Presentations in German
– 2023
- “Comparative Constitutional Knowledge. An epistemological approach towards comparative constitutional law”, Ph.D. Research Seminar, 08.02.2023, National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
- “Institutional Authority and Separation of Powers – the Austrian Story”, Research Seminar Series, 01.02.2023, University College Dublin (Ireland)
– 2022
- “Social Contract Theory in Times of Climate Change”, CONNOR 2030 Workshop – Constitutionalism in the Nordics: Climate Change and Constitutional Law, Lund University, 02.09.2022, Lund ( Sweden)
- “Digitalized Democracy – A Post Covid-19 Perspective?”, ICON•S Annual Conference, Online Panel: “The Aftermath of Covid-19 in Western Europe: A Revolution for Public Law?”, 04.07.2022, Wroclaw (Poland)
- “The Role of Parliaments in Times of COVID-19”, Seminar, Faculty of Law, Lund University, 09.05.2022, Lund (Sweden)
- “The Role of the Courts in Climate Justice: Opening the door or closing it?”, Seminar “Law, History, Legal History in 2022. Professor Jorn Oyrehagen Sunde 50” Research Group Legal History – Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, 20.04.2022, Oslo (Norway)
- “The constitutional context of climate change litigation. A comparative analysis of Germany and Austria”, Conference, Climate Change Litigation in Europe: Comparative & Sectoral Perspectives and the Way Forward, Hasselt University 19.02.2022, Hasselt (Belgium), online
- “Digitalizing Parliament – Democratic Deliberation in Times of the Pandemic”, IACL Round Table, The Impact of Digitalization on Constitutional Law, University of Copenhagen, 01.02.2022, Copenhagen (Denmark)
– 2021
- “The Austrian Constitutional Court 1990-2020. A Human Rights Stronghold Despite Becoming Judicial Restraint”, 2nd JUDICON-EU workshop, National University of Public Service, 19.11.2021, Budapest (Hungary), online (gem. mit Susanne Gstöttner)
- “Democracy and human rights in times of COVID-19 – A European perspective”, Research Group on Pluralistic, Non-hierarchical and Circulatory System for Human Rights, Meiji University, 15.09.2021, Tokyo (Japan), online
- Panel chair: “Social Contract Theory in the Age of Climate Crisis”, ICON•S Mundo Conference, Panel “Ideology, Dissent and (Dis)Trust at Constitutional Courts in Central Europe“, 08.07.2021, online
- “Judicial Ideology at the Austrian Constitutional Court”, ICON•S Mundo Conference, Panel “Ideology, Dissent and (Dis)Trust at Constitutional Courts in Central Europe“, 07.07.2021, online (together with Susanne Gstöttner)
- “Pandemocracy in Europe. Power, Parliaments and People in Times of Covid-19”, interfaculty exchange on COVID research, SFU Faculty of Law, 21.04.2021, Vienna
- “Empowering Cities by Constitutional Pluralism. A Constitutional Concept of Glocal Cities”, Massey Cities Summit: Constitutional Space for Cities“, Massey College and the Canadian Urban Institute, Toronto (Canada), online, 06.04.2021
- “Constitutional Interpretation, Interpreting Constitutions. A comparative perspective”, Guest Lecture, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 24.03.2021, Kharagpur (India), online
– 2020
- “Codification of Administrative Law in Austria“, International Workshop „Codification of Administrative Law“, University of Zurich, 24.01.2020, Zurich (Switzerland)
– 2019
- “Formalism and judicial self-restraint as tools against populism? Considerations to recent developments of the
Austrian Constitutional Court”, Conference “Constitutional Interpretation in European Populist Regimes”, 05.-06.12.2019, Budapest (Hungary) - “The Authority of the Austrian Constitutional Court”, Conference “Judicial Ideology under Empirical Scrutiny“, Faculty of Government and European Studies, New University, 16.09.2019, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- “A knowledge-based approach towards constitutional comparison”, I.CON-S Annual Conference on “Public Law in Times of Change?“, Panel #47 „Methodological pluralism in comparative constitutional research”, Pontificia Universidad Católica, D402, 01.07.2019, Santiago de Chile (Chile)
- “A knowledge-based approach towards constitutional comparison”, Workshop: “Methodological pluralism in comparative constitutional research”, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, 02.06.2019, Vienna
