• since 10/23: Visiting lecturer at the University of Erfurt
• 2020-2023: Substitute professorship for cultural theory at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
• 2019: Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Sciences Po Paris, Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris
• 2017: Habilitation at the University of Bonn and award of the Venia Legendi for the subject Political Science
• 2010-2018: Research employee, coordinator and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture"/University of Bonn
• 2010: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in political science at the LMU Munich
• 2008-2010: Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
• 2002-2007: Studies in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Heidelberg (Magister Artium)
• 2004-2005: Studies at the Sciences Po Lille

General research foci:

• Political Theory, Philosophy and History of Ideas
• Cultural Theory and Philosophy
• Qualitative political cultural research and legal analysis

Thematic foci:

• Basic concepts of democratic theory and contemporary problems of democratic orders.
• Theory and practice of the state of exception, new authoritarianism
• Theory and practice of legal pluralism, cultural pluralism and human rights, theories and discourses of (legal) personhood
• Constitutional culture, constitutionalism and the rule of law
• Constructivist theories of time and space
• Cultural conflicts and concepts of inter- and transculturality
• French political system and thought
• Intellectual research
• Politics and truth

Monographs

• Contested Law. On the multidimensional analysis of legal-cultural conflicts by political culture research, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2018.
• Changing Forms of French Intellectuals. An analysis of their social debates from Libération to the present, Münster/Berlin: LIT 2010

Editorships

• Theme issue of the Journal of Political Theory: Democracies in Time Out? Conceptual and theoretical-analytical perspectives on the temporal dimensions of states of exception (with André Brodocz and Hagen Schölzel, forthcoming)
• Dynamics of Constitutional Cultures. The Cultural Manifestation and Political Force Field of Constitutionalism, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2021 (with Werner Gephart)
• The Normative Structure of Human Civilization. Readings in John Searle's Social Ontology, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2017 (with Werner Gephart).
• Legal Analysis as Cultural Research II, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2015 (together with Werner Gephart).
• Tribunals. Literary Representation and Judicial Reappraisal of War Crimes in a Global Context, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2014 (together with Werner Gephart, Jürgen Brokoff and Andrea Schütte).

Essays in professional journals

• Between Prerogative Power and Legality - Reading Ernst Fraenkel's The Dual State as an Analytic Tool for Present Authoritarian Rule, in: Jurisprudence. An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought 11/3 (2020), pp. 335-359.
• The Symbolic Politics of the State of Exception: Images and Performances, in: Journal of Political Science 28/4 (2018), pp. 565-580
• From Emergency Politics to Authoritarian Constitutionalism? The Legal and Political Costs of EU Financial Crisis Management, in: German Law Journal 19/2 (2018), pp. 375-402.
• Between Rule Control and Conspiracy Theory: On the Ambivalence of "Democracies of Distrust", in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 59/2 (2018), pp. 221-243
• The Legal Person and its Other: A Comparative View on Drawing and Effacing Boundaries in Various Cultural Contexts, in: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 3 (2017),
• Michel Foucault and the Competing Alethurgies of Law, in: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 37/2 (2017), pp. 301-325.
• Law as Culture. A blind spot in political culture research, in: Journal of Political Theory 4/2 (2013) (special issue on political culture research), pp. 170-189.
• On the Role of "Media Intellectuals". A critical phenomenology, in: Leviathan Berlin Journal of Social Science 41/1 (2013), pp. 164-187.
• The Intellectuals and the Legal Forms, in: Archive for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy 98/4 (2012), pp. 494-509.
• On the Constitution of Deliberative Democracy. Structural Problems and Perspectives, in: Der Staat 49/4 (2010), pp. 605-629.
• The Body Language of Democracy. Thoughts on a recent debate, in: Journal of Political Theory 1/1 (2010), pp. 7-23
• "The moment of decision is a delusion" - Critical remarks on the postmodern discovery of political judgement, in: Political Thought Yearbook 2010, pp. 197-217
• An Intellectual Ethics of Modesty and Solidarity - Albert Camus' Thinking of Revolt, in: Zeitschrift für Politik 56/2 (2009), pp. 179-196

Book chapter

• Time politics in a state of emergency and the democratising power of hesitation, in: Matthias Reichelt/Benjamin Schmid (eds.): Zugänge zum Zögern, Wiesbaden: Springer (forthcoming).
• State of Emergency Mass Migration? Flüchtlingspolitik zwischen Mythos und Faktizität des Rechtsbruchs, in: Andreas Niederberger/Oliviero Angeli (eds.): Migration - Herausforderung im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und Praxis, Baden-Baden: Nomos (forthcoming).
• Marx criticism and anti-totalitarianism of the 1970s (les nouveaux philosophes, Claude Lefort, la deuxième gauche), in: Heike Delitz (ed.): Sociological Ways of Thinking from France, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2022, pp. 233-255.
• From Criminal Fact-Finding to Memory Politics and Transitional Justice: Witnessing in the Medium of Law, in: Zeynep Tuna et al. (eds.): Bezeugen. Medial, Forensic and Cultural Practices of Witnessing, Stuttgart: Metzler 2022, pp. 187-209.
• The Failed Project of Constitutional Engineering: Legal Diversity, Identity Politics, and Power Struggles in Afghanistan, in: Werner Gephart/Jan Christoph Suntrup (eds.): Dynamics of Constitutional Cultures. The Cultural Manifestation and Political Force Field of Constitutionalism, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2021, pp. 185-210.
• Corona: Biopolitical Models and the Hygiene of Tact, in: Werner Gephart (ed.): In the Realm of Corona Normativities. A Momentary Snapshot of a Dynamic Discourse, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2020, pp. 137-145.
• Identity Narratives in Conflict. The Contest of Narratives in the Israeli Culture War, in: Wolfgang Bergem/Paula Diehl/Hans J. Lietzmann (eds.): Politische Kulturforschung reloaded. New Theories, Methods and Results, Bielefeld: Transcript 2019, pp. 295-319.
• From Dermatological Analysis to Social Ontology: Notes on Bruno Latour's ANTbergung des Rechts, in: Hagen Schölzel (ed.): Der große Leviathan und die Akteur-Netzwerk-Welten. Statehood and Political Collectivity in Bruno Latour's Thought, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2019, pp. 85-114 (co-authored with Daniel Witte).
• The "Drama of True Discourse". On the Analytical and Political-Theoretical Content of Foucault's Parrhesia Lectures, in: Oliver Marchart/Renate Martinsen (eds.): Foucault und das Politische. Transdisciplinary Impulses for Contemporary Political Theory, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019, pp. 329-352.
• Deliberation and the "Social Brain". Durkheim's Theory of Democracy and Political Legitimacy, in: Werner Gephart/Daniel Witte (eds.): The Sacred and the Law: The Durkheimian Legacy, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2017, pp. 263-281.