Johannes Haaf is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Critical Computational Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is currently also a visiting scholar at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Johannes received his PhD in Political Science from TU Dresden in 2023, where he had been working as a research associate at the Chair of Legal and Constitutional Theory since 2016. Prior to that, he studied Political Science with a focus on Political Theory and Philosophy in Freiburg, Copenhagen, Toronto, and Frankfurt/M. From January 2020 to October 2023, he was a member of the German-French doctoral program “Construire les différences”.

Johannes' research focuses on modern democratic theory, constitutional theory, digital constitutionalism, and the philosophy of human rights. His PhD thesis examined the relationship between law and democracy in a transnational context.

Monograph

(2024) Entgrenzungsformen: Zum Verhältnis von Recht und Demokratie in der transnationalen Konstellation, Weilerswist: Velbrück.

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Editorships

(2023), Die Grundlagen der Menschenrechte. Moralisch, politisch oder sozial? Baden-Baden: Nomos (ed. w/ Luise Müller, Esther Neuhann, Markus Wolf).

(2020), Book Symposium on Andrea Sangiovanni’s „Humanity without Dignity“, in: European Journal of Political Theory 19:3 (ed. w/ Luise Müller, Jan-Philipp Kruse)

 

Articles

(2025) “The Constitution of Algorithmic Governance”, in: Burchard, Christoph & Spiecker, Indra (eds.), Algorithmic Transformations of Power: Between Trust, Conflict and Uncertainty, Baden-Baden: Nomos (with Sabine Müller-Mall).

(2024), “A Right to Solidarity: World Ordering from the Margins through International Law?“, in: Global Studies Quarterly 4:3 (w/ Felix Anderl).

(2020), “Universal Concern, Contingency and the Single Practice Assumption: Sangiovanni’s Theory of Human Rights”, in: European Journal of Political Theory 19:3 (w/ Luise Müller).

(2020) “Medientheorien des Rechts”, in: Buckel, Sonja et al. (eds.), Neue Theorien des Rechts, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (w/ Gianna M. Schlichte).

(2020), “Die Regierung der Polizei: Von Foucault zu Rancière”, in: Gebhardt, Mareike (ed.), Staatskritik und Radikaldemokratie: Das Denken Jacques Rancières, Baden-Baden: Nomos.

 

Book Reviews

(2021), “Benedict Vischer: Die Fremdheit des Rechts”, in: Kritische Justiz 54:4, 477-480.

(2019), “Geschichte und Kritik: Neue Genealogien der Menschenrechte”, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 10:1, 125-132.

(2019), “Jonas Heller: Mensch und Maßnahme. Zur Dialektik von Ausnahmezustand und Menschenrechten”, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur 7:2, 27-35.

Courses on modern democratic theory, the history of political ideas, (transnational) constitutional theory, and critical legal theory.