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Never apologise, never explain: (How) can AI rebuild trust after conflicts?
26.04.2021

Never apologise, never explain: (How) can AI rebuild trust after conflicts?

Vortrag von Prof. Burkhard Schäfer (University of Edinburgh, Professor of Computational Legal Theory) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Algorithms – Between Trust and Control” am 22. April 2021. Convenors: Prof. Christoph Burchard […]

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The Democratic Case for Judicial Review
12.04.2021

The Democratic Case for Judicial Review

A Participatory interpretation of the internal relation between the Rule of Law and Democracy Lecture by Prof. Cristina Lafont (Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University) Commentators […]

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Constitutivism and the Rule of Law
29.03.2021

Constitutivism and the Rule of Law

Lecture by Prof. Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Universität Wien) within the Lecture Series on “Rule of Law and Democracy” on March 26th 2021 at the Research Centre Normative Orders of Goethe University. […]

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Crisis of democracy: Rule of law and Rule by law
25.03.2021

Crisis of democracy: Rule of law and Rule by law

Lecture by Prof. Klaus Günther (Goethe University, Normative Orders) Commentators Prof Michael Wilkinson (London School of Economics) and Dr María Emilia Barreyro (Goethe University, Normative Orders) within the Lecture Series […]

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Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen – ein Thema für Datenschutz und Antidiskriminierungsrecht?
08.02.2021

Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen – ein Thema für Datenschutz und Antidiskriminierungsrecht?

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Antje von Ungern-Sternberg (Universität Trier) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 3. Februar 2021. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität, […]

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Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory
04.02.2021

Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory

Booklaunch on January 28, 2021 at the Research Centre Normative Orders of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main with Laliv Melamed, PhD (Post-Doc, “Konfigurationen des Films”), Philipp Dominik Keidl, PhD (Post-Doc, […]

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Haftung für Künstliche Intelligenz – droht ein Verantwortungsvakuum?
01.02.2021

Haftung für Künstliche Intelligenz – droht ein Verantwortungsvakuum?

Vortrag von Prof. Christiane Wendehorst (Universität Wien) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 25. Januar 2021. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität, „Normative Orders“), […]

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Disasters and Social Reproduction – Crisis Response between the State and Community
27.01.2021

Disasters and Social Reproduction – Crisis Response between the State and Community

Booklaunch with Dr. Peer Illner (Normative Orders, Goethe University) and Prof. Darrel Moellendorf (Normative Orders, Goethe University) an Prof. Rainer Forst (Normative Orders, Goethe University) on January 22nd 2021 within […]

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Gesellschaft als digitale Sozialmaschine?
18.01.2021

Gesellschaft als digitale Sozialmaschine?

Zur soziotechnischen Transformation des selbstbestimmten Lebens Vortrag von Prof. Jörn Lamla (Universität Kassel) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 16. Dezember 2020. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), […]

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Kant's Tribunal of Reason. Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the "Critique of Pure Reason"
10.12.2020

Kant’s Tribunal of Reason. Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the “Critique of Pure Reason”

Booklaunch mit Rainer Forst (Normative Orders, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Jakob Huber (Normative Orders, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Sofie Møller (Normative Orders, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Susan Shell (Boston College), […]

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Legal effect in computational ‘law’
18.11.2020

Legal effect in computational ‘law’

Vortrag von Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) innerhalb der Ringvorlesung “Machtverschiebung durch Algorithmen und KI” am 11. November 2020. Convenors: Prof. Roland Broemel (Goethe-Universität), Prof. Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität, „Normative […]

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Normative Orders Insights mit Jakob Huber
12.08.2020

Normative Orders Insights mit Jakob Huber

Dr. Jakob Huber beantwortet im Rahmen der Reihe “Normative Orders Insights” 5 Fragen zu seiner Forschung mit Blick auf die Coronakrise. *Ausführliche Frage von Franziska Fay aus dem Vorgänger-Video: “Hoffnung […]

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News from the research center

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
21.11.2025 | Anthology

Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers

Felfe, Jörg; Dick, Rolf van (eds.) (2025): Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers. Springer.

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News
20.11.2025

Voluntary or compulsory? Military service, peace and democratic responsibility

Review of the 58th "Römerberggespräche". The topic of compulsory military service and the question of what a democratic state is allowed to demand of its citizens were at the center of the 58th "Römerberggespräche" "Conditionally ready for action? Military service and the duty to serve the state", which took place on November 15 in cooperation with the Research Centre Normative Orders in the Chagallsaal at Schauspiel Frankfurt.

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News
13.11.2025

Goethe Lecture Offenbach on ableist discrimination

Regina Schidel hat im Rahmen der Goethe Lectures Offenbach eine Kritik ableistischer Diskriminierung präsentiert. In ihrem Vortrag „Ich kann, also bin ich?“ diskutierte sie praktische Ausprägungen und philosophische Herkünfte von Ableismus.

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Event
10.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Satanic Politics. Democracy after Liberalism

Lecture, Lecture Series

Lecture by Michael Rosen (Harvard University) as part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads? On the crisis of democracy" in the winter semester 2025/2026

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Event
04.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Demokratien verteidigen. Zur Aktualität des Gewaltbegriffs bei Camus und Derrida

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Abbt (Universität St. Gallen) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
29.01.2026 | Frankfurt

Civil Geopolitics and the Dilemmas of the Democratic State

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von David Owen (Universtiy of Southampton) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
14.01.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Vom Retten der Welt zum Vorbereiten auf den Kollaps: Neuorientierungen in katastrophischen Zeiten

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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