Constitutional engineering: let’s design the perfect political system!

Which is the best political system? The course attempts to answer this question - with the active participation of the students. The aim of the course is to enable students to argue for (and against) their preferred combination and type of political institutions. To this end, students will be asked to design an ideal political system within an imaginary constitutional process, expressing their views on how the system should be changed and justice established, or even on the nature of the constitutional process. In response to the arguments of others, students formulate their views on the political system they think is best.

Public law and globalisation - constitutionalism without borders?

Can we speak of a constitution or constitutionalism without nation states? Can the concept of law, especially constitutional law, be separated from state sovereignty? Most fields of law are trying to find solutions to the challenges of economic and social globalisation, and constitutional law is no exception. Although the notion of constitutionalism is traditionally associated with nation states, the question of European and global constitutionalism is increasingly being raised as the boundaries of political communities seem to be blurring. The aim of this course is to illustrate the interaction between globalisation and public law: How does globalisation affect state constitutional systems and how can law be an instrument of globalisation?