Tilburg Law School

Montesquieu Lectures

Tilburg Law School proudly hosts the annual Montesquieu Lectures since 2003, to commemorate its foundation in 1963, forty years earlier. Leading academics from all over the world are invited to deliver a lecture that, drawing on their area of expertise, approaches contemporary societal issues in a way that is accessible to the academic community, including but not limited to legal scholars and students.

Publication

The lectures, together with a response by a Tilburg Law School academic, are published in Open Access format, as of 2016, in the second yearly issue of the Tilburg Law Review.

Previous Lectures

 
YearLecturerTitle
2023Prof. Ralf Michaels“On the laws in their relation to the nature of the climate” – Climate Determinism and Comparative Law
2022Prof. Karen YeungThe New Public Analytics as an Emerging Paradigm in Public Sector Administration
2020 & 2021No lecture due to the Corona pandemic 
2019Prof. Saskia SassenPredatory Formations Dressed in Wall Street Suits and Algorithm Math
2018Prof. David KennedyLaw, Expertise and Global Political Economy
2017Prof. Boaventura de Sousa SantosThe Resilience of Abyssal Exclusions in Our Societies. Toward a Post-Abyssal Law
2016Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'imThe Spirit of Laws is not Universal: Alternatives to the Enforcement Paradigm for Human Rights
2012Neil WalkerIntimations of Global Law
2010Aharon BarakThe Jurisprudence of Aharon Barak
2009William TwiningGlobalisation and Legal Scholarship
2007Tom R. TylerPsychology and the Design of Legal Institutions
2006James Boyd WhiteWhen Language Meets the Mind: Three Questions
2004Brian. Z. TamanahaThe Perils of Pervasive Legal instrumentalism