On 17 November 2025, Prof. Dr Oona Hathaway, founder and director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School (USA), will be a guest at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) at the invitation of the Center for Comparative Research on Democracy (CCRD). In her keynote address, the legal scholar will speak about the international legal order in the past, present and future (lecture in English).
Her guest lecture, which the CCRD is organising together with the Integrative Research Law & Society Institute (LSI) of the HU and the American Academy in Berlin, is also the kick-off for the research project "Judiciary and Democracy - Unravelling, Present Challenges, Activating Future Potentials (JuDem)". The research team at the Department of Social Sciences at HU is investigating the mechanisms underlying attacks by authoritarian political actors on the independent judiciary and aims to develop innovative strategies to strengthen institutional resilience.
At a glance
When: Monday, 17 November 2025, 6 pm
Where: Humboldt Graduate School, Festsaal, Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin