On March 16, 2017, the Legal Studies Program Presented Martin Krygier, in a talk titled, "The Rule of Law: Why It Matters, What Threatens It, and What It Is."
Krygier is Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, UNSW. Honorary Professor at RegNet, ANU, visiting professor at the Graduate School of Social Research, Warsaw, and the International Institute of Sociology of Law, Onati. In 2016 he was awarded the Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory.
Among Krygier's many works are contributions to Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law? (2006) and Rethinking the Rule of Law after Communism (2005).
