Constitutionalism: Toward a Jurisprudence of the Future

Ralf Poscher is the current Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg and an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg.

After serving as the director of the Centre for Security and Society at the University of Freiburg (2013–2018), Professor Poscher became dean of the university's law faculty in 2018, before taking on his current position at the Max Planck Institute in 2019.

He has published numerous books and articles on constitutional rights and police law in Germany, as well as legal theory and legal philosophy. In his research, he explores the function of the principle of proportionality in fundamental rights and the impact of artificial intelligence technologies on the understanding of the right to personal data protection

Roland Pierik is a professor of Philosophy of Law, chair of the Department of Foundations of Law, and co-director of the Maastricht Research Centre for Law & Jurisprudence.

His research interests revolve around the question of how liberal democracies should deal with cases of colliding fundamental rights or conflicts between fundamental rights and other central ideals within constitutional democracies: the rule of law or democracy.

Prof. Pierik studies fundamental rights as legal-philosophical concepts and legally enforceable rights as they have been formalized in human rights conventions, especially the European Convention on Human Rights.