    Trends in Constitutional Law Studies: Substance, Methodology, Deontology

  • Đorđe Marković

    Awakening of the Paper Tiger After Constitutional Court of Serbia Between Hibernation and Activism

  • Jānis Pleps

    Judicial Resilience in Uncertain Times: Perspectives from the Baltic States

  • Juris Matisans

    Policing as the Boundary Between Law and Violence

  • Bohumil Peterka

    Grey Zones of Freedom of Expression: Complex Symbols, Historical References and Controversial Opinion Statements

  • Ērika Gribonika

    "The Marginalization of the Trial Stage in Criminal Proceedings and Its Implications on the Fundamental Principles of Criminal Proceedings - Publicity, Immediacy, and Orality"

  • Harald Christian Scheu

    Vulnerability and Freedom of Expression: Rethinking the Protection of Minorities against Hate Speech in International Human Rights Law

CEENJ 2025 • Session I

Human Dignity, Vulnerability, and Socio-Philosophical Justice

Moderator Ivana Tucak
  • Harald Christian Scheu (Charles University in Prague, Czechia)

    The Ontology of Vulnerability in the Context of International Human Rights Protection

  • Ivan Padjen (University of Rijeka, University of Zagreb, Croatia)

    Social Security: Balancing Labour and Capital with Nature by Law

  • Tatiana Chauvin (University of Warsaw, Poland)

    Philosophical Anthropology as a Model of Human Legal Subjectivity

CEENJ 2025 • Session II

Rule of Law and Democratic Resilience in Europe

Moderator Liliana Tymchenko
  • Liudmila Ulyashyna (European Humanities University, Lithuania)

    Upholding the Rule of Law: The Role of Academia in Preparing Lawyers under the New CoE Convention

  • Jānis Pleps & Artūrs Šuspāns (University of Latvia / Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

    '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

  • Mikołaj Iwański (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

    Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Restoring Rule of Law in Poland After the Period of Democratic Backsliding (2015-2023)

  • Dace Sulmane, Darijus Beinoravičius, Silvia Kaugia

    Drafting Laws in Baltic States: Rational Legislator in Practice

CEENJ 2025 • Session III

Foundations of State and Constitutional Authority

Moderator Liudmila Ulyashyna
  • Liliana Tymchenko (European Humanities University, Lithuania)

    From Criteria to Conditions: Rethinking Statehood in Contemporary International Legal Doctrine

  • Stefano Fuselli (University of Padua, Italy)

    Political Obligation: Restating from Plato's "Crito"

  • Aleksandar Cvetković (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

    Post-Sovereign Democratic Constitution-Making - Transformation of the Concept of Constituent Power

  • Ieva Deviatnikovaitė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)

    Legacy of Mykolas Romeris: Between National and International Jurisprudence

CEENJ 2025 • Session IV

Law in the Digital and AI Era

Moderator Tanasije Marinković
  • Claudio Sarra (University of Padua, Italy)

    Digital "Fairness": Between Impossibility and Necessity

  • Tomáš Gábriš (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)

    Smart Legislation: Principles of Law-Making for Technology Regulation

  • Igor Milinković (University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

    Traditional Legal Styles in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Toward Accelerated Legal Globalization?

CEENJ 2025 • Session V

Legal Reasoning on Identity and Human Rights

Moderator Tatiana Chauvin
  • Tanasije Marinković (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

    Turning a Blind Eye to the Intersection of Religion and Gender in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

  • Ivana Tucak & Anita Blagojević (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia)

    Law and Emotion: The Role of Pathos in Constitutional Decisions Regarding the Right to Abortion

  • Tatiana Machalová & Martin Bukovič (Masaryk University, Czechia)

    The Sterilization Requirement for Legal Gender Change through the Lens of a Discrimination Test

CEENJ 2024 • Session 1

Jurisprudential Metascience

Chair Bojana Čučković
  • Ivan Padjen

    The Law and a Right: The Non-Use and Overuse of Philosophy

  • Isabel Trujillo

    The Legal Virtue of Reflexivity

  • Gülriz Uygur & Nadire Özdemir

    Applied Philosophy of Law: New Name for Old Works

  • Anton Didikin

    Between Naturalism and Legal Interpretation: Modern Debates on the Nature of Legal Realism

