Opening Keynote Lecture After 1919 and after 1945: How two World Wars shaped German Thinking on International Law
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Event location: Virtualno okolje
The EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community Legal History, which unites staff and students as well as external experts around the theme Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History, is delighted to announce the Opening Keynote Lecture for this year, to be given by Prof. dr. Miloš Vec (University of Vienna) on Friday 14 November 2025 at 3pm Brussels Time.
Please contact Frederick Dhondt, Assistant professor of legal history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and leader of the Research Group Contextual Research in Law (CORE) to confirm your online attendance at frederik.dhondt@vub.be.
Miloš Vec is a German legal scholar and professor of European legal and constitutional history at the University of Vienna, as well as a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
He studied law at Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Keele (1985–1992), earning his doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on 18th-century constitutional law and political thought. From 1992 to 1995, he was a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Vec worked as a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung starting in 1989.
Between 1999 and 2004, he led a research group on law during the Industrial Revolution at the Max Planck Institute. He habilitated in 2005 with a study on norm-setting in international law and state legislation during industrialization, gaining teaching rights in legal history, philosophy, theory, and civil law.
Vec held visiting professorships at universities in Germany and abroad, including Bonn, Tübingen, Lyon, and Vilnius. His research focuses on international law history and normative orders. Since 2012, he has been a professor in Vienna and, since 2016, a Permanent Fellow at IWM. He has received numerous awards, including the Otto Hahn Medal and the UNIVIE Teaching Award.
