Vergleichende Demokratieforschung und die Politischen Systeme Osteuropas
LSI Winter School "Environment, Law, and Society": Call for Papers
The Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) and the Integrative Research Institute Law and Society (LSI) of Humboldt University are pleased to invite PhD students to submit abstracts for the International Winter School “Environment, Law, and Society,” which they will host in partnership with the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS). This interdisciplinary event will take place in Berlin from March 19 to March 21, 2025.
Gathering early-career researchers from different countries and different disciplines, the Winter School will aim at investigating the complex relationship between nature, society, and law. Engaging with key concepts and contemporary academic debates, it will foster an international dialogue on the socio-legal challenges inherent in the regulation of environmental issues. In so doing, it will offer a cross-cutting approach to research questions surrounding legal systems and societies in their relationship with the environment.
Promoting an interdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of law and social sciences, we warmly welcome contributions addressing practical as well as theoretical aspects of environmental topics, including (but not limited to):
- Environmental commons;
- Evolutions of legal norms and principles;
- Multi-level governance of ecological matters;
- Legal remedies, compensatory measures, loss and damages;
- Animal rights and biodiversity conservation;
- Social movements for environmental protection;
- Legal questions surrounding sustainable finance;
- Environmental ethics;
- Just transitions and notions of environmental / climate / energy justice;
- Environmental constitutionalism;
- Geopolitics and environmental / climate / energy security.
To tackle these complex topics, the Winter School will proceed as follows:
- All the participants will have the opportunity to present their ongoing work.
- Invited keynote speakers will deliver insightful lectures based on their own work.
- Open discussions will take place in between working sessions in order to exchange and develop new research ideas.
How to apply? Any PhD student interested to take part in the Winter School must send an abstract of their ongoing work (English, 300 words max.) and a short academic CV by December 20 at 12:00 (UTC+1), as a single pdf file to: ertug.tombus@hu-berlin.de.
Partial travel grants might be allocated to applicants whose participation in the Winter School cannot be financially supported by their home institution. Please indicate in your email if this applies to you.
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and to welcoming you to an exciting and enriching Winter School experience!
Diskussionsreihe: "International Perspectives on the Rule of Law and Militant Democracy"
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/diskussionsreihe-international-perspectives-on-the-rule-of-law-and-militant-democracy
- Diskussionsreihe: "International Perspectives on the Rule of Law and Militant Democracy"
- 2024-11-25T18:00:00+01:00
- 2024-11-25T20:00:00+01:00
- Wann 25.11.2024 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo HU Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, Raum E25 und online, um Anmeldung wird gebeten: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de
- Name des Kontakts Lennard Gottmann
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- Prof. Dr. John Morjin (Hertie School)
- Prof. Dr. Petra Bárd (Central European University)
Diese Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt.
Diskussionsreihe: "Die wehrhafte Demokratie im Stresstest"
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/diskussionsreihe-die-wehrhafte-demokratie-im-stresstest
- Diskussionsreihe: "Die wehrhafte Demokratie im Stresstest"
- 2024-12-02T18:00:00+01:00
- 2024-12-02T20:00:00+01:00
- Wann 02.12.2024 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo HU Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, Raum E25 und online, um Anmeldung wird gebeten: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de
- Name des Kontakts Lennard Gottmann
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- Juliane Talg (Verfassungsblog)
- Arne Semsrott (FragdenStaat)
Call for Submissions: Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future
The Smolny Beyond Borders Initiative at Bard College Berlin, the Gagarin Center at Bard College, and Center for Comparative Research on Democracy of Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin are delighted to announce a call for papers for the international conference “Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future” that will be held at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany), on the June 6-7, 2025.
Organisers: Ilya Kalinin, Danila Raskov, Ertug Tombus
The era of polycrisis – regardless of what underlies it (environmental threats, the failure in the global security system, world growth of inequality, the undermining of civil society, coming both from authoritarian regimes and from the democratic politics of populism) – requires not only a reaction, taking into account the current challenges of the present time. It needs an anticipatory, projective thinking capable of responding to current problems based on inspiring examples of the past and visionary breakthroughs into the future. Civic activism and educational practices need these symbolic resources as much as contemporary art, political theory, and economic modelling. Perhaps it is the u(dys)topian perspective that will be able to bridge the gap between theory and practice, activism and academia, scientific rationality and poetic imagination, anthropocentrism and planetary habitability.
