Events

• Conference “Human Rights and Democracy – the Role of Supranational Courts”, 11–12 September 2025 at the University of Münster: On 11 and 12 September, the Chair hosted international scholars at the University of Münster for a conference that discussed the role of supranational courts in the context of human rights and democracy. The event was funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The conference program can be found here.

• Paper presentation by Dr. Giulia Santomauro at the International Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Conference: "Migrants’ Political Participation and Human Rights Theory: Current Challenges through the Lens of the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence", Human Rights Research Network, Ghent University, December 7, 2023. 

• Könnte ein Gericht die AfD verbieten?, Prof. Hailbronner discusses the prerequisites and consequences of a party ban in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 8, 2023. 

• Prof. Hailbronner in the Hörsaal-Podcast by Deutschlandfunk Nova: Wehrhafte Demokratie in Deutschland (in German), presented at the Beats & Bones Podcast-Festivals in Berlin on September 22, 2023, published on October 26, 2023. 

• Participation in the 23. Akademie-Gespräch: Rechtsruck in Deutschland, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, October 10, 2023. 

• Interview with Prof. Dr. Michaela Hailbronner (in German), Law Faculty University of Muenster, October 4, 2023.

• Paper presentation by Marcus Schnetter: Politischer Protest in der Form des Rechts (in German), 63. Junge Tagung Öffentliches Recht (JTÖR) „Interaktionen: Internationalität, Intra- und Interdisziplinarität“, Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg, July 21, 2023.

• Annual Conference 2023 von ICON-S at the Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, International Society of Public Law, July 3 - 5, 2023:

  • Book Roundtable - Acting when Others Aren't - Arguments from Failure in Comparative Public and International Law (Michaela Hailbronner);

  • Book Roundtable - Responsive Judicial Review (Rosalind Dixon, OUP 2023);

  • Interest Group Separation of Power.

• Paper presentation by Dr. Giulia Santomauro: "Exploring Judicial Activism's Arguments of the ECtHR in respect of Systemic Inequalities to Access Refugee Protection: The Impact of the 'Procedural Turn' ", Seventh Annual Conference of the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London, June 23, 2023. 

• Paper presentation: 'Acting When Others Aren't - Arguments from Failure in Public Law’, Public Law Discussion Group, University of Oxford, May 23, 2023.