Law

Indirect perpetration has so far been understood as a mechanism of attribution. Johannes Gründel questions this understanding and examines whether, instead, the causal contribution can be placed at the forefront and the conduct of the direct actor can be taken into account within the framework of objective attribution.

The late-modern welfare state finds itself in a constitutionally relevant state of overload between an expansive regulatory ambition and a declining capacity to solve practical problems. Excessive taxation, high public debt, and fiscal overreach undermine both individual freedom and the legitimacy of state action.

The author examines the concept of counter-performance in the light of digital remuneration models. She analyses personal data provided as consideration, the contractual and data protection framework, and the limits of counter-performance imposed by mandatory contract law in modern exchange relations.

The Ecological Analysis of Law proposed by Simon Marx examines the ecological consequences of legal decisions, evaluates state action on the basis of the criteria of resource sufficiency and resource consistency, and develops solutions that ensure livable conditions without disproportionately restricting fundamental rights and freedoms.