Review article with Stephen D. Krasner. In The American Interest Online (January/February 2009).
The Concept of National Citizenship in the Contemporary World: Identity or Volition? (pdf, 121KB)
Lecture at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, September 26, 2008.
Forswearing Allegiance
Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture in Legal History, The University of Chicago Law School, May 1, 2008.
Caesarism in Democratic Politics - Reflections on Max Weber
A lecture delivered to the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress on March 22, 2007. Webcast
Gibt es ein europäisches Demokratiedefizit? (pdf, 104KB)
A lecture delivered at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in Munich on May 30, 2006.
Rule of Law? Whose Law? (pdf, 137KB)
Published in the Festschrift für Andreas Heldrich zum 70. Geburtstag.
Die Karlsruher Republik/The "Karlsruhe Republic"
German (pdf, 107KB) and English (pdf, 113KB) versions of the Keynote Address at the State Ceremony Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Die Idee einer Universität (pdf, 130KB)
A lecture delivered at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and reprinted in Die Politische Meinung 378 (May 2001)
The United States at the End of the "American Century": The Rule of Law or Enlightened Absolutism? (pdf, 312KB)
The Tyrell Williams Lecture at the Washington University School of Law, January 31, 2000.
