Creativity in Legal Scholarship - seminar by prof. Wibren van der Burg, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Channel: Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory
Date: 2021-10-27

The seminar entitled Creativity in Legal Scholarship was conducted by prof. Wibren van der Burg (Erasmus University Rotterdam, School of Law) at the Faculty of Law, Administration, and Economics, University of Wroclaw, on October 11, 2021.  Prof. Wibren van der Burg studied law and moral philosophy. Since August 2008, he has been a professor of Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The central theme of his research and teaching is the interaction between law, ethics, and society. His research focuses on how law and politics should deal with the dynamics of cultural and religious pluralism. A second focus is on legal research methods as a hermeneutic, argumentative, and empirical interdiscipline. Since September 2014, he has been Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London, associated with the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context. From January until June 2011, he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Ethics of the University of Toronto. From September 2006 until June 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Human Values in Princeton, N.J.