Former Max Weber Fellow Phillip Ayoub has been awarded two prestigious prizes for his PhD thesis, ‘When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe’, defended in 2013 in the Department of Government at Cornell University. He won the 2014 American Political Science Association (APSA) Human Rights Section’s award […]

Who is liable for the actions of automated weapons systems?

The Max Weber Programme will hold its 8th Social Issues for Social Sciences Conference from 11 – 13 June 2014, at the Badia. The conference is meant to provide a perspective of the Max Weber Fellows contributions to social sciences and humanities in research and academia. It will also be a forum to foster cross-disciplinary and […]