Events calendar

Judgment and public spirit

Workshop (in German) on Sabine Müller-Mall's theory of law Program Monday, October 7, 1 p.m. Welcome and introduction Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther and Prof. Dr. Benno Zabel 13.30 Introduction to the debate Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller-Mall 2.00 p.m. What does it mean to make legal judgments? (1st panel) Topic: What is a judgment? What is […]

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A DEUSA NEGRA (Black Goddess. BR/NG 1979. D: Ola Balogun)

Lecture & Film "Black Atlantic Cinema" Introduction: Didi Cheeka (Lagos) and Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt, ConTrust) Lecture: Crossing the Black Atlantic: Ola Balogun and A Deusa Negra (1978) Reversing the course of the middle passage a significant number of relatively well-to-do Afro-Brazilian families relocated from Brazil to Lagos in Nigeria in the early20th century. In his […]

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The Incomparable Value of the Individual

First lecture of the 11th Dagmar Westberg Lectures By Christine M. Korsgaard. Korsgaard is one of the most important moral philosophers and Kant interpreters of our time. Her work is dedicated, among other things, to a justification of human dignity, a foundation for our right actions and the justification of the moral status of animals. […]

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Constitutivism and the Value of an Action

Second lecture of the 11th Dagmar Westberg Lectures By Christine M. Korsgaard. Korsgaard is one of the most important moral philosophers and Kant interpreters of our time. Her work is dedicated, among other things, to a justification of human dignity, a foundation for our right actions and the justification of the moral status of animals. […]

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How We Can Be Free

Third lecture of the 11th Dagmar Westberg Lectures By Christine M. Korsgaard. Korsgaard is one of the most important moral philosophers and Kant interpreters of our time. Her work is dedicated, among other things, to a justification of human dignity, a foundation for our right actions and the justification of the moral status of animals. […]

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Problematized police use of force and how to deal with it

Under certain circumstances, the police are authorized to use force in exceptional cases to enforce police measures. This can lead to mistakes, overstepping of legal boundaries and abuse. At the same time, the practice resulting from this authority to use force is highly controversial in society. Against this background, specific uses of force by the […]

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Policing Racism – Confronting (structural) racism in the police force

Symposium on racism in the police force From right-wing chat groups to racial profiling - a large number of racist incidents in the police force have become public in recent years. Scientific research also shows that racist and anti-democratic attitudes are widespread within the police force, even beyond these scandalized incidents. Studies make it clear […]

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News from the research center

Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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Publication
19.12.2025 | Anthology

Faszination und Freiheit 

Günther, Klaus; Zabel, Benno (Hrsg.) (2025): Faszination und Freiheit - Gegenwartsdiagnosen im Anschluss an Christoph Menkes Theorie der Befreiung, Weilerswist (Velbrück Wissenschaft).

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Anthology

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen

Tobias Singelnstein, Christoph Burchard (2025)

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Chapter

Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?

Günther, Klaus (2025): „Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?“. In: Zabel Benno; Singelnstein; Tobias und Burchard, Christoph (Hrsg.): Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen. Velbrück Wissenschaft, S. 207-241.

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News
11.12.2025

Jonathan White on future thinking in democracies

On the second date of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy". Political scientist White discusses views on the future of democracies. A follow-up report

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News
04.12.2025

The crisis of democratic theory from a sociological perspective

Sociologist Jenny Brichzin's lecture "Crisis of Democratic Theory? A sociological intervention" opened our lecture series "At the crossroads? On the future of democratic theory". The sociologist criticized the fact that social coexistence has so far been insufficiently addressed in democratic theory. A follow-up report

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Publication
03.12.2025 | Journal article

The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment

Džankić, Jelena; Seyfettinoglu, Mira; Shachar, Ayelet; Vink, Maarten; Baaren, Luuk van der (2025): „The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment“. In: Comparative Political Studies, OnlineFirst.

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Publication
01.12.2025

Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe

Hediger, Vinzenz (2025): „Preface: (Re)Building Europe through Cinema (Studies)”. In: Cesalkova, Lucia, et al. (eds.): Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe. Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space. Amsterdam University Press.

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Chapter

Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen

Müllmann, Dirk; Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Indra (2025): „Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen“. In: Honekamp, Wilfried; Kemme, Stefanie; Struck, Jens: Auswirkungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf die zukünftige Polizeiarbeit. Springer.

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