Alexander  Somek

 
 

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Lectures    
  September 2010

Monism: A defense (talk to be given at the conference "Legal Science and Legal Theory: An International Conference on Philosophy of Law" organized by the faculty of law at Oxford)

(programme)

   
  April 2010 Monism v. Pluralism (Vortrag im Rahmen eines Symposiums über Foundations of Public International Law, University of Pennsylvania)

   
  April 2010 Monism: A Tale of the Undead (talk given at Columbia University, New York)

   
  March 2010 Constitutionalizing International Law - The New Way Forward? (Talk given at a conference on Human Rights and the US Standing in the world under the Obama Administration, University of Iowa College of Law)

   
 

February 2010

Constitutionalisation and the Common Good (Cardozo Law School together with NYU)    
  November 2009

“Die Verfassung im Zeitalter ihrer transnationalen Reproduzierbarkeit”

(Berlin – Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Konferenz über die Zukunft der Europäischen Union)

 

   
  October 2009

"Constitutionalization and the Common Good"

(Salzburg, Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, Conference "Is there a European Common Good?")

   
  August 2009

Europäisches Forum Alpbach:
Seminar: Vertrauen im Recht (gemeinsam mit Nikolaus Forgó)


   
  June 2009

"Rechtswissenschaft und Common Law" (Legal Science and Common Law) (Heidelberg, Max Planck Institute for Public International Law and Comparative Public Law)

 

   
  June 2009

"The Constitutionalization of Public International Law - A Kelsenian Perspective" (Leipzig, Conference on Hannah Arendt, Hans Kelsen, Carl Schmitt and the international order)

 

   
  April 2009

“Democracy-Enhancing International Law: The argument from transnational effects" (New York University School of Law, Legal Theory Colloquium at the Institute for International Law and Justice)

 

   
  March 2009

"From the Rule of Law to the Constitutionalisation Makeover: Changing European Conceptions of Public International Law"

(Indiana University Bloomington, Symposium on German Perspectives on the International Order)

 

   
  January 2009

"The Emancipation of Legal Dissonance"

(Keynote lecture, University of Bergen, Symposium on the European Court of Justice)

   
  November 2008

"Konstitution ohne Emanzipation: Überlegungen zum Europäischen Verfassungsproblem"

(Keynote lecture, University of Bremen, Symposium on Europe's Social Constitution)
[Constitution Without Emancipation: Notes on Europe's Constitutional Problem]

 

   
  October 2008

"Rechtsverhältnis und aufrechter Gang: Rechtsethik im zweiten Versuch"

University of Vienna
(Contribution to a symposium on Human Dignity) [The Legal Relation and Human Dignity]

   
  March 2008

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Constitutional Law: The Normative Question

Handout (English) (Deutsch)

 

   
  February 2008

University of Reading

Workshop: "A Re-Assessment of Political Representation"
Program

The hidden vices of deliberative democracy

 

   
 

 

   
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