Michael Klenk (metaethics, normative ethics, ethics of technology), Assistant Professor of Philosophy at TU Delft, has accepted appointment as Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), effective April 2026. (UTN is the first newly founded public university in Bavaria since 1978 and aims to integrate the liberal arts and social sciences with AI research and education.)
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Wish Professor Robert Alexy R.I.P.
The works of Professor Alexy will continue to inform and shape legal discourse for a long time. Rest In Peace.
It is so sad. His lectures were just like his major work (A Theory of Constitutional Rights) — simply different…
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Alexy’s non-positivist theory represented an effort to address the rationality of law without resorting to metaphysical conceptions of law. Drawing…