Christoph Möllers
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Christoph Möllers
Christoph Möllers, born in 1969, teaches Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. In 2015, he was awarded the Leibniz Prize, the most important research award in Germany.
Christoph Möllers, born in 1969, teaches Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. In 2015, he was awarded the Leibniz Prize, the most important research award in Germany.
Awards (selection)
Tractatus-Preis 2021
Tractatus-Preis 2021
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2025
Christoph MöllersYear of Publication: 2025
Democracy and the Division of Powers
The division of powers is typically viewed as a principle that formalises and restricts the existing political rule through law. Christoph Möllers opposes this ultimately pre-democratic viewpoint with a concept that foregrounds the political, democracy-facilitating significance of the division of sovereign rule into three separate powers. Focussing on the central aspect of the democratic...
Year of Publication: 2020
Christoph MöllersYear of Publication: 2020
Degrees of Freedom
We are familiar with degrees of freedom in the field of mechanics. The term denotes the number of directions into which a rigid body connected to a joint can move. In attempt at modernising liberalism, Christoph Möllers starts neither with the general political climate nor the conflict between the individual and society.
Instead, he tries to dissect the characteristics of an order...
Year of Publication: 2015
Christoph MöllersYear of Publication: 2015
The Possibility of Norms
When we speak about norms we usually think about precepts governing our lives – precepts that tell us what we should do or what we are not allowed to do. Norms, one might be lead to believe,...
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Christoph Möllers receives Tractatus-Preis 2021
Christoph Möllers is awarded the Tractatus-Preis 2021 for Degrees of Freedom.News
Friederike Mayröcker, Christoph Möllers and Ann Cotten nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2021
Three Suhrkamp authors in three categoriesNews