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The rights of nature – From property rights of nature to the revolution of law

author-meets-criticsProf.Dr. Tilo Wesche (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) discusses with Dr. Andreas Gutmann (University of Kassel) & Prof. Dr. Doris Schweitzer (Goethe University)Participation also possible via Zoom: Here... ID code: 401979 Or by dialing in via the app: Webinar ID: 650 7980 7777 ID code: 401979 An event by Dr. Johan Horst (Max Planck Institute […]

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On the eve of the constitutional anniversary: 75 years of the Basic Law – a constitution of freedom and balance

Public lecture The Basic Law contains comprehensive guarantees of freedom. From the very beginning, constitutional practice has developed a wide range of concrete content from the openly formulated fundamental rights. The result is a constitution of freedom that is unique in Germany to date. In it, freedom is not without its obligations. The Basic Law […]

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The course of the world – Manishita Dass (London)

APARAJITO tells two intertwined stories, that of a boy's exciting departure into the world and that of the loss of his mother at his departure. The film can be seen in the light of Satyajit Ray's own biography and a life experience of cosmopolitanism with strong roots in a particular, hybrid cultural milieu in Bengal. […]

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Conflict and Trust in the European Copyright System

2024 European Copyright Society Conference The European Copyright Society (la Société européenne du droit d'auteur) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law and policy. Its members are scholars and academics from various countries of Europe, seeking to articulate and promote […]

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Shadow Lines: Tracing the Cinematic Legacies of the 1940s Indian Left Cultural Movement

Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London) The talk explores some of the methodological challenges and insights that Dass has encountered and gained, respectively, while working on Left Luggage, her book-in-progress about the cinematic legacies of the vibrant left cultural movement spearheaded in the 1940s by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), the cultural wing […]

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Perspectives on excessive police violence and how to deal with it

Symposium / ConTrust Practice Forum One year after the publication of the book "Gewalt im Amt. Übermäßige polizeiliche Gewaltanwendung und ihre Aufarbeitung", the team of the research project KviA-Pol together with the research initiative "ConTrust - Vertrauen im Konflikt" is organizing a symposium on 29 May 2024 from 10 am - 5.30 pm at the […]

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News from the research center

Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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Publication
19.12.2025 | Anthology

Faszination und Freiheit 

Günther, Klaus; Zabel, Benno (Hrsg.) (2025): Faszination und Freiheit - Gegenwartsdiagnosen im Anschluss an Christoph Menkes Theorie der Befreiung, Weilerswist (Velbrück Wissenschaft).

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Anthology

Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen

Tobias Singelnstein, Christoph Burchard (2025)

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Publication
12.12.2025 | Chapter

Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?

Günther, Klaus (2025): „Was bleibt von der Verantwortung jenseits der Strafe übrig?“. In: Zabel Benno; Singelnstein; Tobias und Burchard, Christoph (Hrsg.): Zwischen Transformation und Abolitionismus. Das Strafrecht und die Vielfalt der Alternativen. Velbrück Wissenschaft, S. 207-241.

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News
11.12.2025

Jonathan White on future thinking in democracies

On the second date of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy". Political scientist White discusses views on the future of democracies. A follow-up report

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News
04.12.2025

The crisis of democratic theory from a sociological perspective

Sociologist Jenny Brichzin's lecture "Crisis of Democratic Theory? A sociological intervention" opened our lecture series "At the crossroads? On the future of democratic theory". The sociologist criticized the fact that social coexistence has so far been insufficiently addressed in democratic theory. A follow-up report

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Publication
03.12.2025 | Journal article

The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment

Džankić, Jelena; Seyfettinoglu, Mira; Shachar, Ayelet; Vink, Maarten; Baaren, Luuk van der (2025): „The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment“. In: Comparative Political Studies, OnlineFirst.

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Publication
01.12.2025

Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe

Hediger, Vinzenz (2025): „Preface: (Re)Building Europe through Cinema (Studies)”. In: Cesalkova, Lucia, et al. (eds.): Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe. Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space. Amsterdam University Press.

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21.11.2025 | Chapter

Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen

Müllmann, Dirk; Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Indra (2025): „Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen“. In: Honekamp, Wilfried; Kemme, Stefanie; Struck, Jens: Auswirkungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf die zukünftige Polizeiarbeit. Springer.

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