Political Legal and Moral Theory Research Group @CEU
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The research group on political, legal, and moral theory and philosophy @weareceu.bsky.social. Research interests as diverse as our members - from democracy and legitimacy to equality and justice. Find us at: https://politicalscience.ceu.edu/POLEMO
One of the final events we have lined up is the closing workshop of our seminar series on the Rule of Law in Crisis, organized together with CEU's Democracy Institute and the Workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism of the University of Vienna. events.ceu.edu/2026-05-18/r...
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Dear all, With a hint of spring in the air we very warmly invite you to our next POLEMO seminar, where we will be welcoming Georgetown's Christian Golden.
Dear all, we gladly remind you of our call for abstracts for the POLEMO – GOODINT Symposium on Justice, Integration & Democracy, to be held on June 11 & June 12 at Central European University in Vienna. We'd love to receive your abstracts before March 1st.
As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise. I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start.
Dear all, We cordially invite you to the next event in our 'Rule of Law in Crisis' seminar series in cooperation with CEU's Democracy Institute and UniWien's workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism.
Hereby the zoomlink for the seminar: ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/9538939046...
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Political Legal and Moral Theory Research Group @CEU@ceupolemo.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are very happy to welcome Maxim van Asseldonk to our next Rule of Law in Crisis - seminar in cooperation with UniWien's Workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism and CEU's Democracy Institute. Maxim will present his paper 'The Spirit of Equality: for an Agonistic Rechtsstaat.'
We are very happy to welcome Maxim van Asseldonk to our next Rule of Law in Crisis - seminar in cooperation with UniWien's Workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism and CEU's Democracy Institute. Maxim will present his paper 'The Spirit of Equality: for an Agonistic Rechtsstaat.'
🇵🇱⚖️New ECtHR judgment in a Polish rule of law case - a transfer of a judge within a court against their will and with a protest against such transfer heard by a politically compromised National Council of Judiciary is a breach of Art. 6 of the Convention. 1/
Polemo is very enthousiastic to welcome Manon Westphal in it's Rule of Law in Crisis series in collaboration with UniWien's Workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism and CEU's Democracy Institute.
Dear all, we'd like to invite you to the first set of POLEMO events for the winter term.
Dear all, We cordially invite you to the final event of the Fall Term - our 'Democracy in Crisis' concluding workshop. We welcome you on the 8th of december in Brotfabrik (around the corner from CEU) for our keynote speech by former CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Dear All, You are hereby cordially invited to the next event on the POLEMO calender on Tuesday the 25th of november. Sanjar Akayev (CEU) will explore the very contemporary relevant question 'When can one (permissibly) withdraw from society?'. We hope to see you there!
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
Next wednesday we are hosting Fernando De Los Santos Menendez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) for a presentation of his draft paper 'Towards an independent Judiciary - The moral and epistemic virtues that judges should display'.
We live in an era of autocratization, which puts into the spotlight the question of political legitimacy. Matej Cibik explores this topic November 5th in his talk ‘Legitimacy and its role: What happens when the bad guys take over?’
Dear all, we are looking forward to the next event in our Democracy in Crisis - series, in cooperation with the Workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism at UniWien. Tuesday 28 Oktober we will be hosting Pierre-Etienne Vandamme from UC Louvain for his talk 'Rescuing Democracy by Renewing it?'
Dear all, We hereby invite you to join us for our next seminar, on wednesday 15th of october, featuring University of Sheffield's Jimmy Lenman.
Dear all, We hereby cordially invite you to the opening seminar of our Fall Term Democracy in Crisis - cooperation with the Workshop on Democratic Constitutionalism at the University of Vienna.
The Political Theory research group will organise a Democracy in Crisis seminar and workshop series during the Fall Term. We open this series with a movie night on 23 september, with a screening of Starship Troopers - one of the best cinematic depictions of the emotional appeal of fascism.
The Political Theory research group will organise a Democracy in Crisis seminar and workshop series during the Fall Term. We open this series with a movie night on 23 september, with a screening of Starship Troopers - one of the best cinematic depictions of the emotional appeal of fascism.
A look at the housing policies of Vienna, where we work and live. Recommended - both for reading as for living and working.
Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldasky.bsky.social · last yr.Imagine being Hasret Icsen. You pay $1,015/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in a green, mixed-income building full of amenities. When you touch your home, you're touching climate progress. This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
I'm very happy to announce that Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social and myself Peter Verpoorten @peterverpoorten.bsky.social have been elected as Research Group co-chairs for the coming academic year 2025-2026. We will do our utmost best to honor the trust placed in us going forward.
We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
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How does excessive wealth harm democracy? Can hyper-wealth produce public goods? How can we contain excessive wealth? 🔜👥Our conference will focus on these questions. 🗓️June 23-24 📍Budapest / online Details: 👉 tinyurl.com/2u2cwcvv Registration: 👉 tinyurl.com/vn7ttypu
