Lecture: Chile’s constitutional moment to the couch

Professor Dr. Rodrigo Correa González, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) Date: 09.10.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 302-03, 3rd floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   On October 18, 2019, severe riots broke out in Chile. The government was helpless to establish public order, and the situation quickly …

Lecture: Theorising South Africa’s Fourth Branch of State

Lauren Kohn, B.Bus.Sci LLB LLM, University of Cape Town (South Africa) Senior Lecturer & Young Research Fellow (University of Cape Town, SA) PhD Candidate & Visiting Research Fellow (Leiden, the Netherlands)   Date: 18.09.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 101-02, 1st floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna …

Lecture: Law and technology in legal history

Professor Dr. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, University of Oslo (Norway) Date: 12.06.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 101-02, 1st floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   New communication technology changes law and government. This happened in the 12th and 13th centuries when oral law was replaced by written law. It …

Book discussion: ‘Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought’

Dr. Ioanna Tourkochoriti, University of Galway, School of Law (Ireland) Date: 31.05.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 305-06, 3rd floor | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   Two legal systems founded on similar Enlightenment philosophical and political values use state coercion differently to regulate a liberty at the …

Vortrag: Grenzen des Rechts am Beispiel der Förderung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit im Ausland

Prof. Dr. Markus Böckenförde, LL.M. (UMN) Central European University, Wien Datum: 08.05.2023, 18:00 Ort: Raum 305-06, 3. Stock | Sigmund Freud Universität | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Wien   Die Etablierung, Gültigkeit und Legitimität von Recht in Gesellschaften sind das Produkt wirtschaft­licher, sozio-kultureller und politischer Vorgänge. Diese Prozesse verlaufen selten gradlinig …

Lecture: Comparative law in constitutional adjudication: creating a methodology for judges

Professor Dr. Eszter Bodnár, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) Date: 27.02.2023, 6:00 p.m. Venue: Room 101-02 | Sigmund Freud University | Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna   Constitutional systems are interrelated, and legal ideas have increasingly been exchanged between different constitutional systems. Courts play a crucial role in this global dialogue: …