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Our panel will explore the impact of strategic lit­i­gation on the development of fundamental rights and public security. Ulf Buermeyer co-founded the Berlin-based NGO Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, Society for Civil Rights) in 2015 and has since served as its Director and Board Member. The GFF aims to defend fundamental and human rights through strategic lit­i­gation. Having argued and won several landmark cases before various courts, including the German Constitutional Court, the GFF has grown into a vital institution of German civil society and has made significant contributions to the doctrinal development of fundamental rights and security law. [mehr]

From Thomas Hobbes to Joseph Raz philosophical accounts of authority have struggled to accommodate its dependence on doing the right thing. The delivery of substantively defensible results remains relevant, even in the case of Hobbes, despite authority’s pre-emptive effect. While we have duties, if someone has authority over us, simply because the relevant person or institution has laid these down for us, the authority is rooted in a status that can be lost if the authority does not deliver substantively appealing results. [mehr]

The orthodox view regarding private law and, more specifically, the law of negligence is that it only deals with our rights and duties. Hence, values and civic maturity play no role in private law reasoning. Further­more, Bernard Williams poses a pugnacious puzzle that arises in regard to civic maturity. If we ask the citizen to ‘take responsibility,’ then the answer demon­strates precisely that the citizen either has not shown maturity or is not mature. A sign of maturity means taking responsibility through our realization and re­flections, not because someone else has told us to do so. Contra Williams, I will argue that tort law advances proleptic thoughts and ways of engag­ing with values so that the citizen inhabits a deliberative-aspirational perspective that reflects civic maturity. However, there is a tension between the idea of civic maturity itself and legal responsibility, and between rights and values or the good. The lecture will concentrate on this tension and will offer a solution to either dissolve or mitigate it. [mehr]

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