Stanford’s Anne Joseph O’Connell examines who can step in when a top federal position is vacant and what recent court decisions could mean for how those positions are filled.
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—Maksym Mykhailenko, independent researcher, Dresden, Germany Where substantial executive authority is concentrated in a single officeholder, the modern presidency rests
on an increasingly implausible institutional assumption: that one person can exercise meaningful judgement across the entire range of executive government. [...]
Am 21. und 22.09.2026 findet am Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst in Wien eine trans- und interdisziplinäre Konferenz zum Thema „Krisendialektik und radikale Imagination“
statt. Die Konferenz wird von Prof. Dr. Nadja Meisterhans und Dr. Alexander Neupert-Doppler im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts ‚Dialektik der Pandemie – Zwischen Autoritarismus [...]
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law has issued a call for nominations, including self-nominations, for a director who will lead a research
department at the Institute and contribute to the Institute’s mission. The call is here. [...]