Mosse Lecture: Counter-Constitutions

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In the Mosse Lecture on 22 January, Princeton professor Kim Lane Scheppele will analyse the transformation of constitutional governments from the USA to Russia.

Kim Lane Scheppele is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and researches the rise and fall of constitutional governments. She analyses developments in Hungary and Russia as well as in the USA and the EU. In addition to extensive publications in social science and law journals, Scheppele also publishes guest articles in the New York Times and writes regularly for the Verfassungsblog. She has been a visiting professor of law at Humboldt University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Yale and Harvard Law Schools.

Date

  • Title of the event: "Counter-Constitutions"
  • Date and location: Thursday, 22 January, 7.15 pm, in the Senate Hall of Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin

The event will be held in English.

Mosse Lectures

The Mosse Lectures at the Humboldt University are a series of events organised by the Mosse Foundation and commemorate the history and heritage of the German-Jewish Mosse family. They are organised and supported by the Institute for German Literature. The Mosse Lectures focus on new topics each semester and are dedicated to imparting knowledge and science in the fields of history, cultural history, politics, economics, art and literature. Prominent academics, authors, artists and politicians from Germany and abroad are invited.