The 16th Annual Legal Research Network Conference Resilience 24-25 September, 2024 in Uppsala, Sweden

The theme of the 2024 LRN Conference is resilience. In times of turbulence, wars, climate change and economic challenges, society and the legal system are put to the test. A general definition for resilience in a legal context could be: The ability of a legal framework or mechanism to continue filling its main function also under exceptional pressure or disrupting events, or return to a state where it can fulfill its function after such events. It can also be the ability of the law to support or enable this ability in another kind of system (social, economic, socio-economic, ecological, etc). Issues relating to resilience can be found in many areas of law, for example:
Environmental law: The ability of a legal framework to support the return of an ecosystem or a socio-ecological system to its previous state after a severely disrupting event, such as severe pollution, or to maintain certain functions, such as generation of some ecosystem services despite fundamental changes in relevant systems due to e.g. climate change.
Constitutional Law: The ability of constitutional systems to preserve their core values, such as the rule of law and democracy, under exceptional circumstances. Constitutional responses to challenging times could be institutional structures, organization of powers, mechanisms of control and accountability.
Financial Markets Law: Financial stability, even in times of economic downturn or crises, is a precondition for market functions such as payment systems, banking services and the free flow of capital. The legal frameworks in this area must address the need for a resilience in financial firms to manage unpredicted market events and to achieve sound risk cultures within firms.

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