Monday April 22: Closed meeting 

On Monday April 22, Krygier discussed the Paul Scholten research program on the rule of law at the limits during and work of individual researchers in a closed meeting. 

Tuesday April 23: public seminar on the Rule of Law

On Tuesday April 23, Martin Krygier gave a public lecture and discuss some of his papers on rule of law during a public seminar. Discussants were:

• Adriaan Bedner, associate professor at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development, Leiden University
• Krijn van Beek, director of strategy at the Ministry of Justice and Security, The Hague
• Marc Hertogh, professor in the sociology of law at Groningen University

• André Nollkaemper, professor of international law at the Amsterdam Center for International Law 

Chair: Marc de Wilde 

Wednesday April 24: public seminar on Selznick

On Wednesday April 24 Krygier discussed his recent intellectual biography of Philip Selznick (Philip Selznick. Ideals in the World, Stanford University Press, 2012) with Dutch Selznickians during a public seminar. Discussants were:

• Robert Knegt, director research, Hugo Sinzheimer Institute, University of Amsterdam
• Paul van Seters, Professor of Globalization and Sustainable Development, TiasNimbas Business School, Tilburg University
• Sanne Taekema, professor of jurisprudence, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chair: Roland Pierik

Short Bio Martin Krygier:

Martin Krygier is the Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of New South Wales, Adjunct Professor at the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University, and recurrent Visiting Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. Krygier is on the editorial board of various journals, including Ratio Juris, the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

 Recent publications Martin Krygier:

• 'The Rule of Law,' in Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, Oxford 2011, 233-49; 
• 'Four Puzzles about the Rule of Law: Why, What, Where? And Who Cares?,' in James E. Fleming, ed., Getting to the Rule of Law, Nomos no. 50, New York University Press, 2011, 64-104; 
• 'Approaching the Rule of Law,' in Whit Mason, ed., The Rule of Law in Afghanistan. Missing in Inaction, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 35-49; 
• ‘The Rule of Law. Legality, Teleology, Sociology,’ in Gianluigi Palombella and Neil Walker, eds., Relocating the Rule of Law, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009, 45-69;
• ‘The Rule of Law. An Abuser’s Guide’, in András Sajó, ed., The Dark Side of Fundamental Rights, 129-161, 2006, Eleven International Publishing, Utrecht.