Jörg Tremmel (born 4 August 1970 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a political theorist and philosopher.
[1] Spending a year in England, from 2009 to 2010, he was a research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, both at its Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science and (part-time) at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment.
Tremmel's diploma thesis in Political Science "Sustainability as an analytical and political category" won the Procter & Gamble Award for exceptional final theses in environmental science.
The linchpin of this new paradigm is that the old separation of powers into legislative, executive, and judicial branches would no longer be appropriate today.
Similar to the eighteenth century, when in the course of first establishing a democracy in a large territorial state, the Federalist Papers proposed a system of "checks and balances" to protect minorities against the "tyranny of majority," in Tremmel's view there is a need of "checks and balances" against the "tyranny of the present over the future".