This seminar provides a platform for academics and students from legal and related fields to explore the concept of agency, with a particular focus on legal agency. The seminar serves two key purposes: fostering discussions on research related to agency and providing a space for LEGACY researchers to share updates on their ongoing work as the project progresses. Presentations are typically delivered in English.
When and Where?
Seminars take place several times a year and are announced separately.
Participants are welcome to attend in person at the University of Helsinki or virtually via Zoom.
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January 26 | Prof. Pedro Aleixo: "From the Demystification of Constitutionalization to the
De-Constitutionalization of Private Law"
February 24 | Esko Yli-Hemminki: "An Agency-Sensitive Model of Responsibility and Punishment"
October 22 | Johan Hermansson: "Legalists, Realists, and the Ontological Status of the Legal Person: Possible Solutions to a Century-Old Debate"
January 29 | Dorna Behdadi – "Anthropomorphism in AI - Rethinking the 'Notification Strategy' in AI Policy"
February 12: | Beba Cibralic – "LLMs, So-Called AI Agents, and the Implications of Increased ‘Agency’"
March 19 | Michał Rupniewski - Is there anything ‘human’ to legal agency? A jurisprudential analysis of human versus software intelligent agents
April 23 | Workshop: Book Presentation – Wanted: More than Human Intellectual Property, Animal Authors, and Human Machines with Johanna Gibson
June 11 | Dorna Behdadi - "Anthropomorphism in AI - Rethinking the 'Notification Strategy' in AI Policy"
November 20 | Jakob Stenseke - "Knowing and owing each-other: on the moral agency of humans, animals, and machines" (
December 16 | Juan Pablo Mañalich - "Towards a Post-Human Criminal Law?" (