Head of project: André Bartsch Although the details remain controversial, it is generally accepted in German constitutional law that the state (under Art 1(3) GG) is bound by fundamental rights in the administration of public services. Scholarly treatment of this issue has focused principally on the equal protection clause—much to the exclusion of civil liberties.
Head of project: Daniel Buchmann The business model of some of today’s largest, most valuable, and socially influential companies such as Google (Alphabet), Facebook (Meta), and Twitter can be described as capturing human attention and selling it to advertisers.
Head of project: Cristina Valega Chipoco During the past two decades, many transnational and domestic statutes that regulate the offence of rape have turned away from considering violence or threats as necessary modalities of the offence and have begun treating non-consent as its essential element. This transition can be seen in recent international human rights treaties and normative documents, judgments of international courts, and domestic legal reforms.
Head of project: Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli This comparative philosophy of law dissertation aims at formulating a new analytical approach to the Islamic legal tradition based on ‘juridical categories’, a concept that facilitates comprehension and understanding of juridical phenomena.
Head of project: Linus Ensel The focus of this research project lies on the potential advantages of a partial rationalization of the sentencing process. This kind of intervention in the existing system would lead to a reduction of judicial discretion and would raise the question of the role human decision-making should play in the sentencing process.
Head of project: Sofiya Kartalova As a result of mounting migratory, currency, and judicial reform tensions, the European Union (EU) is currently confronting a rule of law crisis. Rather than focus solely on issues of political legitimacy, recent scholarship proposes reframing this crisis as an absence of trust among EU Member States as well as between some of the EU Member States and EU institutions.
Heads of project: Ralf Poscher, Elisa Orrù FreiburgRESIST is a federally-funded, collaborative research project involving the City of Freiburg authorities and the University of Freiburg’s transdisciplinary Centre for Security and Society. It integrates the fields of information technology, juridical, sociological, ethical, and political security research.
Head of project: Konstanze Jarvers Almost one in three Italian women between the ages of 16 and 70 (6,788,000) have been victims of physical or sexual violence at some point in their lives. Approximately half of these violent experiences were caused by a (former) partner.
Head of project: Maria Diory F. Rabajante Online platforms increasingly resolve offensive and problematic content by employing private adjudicatory mechanisms originally designed to enhance platform accountability and to offer simple and effective online remedies.
Head of project: Isabel Thielmann (PI); contributor/researcher: Natalie Popov Why are some people willing to help others but other people are (rather) not? Why do some people prefer to cooperate with others whereas others are willing to exploit their interaction partners for personal gain? The project “The core tendencies underlying individual differences in prosocial behavior,” which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), addresses these and related questions.
Heads of project: Michael Kilchling, Gunda Wössner Access to telephone and other forms of electronic communication is one of the areas in which prison conditions vary significantly in Germany. The divergent conditions raise several fundamental human rights concerns, such as equal treatment of inmates, the right of resocialization, and the rights to privacy and family life.
Head of project: Rafael Giorgio Dalla Barba The interdisciplinary project in legal philosophy examines the relevance and impact of metaethics on the legal indeterminacy debate. The first chapter (A.) shows the widely accepted argument that, in the so-called hard cases in which the application of legal materials is even for experts highly controversial, the law is indeterminate.