Month: March 2021

Professor Lawrence Solum will be the speaker at the Project’s 1st Seminar “Judicial Character in Hard Times”

Professor Lawrence SolumWilliam L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law & Douglas D. Drysdale Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law will be the first speaker at the Project’s Seminar “Judicial Character in Hard Times” which will take place online on the 8th of April 2021 at 4 p.m. (16.00) CET via MS Teams.

The title of the lecture is: “Two Judicial Virtues for Hard Times: Judicial Lawfulness and Judicial Courage

To receive the link please write to seminar@virtuejurisprudence.pl.

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Judicial Character in Hard Times: On the role of judicial virtues and vices in defending the rule of law

Judicial Character in Hard Times: On the role of judicial virtues and vices in defending the rule of law


Online Seminar Series at the University of Gdańsk

In 2021 the Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law and State at the University of Gdańsk (Poland) cordially invites to the new series of online seminars devoted to the role of the judicial character in sustaining the independence of the judiciary and defending the rule of law. The initiative is part of a research project: Judges and virtues. A study in the aretaic theory of the judiciary financed by the Polish National Science Centre (2018/31/B/HS5/03181). 

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