From May 20 to 22, 2026, Rareș-David Chioreanu, research assistant at the Department for International Law and International Relations, attended the 66th Young Scholars’ Conference on Public Law in Göttingen.
In his presentation “Between Law and Religion: The Mysticism of Constitutional Court Decisions,” he outlined the free democratic basic order as a new civil religion in which the almighty God is replaced by the constitutional state and the priests by the constitutional judges. He attributed this to the primal human tendency to sacralize authority, which leads to a paradox in the secular state. Thus, however, the system is kept alive through the ritual creation of authority.
Furthermore, he had the opportunity to network with colleagues in related fields within the framework of the Working Group of Young Scholars in International Law and to engage in academic discussion at a colloquium.
The Young Public Law Conference is the largest annual conference for early-career scholars in public law and brings together participants from across the German-speaking world. In 2026, “Law and the Courts” was in focus.