Events

Debating Fundamental Rights


The Centre for Fundamental Rights host debates focusing on classic problems in fundamental rights protections as well as new, applied problems or contemporary developments. Debates in this series feature opposing views and different perspectives to pressing questions on Fundamental Rights.

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Public event

20.02.2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Launch of the Centre for Fundamental Rights: Are fundamental rights losing or gaining ground?

Join us as we launch our new Centre with a debate raising fundamental questions on fundamental rights, together with Susanne Baer (Justice, German Federal Constitutional Court), Patricia Sellers (Special Advisor for Gender for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court), Cathryn Costello (Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law, University of Oxford and incoming Hertie School Professor), Başak Çalı, (Director, Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School) and chaired by Arjun Appadurai (Professor of Anthropology and Globalisation, Hertie School).

Public event

27.11.2019 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Squaring the circle? Fundamental right to a minimum standard of living and welfare conditionality

Join us for a discussion following the German Federal Constitutional Court’s decision on 5 November 2019 declaring the sanctions imposed on recipients of unemployment benefits in part unconstitutional together with Başak Çalı (Hertie School) Anke Hassel (Hertie School), Florian Rödl (Freie Universität Berlin) and moderated by Michal Kramer (Hertie School). Hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights and is part of the Debating Fundamental Rights event series.