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Möller, Kai

Dr Kai Möller  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Associate Professor in Law

 

Experience keywords:

comparative constitutional law; constitutional theory; human rights law; moral, political, and legal philosophy

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My research interests include:

•Constitutional theory

•Human rights law and theory

•Comparative human and constitutional rights law

•Moral, political, and legal philosophy

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7915

LSE email:

mollerk@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2016

Moller, Kai (2016) U.S. constitutional law, proportionality, and the global model LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers, Working Paper No. 06/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law, London, UK.

2014

Moller, Kai (2014) Constructing the proportionality test: an emerging global conversation In: Lazarus, Liora and McCrudden, Christopher and Bowles, Nigel, (eds.) Reasoning Rights: Comparative Judicial Engagement. Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, 31-40. ISBN 9781849462525

Moller, Kai (2014) A response to Afonso da Silva, Harel, and Porat Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 10 (1). 206-223. ISSN 2219-7125

Moller, Kai (2014) "Balancing as reasoning" and the problems of legally unaided adjudication: a rejoinder to Francisco Urbina International Journal of Constitutional Law, 12 (1). 222-225. ISSN 1474-2640

Möller, Kai (2014) The global model of constitutional rights: a response to Afonso da Silva, Harel, and Porat LSE Law, Society and Economy working paper series, 28/2014. The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law, London, UK.

Moller, Kai (2014) From constitutional to human rights: on the moral structure of international human rights Global Constitutionalism, 3 (3). 373-403. ISSN 2045-3817

2013

Moller, Kai (2013) The global model of constitutional rights: introduction LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 4/2013. Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2012

Moller, Kai (2012) The right to life between absolute and proportional protection In: Bronitt, Simon and Gani, Miriam and Hufnagel, Saskia, (eds.) Shooting to Kill: Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Use of Lethal Force. Onati international series in law and society (1). Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, 47-64. ISBN 9781849462921

Moller, Kai (2012) Proportionality: challenging the critics International Journal of Constitutional Law, 10 (3). 709-731. ISSN 1474-2640

Moller, Kai (2012) The global model of constitutional rights Oxford constitutional theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199664603

2011

Moller, Kai (2011) Ponderación y estructura de los derechos constitucionales In: Beade, Gustavo A. and Clérico , Laura , (eds.) Desafíos a la Ponderación. Serie de teoría jurídica y filosofía del derecho (57). Universidad Externado de Colombia , Bogota, Colombia, 79-113. ISBN 9789587106596

2010

Moller, Kai (2010) The right to life between absolute and proportional protection LSE law, society and economy working papers, 13-2010 . Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2009

Moller, Kai (2009) Two conceptions of positive liberty: towards an autonomy-based theory of constitutional rights Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 29 (4). 757-786. ISSN 0143-6503

2007

Moller, Kai (2007) Abwägungsverbote im Verfassungsrecht Der Staat, 46. 109-128. ISSN 0038-884X

Moller, Kai (2007) Balancing and the structure of constitutional rights International Journal of Constitutional Law, 5 (3). 453-468. ISSN 1474-2640

Moller, Kai (2006) On treating persons as ends: the German Aviation Security Act, human dignity, and the German Federal Constitutional Court Public Law (Autumn). 457-466. ISSN 0033-3565

2005

Moller, Kai (2005) Selbstmordverhinderung im Freiheitlichen Staat Kritische Vierteljahresschrift , 88 (3). 230-243.

Moller, Kai (2005) Der Ehebegriff des Grundgesetzes und die Gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe Die öFfentliche Verwaltung, 58 (2). 64-71. ISSN 0029-859X

Moller, Kai (2005) Paternalismus und Persönlichkeitsrecht (Paternalism and the Right to Privacy) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 3428116798

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Drawing on analyses of a broad range of cases, this book provides the first substantive moral, reconstructive theory of the global model of constitutional rights.

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Kai Moller joined LSE as a Lecturer in Human Rights Law in 2009. From 2007-9 he was a Junior Research Fellow in Law and previously a Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he taught Comparative Human Rights, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law. He holds a PhD in law from Freiburg University and an M.Jur. and M.Phil. from Oxford. He is also qualified for the German Bar.

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