Sweden
The Swedish Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Nicola Lucchi
Nicola Lucchi is Associate Professor (docent) and Senior Lecturer in law at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, where he is also an affiliated researcher with the Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC). He holds a doctoral degree in law from the University of Padua where he defended his dissertation The Role of Law in the Regulation of Technologies and Innovations in 2011. He also holds a degree in law and a postgraduate certificate in EU Law from the University of Ferrara.
Prior to moving to Sweden, Lucchi was EU Marie Curie post-doc Fellow Researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and a research associate (‘assegnista di ricerca’) at the University of Ferrara. His research interests focus on information law and policy and the interaction between law and innovation. His current research agenda centers on the impact of scientific and technological developments on fundamental legal rights. In particular, he is engaged in a research project devoted to the study of the relevant problems in the legal sphere, created and generated by recent advances in science and technology.
Lucchi’s publications include Digital Media and Intellectual Property (Springer, 2006), Informatica per le Scienze Giuridiche [Legal Informatics] (Cedam, 2009, 6th ed., co-autored), I contenuti digitali: tecnologie, diritti e libertà [Digital Content: Technology, Rights and Freedoms] (Springer, 2010), and Biotech Innovations and Fundamental Rights (Springer, 2012, co-edited). He is currently at work on a book investigating a series of cutting-edge contemporary and controversial case-studies where scientific and technological issues intersect with individual legal rights.
Contact: nicola.lucchi@ju.se
Announcements
- Programme, spring 2019, for the joint Uppsala and Stockholm Seminar in Philosophy of Law
- The IVR 29th world congress, "Dignity, Democracy Diversity", issues a CfP. Deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2018. The congress is held in Lucerne, 7-13 July 2019.
- A PhD dissertation defence of interest in Philosophy of Law at Stockholm University on October 12, 2018: Jasmina Nedevska Törnqvist, Why Care About Future People’s Environment?
- Call for Papers to The Finnish-Swedish PhD Conference on Legal Reasoning, in Finland, December 7-8, 2018
- Conference at Stockholm University, November 13-15, 2018 (information in Swedish), in regard to the forthcoming book The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism
- Moa Lidén defends her PhD dissertation Confirmation Bias in Criminal Cases in Uppsala on September 28, 2018..
- Call for Papers for the 29th IVR World Congress "Dignity, Democracy, Diversity", taking place in Lucerne, Switzerland, July 2019, is now out. Deadline 31 December 2018.
- The IVR Sweden Annual Meeting 2018 is held May 14-15, 2018, in Lund. You are very welcome to attend, please register here (participants are responsible for travel and lodging). Read the programme (in Swedish).
- The 29th IVR World Congress "Dignity, Democracy, Diversity" will take place in Lucerne, Switzerland from 7-13 July 2019.
- On August 24th 2017 the conference "Evidence, Disagreement & Rights" will take place at Uppsala University. Contact and registration: Sebastian Reyes Molina.
- Sebastián Reyes Molina has been appointed treasurer in IVR Sweden.
- The XXVIII IVR World Congress will be held in Lisbon 17-21 July 2017
- The next annual conference of IVR Sweden will be held in Karlstad on 8-9 May 2017. Read the programme.
- The section in Philosophy of Law of the Philosophy Days 2017 in Uppsala is now open. Send your abstract before April 15 to present your research in August 2017. Read more on registration and abstracts.
- IVR XXVIIIth World Congress originally planned in Istanbul will not take place. See Letter by the President of International IVR.
- Special issue published on European New Legal Realism in Retfaerd Nordic Journal of Law and Justice (Vol. 39, No 4, 2016) ed. Elisabeth Eneroth
- Filosofidagarna, a major event for philosophers in Sweden, will be held in Uppsala on 25-27 August 2017. We are launching a section of Philosophy of Law! Brian Leiter will give the key-note. Call for abstracts will be online soon, you are very welcome to present your research at this event.
- Two new PhD students in Philosophy of Law are starting in 2017 at The Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University: Elena Prats and Tommaso Braida will work in the project Civis Sum.
- Two new doctoral students started working in Jurisprudence at Gothenburg University: Kristina Hultegård and David Jivegård.
- (NB cancelled, see announcement above) Next IVR World Congress is scheduled to be held in Istanbul 17-21 July 2017. IVR Sweden has issued a communication that has been sent to the International IVR.