Forthcoming events
- From Septermber 1st, 2025, I will be Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program,
Princeton University.
February 2026 "The Politics of Civic Maturity v The Politics of Justice", Bayle Centre for Law and Social
Policy, School of Law, University of Buffalo.
March 2026 "The Politics of Civic Maturity v The Politics of Justice", Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture, University of
Hull, UK.
April 2026 "Collective Akrasia as Grounding Collective Negligence: Aspirational Reasoning in Private Law", Workshop on "Collective Agency and Law", Georgetown Center for the Constitution, Georgetown
Law School.
June 2026 Women in Legal Philosophy Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
June 2026 Politics, Law and Philosophy Graduate Conference, commenting on Chadha-Sridhar's "The Legal Concept of Care", University of Oxford.
June 2026 Symposium on my book Responsibility for Negligence in Law and Ethics: Aspiration, Perspective
and Civic Maturity (OUP 2025), Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy, UK.
July 2026 Roundtable at the IVR World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Istanbul.
July 2026 "The Triumph of Athens Over Königsberg: Socratic Autonomy as a Meta-Principle in Bridging
Sovereignty and Perfectionism". Conference 'Autonomy and its Challenges', Max Planck
Institute, Freiburg.
September 2026 "Re-Examining Socratic Dialogue: Common Good and the Rule of Law", keynote at
the IVR Congress in Legal Philosophy, Ilhéus, Brazil.
October 2026 "Re-Examining Socratic Dialogue: Common Good and the Rule of Law"
Messina-Sao Paulo Rule of Law Forum (online).
Past Events
2024-2025
November 2024 "What the 'Common Good' is Not: The Architectonic of Good and Practical Reason in Law and
Politics", Workshop on Analytical Thomism, University of Princeton, USA.
January 2025 ITAM and USC, Philosophical Discussions Between Civil Law and Common Law, Mexico.
February 2025 Negligence as Akrasia, Fordham Law and Philosophy Colloquium, NYC, USA.
April 2025 Lecture Series: The Architectonic of Good in Law and Politics, University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil.
May/June 2025 Co-organiser of 3rd Annual Conference 'Women in Legal Philosophy', University of Illinois, USA.
July 2025 Seminar on "Benign Intentions", Centre for European Legal Studies on Macro-Crime, Ferrara.
August 2025 Keynote Speaker, Conference 'Agency and Law', University of Helsinki, Finland.
From 1st February to end of July, 2025, I will be Barbara Huber Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, University of Freiburg, Germany.
2023-2024
September 2023 Co-organiser of the Inaugural Conference "Women in Legal Philosophy" , University of Villanova,
Pennsylvania, USA. For further information, please follow this link:
https://collectivewlp.wixsite.com/home
October 2023 Commentator at the book launch of Melissa Lane's Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of
The Political (PUP, 2023). Gresham College, London. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clsgc/ivr/
October 2023 "Taking Akrasia Seriously", Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, University of Oxford.
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/jurisprudence-discussion-group/jurisprudence-discussion-group
November 2023 Seminar on Contemporary Natural Law, organised by the University of Navarra, Spain (online).
January 2024 Symposium on "Virtues and Law" (with Amalia Amaya, Antony Hatzistavrou and Noam Gur),
University of Hull, online (to be rescheduled). If you would like to attend, please contact me
at v.rodriguez-blanco@surrey.ac.uk
January 2024 Commentator of Michael Foran's Equality Before the Law (Bloomsbury/Hart 2023), University of
Glasgow.
May 2024 Lecture, University of Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy.
June 2024 Commentator of Josh Jowitt's Agency, Morality and Law (Bloomsbury/Hart 2023), University of Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival.
June 2024 "The Politics of Civic Maturity vs. The Politics of Justice: Reflecting on Bernard Williams' Separation
Thesis. Amsterdam Centre on the Legal Professions and Access to Justice, University of Amsterdam.
June 2024 Co-organiser of the Conference "Women in Legal Philosophy" at the University of Oxford, Faculty of
Law and Balliol College.
August 2024 "Criminalising Carelessness" workshop, Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany.
September 2024 Natural Law for Real Life Problems Conference, Budapest, Hungary
From 1st November, 2023 to end of April, 2024, I was fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Legal History and Legal Theory, University of Frankfurt.
2022-2023
October 2022 Symposium on my manuscript "The Grammar of Responsibility for Negligence in Law and Ethics: Aspiration, Perspective and Civic Maturity", University of Edinburgh.
October 2022 Seminar on Julie Dickson's "Elucidating Law" (OUP), Oxford Jurisprudence Group, University of Oxford. Please see above the YouTube video of the event.
October 2022 Workshop on Adrian Vermeule's "Common Good Constitutionalism", Harvard Law School, USA.
November 2022 Seminar " 'Everyone Did It and Believed It': Moral Ignorance, Wrongness and Responsibility for Negligent Actions that Arise due to 'Belonging to a Group'". Ludwig Maximilian-University of Munich, Current Research Topics in Practical Philosophy.
December 2022 Co-organiser (with Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov and Marie Newhouse) of the seminar "Women in Legal Philosophy" (confirmed speakers: Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov, Signe Larsen, Aness Webster and Kara Woodbury-Smith), University of Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy.
January 2023 Symposium on my manuscript "The Grammar of Responsibility for Negligence in Law and Ethics: Aspiration, Perspective and Civic Maturity", University of Manchester.
