Lecture: Comparative Federalism and the Unit Question

Dr.  Erika Arban, Senior Research Associate Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne (Australia) Date: 22.1.2024, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 101-02, 1st floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   As Hirschl observed, in constitutional law and federalism studies ‘the near-exclusively applied “unit” … is the state and …

Lecture: Does the European Union nowadays need a big ‘C’ constitution and why (not)?

Professor Dr. Matej Avbelj, New University, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Date: 13.12.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 317, 3rd floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   Matej Avbelj’s recent edited volume on the Future of EU Constitutionalism (Hart Publishing, 2023) argues that over the last decade and half the …

Lecture: Cooling things off at apex courts

Associate Professor Dr. Mathias Möschel, LLM (Berkeley), Central European University (CEU), Vienna (Austria) Date: 13.11.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 318, 3rd floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   This presentation will focus on cooling off periods at apex courts. While such mechanisms have existed since quite …

Lecture: Chile’s constitutional moment to the couch

Professor Dr. Rodrigo Correa González, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) Date: 09.10.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 302-03, 3rd floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   On October 18, 2019, severe riots broke out in Chile. The government was helpless to establish public order, and the situation quickly …

Lecture: Theorising South Africa’s Fourth Branch of State

Lauren Kohn, B.Bus.Sci LLB LLM, University of Cape Town (South Africa) Senior Lecturer & Young Research Fellow (University of Cape Town, SA) PhD Candidate & Visiting Research Fellow (Leiden, the Netherlands)   Date: 18.09.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 101-02, 1st floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna …

Lecture: Law and technology in legal history

Professor Dr. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, University of Oslo (Norway) Date: 12.06.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 101-02, 1st floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   New communication technology changes law and government. This happened in the 12th and 13th centuries when oral law was replaced by written law. It …