The search for the ideal society of Plato’s Republic and the Medieval messianic descriptions of paradise on Earth took on new forms during the Renaissance, when in the early 16th century Thomas More coined the neologism utopia – a place that does not exist, or a better place. For a long period, the phrase of Oscar Wilde that “Progress is the realisation of utopias” inspired modernity. However, enthusiasm gave way to disappointment as Svetlana Boym put it “The twentieth century began with a futuristic utopia and ended with nostalgia”. The attempt to realize utopias is inherently hopeless. The literary genre is clearly losing to dystopias. As early as the 1980s, Herbert Marcuse spoke of the end of utopia, and Jürgen Habermas referred to the exhaustion of utopian energies, seeing the decline of the welfare state and the ideal of a laboring society of free and equal producers.
Nevertheless, the interest in searching for ideal forms of collective life, both for local communities and humanity as a whole, has not diminished. Nor has the desire to explode the present, harmonize it, and make it more just, happy, free, prosper and in harmony with nature and future generations.
The conference organizers propose the following topics for discussion, which, however, do not limit the range of possible subjects:
- Literary and philosophical utopias of the past for transforming the future. Is their potential exhausted, and do they need revision?
- Socio-economic models as utopias and dystopias: socialism, the welfare state, and liberal capitalism. What’s next?
- Avant-garde projects for transforming the present: the practice of small actions, the mission of art, and imagination.
- Utopia, dystopia, heterotopia, retrotopia. What is the temporality and topology of the future?
- What is the ideal of education for the future? Can elitist principles be applied to mass education? Who is more important for shaping the future – liberal arts or management and IT?
The working language of the conference is English.
All submissions should include the following:
- Title of the presentation.
- Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s).
- A brief bio (up to 150 words)
- Extended abstract (up to 500 words in English)
Key dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 10, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2025.
Please send your proposals and queries to: gagarincenter@smolny.org.
LSI Diskussionsreihe: "Book Launch „Wilde Demokratie“ (Wagenbach) mit Prof. Dr. Tim Wihl"
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lsi-diskussionsreihe-book-launch-wilde-demokratie-wagenbach-mit-prof-dr-tim-wihl
- LSI Diskussionsreihe: "Book Launch „Wilde Demokratie“ (Wagenbach) mit Prof. Dr. Tim Wihl"
- 2025-02-03T18:00:00+01:00
- 2025-02-03T20:00:00+01:00
- Wann 03.02.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo E25, Unter den Linden 9
- Name des Kontakts
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Die Veranstaltungen finden in Präsenz (E25, Unter den Linden 9) mit Livestream statt. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Anmeldung per Mail an: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de.
Lecture: "Legal Framing: What it is, what it's not, and why it matters for environmental law" by Prof. Chris Hilson
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lecture-legal-framing-what-it-is-what-its-not-and-why-it-matters-for-environmental-law-by-prof-chris-hilson
- Lecture: "Legal Framing: What it is, what it's not, and why it matters for environmental law" by Prof. Chris Hilson
- 2025-03-20T18:30:00+01:00
- 2025-03-20T19:30:00+01:00
- Wann 20.03.2025 von 18:30 bis 19:30
- Wo Auditorium, Grimm Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1-3, Berlin
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Dear all,
We are pleased to invite you to a keynote lecture by Professor Chris Hilson (University of Reading) as part of the Winter School "Law, Society, and Environment."
Lecture Title: Legal Framing: What it is, what it's not, and why it matters for environmental law
Date & Time: March 20, 2025 — 18:30 to 19:30
Venue: Auditorium, Grimm Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1-3, Berlin
The Winter School and keynote lecture are jointly organized by the Law and Society Institute at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Centre Marc Bloch, and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.
