Christoffer Wong

Christoffer Wong

Christoffer Wong is Doctor of Laws and Senior Lecturer in criminal law and criminal procedure at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, and has a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford a M.A. from the University of St. Andrews. A successful defence of the dissertation Criminal Act, Criminal Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice, which treated some general and specific problems concerning the role, functions and structure of criminal justice systems, awarded Wong his doctoral degree in 2004. His research interests include the philosophical aspects of the general part of criminal law and the philosophy and methodology of (legal) science. He is the webmaster of IVR (the international association) since 2001.


Contact: christoffer.wong@jur.lu.se


Announcements


- The annual meeting of IVR Sweden will take place in Linköping the 27th - 28th of August. Save the Date. More information to come. 


- Patricia Mindus is promoted to Professor of Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University, the first woman in that position since 1477 when the University was founded.


- Patricia Mindus publishes the book Hacia una teoría funcionalista de la ciudadanía


- IVR Sweden holds its annual conference in Stockholm, May 23-24, 2019. Read invitation and programme.


- The "Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism Conference 2" is held in i Stockholm on April 22-25, 2019. Read programme.

- 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