- “Austrian Legal Culture”, University of Bergen, 28.05.2019, Bergen (Norway)
- “Rule of law or the rule of code? The role of artificial intelligence in law”, University of Bergen, 27.05.2019, Bergen (Norway)
- “Disempowerment of Courts. The interrelationship of courts and politics in contemporary legal orders”, Conference III ‘ERASMUS’ LEGAL SCIENCE WEEK – Stream I (red stream) Courts and Politics, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 29.03.2019, Sofia (Bulgaria)
- “Student Mobility in the Light of the Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice”, Lecture, Second Vienna Conference on Higher Education Law and the Management of Sciences, Sigmund Freud University, 1.3.2019, Vienna
- “Counter-Developments to Global Constitutionalism”, Seminar, 27.02.2019, Dublin City University, Ireland
- “EU Human Rights and Privacy”, Lecture, 26.02.2019, Dublin City University, Ireland
– 2018
- “The Capacity of Law in the Machine Age“, Seminar, 6.11.2018, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy
- “The many faces of Brexit. Legal challenges. political conclusions“, Lecture, 6.11.2018, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy
- ‘Smart’ Contracts: legal rights in technical systems?, Workshop: “Algorithmic Management: Designing systems which promote human autonomy”, Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 21.9.2018, Vienna
- “Artificial Intelligence and the Concept of Law – Some insights from autonomous and self-learning driving”, Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab, 23.5.2018, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna
- “Austrian Administration between Political Influence and Independence”, Public Law Seminar, Lund University, 24.4.2018, Lund, Sweden
- “Lost in Translation: Regulation beyond Law “, Conference “Legal Foundations in Times of Deep Learning and Systemic Digitizsation”, Villa Vigoni, 3.-6.4.2018, Menaggio, Italien
- “The Establishment of Universities and University Branches in Austria“, First Vienna Conference on Higher Education Law and the Management of Sciences “The Establishment of Universities and University Branches in the Member States of the European Union”, Sigmund Freud Private University, 24.02.2018, Vienna
– 2017
- Keynote Conversation “Constitutionalism in Crisis“, Comparative Constitution Law 5th Annual Roundtable , 20.10.2017, Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier, Virginia, USA
- “Legal Entrepeneurship”, Sigmund Freud Private University, 22.06.2017, Vienna
- “The Power of Independent Networks: The Impact of EU Agencies on Shaping European Administrative Law“, ELI Administrative Law SIG Conference, 07.06.2017, Andrássy University in Budapest, Hungary
- “Constitutional Law and Time: The Perspective of Future Generations”, 01.06.2017, University of Bergen, Norway
- “Austrian Legal Culture“, 31.05.2017, University of Bergen, Norway
- “Counter-Developments to Global Constitutionalism”, Conference on “Global Constitutionalism and its challenges to the Westphalian Constitutional Law”, 07.04.2017, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
– 2016
- “Comparative introduction”, Conference on “An Administrative Procedure Act for the EU? The ReNEUAL Model Rules on EU Administrative Procedure – Nordic Perspectives”, 24.11.2016, Lund University, Sweden
- “Comparative Law in Changing Structures of Multi-Level Federalism“, Panel “Federalism Along and Beyond Borders. A Neo-Federalist Perspective”, 2016 ICON-S Conference “Borders, Otherness and Public Law” Humboldt University, 17-19.062016, Berlin, Germany
- “Constitutional Law and Geography”, Conference on “Constitutional Law in Context”, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Legal Studies, 22.09.2016, Budapest, Hungary
- “Comparing Constitutional Networks“, Annual Conference of the Irish Society of Comparative Law National University of Ireland, 23.05.2016, Galway, Ireland
- “A Pluralistic Approach to Contextualism in Comparative Law“, Workshop: “Objectives and Methods of a Contextual Analysis in Comparative Law”, Hungarian Academy of Science, 19.05.2016, Budapest, Hungary
- “Creating Transnational Accountability by Local Empowerment of Citizens“, IACL Constitutional Responses to Terrorism Conference: „Accountability for Transnational Counter-terrorism Operations“, King’s College London, 10.03.2016, London, UK
