Justice, Community and Freedom: XXX World Congress on the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

The article is dedicated to the review of the XXX World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), which took place in the summer of 2022 in Bucharest, Romania. The overall theme of the Congress, “Justice, Community, and Freedom,” raises fundamental questions about the correlation between two fundamental values of modernity – justice and freedom – mediated by the community, within which the realization of both justice and freedom is possible.The author focuses the discussion on the plenary reports of the Congress participants, who examined the relationship between justice, community, and freedom from various perspectives. The plenary speakers addressed such topics as realism in political and legal philosophy, the civilized right of nations, the administration of justice and the fight against severe human rights violations, human rights judges; gender, law, and equal freedom; rhetoric as philosophy; the war in Ukraine and philosophy of law; paradoxes of existence; structural racial injustice in the context of Rawls' theory; human rights theory and practice for the Anthropocene; reflexive inclusivity and the prospects of cultural confrontation; privacy, critical definitions, and racial justice, as well as many other current issues in contemporary philosophy of law.