February 2023 Co-organiser (with Steve Bero and Ambrose Lee) of the workshop "Responsibility for Historical Wrongs: From Epistemology to Law". Guest speakers: Rima Basu, Herlinde Pauer-Studer and Gerald Postema, University of Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy (cancelled).
March 2023 Symposium on Scott Hershovitz's "Law is a Moral Practice"(HUP), University of Glasgow Legal Theory Group.
March 2023 Workshop on Endicott, Kristjansson and Lewis's "Philosophical Foundations of Precedent", University of Oxford.
April 23 Co-organiser (with Daniel Peixoto-Murata) of the workshop "Bernard Williams: From Responsibility to Law and Jurisprudence", University of Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. Click here to access details of the event.
June 2023 Workshop on Weinrib's "Reciprocal Freedom", University of Girona, Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy and University of Edinburgh (co-organisers Diego Papayannis, Claudio Michelon and Sandy Steel)
From October to December, 2022, I will be Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Philosophy Department (hostess: Prof. Monika Betzler).
2021-2022
Visiting Research Professor at the research project "Normative and Moral Foundations of Group Agency" (led by Prof. Herlinde Pauer-Studer), University of Vienna, January-June 2022. For further details, please follow this link: https://groupagency.univie.ac.at/team/herlinde-pauer-studer/
Workshop on "Practical Reason in Law: Unity and Fragmentation", Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, June 2022.
Workshop "Philosophy of Private Law", University of Girona, Spain, March 2022.
Conference in Honour of Juan Ruiz Manero, "Law's Empire and Principles", University of Alicante, March 2022.
Book Symposium "Lo Normativo: Variedad y Variaciones" by Jose Juan Moreso, February 2022, (online event).
Conference on the special issue of the journal Ancient Philosophy Today DIALOGOI:
"The Normativity of Law: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives", co-editor and co-organiser (with Antony Hatzistavrou), November 2021, online event.
Speakers: Amalia Amaya-Navarro, Chris Bobonich, Rene Brouwer, George Duke, Andres Rosler and Katja Vogt. Commentators: Amanda Greene, Antony Hatzistavrou, Alex Long, Anna Marmodoro, Jeff Pojanowski and Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco.
Analytic Philosophy Meets Legal Theory, Krakow, October 2021. Please follow the link below to see the details of this Conference: https://pjf.uj.edu.pl/aplt2021
Conference "The Legacy of John Finnis", Notre Dame London Programme, October 2021. Please follow the link below to see the details of the Conference: https://law.nd.edu/news-events/news/legacy-of-john-finnis/
Seminar Series in Law and Philosophy (online event), Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2021.
2020-2005
International Conference in Legal and Political Philosophy, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid pandemic).
Latin America Legal Studies Conference, Adolfo Ibañez Conference, Viña del Mar, Chile, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid pandemic).
Legal Theory Congress, Belem, Brazil, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid pandemic).
Vienna Legal Theory Lectures, University of Vienna, Austria, 2019.
Cambridge Doctoral Workshop in Legal Theory, Cambridge, UK (cancelled).
Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival, UK, 2019.
Book Symposium on Jovanovic's ' The Nature of International Law', IVR Congress, Luzern, 2019.
University of Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019.
University of Santa fe, Argentina, 2019.
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019.
University of Montevideo, Uruguay, 2019.
Legal PhilosophyWorkshop Series, University of Glasgow, UK, 2018.
Congress for Women in Legal Philosophy, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 2018.
University of Edinburgh, 2018. Edinburgh Festival of Legal Theory.
UCL, London, 2018.
Autonomous University of México (UNAM), México City, 2017.
University of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, 2017.
-University of La Sabana, Bogota, Colombia, 2017.
-University of Queen Mary, London, 2017.
-National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, 2016.
-University of Edinburgh, 2016.
-Queen Mary, University of London, 2016.
-University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2016.
-Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015.
-University of Navarra, 2015.
-Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), México City, 2015.
-University of Palermo, Italy, 2015.
-University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
-University of Krakow, Poland, 2015.
-University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2015.
-Warburg Institute, Medieval Philosophy Society, London , 2014.
-Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, 2014.
-University of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy, November 2014.
-University of Brasilia, August 2014.
-Pontifical University de Rio Grande do Sul, August 2014.
-Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, August 2014.
-University of Sao Paulo, August 2014.
-Pontifical Catholic University do Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, August 2014.
-University of Santa Catarina, August 2014.
-Federal University of Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil, August 2014.
-Monash University, Australia, June 2014.
-McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, May 2014.
-University of Friburg, Germany, May 2014.
-Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Oxford, 2014.
-University of Cajamarca, Peru, 2014.
-American Philosophical Association (Baltimore, USA, 2013).
-University of Loja, Ecuador, 2013.
-University of Chicago Law School, 2012.
-University of México, UNAM, 2012.
-University of Palermo (2012 and 2013)
-University of Hull, Philosophy Department, 2011.
-Autonomous University of Madrid, Philosophy Department, 2011.
-Royal Institute of Philosophy, Birmingham Branch (Workshop on ‘Free Will), 2011.
- Third Central and Eastern European Forum for Young Legal, Social and Political Philosophers, Belgrade, 2011.
-University of Paris-Nanterre, 2010.
-Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Oxford 2010.
-Edinburgh Legal Theory Festival, 2010.
-European University Institute, Florence, 2010.
-University of Antwerp, 2010.
-Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh, 2009.
-University of Girona, 2008).
-Yale Law School, 2008).
-Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics (Georgia State University 2007)
-University of Bristol, 2006.
-University of Toronto, 2005.
-University of Leicester, 2005.