– 2015
- “The Austrian Länder in a ‘glocal’ network”, 05.11.2015, Universität von Rouen, France
- Comment to the lecture by Prof. Eisenberger: “Autonomous Systems – Legal Status – Human Rights”, 22.10.2015, Institute of Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary
- “Between International Standards and Transnational Greed: Banking Secrecy, Local Corruption and Foreign Currency Loans”, 2nd Annual Rule of Law Conference: “Rule of Law and Economic Crises Correlations and Consequences, 25.09.2015, Grad Jable, Mengeš, Slovenia
- Panel Discussion “The Relevance of Constitutional Law”, The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Conference, New York University School of Law, 02.07.2015, New York, USA
- “The Relevance of Constitutional Law”, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, 07.05.2015, Budapest, Hungary
- “The Constitutional Dimension of Counter-Terrorism”, University of Bergen, 15.04.2015, Bergen, Norway
- “Rethinking Privacy Beyond Borders“ at the Masterclass of the Tilburg Law Review (TLR) on ‘Privacy and National Security in the Digital Age’, 5.3.2015, Tilburg, The Netherlands
– 2014
- “Transnationalising Constitutional Review – The Austrian Example”,
- Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen, School of Law, 24.10.2014, Aberdeen, UK“The European Human Rights System beyond Europe”, ICL Conference, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 12.09.2014, Vienna, Austria
- “Defiance: The Austrian Case and the EU’s 14 Sanction“, International Workshop: Enforcing EU Law Against Recalcitrant Member States, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, 11.7.2014, Berlin, Germany
- “Comparative Analysis“, Conference: The Principle of Effective Legal Protection in Administrative Law, National University of Public Services & Hungarian Academcy of Sciences, 13.6.2014, Budapest, Hungary
- “Back to the Future: The Temporality of Constitutional Law”, Conference: Model Institutions for a Sustainable Future: a comparative constitutional law perspective, 25.4.2014, Budapest, Hungary
- DFG Villa Vigoni Round Table, Associazione Villa Vigoni: “Dimensions of Jurisprudence in Europe. A Dialogue on Structure and Medium of Jurisprudential Research Communication”, Villa Vigoni, 21.3.2014, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy (in German)
- “Constitutional Reasoning in Austria”, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences – Institute of Legal Studies, 13.3.2014, Budapest, Hungary
- Panel Discussion: “Data Protection, Privacy and Surveillance”, IACL Roundtable “Constitutional Responses to Terrorism”, Harvard University, 7.3.2014, Cambridge (Mass.), United States
- Comment to Nora Chronowski: “The Extension of the Applicability of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights”, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences – Institute of Legal Studies, 27.2.2014, Budapest, Hungary
- Comparative comment to Cheryl Saunders/Adrienne Stone “Constitutional Reasoning in Australia” und Conrado Hübner-Mendes “Constitutional Reasoning in Brazil”, CONREASON Conference 7./8.2.2014, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences – Institute of Legal Studies, 8.2.2014, Budapest, Hungary
- „Enabling Spaces. Raum in der Rechtsdidaktik”, University of Frankfurt, 31.1.2014, Frankfurt, Germany (in German)
– 2013
- “The global impact of the European Data Protection Regulation”, Monash University, 19.11. 2013, Melbourne, Australia
- “The Culture of Constitutional Comparison”, University of Bergen, 18.10.2013, Bergen, Norway
- „Enabling Spaces – Perspektiven der Rechtsdidaktik”, Workshop: „Raum in der Rechtsdidaktik“, Zentrum für rechtswissenschaftliche Fachdidaktik, University of Hamburg, 9.10.2013, Hamburg, Germany (in German)
- “Constitutional Reasoning as Legitimacy of Constitutional Comparison”, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences – Institute of Legal Studies, 19.9.2013, Budapest, Hungary
- “The Role of the European Court of Justice in the Constitutionalization of European Criminal Law”, Roundtable discussion on an emerging EU criminal justice and policy, 13th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology, 5.9.2013, Budapest, Hungary