Law

Although the European Convention on Human Rights does not contain any social rights, the European Court of Human Rights regularly rules on complaints concerning social benefits. Yannick Vincent Schoog analyzes the protection of social benefits in the case law of the ECtHR, exploring the relationship between the greatest possible protection for citizens' social benefits, the budgetary sovereignty of states, and the consistent application of human and fundamental rights. The study also takes a comparative look at the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice to deliver a comprehensive overview of the protection of social benefits in the European multi-level system between Strasbourg, Karlsruhe and Luxembourg.

Damage quantification in collective redress remains an underexplored yet crucial issue. Focusing on judicial estimation and statutory damages, Rhea Dittmann's work argues for a departure from case-by-case damage calculation and explores efficient solutions for mass claims.

Digitalisation is shaping the future of mobility. And while self-driving cars already offer flexible, sustainable transport solutions, they also bring with them a host of data privacy challenges. Henry Ogunrinde's study provides practical insights how the USA, China and Europe are dealing with these legalities and steers towards problem-solving approaches.

Despite sexuality having been depicted in diverse cultures throughout the ages, pornography is essentially a term of the modern Western world shaped by outmoded legal prohibitions that served to protect morality. In this study, Anja Schmidt shows how criminal law on pornography should be designed to ensure sexual autonomy. Emphasising that German criminal law has so far provided inadequate protection against image-based sexual abuse, she develops a timelier set of legal policy proposals.