Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security & Law Working Paper Series
Human Dignity as a Value and a Right. The German Case (March 5, 2024).To appear as: “Human Dignity” in: Matthias Herdegen, Johannes Masing, Ralf Poscher and Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz (eds.), Constitutional Law in Germany (C.H. Beck 2024, forthcoming). 75 pages. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2024/01.
The Challenges of Rape Law Reform: America's New Model Penal Code (January 3, 2024). 39 pages. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/11.
EPPO Versus National Prosecution Office: A Conflicting Case of Competence with Broader Dimensions (December 13, 2023). Published in: M.J.J.P. Luchtman (Editor in Chief): Of swords and shields: due process and crime control in times of globalization: Liber amicorum prof. dr. J.A.E. Vervaele. 10 pages. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/10.
Delegated Vigilantism and Less-than-lethal Lynching in Twenty-first Century America (September 11, 2023). To appear in: Crime & Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 52. 24 pages.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/09.
Why Americans Are a People of Exceptional Violence (September 12, 2023). To appear in: Crime & Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 52. 27 pages.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/08.
The Future of the European Security Architecture - a Debate Series (September 11, 2023). Originally published on https://verfassungsblog.de/category/debates/pnr-debate-series/. 82 pages. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/06.
Virtual Reality for Criminologists: A Roadmap (July 18, 2023). To appear in: Crime & Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 52. 56 pages. In press. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/05.
Vigilantism and "Public Confidence": The Pertinence of Public Opinion to Sentencing (February 15, 2023). To appear in: Sentencing, Public Opinion and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Julian V. Roberts, edited by Marie Manikis and Gabrielle Watson [Hart, 2023]. 16 pages. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/04.
Doing Injustice: Replacing One "Arbitrary, Cruel, and Reckless" Sentencing System with Another (February 15, 2023). To appear in: Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2023. 14 pages. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/03.
Has the Prison a Future (February 5, 2023). To appear in: Crime and Justice, Volume 51. 6 pages. Accepted Paper Series.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/02.
Punishments, Politics, and Prisons in Western Countries (September 1, 2022). To appear in: Crime and Justice, Volume 51. 44 pages. Forthcoming.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/01.
Principled Disobedience as Legal Obligation (August 31, 2022).
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2022/02.
The Hermeneutics of Legal Precedent (February 15, 2022). To appear in: Timothy Endicott, Sebastian Lewis, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson (eds.), “Philosophical Foundations of Precedent”, OUP 2022 Forthcoming.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2022/01.
Consequences of the German Constitutional Court's Ruling on Germany's Foreign Intelligence Service: The Importance of Human Rights in the Cooperation of Intelligence Services (December 14, 2021).
Pre-peer-review version of an article published in the German Law Journal (March 2022), Volume 23, Issue 2, pp. 173–185.
Good Scientific Practice and Academic Reviews (August 6, 2021). Published in 2021 in Criminal Law Forum under an open access license (CC BY 4.0).
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2021/05.
Why it is Not Unreasonable to Fear Terrorism (August 15, 2023).
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2021/04.
Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Data Protection (January 19, 2021).
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2021/03.
Proportionality and the Bindingness of Fundamental Rights (January 27, 2021).
“Proportionality in Crime Control and Criminal Justice”, E. Billis/N. Knust/J.P. Rui (eds.), 2021, Hart Publishing, pp. 49–68. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2021/02.
A Framework Theory of Punishment (February 10, 2021).
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2021/01.
A Criminal Law for Semi-Citizens (August 1, 2020). Pre–peer reviewed version of an article published in 2021 under an open access license (CC BY-NC) in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Version of Record available at DOI.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2020/03.
What’s Really Wrong with Fining Crimes? On the Hard Treatment of Criminal Monetary Fines (November 26, 2020). Pre–peer review version of an article forthcoming in Criminal Law and Philosophy (2021).
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2020/02.
Resuscitation of a Phantom? On Robert Alexy’s Latest Attempt to Save His Concept of Principle (March 9, 2020). Published in 2020 in Ratio Juris 33(2), 134-149, under an open access license (CC BY-NC-ND).
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2020/01.