DUTIES 17th Conference of the Legal Research Network
(Bristol, Budapest (ELTE), Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen, Krakow, Lille, Roma Tre, Turku and Uppsala)
23 – 24 September 2025, Faculty of Law, Roma Tre University
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 the 23rd and 24th of September 2025. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Law of Roma Tre University (Italy).
Aim of the Legal Research Network Conference
The LRN conference aims at creating a stimulating research environment and a common space for senior and junior scholars to present and discuss international oriented legal research. The conference provides for the opportunity for especially PhD students and early career academics to present their research and discuss their ideas with academics from the different Universities of the Legal Research Network. The conference language is English. The conference will be organized in-person.
2025 Conference Theme
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 (below), the theme Duties should be understood broadly.
The Call for Papers can be found here.