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Die Ökonomin Esther Duflo ist die Preisträgerin des A.SK Social Science Award 2015, eines der bestdotierten internationalen Preise in den Sozialwissenschaften.
More than ever before, questions of movement, displacement and belonging, equality and inequality, borders and otherness have become hot-button issues worldwide. Public law--whether domestic, European or international--structures practices of inclusion and exclusion, borders and boundaries, and line-drawing in a variety of ways.
Global Constitutionalism - Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (GlobCon) is a journal that seeks to promote a deeper understanding on the foundations, limitations and principles of political order and their dynamics over time on a global scale.
Presentations summer semester 2019:
The distinction between law and politics is central to modernity. Law and politics refer to each other and are structurally connected. But how exactly are they interconnected? Is law the result of political decision? Is politics, even the exercise of constituant power, legally constrained? To what extent is politics constituted by law?
Is there a deep divide between national law and international law? If so what exactly does it consist in and what are its practical implications? Few today would agree with the conceptual claim made by prominent jurists in the 19th century that international law is not law properly so called, because law is tied to sovereignty and there is a no international sovereign.