Law

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.

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.

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.

Lena Carla Weber examines the scope and dimension of the established legal doctrine of estoppel for claims for injunctive relief under unfair competition law. The impetus for this is a paradigm shift in German case law on the handling of such claims as a central instrument of the law on fair trading practices.