For registration: https://bit.ly/3QLc9IW
Stellenangebot für zwei studentische Hilfskräfte am Lehrbereich Vergleichende Demokratieforschung und die Politischen Systeme Osteuropas
Wir suchen für unser Forschungsprojekt "Judiciary and Democracy - Unravelling, Present Challenges, Activating Future Potentials (JuDem)" zwei studentische Hilfskräfte
Anforderungen an die 1. SHK
Studium einer für das Aufgabengebiet einschlägigen Fachrichtung Sozialwissenschaften
Kenntnisse der gängigen Office-Software
gute Deutsch-, Englisch- und Türkischkenntnisse
gute Kenntnisse in Methoden empirischer Sozialforschung
Kennziffer: KSBF/33/2025
Anforderungen an die 2. SHK
Studium einer für das Aufgabengebiet einschlägigen Fachrichtung Sozialwissenschaften
Kenntnisse der gängigen Office-Software
gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse
gute Kenntnisse in quantitativen Methoden empirischer Sozialforschung
Kennziffer: KSBF/32/2025
Aufgaben (für beide Stellen)
Mitarbeit im Fachgebiet Vergleichende Demokratieforschung und die Politischen Systeme Osteuropas
Literaturrecherche und -beschaffung
Erstellung von Lehrmaterialien
Mitarbeit im Forschungsprojekt JuDem
Bewerbungen für die ausgeschriebenen Stellen sind bis zum 04. April 2025 unter Angabe der Kennziffer an Professorin Silvia von Steinsdorff zu richten. Bitte senden Sie Ihre Bewerbungsunterlagen als PDF in einer (1) Datei per E-Mail an das Sekretariat von Frau Cornelia Mispelhorn: cornelia.mispelhorn@sowi.hu-berlin.de.
Die Stellen sollen ab Mai 2025 besetzt werden.
LSI Conversations with Judges: András Sajó (Hungary, Ex-ECHR)
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lsi-conversations-with-judges-andras-sajo-hungary-ex-echr
- LSI Conversations with Judges: András Sajó (Hungary, Ex-ECHR)
- 2025-04-28T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-04-28T20:00:00+02:00
- Wann 28.04.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo HS 2091, Unter den Linden 6
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Dear All,
we invite you to join as for a conversation with András Sajó, a former judge in ECHR from Hungary.
This event marks the opening of our new lecture series:
Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy?
When democracies falter or collapse, what role do courts play? What judicial strategies, doctrines, and remedies offer real resilience?
We look forward to seeing you there!
Berliner Morgenpost über Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff
Liebe alle,
am 10. Mai 2025 erschien ein Artikel in der Berliner Morgenpost über Prof. Dr. Silvia von Steinsdorff und die Arbeit unseres Lehrbereichs.
Wir freuen uns, Sie dazu einzuladen, den Beitrag zu lesen!
LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Daphne Barak-Erez (online)
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lsi-conversations-with-judges-can-courts-protect-democracy-daphne-barak-erez-online
- LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Daphne Barak-Erez (online)
- 2025-05-26T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-05-26T20:00:00+02:00
- Wann 26.05.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo online
- Name des Kontakts Lennard Gottmann
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Dear all,
We invite you to join the event series organized by the Law & Society Institute (LSI), titled "Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy?":
These are challenging times, on many fronts. Specifically, courts and the judiciary are under pressure. When democracies tumble, or die, what is the role of courts? What are promising judicial strategies, resilient doctrines, and helpful remedies? We invite you to join a conversation with eminent judges from around the world to address these questions.
Daphne Barak-Erez has been a Judge at the Supreme Court of Israel since 2012. Before her appointment to the Supreme Court, she was the Stewart and Judy Colton professor of law and held the chair of law and security at the Tel-Aviv Faculty of Law, where she also got her LL.B., LL.M., and JSD. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law and has held numerous fellowships and positions at prestigious institutions in the US, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, India, and Canada. Throughout her academic career, she has held positions of leadership and service. Her books and articles have been published internationally.
Please note that all events of this series take place in English. We are looking forward to your registration: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de.
LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Mansoor Ali Shah
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lsi-conversations-with-judges-can-courts-protect-democracy-mansoor-ali-shah
- LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Mansoor Ali Shah
- 2025-06-19T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-06-19T20:00:00+02:00
- Wann 19.06.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 / HS 2091, 10117 Berlin
- Name des Kontakts Lennard Gottmann
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Dear all,
We invite you to join the event series organized by the Law & Society Institute (LSI), titled "Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy?":
These are challenging times, on many fronts. Specifically, courts and the judiciary are under pressure. When democracies tumble, or die, what is the role of courts? What are promising judicial strategies, resilient doctrines, and helpful remedies? We invite you to join a conversation with eminent judges from around the world to address these questions.
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah was elevated to the bench at the Lahore High Court in 2009 and after serving as the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court for almost two years was elevated to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in early 2018. He did his schooling at Aitchison College, Lahore and got his law degree from the University of Cambridge, UK. He also has a Masters in Economics from the University of the Punjab. As a corporate litigator, he was a partner at Afridi, Shah & Minallah and took keen interest in public interest litigation with special focus on environmental issues and sustainable development.
Please note that all events of this series take place in English. We are looking forward to your registration: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de.
LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Daniela Salazar Marín
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lsi-conversations-with-judges-can-courts-protect-democracy-daniela-salazar-marin
- LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Daniela Salazar Marín
- 2025-06-23T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-06-23T20:00:00+02:00
- Wann 23.06.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 / HS 2091, 10117 Berlin
- Name des Kontakts Lennard Gottmann
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Dear all,
We invite you to join the event series organized by the Law & Society Institute (LSI), titled "Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy?":
These are challenging times, on many fronts. Specifically, courts and the judiciary are under pressure. When democracies tumble, or die, what is the role of courts? What are promising judicial strategies, resilient doctrines, and helpful remedies? We invite you to join a conversation with eminent judges from around the world to address these questions.
Daniela Salazar Marin is a magistrate in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court since 2019, and vice president of the court in the 2019-2022 period. She studied law at San Francisco de Quito University and an LLM at Columbia Law School in New York. She won Fulbright and Romulo Gallegos fellowships. Salazar Marin is a law professor at the San Francisco de Quito University, where she was Law School vice dean, co-director of the legal clinic and co-director of a working group on law and literature. She has also taught at Universidad Externado in Colombia, Universidad Nacional de San Martin National in Argentina and Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Ecuador.
Please note that all events of this series take place in English. We are looking forward to your registration: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de.
LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Natalia Ángel Cabo
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lsi-conversations-with-judges-can-courts-protect-democracy-natalia-angel-cabo
- LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Natalia Ángel Cabo
- 2025-06-30T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-06-30T20:00:00+02:00
- Wann 30.06.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 / HS 2091, 10117 Berlin
- Name des Kontakts Lennard Gottmann
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Dear all,
We invite you to join the event series organized by the Law & Society Institute (LSI), titled "Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy?":
These are challenging times, on many fronts. Specifically, courts and the judiciary are under pressure. When democracies tumble, or die, what is the role of courts? What are promising judicial strategies, resilient doctrines, and helpful remedies? We invite you to join a conversation with eminent judges from around the world to address these questions.
Natalia Ángel-Cabo holds a law degree from the University of Los Andes and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard University. Previously, she was a full-time professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Los Andes, director of the Constitutional Public Law Area, and editor of the Latin American Law Journal. In 2022 she was appointed as a Judge to the Colombian Constitutional Court.
Please note that all events of this series take place in English. We are looking forward to your registration: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de.
LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Tamara Perišin
- https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/osteuropa/lsi-conversations-with-judges-can-courts-protect-democracy-natalia-angel-cabo-1
- LSI Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy? - Tamara Perišin
- 2025-07-10T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-07-10T20:00:00+02:00
- Wann 10.07.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00
- Wo Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 / HS 2091, 10117 Berlin
- Name des Kontakts Lennard Gottmann
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Dear all,
We invite you to join the event series organized by the Law & Society Institute (LSI), titled "Conversations with Judges: Can Courts Protect Democracy?":
These are challenging times, on many fronts. Specifically, courts and the judiciary are under pressure. When democracies tumble, or die, what is the role of courts? What are promising judicial strategies, resilient doctrines, and helpful remedies? We invite you to join a conversation with eminent judges from around the world to address these questions.
Tamara Perišin graduated ‘cum laude’ in law from the Sveučilište u Zagrebu (University of Zagreb, Croatia) in 2002 and obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) in 2003 as a Chevening scholar. She then began her doctoral studies in law at the Sveučilište u Zagrebu, where she defended her thesis in 2007. Ms Perišin passed the Croatian bar examination in 2009.
She undertook research residencies at the Asser Instituut (Asser Institute, Netherlands) in 2004, at Georgetown University (United States) and the University of Michigan (United States) from 2005 to 2006 as a Fulbright scholar, and at the Max-Planck-Institut (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany) from 2007 to 2008, having received a scholarship for post-doctoral research. In addition, she took a course in the methodology of teaching and learning at the Central European University (Hungary) from 2007 to 2008. In 2014, she was invited to carry out post-doctoral research at the Harvard Law School of Harvard University (United States).
Tamara Perišin has been affiliated with the Sveučilište u Zagrebu since 2002 as a professor and the Vice-Dean for International Cooperation from 2009 to 2011, the holder of a Jean Monnet Chair since 2015 and the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2018. In 2019 she was appointed as a Judge to the General Court of the the European Union.
Please note that all events of this series take place in English. We are looking forward to your registration: law-and-society@hu-berlin.de.