Presentations and lectures

Conference organization

17 May 2019: ‘Recht en technologie: Vraagstukken van de digitale revolutie’ (30th anniversary conference, study association Mordenate College, Leiden).

Professional

At the 14th International Kant Congress (Gustav Stresemann Institute, Bonn, 9 September 2024). Picture by Alexander Schwitteck.

29 November 2025: ‘Immanuel Kant and Carl Schmitt on War and Hegemony in International Law’ (AjV/DGIR conference on Post Hegemonic International Law, Zürich).

20 June 2025: ‘Unjust Enemy or Enemy of All Humanity? Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Grotius and Carl Schmitt’s Rejoinder’ (conference on Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age, The Hague).

9 May 2025: ‘The International Legal Order and Its Critics: Immanuel Kant and Carl Schmitt on the Right to Wage War’ (workshop ‘Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy’, Leiden).

10 December 2024: ‘Kant on self-determination in international law’ (Winter School of the ECPR SG on Kantian Political Thought, Colchester).

At a workshop on Kant and Ordoliberalism (Walter Eucken Institute, Freiburg i.B., 6 December 2024. Picture by Alexander Schwitteck.

6 December 2024 (with Filip Lubinski): ‘Kant’s Theory of Law and Ordoliberal Competition Policy’ (NOUS/Walter Eucken Institute workshop on Immanuel Kant as an Inspiration for Ordoliberalism, Freiburg im Breisgau).

9 September 2024: ‘Self-determination in international law: A Kantian perspective’ (14th International Kant Congress, Bonn).

8 September 2023: ‘Revenge of the Schmitt: Star Wars and parliamentary democracy’ (GikII Conference ‘Dancing with the AI Stars: Legal Moves in the Rhythm of Technological Change’, Utrecht).

22 June 2023 (with Femke Klaver): ‘The EU and Russian Aggression: Perspectives from Kant, Hobbes, and Machiavelli’ (ESIL Doctoral Workshop ‘The EU’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives’, Leiden).

16 June 2021: ‘Free movement of British lawyers in the EU after Brexit’ (3rd Leuven-Edinburgh-Maynooth Brexit Seminar).

Popularizing

At a discussion with schoolchildren from The Hague on 125 years of the Hague Peace Conferences (The Hague Academy of International Law, 21 September 2024). Picture by Arnaud Roelofsz.

5 November 2025: ‘Het Internationaal Gerechtshof’ (lecture for student association A.S.V. Prometheus, Leiden).

21 September 2024: ‘Wat is het Vredespaleis?’ (event for children on 125 years of the Hague Peace Conferences, The Hague).

24 January 2024: ‘Wat Star Wars ons kan leren over het recht’ (lecture for student association A.S.V. Prometheus, Leiden).

14 April 2023: ‘Wat Star Wars ons kan leren over het recht’ (lecture for student association V.G.S.L. ‘Franciscus Gomarus’, Leiden).

19 December 2019: ‘The End of History: Fukuyama’s Afterparty’ (lecture for study association S.V. DIQIT, Leiden).

28 September 2017: ‘Wat Star Wars ons kan leren over het recht’ (lecture for study association Mordenate College, Leiden).