WG Social & Legal Systems

In the fall 2023, the then WG chair Germano Schwartz reached out to Stine to ask if she would be interested in taking on the role as chair of the WG Social and Legal Systems from him and Lucas Konzen. Germano and Stine know each other through the RCSL network, and they met in Lund for the RCSL Meeting 2023 where Stine organized and chaired panel sessions on systems theory and law.

Stine accepted Germano’s offer, and she asked her colleague Luisa Hedler from Copenhagen Business School to join her as co-chairs for the Working Group, which Luisa accepted. Luisa and Stine know each other through systems theoretical networks and RCSL meetings.

In the fall 2023, we formed the online-based Systems Theory and Law Reading Group which meets on monthly basis to discuss systems theoretical perspectives on law, involving, among others, academics from Denmark, the UK and Brazil. Under the auspices of this Reading Group, we have formulated a panel proposal for the RCSL Meeting in Bangor 2024 and look forward to chairing the panel sessions that will take place. We work with the purpose of keeping the Working Group active via regular online meetings and RCSL panel sessions, and through these activities reach out to potential members.

Written 18 of March 2024 by the co-chairs Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen, associate professor of sociology of law at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Luisa Hedler, post-doc at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

(About the WG Social & Legal Systems, see also the Archive Page from September 2006)

This page last updated 27 June 2024