The “Ignorance of Law autumn retreat” conference, organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics JU, took place on 24-25 October 2025, at Lanckorona.

Conference schedule

• FRIDAY (Oct 24)
  
  11:05 Piotr Bystranowski (INCET UJ)
  Law, Ignorance, and Counterfactual Salience: Evidence from 110k Reddit Posts
  12:05 Katarina Kovačević (Central European University, Vienna)
  Exculpatory effects of ignorance of law: Laypeople’ judgments
  
  13:05 Lunch
  
  15:00 Alex Sarch (Surrey)
  The Blameworthiness of Willful Ignorance and Knowledge: Empirically Testing the Equal Culpability Thesis
  
  16:30 Coffee
  
  16:45 Kacper Poradzisz (INCET UJ)
  Two Versions of Ignorantia Iuris Priniciple
  17:45 Revati Shivnekar (INCET UJ)
  Investigating boundary conditions on the effect of ignorance
   
• SATURDAY (OCT 25)
   

  11:00 Katarina Kovačević (Central European University, Vienna)
  The causal role of counterfactuals in responsibility ascription to ignorant agents
  12:00 Revati Shivnekar (INCET UJ)
  Inference account of ignorance of law

  13:00 Lunch

  14:30 Piotr Bystranowski (INCET UJ)
  Is ignorance about being ignorant? A study across varieties of ignorance
  15:30 Kacper Poradzisz (INCET UJ)
  Conceptual Inertia, or How Polish Criminal Law Theory Could Use Some Epistemology.

  16:30 Coffee

  16:45 Piotr Bystranowski (INCET UJ)
  Secret rules and who would like to enforce them

Organization

The event was organized by the Interdycyplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, and supported by the research grants “Ignorance of Law: A Study in Experimental Jurisprudence” (National Science Centre, Poland, no. 2022/47/B/HS5/03415) and “Deep Uncertainties in Bioethics: Genetic Research, Preventive Medicine, Reproductive Decisions” (BIOUNCERTAINTY) (European Research Council, Starting Grant no. 805498).