Between June 28 and July 3, 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, will host the 32nd World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.
This is the most important international event in the field of legal philosophy.
Every two years, it brings together hundreds of university professors from many different countries and cultural backgrounds.
The Congress offers a unique opportunity to meet fellow scholars, to learn about ongoing initiatives and research projects, and also to present your own work and make yourself known within the academic community.
The Iuris Naturalis Societas—an international association of jurists dedicated to defending the legal and political transcendence of nature—is organizing a workshop focused on the relationship between law and nature.
In recent years, environmental awareness has revived the classical Rousseauian opposition between nature and culture. At the same time, approaches such as the so-called gender perspective, as well as certain forms of transhumanism—most notably in the work of the Israeli philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus—embrace an existentialist vision of the human being as “causa sui”: a self-creating subject who designs his or her own essence through unlimited freedom.
At first glance, it might seem that law has completely broken its ties with nature. Yet the idea of nature continues to gain strength across many fields, including law.
This workshop invites all proposals that help to reflect on the relationship between nature and law, with special attention to contributions that seek to reassess the normative force of the classical concept of natural law.