Sebastian Lewis Events: Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Events

Here’s a list of events where I participate as a speaker, discussant or moderator

Upcoming Events

  • International Workshop for Elgar Handbook on Equity and Trusts, Miller & Samet (eds): Rome, October 2026. Presenting “Equity, Precedent, and the Rule of Law”
  • 2026 ICON-S Conference: Chairing Panel “Soft Law and the Rule of Law”, with presentations by Chiara Valentini, Aileen McHarg, Paolo Sandro, Oana Stefan, and Vincenza Falletti.
  • University of Pompeu Fabra’s Symposium on Judicial Precedent: 12 June 2026
  • Common Law Meets the Civil Law: General Jurisprudence Conference, Rutgers Law School, 4-5 June 2026.
  • Philosophical Discussions Between the Civil Law and the Common Law, ITAM / USC Gould, Mexico City, 28-29 May 2026.

Past Events

Presenting “Joseph Raz on the Rule of Law: A Critical Revision”

Presenting “Customary Law and the Limits of the Rule of Recognition”

  • Université Toulouse Capitole: Toulouse, 16 October 2025
  • Università Luigi Bocconi: Milan, 26 September 2025
  • Università Roma Tre: Rome, 25 September 2025
  • Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group: 30 April 2025
  • Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy: 19 March 2025

Keynote Lecture at Mexico’s Centre for Constitutional Studies (of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice)

  • “El Rule of Law y el Precedente Judicial”. Youtube video available here

Presenting Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP 2023)

  • Book Symposium at the University of Notre Dame Law School: 30 October 2024
  • Book Presentation at Mexico’s Centre for Constitutional Studies (Mexico’s Supreme Court): Mexico City, 29 May 2024. Youtube video available here
  • Book Colloquium at All Souls College, Oxford: 26 March 2023

Presenting “Grounding Equitable Powers”

  • Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (UNAM): Mexico City, 29 June 2024. Youtube video available here
  • 1st RECONNET Conference: Valladolid, 26 April 2024
  • Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group: Cambridge, 14 March 2024
  • Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez: Santiago Chile, 18 December 2023
  • Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy: Guildford, 29 November 2023
  • University of Notre Dame Conference on Constitutional Law: London, 21 September 2023

Oxford JDG Special Workshop on John Gardner

  • “On Gardner’s ‘Concerning Permissive Sources and Gaps'”: Oxford, 7 June 2024

8th International Conference on Constitutional Law, Mexico’s Centre for Constitutional Studies (Mexico’s Supreme Court)

  • “Precedente Vertical y Poder Equitativo”: Mexico City, 30 October 2022. Youtube video available here

Presenting “Towards a General Practice of Precedent”

  • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law: Freiburg, 1 July 2022
  • Maastricht Law & Philosophy Platform: Maastricht, 9 February 2022

Presenting “On the Nature of Stare Decisis”

  • International Workshop for Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (remote): 30 October 2022. Paper commented by Prof. Jeremy Waldron (NYU)

Conference Good Faith in Public Law (Oxford; online)

  • Comments on Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s Law and Leviathan, 23 September 2021

Presenting “Precedent and the Rule of Law”

  • Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group: Cambridge, 16 October 2020
  • UCL Jurisprudence Discussion Group: London, 6 June 2020
  • Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group: Edinburgh, 3 October 2019

I.CON-S Conference in Santiago, Chile

  • • Should Precedents Bind of Persuade? 3 July 2022
  • • Can Equity Constrain Constitutional Courts? 2 July 2022

Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group

  • Comments on Micha Gläser’s ‘Coercion as Public Incentive’, 7 March 2019. Youtube video available here