A symposium in honour of Prof. Aukje van Hoek. Following this lecture, Aukje van Hoek will give her Valedictory Lecture ‘Where are we now? Private International Law at the End of the End of History’. 
If a law teacher in Europe has learned anything over the last decades, it is that the touted ‘end of history’ has certainly not meant the end of legal development. Most legal fields, within just one lifetime, have transformed fundamentally, with (European) law having created markets, transformed politics, reshaped polities and communities, and possibly created the kernels of its own demise.

The first panel of this celebratory symposium will discuss what the deep transformations of European law over the past 35 years have taught us about the character, role, trust in, and impact of law in European societies. The second panel then asks what the continuous transformation of the very tenets of our legal order and legal thought implies for teaching law, (not only) at this complex historical juncture. What kind of attitudes, skills and qualities do legal students need to face the future? And what is in turn our responsibility as teachers towards students, knowledge as well as society?