Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 4

Christoph Bezemek is Professor of Law at the University of Graz, Austria.Michael Potacs is Professor of Law at the University of Vienna, Austria.Alexander Somek is Professor of Law at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Global Affiliated Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, USA.

• 1. Democratic Law in the State of Nature: A Kantian Framework, George Pavlakos (University of Glasgow, UK)2. Democratic Law in the State of Nature: A Not-So-Kantian Comment, Alexander Somek (University of Vienna, Austria)3. Why Constitutions? The Case for Robust Constitutionalism, Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)4. In Defence of Constitutionalism. Navigating between a Minimal and a Total Concept of the Constitution, Anna-Bettina Kaiser (Humboldt University, Germany)5. Constitutions, Basic Structures, and Amendments: The Metaphor of the Constitution as a House, Yaniv Roznai (Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya, Israel)6.. Imaginary Constitutions, Martin Loughlin (The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)7. Unveiling the Constitution: Why and How Material Constitution Doctrines Matter in Constitutional Theory, Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University, Italy)8. Deep Disagreements and the Constitution of a Shared World, Sophie Loidolt (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)9.. Dworkin on Disagreement, Cormac Mac Amlaigh (University of Edinburgh, UK)10. Judicial Dialogue and Constitutional Disagreements: Bridging the Gap, Koen Lenaerts (KU Leuven, Belgium)11. Between Expertocracy and Populism in the Justification of Public Authority - Lessons Learned from the Pandemic, Stephan Kirste (University of Salzburg, Austria)12. Constitutional Law in the Pandemic – Contested Self-Images and Popular/Populist Appropriations, Marie-Luisa Frick (University of Innsbruck, Austria)13. The Linchpin of Constitutional Discipline, Alexander Somek (University of Vienna, Austria)