The online seminar series "Judicial Character in Hard Times"

The online seminar series "Judicial Character in Hard Times" (part of the research project "Judges and Virtues", www.virtuejurisprudence.pl sponsored by the Polish National Science Centre, 2018/31/B/HS5/03181) at the Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law and State, University of Gdańsk continues in the winter semester of the academic year 2021/22. We have scheduled the following sessions in December. Please save the date!

1) December 2nd, 2021 (Thursday 4 p.m. CET), Keynote lecture "Courage as Judicial Virtue: A Realistic Approach", Prof. Iris van Domselaar (University of Amsterdam) LINK: https://bit.ly/judicialcharacter-keynote-5

2) December 9th, 2021 (Thursday 4 p.m. CET), Roundtable discussion: 

Prof. Leszek Leszczyński (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin) "Axiology and the Judicial Review of Administrative Activities. Is the (Polish) Judge
of Administrative Court Ready to Use Decisional Discretion?"

Prof. Jerzy Zajadło (University of Gdańsk) "Judicial Virtues and Internal Legitimacy of a Constitutional Court"

Assoc. Prof. Tomasz T. Koncewicz (University of Gdańsk) "We, the Court. We, the Judges. On the European adjudication in times of constitutional reckoning"

LINK: https://bit.ly/judicialcharacter-panel-1

3) December 16th 2021 (Thursday 4 p.m. CET), Roundtable discussion: 

Assoc. Prof. Mateusz Stępień (Jagiellonian University Kraków), "A developmental approach to judicial empathy"

Paweł Skuczyński, PhD (University of Warsaw), "Judicial virtues: tradition, social ontology and discursive competencies"

Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Widłak (University of Gdańsk); "Mapping the virtues of judicial independence"

LINK: https://bit.ly/judicialcharacter-panel-2