CEENJ 2024 • Session 2

Rule of Law

Chair Nina Kršljanin
  • Marijan Pavčnik

    Argumentative Nature of the Rule of Law Argument

  • Jasminka Hasanbegović

    Sovereignty of Law as Postema's Element of the Rule of Law-Critically Reconsidered and Specified

  • Igor Milinković

    Some Thoughts on Jeremy Waldron's Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Low

  • Matija Žgur

    Infra-Law, Nudging, and the Rule of Law: A Challenging Relationship

CEENJ 2024 • Session 3

Democracy

Chair Tanasije Marinković
  • Jin-Sook Yun

    Democracy in Korea at the Edge of History

  • Zoran Oklopcic

    Some Inconvenient Thoughts on The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and Its Scholarly (Re) Production

  • Aleksandar Cvetković

    We the People Who Are Sovereign: Challenges to the Classic Concept of Constituent Power

CEENJ 2024 • Session 4

Justice in Contracts

Chair Bojana Čučković
  • Giovanni Tuzet

    Is This Caravaggio Caravaggio's?- On Property Rights, Contracts, and Productive Information

  • Petra Stanojević

    Regulating Modern Innominate Contracts - How, Why, and When

  • Matheus Garcia Drawin

    The Importance of Rawls's Social Contract for the Foundation of Law and Its Procedure

CEENJ 2024 • Session 5

Law-Technology

Chair Bojana Čučković
  • Claudio Sarra

    Is There a 'Dignity' for the Datafied Human Being?

  • Denitza Toptchiyska

    Philosophy and Theory of Freedom and Empowerment in the Digital Environment

CEENJ 2024 • Session 6

Justice in Theory

Chair Nina Kršljanin
  • Stefano Fuselli

    'Otherness' and 'Good' in Aristotle's General Justice

  • Vassilis Voutsakis

    The Political Function of the Right to Do Wrong

  • Konstantinos Farmakidis-Markou

    A Cosmopolitan Duty to Naturalize Aliens?

  • Sofya Koval

    Late Stage of Ronald Dworkin's Philosophy of Law and Legal Eliminativism

  • Olcay Karacan

    Narratives and the Quest for Justice: Sharing Experiences in Legal Education

  • Monika Zalewska

    Four Paradigms of Kelsenism

CEENJ 2024 • Session 7

Justice in Practice

Chair Tanasije Marinković
  • Tatiana Machalová & Martin Bukovič

    Affirmative Action as a Means to Achieve Equality? A Critique of Theoretical Approaches Defending Affirmative Action

  • Šejla Imamović

    Justiciability of Environmental Post-KlimaSeniorinnen Claims

  • Milica Novaković

    Right of Access to Court: A Brief History of an Unwritten Right

CEENJ 2024 • Session 8

Justice in Action

Chair Bojana Čučković
  • Tanasije Marinković

    Judicial Culture After Communism

  • Tadeusz Zembrzuski

    The Crisis of the Judiciary System in Poland - Searching for Solutions or Stagnation in Jurisprudence?

  • Jolanta Bieliauskaitė

    Jurisprudence and the Changing Landscape of Legal Professions

  • Đorđe Marković

    Resurrection of Old Legal Acts, Determination of Decision-Making Standard, and the Responsibility of Constitutional Courts: Serbian Constitutional Court in Action

Annual Conferences

CEENJ Annual
Conference 2026

Latest

Date: September 10–12, 2026

Location: Faculty of Law, Trnava University in Trnava, Slovakia

Topic: Work in Progress (APVV-22-0079 Project)

  • Anthropocene, Duties & Natural Law
  • AI, Algorithmic Bias & Procedural Fairness

CEENJ Annual
Conference 2025

Archive

Date: September 18–20, 2025

Location: Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), Vilnius, Lithuania

Topic: Two Decades of CEENJ

  • Human Dignity & Vulnerability
  • Rule of Law & Democratic Resilience
  • Law in the Digital and AI Era

CEENJ Annual
Conference 2024

Archive

Date: October 11–12, 2024

Location: Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Topic: Jurisprudence & Law-Technology

  • Jurisprudential Metascience
  • Law-Technology & Digital Empowerment
  • Judicial Culture After Communism

CEENJ 2026 Organizers & Steering Committee

Organizing team for the 2026 Annual Conference at Trnava University

Co-Organizer

Prof. PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Gábriš, PhD.

Trnava University / Slovak Academy of Sciences

Co-Organizer

Dr. Mikołaj Iwański

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Coordinator

Mgr. Timotej Práznovský

Trnava University, Slovakia

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