In recent months, we have hosted specialists in various fields of law who, with their vast experience and expert knowledge, introduced students to current issues such as criminal law on social media and the European Pillar of Social Rights.
We are pleased to announce that in the 2025/2026 academic year, we will once again be hosting experts from abroad during the next series of Guest Lectures!
Below you will find information about upcoming meetings:
Katrien Steenmans is currently a postdoc on the Circular Supply Chains (CirCus) project at the Centre for Private Governance in the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Her research expertise focuses on investigating different law and policy tools to promote circular economies. Katrien is currently investigating circular public procurement, extended producer responsibility, and circular product labels. This builds on her previous research within waste law, which has focused on the role of regulations and policies in enabling industrial symbiosis, the implications of different property rights in waste, and how blockchain technology can be used to underpin and support waste regulations and policies. Katrien was previously an Assistant Professor at Coventry University (UK) and a postdoctoral research fellow at King’s College London (UK), as well as having worked for the Urban Land Institute, University College London, and EDF Trading.
- Lecture for the students:
Title: Circular Economy in the Public Sector
26th of November, Wednesday, auditorium no. 2, 11.30-13.00
- Meeting with the Faculty staff:
Title: Circular Supply Chains – identifying and allocating legal risks (CirCus).
The project of the Centre for Private Governance, University of Copenhagen
26th of November, Wednesday, room no. 1.4, 10.00 -11.00
Gábor Kártyás is Professor of labour law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest). He has been involved in a number of international research projects, including the Digilare project (http://www.digilare.eu/), the European Trade Union Institution (migrant workers) and Eurofound (new forms of employment). Between 2018 and 2021 he supported the labour law jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hungary (Kúria) as Advocate General. During his 20-year academic career, he has taught courses on Hungarian and EU labour law, atypical employment and collective labour relations. He has been a visiting professor at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis, 2023) and the University of Vienna (2025).
More information regarding upcoming meeting with students and academic stuff will be revealed at later date.
David J. Gunkel is an award-winning author, educator and researcher, specializing in the philosophy of technology with a focus on the moral and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and robots. Dr. Gunkel is internationally recognized for his innovative work on the moral and legal status of artificial intelligence and robot rights, his efforts to diversify the theory and practice of AI ethics, and his agenda-setting contributions to the new field of human-machine communication (HMC).
He currently holds the position of Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University (USA) and associate professor of applied ethics at Łazarski University in Warsaw, Poland. His innovative curriculum design and teaching has been recognized with numerous awards, including NIU’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the prestigious Presidential Teaching Professorship.
The lecture for students on the theme ‘Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond.’ will take place on December 10, 2025, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Lecture Hall No. 6.