• WCCL 2022, Johannesburg: Workshop »Democratic Decay: Causes and Remedies«

    World Congress of Constitutional Law (WCCL) 2022 of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) on "Constitutional Transformations", 5-9 December 2022, Johannesburg, South Africa Workshop 7 »Democratic Decay: Causes and Remedies« Chair: Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of…
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  • Lecture: “Diversity in the Legal Academy and Practice”, Academic Workshop, MPI for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

    The lecture “Diversity in the Legal Academy and Practice” by Emanuel V. Towfigh is part of the panel “Diversity and Pluralism within European Legal Systems” of the Academic Workshop “The Instrumentalization of the Rule of Law – Legislation…
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  • ICON•S 2022, Wrocław: Panel »The Future of Political Parties in Constitutional Democracies«

    International Society of Public Law (ICON•S), 2022 Annual Meeting »Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law«, 4-6 July 2022, Wrocław, Poland Panel 115 »The Future of Political Parties in Constitutional Democracies« July 6th, 2022 • 11:45 - 13:15…
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  • Lecture: “Diversity in Legal Education and Practice”, Training Workshop of EJTN & MPI, Barcelona

    Lecture on 18 November 2021 at the European Network of Councils of the Judiciary (EJTN) & Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology seminar: Cultural diversity in the courtroom - judges in Europe facing new challenges [Slides] [Agenda] Training…
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  • »Economic Methods for Lawyers« now available open access

    The textbook »Economic Methods for Lawyers«, published 2015 (hardcover) and 2017 (softcover) with Edward Elgar, is now available open access (i.e., the PDF files of the chapters are freely available, at no cost) using a CC-BY-NC-ND license: Download…
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  • Second Edition “Die rechtliche Verfassung von Religionsgemeinschaften” (PhD dissertation, German) published

    As the first edition of my Ph.D. dissertation (from 2006) was out of print, the publisher decided to print a second edition. Emanuel V. Towfigh Die rechtliche Verfassung von Religionsgemeinschaften. Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der Bahai [The Legal…
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  • Diversity in the Legal Academy and in Legal Practice in Germany (German)

    Joint work with Michael Grünberger, Anna Katharina Mangold, Nora Markard and Mehrdad Payandeh Diversität in Rechtswissenschaft und Rechtspraxis: Ein Essay, 2021, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 77 pages essay, book 105 pages, open access (CC-BY-SA) Download at Nomos Publisher • Download…
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    The Vaccine Passport: Constitutionally permitted – and even required

    by Alexander Stremitzer, Kevin Cope and Emanuel V. TowfighWe are witnessing a fierce political and social debate about whether those who have had their Covid vaccine shots should be allowed to move more freely than unvaccinated people. Opponents…
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