Dr Lukasz Dziedzic, LLM, LLB, BA, BSc (L.)

Lukasz Dziedzic is an Assistant Professor in Jurisprudence at the Foundations of Law department at Maastricht University. Lukasz's interests and expertise are in the areas of legal philosophy, law and political economy and the theoretical foundations of EU institutionalization. He holds a PhD in Legal Philosophy from Tilburg University.  

Before joining Maastricht University, he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, and a tutor at the University of Amsterdam’s PPLE College.  

His current research interests can be divided into two streams. The firs stream centres around questions of solidarity as a guiding principle of European institutionalization. It also includes the types of solidarity relationships political communities establish with those perceived as political outsiders. A core focus within this research stream is the way administrative and criminal law can be used instrumentally by state actors to undermine political solidarity with outsiders and create a hostile environment for those arriving at the EU’s external borders. A second research stream is centred around a critical examination of recent attempts to extend legal vocabularies to accommodate non-human agents, with a particular focus on rights of nature discourses. The core focus here lies on mapping constructivist, new materialist, and eco-Marxist debates on the ontological and epistemological conceptualizations of non-human/natural entities with the aim of reconfiguring the legal conceptual apparatus in reaction to the challenge of the more than human.