LSI Berlin Book Launch
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.
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.
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.