News 2016
Dec 29, 2016
Call for Papers: European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center, European University Institute, and London School for Economics and Political Science invite submissions for the Inaugural Annual European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law and Jurisprudence to be held at WZB Berlin on June 28-29, 2017. For details see the Call for Papers.
Dec 29, 2016
Call for Papers: German Law Journal, Special Issue
German Law Journal invites submissions for a Special Issue on "Constitutional Identity in the Age of Global Immigration." Interested scholars should send a CV and an abstract by February 15, 2017 (details are here).
Sep 04, 2016
Orgad has been awarded ERC Starting Grant (€ 1.5 million)
This project advances the establishment of a new subfield in public international law—International Citizenship Law (ICIL)—which would regulate nationality law. The outcome can serve as a basis for a future reform in international law, EU law, and national legal systems.
Jun 02, 2016
Conference, Berlin: "Immigration, Citizenship, and Constitutional Identity"
The conference seeks to discuss national, regional, and global challenges presented by international migration, as well as legal and ethical dilemmas that have arisen as a result of the current migrant/ refugee crisis in Europe.
May 25, 2016
Orgad has been awarded a prestigious DFG Emmy Noether Grant (€ 1.2 million)
"The Emmy Noether Programme offers excellent researchers the opportunity to qualify for a scientific leadership role . . . by heading an independent research group." Orgad's study focuses on global migration & national belonging.
May 23, 2016
Review of "The Cultural Defense of Nations" by LSE Review of Books
"The Cultural Defense of Nations is an exceptional work that sounds a timely, provocative and very perceptive alarm about the looming challenges facing liberal democracies . . . Given the importance of those questions and the thoughtfulness of Orgad’s answers to them, policy makers of all sorts should make reading this book a top priority."
May 12, 2016
Orgad's op-ed, The European Magazine
"Denkt endlich an die Mehrheit und ihre Rechte": Können liberale Demokratien Einwanderer integrieren, ohne ihr eigenes kulturelles Erbe zu verändern, ihre Traditionen über Bord zu werfen oder in extremen Nationalismus zu verfallen? Diese Frage ist die schwierigste Herausforderungen des heutigen Liberalismus.
Apr 08, 2016
Conference, EUI: "The Multicultural Question in a Mobile World"
"Multicultural citizenship was predicated on the assumption that migrants would settle in the destination countries and would also sooner rather than later become citizens of those countries. But things have developed otherwise."
Apr 01, 2016
Book Talk & Signing: "Ethics in Your World" Book Series, Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics welcome Fellow-in-Residence for the Safra Center Liav Orgad for a discussion of his book "The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights."
Mar 12, 2016
Book Symposium: "Cultural Majority Rights," Verfassungsblog, WZB Berlin