Former Fellow

Bernhard Jakl

Private lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Faculty of Philosophy of the LMU Munich

Research topic:
“Autonomy-oriented justification of norms as confidence-building conflict resolution in global digitalization”

Project description:
Current crises of confidence in the democratic constitutional state are particularly reflected in the question of how the digital upheavals should be legally contained. Previous developments in data protection, competition law and freedom of expression suggest that cross-border requirements for a borderless Internet with a territorially limited binding nature of democratic legislation can essentially be achieved through an informalization of state power.

The aim of the project is to work out these changes in conflict management and the associated legal trust. To this end, I will discuss legal lines of argumentation that continue to enable collective and individual autonomy-oriented conflict management under the changing conditions of digitalization. (Bernhard Jakl)

Events:
The lecture on the project “Autonomy-oriented justification of norms as trust-building conflict resolution in global digitalization” took place on 9 June 2022 at 11 a.m. in the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.

  • Biografische Angaben

    PD Dr. Bernhard Jakl is a private lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. After completing his doctorate at LMU Munich, he habilitated there with a thesis on the autonomy of law (2012, Venia Legendi for philosophy) and at the University of Münster with a thesis on German and European contract law (2017, Venia Legendi for civil law, European private law, medical law, philosophy of law and sociology of law). He has taught at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Münster, Siegen and Saarland. Main research: Civil law and European private law, law of digitalization, medical law; foundations of law, in particular philosophy of law, sociology of law and interdisciplinary legal research; practical philosophy, history of philosophy, in particular classical German philosophy (Kant, Fichte, Hegel).
  • Publikationen

    • »Jenseits des Datenschutzes – die 10. GWB-Novelle als informalisierter Neuansatz des Internet-und Datenwirtschaftsrechts«, in: Recht Digital 2 (2021), S. 71-78.
    • »Das Recht der künstlichen Intelligenz. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen zivilrechtlicher Regulierung«, in: MMR. Zeitschrift für IT-Recht und Recht der Digitalisierung (2019), S. 711-715.
    • Handlungshoheit. Die normative Struktur der bestehenden Dogmatik und ihrer Matrialisierung im deutschen und europäischen Schuldvertragsrecht, Mohr Siebeck 2019.
    • »Autonomy, Pluralism and Public Deliberation«, in: Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, Bd. 1: Publicity and Public Sphere, De Gruyter 2016, S. 57-68.
    • »Absoluter Grundrechtsschutz oder interaktive Grundrechte?«, in: Ludwig Siep/Thomas Gutmann/Michael Städtler/Bernhard Jakl (Hg.): Von der religiösen zur säkularen Begründung staatlicher Normen. Zum Verhältnis von Religion und Politik in der Philosophie der Neuzeit und in rechtssystematischen Fragen der Gegenwart, Mohr Siebeck 2012, S. 239-267.
    • Recht aus Freiheit. Die Gegenüberstellung der rechtstheoretischen Ansätze der Wertungsjurisprudenz und des Liberalismus mit der kritischen Rechtsphilosophie Kants, Duncker & Humblot 2009.

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Article "Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?" by Amadeus Ulrich published in EJPT

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Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?

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