Jan-Werner Müller
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics at Princeton University

"European Constitutional Patriotism?
The Case Restated"

Wednesday, 11 April 2007
12:00 p.m.
7200 Law School (Lubar Commons)

Sponsored by:
The European Union Center of Excellence
and the Global Legal Studies Center (a joint project of UW Law School and Division of International Studies)

Jan-Werner Müller studied at the Free University, Berlin, University College, London, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Princeton University. From 1996 until 2003 he was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; from 2003 until 2005 he was a Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department, Princeton University.

He has been a visiting fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute of Advanced Study, the Remarque Institute, NYU, the Center for European Studies, Harvard, as well as the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Professor Müller is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), Berlin, Germany’s first private, English-speaking liberal arts college, for which he served both as founding research director and, for half a year, as CEO. He maintains a strong interest in international teaching and research initiatives centered on the liberal arts.

He is the author of Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (Yale UP, 2000), and A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale UP, 2003); he is also the editor of Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (Cambridge UP 2002) and German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave 2003). His book Constitutional Patriotism is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2007.

Professor Müller’s public affairs commentary has appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken; he has also contributed to Dissent, the Boston Review, and Prospect (London), as well as Esprit and Commentaire (Paris). He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Contemporary History and Raison Publique: Revue International de Philosophie Pratique et Appliquée.

He is currently writing a new history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe.