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Lecture 3 (United States) – 05.05.2022
(1) What is gerrymandering politics? Is there any connection between it and political polarization?
Give examples. [Jiaying Gu/Maximilian Hassel] +
(2) How does the US President get elected? Articulate your answer referring to the recent Biden-
Trump election. [Vivien Killani/Philipp Kraft] +
(3) Can the US Constitution be amended by individual States? [Patricia Haufe/Annika Krohm-
Brauckmann] +
Lecture 4 (Germany) – 12.05.2022
(4) Constitutionally speaking, can the federal structure of Germany be changed into a decentralized
unitary state? [Mara Nixdorf/ Luna Pürschel] +
(5) Can the Federal Chancellor and/or individual ministers be removed from office by parliament as a
whole or by one of the constituent chambers? [Marco Antonio Toche Zevallos/Veronika Vlahovic] +
(6) Assume after having suffered defeats in State elections, the SPD would resign as a government
party: would that lead to a dissolution of the Bundestag? Relate also to historical examples and
explain. [Cigdem Kocarslan/Christina Jürgens] -
Lecture 5 (France) – 19.05.2022
(7) Can the President, or the prime-minister or individual ministers be removed from office by
parliament as a whole or by one of the constituent chambers? [Markus Krüger/Lina Eberts] +
(8) Under Macron’s presidency his prime minister Edouard Philippe has managed to push legislation
through parliament: give examples and describe the relevant constitutional procedures. [Yannic
Belzer/Sanam Budojan] +
(9) May the French President undertake military action, and to what extent is parliamentary
involvement necessary? [Tim Erik Grave/Thomas Henning] -
Lecture 6 (UK) – 02.06.2022
(10) Can the House of Commons or the House of Lords be dissolved, and if yes, how? [Anna-Rosa
Konrad/Vasiliki Naoum] +
(11) How was Theresa May forced to step down as prime minister and how was her successor
selected, named and appointed? [Celina Bettina Marita Reinhardt/Christina Sander] +
(12) How can the Brexit referendum be reconciled with the concept of sovereignty of Parliament?
[Ferhat Salgut/Elisa Zekiye Seyhan] +
(13) How does the HRA 1998 relate to parliamentary sovereignty? [Alicia Thannheuser/Dea Baric
Kristo] +
Lecture 7 (Brazil) – 23.06.2022
(14) How does the Brazilian president get elected? Is there any similarity between this electoral
process with the electoral processes for the Presidents of other countries analyzed? [Tamana
Dhillon/Amirhossein Ghazaeialamdari] +
(15) What is the role of Chamber of Deputies in the Brazilian legislative process? [Nina Coerdt] -
(16) Is Brazil’s federal system more similar to the US or Germany’s federal system? [Eyup Erol/Nina
Alexandra Harbecke]
Lecture 8 (China) – 30.06.2022
(17) What does it mean to say that China is a unitary rather than a federal state? Articulate your
answer by referring to features of China’s constitutional system. [Tamara Colic/Selahattin
Ismailoglou] + GIVE FEEDBACK
(18) Explain the relationship between the National People’s Congress and the Standing Committee in
China’s legislative process. [Jennifer Riemer] +
(19) How does one become a member of the National People’s Congress? [Toni Maric/Jessica Leifels]
POSTPONED to the last week +
Lecture 9 (Judicial Review 1) – 07.07.2022
(20) Can judicial review be reconciled with democracy? [Christian Palm/Janina Marie Schmidt] +
(21) What is Dworkin’s main argument in favor of judicial review? [Seungyeon Ha] +
(23) What is Waldron’s main argument against judicial review? [Pauline Yvette Lichota/Dimitrios
Georgios Oikonomou] +
Lecture 10 (Judicial Review 2) – 14.07.2022
(24) What types of judicial review there are? Identify them by giving concrete examples. [Dajana
Bergmann/Vincent Nicolas Büchner/Açıkgöz Oğuzhan] +
(25) Is it correct to state that the US Supreme Court has the power to quash statutes (i.e. to make
them invalid)? [Damilola Zainab Olatunde] +
(26) How does the process of constitutional review work in China? Is there one? [Yujeong
Kim/Maurice Mecking] +
Lecture 11 (Global Constitutional Law – 21.07.2022
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