Alexander  Somek

 
 

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  Alexander Somek continues to be interested in equality. At least one more larger piece is going to contrast anti-discrimination law with the de-commodifying effect of received methods of social protection. It will also address the “Neoliberal predicament” of most of US American anti-discrimination jurisprudence.    
 

More recently, his research has come to encompass an even more profound matter. He is currently exploring the fate of constitutional authority under conditions of transnational governance. He suspects that the age of constitutional law is coming to its conclusion. In his opinion, attempts to bestow on a supranational organisation the splendour of constitutional legality are the equivalent of a nervous symptom in the field of law.

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  There is also the long-term project to provide a more full-blown exposition of his theory of legal knowledge (Rechtliches Wissen) in English. Most likely, it is going to take its cue from the opening paragraphs of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.    
 


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