Veranstaltungen

Staatliche Überwachung – wo sind wir überhaupt betroffen? Ob Handy, Auto, Bankkonto, Reise oder Wohnung: Das Über­wa­chungs­­barometer zeigt, was Behörden dürfen, was sie wirklich tun und wie wahrscheinlich es ist, dass auch wir selbst einmal in den Fokus von Überwachungsmaßnahmen geraten könnten. [mehr]

The concentration of legislative, executive, and judi­cial powers within online platforms raises profound questions about how they influence society. The as­sumption of state-like powers by companies such as Meta, Google, X, and TikTok invites critical exam­ination of their impact on fundamental rights, governance, and democracy. [mehr]

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Despite everything, liberalism remains the one true political philosophy. Liberal principles – something about liberty and autonomy, something about equality, perhaps some universalist and rationalist assumptions – are still the right fundamental principles for political philosophy. [mehr]

We are pleased to host the 23rd Annual Meeting of the German Law and Economics Associ­ation on July 16–17, 2026, along with a pre-conference workshop on "LLMs for Large-Scale Data Collection" on July 15. The meeting will feature presentations and panel sessions spanning a wide range of topics in law and economics. [mehr]

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This talk explores how contemporary political and academic discourse is being shaped by the expansion of con­cepts used to describe aspects of human vulnerability. Psychological terms such as trauma, anxiety, and de­pres­sion, as well as moral categories like violence, hate, discrimination, and oppression, have been extended to cover an even wider range of experiences. As a result, individuals increasingly appear more vulnerable, and an increas­ing number of situations are interpreted through the lens of harm. [mehr]

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