Johannes Haaf is a Research Associate at the Chair of Legal and Constitutional Theory. His research and teaching interests include modern democratic theory, the philosophy of human rights, the transnationalization of law and the Constitution, post-Marxist subject theory and the politics of architecture. His doctoral thesis examines the relationship between law and democracy in the transnational constellation.

Curriculum vitae

Studied political science with a focus on political theory and philosophy in Freiburg/Br., Copenhagen, Toronto and Frankfurt am Main; since September 2016 Research Associate at the Chair of Legal and Constitutional Theory at TU Dresden; research stays at King's College London, Columbia University and EHESS Paris; from June 2018 to May 2022 research associate at the SFB 1285 ("Invectivity"); from January 2020 to October 2023 member of the German-French doctoral program "Construire les différences".

Johannes Haaf received his doctorate in October 2023 with a thesis in democratic theory (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller-Mall, Prof. Dr. Christian Volk).

Publications

Monograph

(2024) Forms of demarcation. On the relationship between law and democracy in the transnational constellation, Weilerswist: Velbrück.

Editorships

(2023), The foundations of human rights. Moral, political or social?, Baden-Baden: Nomos (with Luise Müller, Esther Neuhann, Markus Wolf).
(2020), Book Symposium on Andrea Sangiovanni's "Humanity without Dignity", in: European Journal of Political Theory 19:3 (with Luise Müller, Jan-Philipp Kruse)

article

(in preparation) "A Right to Solidarity. World Ordering from the Margins through International Law?" in: Global Studies Quarterly (with Felix Anderl).
(in preparation) "The Constitution of Algorithmic Governance?" in: Burchard, Christoph & Spiecker, Indra (eds.), Algorithmic Transformations of Power: Between Trust, Conflict and Uncertainty, Baden-Baden: Nomos (with Sabine Müller-Mall).
(2020), "Universal Concern, Contingency and the Single Practice Assumption: Sangiovanni's Theory of Human Rights", in: European Journal of Political Theory 19:3, pp. 426-432 (together with Luise K. Müller).
(2020), "The Government of the Police. From Foucault to Rancière (and back?)", in: Gebhardt, Mareike (ed.): Staatskritik und Radikaldemokratie. The thinking of Jacques Rancière, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 115-132.
(2020), "Medientheorien des Rechts", in: Buckel, Sonja, Christensen, Ralph & Fischer-Lescano, Andreas (eds.), Neue Theorien des Rechts, 3rd ed: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 263-281 (together with Gianna M. Schlichte).

Reviews

(2021), Review of: "Benedict Vischer: Die Fremdheit des Rechts", in: Kritische Justiz 54: 4, pp. 477-480.
(2019), "History and Critique. New Genealogies of Human Rights", in: Journal of Political Theory 10:1, pp. 125-132.
(2019), Review of: "Jonas Heller, Man and Measure. Zur Dialektik von Ausnahmezustand und Menschenrechten", in: Journal of Philosophical Literature 7:2, pp. 27-35.
(2018), Review of: "Janne Mende, A Human Right to Culture and Identity? The Ambivalence of Group Rights", in: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 1/2018 , pp. 154-156.
(2018), Review of: "Heinrich Geiselberger (ed.), The Great Regression. Eine internationale Debatte über die geistige Situation der Zeit", in: Peripherie 152 , pp. 490-492 (together with Felix Anderl & Laura Gorriahn).

Lectures (selection)

(09/2023) "Time to Vote: Marx and Lefort on Democratic Temporalities", Workshop When is Democracy? Towards a Political Theory of Time, University of Münster, September 2023.
(09/2023) "Excluding the Pandemic? Constitutional Crises in Global Investment Protection", Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty, University of Bremen, September 2023.
(06/2023) "A Right to Solidarity? World Ordering from the Margins through International Law", Workshop World Ordering from the Margins, Center for Global Cooperation Research Duisburg, June 2023 (with Felix Anderl).
(03/2019) "Instances of Speaking? Regulating Migration and the Political Potential of Human Rights", ICON-S German Chapter Inaugural Conference, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (together with Laura Gorriahn).
(09/2018) "Legalization as a problem? The Political Capacity of Human Rights", DVPW Congress, Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
(08/2018) "Human Rights and the Institution of Modern Democracy: A Lefortian Perspective", ECPR General Conference, University of Hamburg.
(11/2016), "'System of Sensual Evidences'. Foucault's Expanded Concept of the Police and its Reception in the Work of Jacques Rancière", Conference Foucault Revisited, University of Vienna.

Teaching

Seminars on modern democratic theory, the history of ideas (e.g. Habermas, Foucault, Hobbes), constitutional theory and history, critical legal theory and the relationship between politics and architecture

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