LSI Berlin Book Launch
Die Veranstaltungen finden in Präsenz und online via Zoom statt (hybrid). Wir freuen uns über Ihre Anmeldung per E-Mail an law-and-society@hu-berlin.de.
Kommende Veranstaltungen
14. Mai 2024, 18:15: Demokratiedämmerung. Eine Kritik der Demokratietheorie (Suhrkamp), Book Launch mit Dr. Veith Selk (Technische Universtität Darmstadt)
»In der Theorie vielleicht eine gute Idee, versagt nur leider in der Praxis!« Was früher vom Kommunismus gesagt wurde, gilt heute für die Demokratie – sie wirkt zunehmend unglaubwürdig. Veith Selk zeigt in seinem scharf analysierenden Buch, warum sowohl die demokratische Politik als auch die sie begleitenden Demokratietheorien an der Wirklichkeit scheitern. Zwei Thesen werden dabei verfolgt: Der Niedergang der Demokratie ist keiner Regression geschuldet, sondern das Ergebnis der gesellschaftlichen Fortentwicklung. Das damit eingeläutete Ende der Demokratie führt auch zum Verfall der Demokratietheorie, die als akademische Disziplin anachronistisch wird.
Die Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperationsveranstaltung mit dem Lehrstuhl Theorie der Politik von Prof. Christian Volk und ist Teil der Reihe LSI Berlin Book Launch.
Vergangene Veranstaltungen
21. November 2023, 18.15 Uhr: Kollektive Gefährdungslagen im Asylrecht (Mohr-Siebeck), Book Launch mit Dr. Paul Pettersson (Forschungsstelle Migrationsrecht Halle-Saale)
Im Asylrecht werden gleiche Tatsachenfragen von den Gerichten häufig unterschiedlich beantwortet. Die Uneinheitlichkeit betrifft ‚kollektive Gefährdungslagen‘ wie die Gefährdung syrischer Wehrdienstentzieher oder alleinstehender Männer in Afghanistan. Paul Pettersson verdeutlicht anhand eines Korpus von Gerichtsentscheidungen zum Irak die große Bedeutung kollektiver Gefährdungslagen für die asylrechtliche Gefahrenprognose und leitet zu einer systematischen Prüfung an. Anschließend stellt er mit Methoden der juristischen Netzwerkanalyse den Kommunikationsprozess der Gerichte über Länderleitentscheidungen dar. Die neue Tatsachenkompetenz des BVerwG wird aus Sicht des Autors die grundlegenden Probleme nicht lösen. Stattdessen sollte die diskursive Aushandlung der Tatsachenfragen zwischen den Gerichten und dem BAMF gestärkt werden. Die Dissertation ist online hier verfügbar (open access).
12. Dezember 2023, 18.15 Uhr: Digital Work Platforms at the Interface of Labour Law. Regulating Market Organisers (Bloomsbury Publishing), Book Launch with Prof. Dr. Eva Kocher (European University Viadrina)
Diese Veranstaltung findet auf Deutsch statt.
This book shows how to design labour rights to effectively protect digital platform workers, organise accountability on digital work platforms, and guarantee workers' collective representation and action. It acknowledges that digital work platforms entail enormous risks for workers, and at the same time it reveals the extent to which labour law is in need of reconstruction.
The book focusses on the conceptual links – often overlooked in the past – between labour law's categories and its regulatory approaches. By explaining and analysing the wealth of approaches that deconstruct and reconceptualise labour law, the book uncovers the organisational ideas that permeate labour law's categories as well as its policy approaches in a variety of jurisdictions. These ideas reveal a lack of fit between labour law's traditional concepts and digital platform work: digital work platforms rarely behave like hierarchical organisations; instead, they more often function as market organisers.
The book provides a fresh perspective for international academic and policy debates on the regulation of digital work platforms, as well as on the purposes and foundations of labour law. It offers a way out of the impasse the debate around labour law classification has reached, by showing what labour law could learn from digital law approaches to platforms – and vice versa.
Das Buch ist hier zu erhalten (open access).
17. Januar 2024, 18.15 Uhr: Verfassende Urteile: Eine Theorie des Rechts (Suhrkamp), Book Launch mit Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller-Mall (Technische Universität Dresden)
Gerichte nehmen mit ihren Urteilen großen Einfluss auf Verfassungsentwicklungen. Wie aber können diese Urteile Verfassungen erweitern, verdichten oder verändern? Und was heißt es überhaupt, rechtlich zu urteilen? Um verfassende Urteile über ihre Rechtsförmigkeit zu erklären, rekonstruiert Sabine Müller-Mall in ihrem scharfsinnigen Buch Verfahren juridischen Urteilens. Sie entwirft nicht nur eine grundlegende Perspektive auf den Zusammenhang von Recht und Konstitutionalisierung, sondern auch eine Theorie des Rechts, die das Urteilen zum Ausgangspunkt nimmt.
13. Juni 2023, 18. 15 Uhr: When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty and the Future of Liberal Democracy, Book Launch with Ewa Atanassow, Dieter Grimm and others
The idea and ideal of popular sovereignty, which has served to ground the liberal democratic order and to legitimize power in the modern world, has come under increasing pressure in recent decades. On the one hand, the rise of populism, often illiberal or authoritarian, has undermined minority rights, individual autonomy, and the rule of law. On the other, the expansion of international institutions and greater reliance on market and non-governmental organizations have gradually insulated large areas of policymaking from democratic contestation and popular control. Together, these developments cast doubt on the viability and the very coherence of liberal democracy as a constitutional model.
23. Mai 2023, 18.15 Uhr: Gerichte im Kontext. Empirische und interdisziplinäre Zugänge zum Asylrecht. Special Issue der Zeitschrift für Fluchtforschung
Aus dem Editorial: The international order is based on the fundamental belief that nation-states can control access to their territories. Asylum law puts this logic into perspective by guaranteeing fair procedures to those seeking protection and, if accepted, basic civil and social rights. Asylum practice thus operates in a tension between universal human rights and migration control, part of which is the categorization of people according to their needs for protection. International and national courts are key actors mediating this tension. By applying and interpreting the law, they contribute to the dynamic evolution of both substantial and procedural asylum law. The aim of this special issue is to empirically analyse the legal practice of categorization from different disciplinary perspectives and thus contribute to interdisciplinary asylum law research.
6 February 2023, 6.15 pm: The Constitutional Court of Turkey. Between Legal and Political Reasoning. Book Launch with Ece Göztepe and Silvia von Steinsdorff
This interdisciplinary study portrays the Constitutional Court of Turkey, which has asserted itself for 60 years in a political system marked by repeated episodes of authoritarianism. The book reconstructs the incomplete institutionalisation of the court as well as essential dogmatic lines of conflict and methodological inconsistencies in its jurisprudence. The authors’ detailed analysis and documentation of fifty key decisions proves the court's general commitment to the rule of law and democracy, but it equally highlights the glaring discrepancies and contradictions in its decisions. As a result, this seminal work provides conceptual insights into the role of constitutional courts in the grey zone between democracy and autocracy far beyond the Turkish case.
29 November 2022, 6.15 pm: The Socio-Legal Lab: An Experiential Approach to Research on Law in Action, with Siddharth de Souza and Lisa Hahn
Are you interested in exploring socio-legal research methods and are looking for guidance on how to do so? The interactive workbook “The Socio-Legal Lab: An Experiential Approach to Research on Law in Action” is designed to accompany researchers on their way through a socio-legal research project. The book employs the idea of a “lab” as a space for interactive and experiential learning. In that spirit, the talk will give an overview of the book, but will do so in an interactive manner by trying out selected exercises with the audience.
15 November 2022, 6.15 pm: The European Court of Human Rights: Current Challenges in Historical Perspective, Panel Discussion with Helmut Aust, Esra Demir-Gürsel, Başak Çalı, Silvia Steininger, and Nicola Wenzel
This panel discussion will revisit the edited volume on the European Court of Human Rights: Current Challenges in Historical Perspective (Edward Elgar, 2021) edited by Helmut Aust and Esra Demir-Gürsel. The volume has addressed authoritarian entrenchment and political critique of the Court – two of the current challenges facing the Court which usually attract debates on the original intent of the European Convention on Human Rights and the limits it imposes on the Court. The contributors of the volume investigated the interplay between the past and present in the Court’s case law and the governmental critiques of the Court to address these two challenges. This panel will reconsider the discussions in the volume in light of the developments that took place after its publication in April 2021, in particular Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the following exclusion of Russia from the Council of Europe.