Events | Defending Democracy: The German Approach mit Ronen Steinke
UCLA Law School, Faculty Library | 14. April 2025
15.00 Uhr (PT) | UCLA Law School, Faculty Library
Eine Diskussion mit dem Journalisten, Rechtswissenschaftler und Autor Ronen Steinke zu Defending Democracy: The German Approach. Die Veranstaltung wird moderiert von Alexandra Lieben, stellvertretende Direktorin des UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
Germany keeps a domestic intelligence service unlike any other. In the name of shielding democracy from extremists, its Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution is mandated to spy even on opposition groups who operate entirely within the law.
Attendance
By invitation only.
Participants
Ronen Steinke, born in Erlangen, grew up in the small Jewish community of Nuremberg. As a political editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, he focuses on civil and human rights in his commentaries, essays, and columns. His legal dissertation on war crimes tribunals (2011) was praised as a “masterpiece” by FAZ. His publications, including the 2022 bestseller Vor dem Gesetz sind nicht alle gleich, have sparked significant political discourse. His biography of Fritz Bauer, prosecutor of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (2013), was adapted into an award-winning film and translated into multiple languages. Since 2023, he has been a lecturer at the Institute for Criminal Science and Philosophy of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt and is currently an Honorary Fellow at the Thomas Mann House.
Alexandra Lieben is the deputy director of the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations and lecturer at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She also served as faculty advisor for the UCLA Anderson School’s Applied Management Research Program and is an affiliated faculty member of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at the UCLA School of Law. A certified mediator, she teaches a. o. constructive communication and alternative dispute resolution to undergraduate and graduate students at UCLA. For more than a decade, she has held seminars in crisis prevention, crisis de-escalation, and constructive communication for leaders and rank-and-file of public safety and public sector agencies.
This event is organized by UCLA Burkle Center.
