Nordic Conference on Legal Method 2025
The Department of Law at Linnaeus University is delighted to host the Nordic Conference on Legal Methods between 14 May 2025 and 16 May 2025 at campus Kalmar, Sweden.
Legal methods have been discussed for a long time and are more relevant than ever. How do we deal with HRL, and with perspectives of gender and/or ethnicity? What about internal rules and contractual agreements within multinational companies? How do we address climate changes and AI, what is the rule of law and how deal with it? And globalization together with Migration, shared meetings with other legal traditions and cultures?
The aim of the Nordic Conference on Legal Method is to explore the concept of legal method, which entails the intricate process of identifying the appropriate legal principles to be applied to a given set of facts. What has traditionally been seen as a straightforward task, both history, theoretical analysis, and a discussion about values have shown that legal methods are far more complex than simply making decisions about how the law should be interpreted.
The conference commences by exploring trends in legal methodology in the Nordic countries, examining their evolution, identifying potential similarities, and subsequently exploring any differences. It also recognises the significant interplay between legal methodology and, more expansively, the interpretation of law within specific perspectives, such as place, time, space, and context.
Additionally, the conference is open to explore the concept of legal methodology across different fields of law, as well as understanding the multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and intradisciplinary boundary implications in other disciplines, with the intention of expanding the understanding of the implications of legal methodology.
This approach aspires to uncover shared patterns in these areas, revealing a more contemporary and forward-thinking approach to the role of law in our society, which should increasingly conform into a model of adherence to the rule of law as a universal principle, serving as the final benchmark for upholding democratic values.
We invite scholars and professionals to participate in the current and future debate inspired by, among other issues (listed alphabetically):
- Case-study.
- Comparative.
- Critical.
- Doctrinal/dogmatic.
- Empirical.
- Ethnographic.
- Experimental.
- Historical.
- In context.
- Interdisciplinary.
- Normative.
- Qualitative.
- Quantitative.
- Socio-legal.
- Transdisciplinary
Other methods to be analysed that are not listed above are, of course, very welcome. Note too that submissions are welcome that engage in a wholistic view of just one single method, or one-or-more methods.
Submissions from persons of all academic positions are welcome. Those that are at an earlier stage of their research endeavours, such as those at Ph.D./doctoral level, are particularly welcome.’
Keynote speakers
- Åsa Gunnarsson (Umeå University)
- Johanna Niemi (University of Helsinki)
- Eva-Maria Svensson (University of Gothenburg)
- Mauro Zamboni (Stockholm University)
- Hanne Petersen (University of Copenhagen)
Contact information
If you have any questions about the conference, please
email: legalmethods2025@lnu.se and you will be contacted by one of the organizing committee.
Organising committee:
Graham Butler, Visiting Professor of Law at Linnaeus University
Marie Karlsson Tuula, Visiting Professor in Civil law at Linnaeus University
Lotti Ryberg Welander, Senior lecturer and Ph.D. in Sociology of Law at Linnaeus University
About Linnaeus University
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Linnaeus University is located in Växjö and Kalmar and offers 150 degree programmes and 1,300 single-subject courses. Linnaeus University was e
stablished in 2010 through a merger between Växjö University and Kalmar University College.
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A sustainable event
Nordic Conference on Legal Method is a sustainability-assured meeting in accordance with Linnaeus University’s guidelines for sustainable events. These guidelines are linked to the 17 global goals in Agenda 2030 and comprise the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social, and the environmental.
Learn more about Linnaeus University´s sustainable events here.