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Samantha Besson

Dangerous Science, Anticipation and the Human Right to Science

Max Planck Guest Lecture
  • Date: Apr 22, 2026
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Samantha Besson (Collège de France, Paris)
  • Location: Freiburg/Germany, Fürstenbergstr. 19
  • Room: Seminar room (F 113) | Guests are welcome; please register
  • Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Contact: c.hillemanns@csl.mpg.de
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Police Accountability Adrift? Proposals, Policies, and Politics in Light of Shifting Legitimacy Standards

Lecture with the Police Accountability Conference
  • Date: Feb 26, 2026
  • Time: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Monica den Boer (Leiden University/Netherlands Defence Academy)
  • Location: Freiburg/Germany, Fürstenbergstr. 19
  • Room: Seminar room (F 113)
  • Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Contact: s.ellebrecht@csl.mpg.de

The Wicked Problem of Police Accountability

Lecture within the Police Accountability Conference
  • Date: Feb 26, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Rowe (Northumbria University)
  • Location: Freiburg/Germany, Fürstenbergstr. 19
  • Room: Seminar room (F 113)
  • Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Contact: s.ellebrecht@csl.mpg.de
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Police Accountability – Adapting Liability and Control Mechanisms to Heterogeneous Societies and Transnational Policing

Conference
  • Start: Feb 26, 2026 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Feb 27, 2026 03:00 PM
  • Location: Freiburg/Germany, Fürstenbergstr. 19
  • Room: Seminar room (F 113)
  • Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Contact: s.ellebrecht@csl.mpg.de

A Barometer for State Surveillance (external event)

Dialogue in the Museum
  • Date: Feb 24, 2026
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher
  • Location: online via Youtube (link address see below)
  • Host: Daimler and Benz Foundation
  • Contact: info@daimler-benz-stiftung.de
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The Autonomy of Legal Doctrine. Its Merits in the Process of Social Differentiation (external event)

Intervention dans le cadre du séminaire ThéorHis
  • Date: Feb 16, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Paris UTC+01:00)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher
  • Location: Université Paris Nanterre/France
  • Room: bâtiment Veil, salle F352
  • Host: Université Paris Nanterre, Centre de Théorie et d’Analyse du Droit (CTAD)
  • Contact: mbdiallo@parisnanterre.fr
Poster

Preventive Security and State Structures – Selected French/German Perspectives

Workshop
  • Date: Feb 13, 2026
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 06:00 PM (Paris UTC+01:00)
  • Location: Université Paris Nanterre/France
  • Room: bâtiment Veil, salle F352
  • Host: Université Paris Nanterre, Centre de Théorie et d’Analyse du Droit (CTAD) and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Public Law
  • Contact: r.pougnet@csl.mpg.de
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Poster

Verfassungsgerichte im Gespräch

Freiburg Lectures on Staatswissenschaft and Philosophy of Law
  • Date: Feb 2, 2026
  • Time: 06:15 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Christoph Grabenwarter (President of the Constitutional Court, Austria), and Andreas Voßkuhle (Former President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany)
  • Location: University of Freiburg/Germany
  • Room: Aula
  • Host: Department of Political Science and Philosophy of Law at the University of Freiburg in cooperation with the MPI-CSL
  • Contact: rechtstheorie@jura.uni-freiburg.de
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Die Jugend wird braver – langfristige Trends der Jugendkriminalität (external event)

Lecture (in German) within the lecture series TACHELES, University of Freiburg
  • Date: Jan 15, 2026
  • Time: 07:15 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Oberwittler
  • Location: University of Freiburg/Germany
  • Room: HS 1098, KG I
  • Host: Institute for Criminology and Commercial Criminal Law, University of Freiburg, and Humanistische Union Baden-Württemberg
  • Contact: instkrim@jura.uni-freiburg.de

Farewell, Nordic Criminal Law? A Kantian Outlook

Guest Lecture
  • Date: Jan 12, 2026
  • Time: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Jørn Jacobsen (University of Bergen/Norway)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
  • Room: via Zoom
  • Host: Max Planck Research Group “Criminal Law Theory”
  • Contact: strafrechtstheorie@csl.mpg.de
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