Current publications
Sabine Müller-Mall
Verfassende Urteile. Eine Theorie des Rechts. Suhrkamp 2023, 285 pages
Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller-Mall has just published "Verfassende Urteile. A Theory of Law" has just been published by Suhrkamp Verlag!
Courts exert great influence on constitutional developments with their judgments. But how can these judgments expand, condense or change constitutions? And what does it even mean to make legal judgments? In order to explain authorial judgments through their legal form, Sabine Müller-Mall reconstructs procedures of legal judgment in her perceptive book. She not only develops a fundamental perspective on the connection between law and constitutionalization, but also a theory of law that takes judgment as its starting point.
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Detailed information can be found here: Authoring Judgments. A theory of law by Sabine Müller-Mall
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Sabine Müller-Mall
Freiheit und Kalkül: Politik der Algorithmen
1st edition, publication date: 25.09.2020, 80 pages, ISBN 978-3-15-014043-7
Algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in our social lives - in opinion polls, voting behavior and advertising. Above all, they influence how social issues can become political. We must therefore not simply use algorithms or accept their use, but must fundamentally clarify where and how we want to use them at all. Only if we understand them as political and deal with them democratically will we not run the risk of submitting to them and depoliticizing society in the process.
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Jan-Philipp Kruse, Sabine Müller-Mall (eds.)
Digitale Transformationen der Öffentlichkeit
1st edition, publication date: 01.07.2020, 220 pages, paperback, ISBN 9783958322127
The public sphere is undergoing massive and rapid change. Opportunities for communication and action are multiplying under digital conditions. We encounter "trolls" who sabotage discourse or "storms" of invective, we gather knowledge or biographical worlds in "clouds" that seem to float above the old distinction between public and private, and we form strange "bubbles" in which opinions and affects build up to escalating dynamics.
Such phenomena appear as elements of a change that goes hand in hand with new media, formats and conventions and in this respect presents itself as a profound, structural transformation. The contributions in this volume examine the consequences of this transformation for the concept of the public sphere from various perspectives in the humanities, social sciences and law: How, in what framework, with what premises, concepts and methods can we think about the public sphere today in an exemplary way - with regard to its normative implications, but also its relationship to politics, law, truth and the dimension of affects?
With contributions by: Andreas Antić, Albert Ingold, Katja Chancellor, Alexander Kästner and Wiebke Voigt, Jan-Philipp Kruse, Sabine Müller-Mall, Tanja Prokić and Anna Häusler, Dominik Schrage and Sonja Engel, Sandra Seubert and Carlos Becker, Thorsten Thiel and Niklas Rakowski, and Tim Wihl.
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Sigrid G. Köhler, Sabine Müller-Mall, Florian Schmidt, Sandra Schnädelbach (eds.)
Recht Fühlen
1st ed. 2017, approx. 290 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, paperback. ISBN: 978-3-7705-5934-3
Can law be felt? Is there a right feeling in normative terms? A scientific, political and artistic debate on the function of feeling in law has been going on for over 200 years.
The concept of a sense of justice in the narrower sense emerged in the 18th century. Since then, it has questioned the relationship of human beings to normative orders, responsibility and participation and, last but not least, correct judgment. This volume follows these historical and systematic search movements and links them to the current debate on "Law and Emotion". Contributions from the fields of law, literature, history and cultural studies explore conceptual and functional dimensions of legal feeling: as part of jurisprudence and legal genesis, as a form of political and aesthetic judgment and as a mode of forming the subject and society. In this way, patterns of interpretation and problems are reflected upon which span historical and current debates with astonishing persistence.
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Thomas Hilgers, Gertrud Koch, Christoph Möllers, Sabine Müller-Mall (eds.)
Affekt & Urteil
1st ed. 2015, 178 pages, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-7705-5644-1
Does making a judgment always involve feeling an affect? Does affect perhaps even form the decisive determinant of judgment? And if so, how can the normative dimension of judgment be reconciled with such an affective grounding? This volume brings together ten essays and a discussion that explore the complex relationship between affect and judgment. The focus is on two types of judgment: the aesthetic judgment and the juridical judgment. Different research perspectives on these two types of judgment show the relationship between affect and judgment in a clearer light. In addition, the extent to which there is a particular similarity between aesthetic and juridical judgments is worked out.
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Jan-Philipp Kruse, Luce de Lire (eds.)
Kritik Praxis Krankenhaus
1st ed. 2015, 323 pages, ISBN: 978-3-942106-28-3
No one would deny that the healthcare system is not in need of criticism at least here or there. At the same time, the hospital as its metonymy is a critical practice and thus not merely an object of criticism in the sense of naming grievances, but also a laboratory of complex judgments, considerations and assessments - and in this respect also an elective relative of philosophical criticism. Criticism not only of one another, but of one another: that would be both the intention and the experiment of this volume.
With contributions by: Walter Bruchhausen, Diana Daniel, Alexander García Düttmann, Thomas Ebke, Andreas Heinz, Armin Hoyer, Rima Hussein, Maria Keil, Jenny Kellner, Rainer Mühlhoff, Stefan Reinsch, Martin Saar, Moritz Schelkes, Justus Schollmeyer, Isette Schuhmacher, Doris Staab, Luigi Wolf