Christoph Möllers, Dr. iur., LL.M.

Project

Art—Liberty—Freedom of Art

Colloquium, 09.01.2018

Protecting Democracy in Federations - presentation of a recent trilemma

Democratic federations are built on the assumption that all its members ("states" in the United States, "Länder" in Germany) are justified by the same system of government, that all of them are democracies or republics. But what happens when one of these members attempts to change its political system into an autocratic order? This is an old problem for federal systems, but one that still lacks a satisfying institutional solution. It has become relevant because of recent developments in countries like Hungary and Poland in the context of the European Union. In my colloquium I will develop some institutional strategies to address the problem, drawing on study I am about to finish with my co-author Linda Schneider. The talk will present this as a trilemma because all types of solutions, political, technocratic, and legal, have their specific weaknesses.

Publications from the Fellow Library

Möllers, Christoph (Hamburg, 2024)

Theorien der Verfassung : zur Einführung Zur Einführung ...

Möllers, Christoph (Oxford, United Kingdom, 2020)

The possibility of norms : social practice beyond morals and causes Die Möglichkeit der Normen

Möllers, Christoph (Berlin, 2020)

Freiheitsgrade : Elemente einer liberalen politischen Mechanik edition suhrkamp ; 2755

Möllers, Christoph (Oxford, United Kingdom, 2020)

The German Federal Constitutional Court : the court without limits Das entgrenzte Gericht

Möllers, Christoph (Tübingen, 2018)

Demokratiesicherung in der Europäischen Union : Studie zu einem Dilemma

Möllers, Christoph (Baden-Baden, 2018)

Human dignity in context : explorations of a contested concept Recht im Kontext ; volume 5

Möllers, Christoph (Baden-Baden, 2016)

Choice architecture in democracies : exploring the legitimacy of nudging Recht in Kontext ; Volume 6

Möllers, Christoph (Berlin, 2015)

Die Möglichkeit der Normen : über eine Praxis jenseits von Moralität und Kausalität

Möllers, Christoph (2015)

Recht im Kontext : Ausgangspunkte und Perspektiven

Möllers, Christoph (Baden-Baden, 2015)

Rechtswege : kontextsensible Rechtswissenschaft vor der transnationalen Herausforderung Recht in Kontext ; Band 2