Heads of project: Philipp-Alexander Hirsch, Markus Kneer, Levin Güver Both the legal and the everyday attribution of responsibility are based on a rationalist, naive psychology that interprets human action as behaviour caused by epistemic and optative states. The different degrees of legal and everyday attributions of responsibility correspond to the possible combinations of different epistemic states (such as knowledge, foresight as practically certain, probable or merely possible, not knowing, etc.) and optative states (such as desiring, striving, accepting, indifference, etc.).
Head of project: Konstanze Jarvers The phenomenon of domestic and gender-based violence against women is widespread and affects all social classes and all countries. In 2014, for example, 33% of women in the EU between the ages of 18 and 74 had been victims of physical or sexual assault at some point in their lives.
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.
Head of project: Colin Carter Large language models are advanced, deep learning algorithms designed to understand, summarize, translate, predict, and generate text. They are trained on large datasets, which enables them to mimic human-like language abilities. Recently, these models have gained popularity beyond their traditional domain of natural language processing.
Heads of project: R. Poscher, M. Herdegen, J. Masing, K. F. Gärditz The Handbook of Constitutional Law is co-authored by 24 German professors, and supported by 15 international academics from Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. Edited by Professors Herdegen, Masing, Poscher, and Gärditz, the Handbook’s main purpose is to foster transnational constitutional dialogue.
Head of project: Valerij Zisman Normative debates often rely on theories about what is right and wrong. In the case of punishment theory, for example, retributivists often rely on deontological theories, while proponents of deterrence theory draw from utilitarianism.
Head of project: Morten Boe Guilt is the focal point of (German) criminal law: it is a prerequisite of punishment, is guaranteed by the constitutional principle of guilt, and is the epitome of the general systemic decision to adopt a culpability-based criminal law.
Head of project: Marc André Bovermann Online platforms are the ‘new governors’ of our digital public sphere. This notion is central to the EU’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) which, after coming into full force and effect on 17 February 2024, aims to foster a safer, more predictable, and trustworthy online environment for all EU Member States.
Head of project: Lukas Landerer Data retention characteristically involves storing mass data of persons not suspected of criminal or otherwise dangerous behaviour, and making this data accessible to security authorities. In 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that a telecommunications data directive violated European fundamental rights and declared it invalid.