This symposium organised by The Netherlands Association for Philosophy of Law (VWR) and the Dutch-Flemish Law & Society Association (VSR) brings together scholars working across disciplines to explore how vulnerability functions as a concept, a condition, and a call to action in legal research and practice. It includes both legal-philosophical inquiries – examining how vulnerability challenges dominant ideas of autonomy, rights, and justice – and socio-legal approaches that investigate how legal systems structure, mitigate, or exacerbate vulnerability and lived experiences of precarity and exclusion.

The symposium includes a keynote, a living library social event, and parallel presentations on one of the following themes: Vulnerability and Climate Change, Vulnerability and Digitalisation, Vulnerability and the Responsive State.