Christian is an Austrian legal philosopher and researcher specializing in illiberal constitutionalism, political extremism, and the theory of civil disobedience. He is a doctoral candidate and university assistant at the Department of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He holds a Magister iuris (Mag. iur.) in Law, alongside a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts, grounding his legal scholarship in political theory and philosophy.
His academic research explores how conceptions of community and collective identity are framed within illiberal and anti-pluralist constitutional theories. His work examines the political accountability of intellectual movements, notably through his research on the responsibility of far-right theorists for generating extreme beliefs and ideological polarization. Additionally, he investigates alternative frameworks of democratic contestation and public recognition.
His co-authored scholarship includes the study “Provocatively Civil: The ‘Good Trouble’ of Civil Disobedience in Philosophy and Comics” (Oxford University Press, 2026), published in Resistance in Epistemic, Communicative, and Political Practices, which bridges popular culture with serious political philosophy. His published articles, such as “Emphatically One’s Own: Autonomy, Identity and Self-Respect” in the University of Vienna Law Review, counter conservative critiques of identity politics by framing identity recognition as a fundamental prerequisite for personal autonomy and social justice.