Kantian Conversations – Online Seminar Series in Kantian Political Thought

Behrang Kianzad holds a LLM in Law from Lund University, Sweden, and a PhD in Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law from University of Copenhage. He is currently a Post-Doc at Center of Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University.

His research deals with the intersection of intellectual property and competition law, and the law and economics approaches related to both areas of law. He has presented his research at numerous international conferences, held expert meetings for World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and some Competition authorities around the world.

Behrang's publications are found at Oxford, Cambridge, Springer, Edward Elgar and some of the leading Competition Law, IP Law and Health Law journals. He is also a reviewer for European Journal of Law and Economics and contributing author to Encyclopedia of Law and Economics and Concurrences Global Dictionary.

Before joining academia he worked some 15 years as journalist, editor and lecturer in journalism, where he co-authored a course book on multicultural journalism, and went on to work and lecture on digital communications. Among his former employers are Swedish Radio & TV, TIME Magazine, European Commission and Swedish Aid Agency, to name a few.

Michał Rupniewski is Assistant Professor (adiunkt) at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Political and Legal Doctrines, Poland. He is Associate at the Alexis de Tocqueville Centre for Political and Legal Thought, Poland.

Michał has participated in courses and stipends at the universities of Bonn, Strasbourg, and Fordham. He served as guest lecturer at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. His core scholarly interest is political philosophy’s influence on legal interpretation and legislation. His most important publications include an edited volume 'The Philosophy of Legal Change' (Routledge 2019, edited with Maciej Chmielinski) and 'Human Dignity and the Law: A Personalist Theory' (Routledge 2022).