Workshop on Democtratic Constitutionalism

Notice, 2024 09 06:

The programme had to be discontinued due to the lack of budgetary support. It will be continued outside the Vienna Faculty of Law.

The Workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism is dedicated to three major questions:

(1) Is "liberal democracy" more than residue that remains after we have subtracted from democracy its disturbing features, such as "populism"?

(2) Are the constitutional conflicts in the relation between the European Union and former Eastern European member states due to different understandings of history and must they be taken into account in calibrating the scope of legitimate variation among constitutional democracies?

(3) Does the loss of both the leftist project and of its Christian democratic alternative suggest that, in the absence of a transformative perspective, democracy is likely to be reduced to means for acting out impotent desires for destruction?

The events are organised in cooperation with Fabio Wolkenstein from the Department of Political Science.

Upcoming events

2025 05 22, Simone Chambers
2025 05 27, Veith Selk
2025 06 05, Dirk Jörke

Prior Lectures

2025 03 27: Andreas Schedler, "Dilemmas of Democratic Vigilance"
2024 10 31: Graziella Romeo, "Material constitutionalism and the problem of change".
2024 06 06: Udit Bhatiaj "Acting Democratically under Clientelism"
2024 06 05: Science talk with Samuel Moyn, Herlinde Pauer Studer, Fabio Wolkenstein, Alexander Somek "Liberalism against itself"
2024 05 22: Sofia Näsström "Democracy and the Social Question: Sharing Uncertainty in Uncertain Times"
2024 04 18: Franca Feisel "A reflexive theory of defending democracy"