Post-mortem privacy is becoming a vital topic of public and scholarly legal concern. Post-
mortem privacy is understood as the right of a person to preserve and control what becomes …

This paper conceptualises and categorises the various relationships between materiality,
discursive construction of landscapes and collective action. Building on both post …

The inclusion of non-humans as persons into social systems raises the question: How
exactly are they constituted as communicating beings? This article suggests an approach …

Ivan Locke, the eponymous hero in the film “Locke”(2013), is on an hour-and-ahalf night
drive towards his destiny, in the sole company of his inexorable sense of responsibility. As a …

The paper dissects the intricacies of automated decision making (ADM) and urges for
refining the current legal definition of artificial intelligence (AI) when pinpointing the role of …

Global value chain (GVC) capitalism has taken a peculiar social form and produces conflicts
which are in the blind spot of political institutions as well as classical legal doctrine. This …

Subjektive Rechte zu haben oder nicht zu haben, macht in der Welt des Rechts einen ent
scheidenden Unterschied aus. Dass Menschen einzeln als „natürliche Personen" oder im …

This paper discusses the distinction between first-order and second-order, understood as
either an analytical or an ontological distinction. The distinction is shown to index an open …

Nowadays, we are witnessing an acceleration of the debate on animal legal rights. The
discussion has its legislative counterpart: a growing number of states have passed …

The paper dissects the intricacies of Automated Decision Making (ADM) and urges for
refining the current legal definition of AI when pinpointing the role of algorithms in the advent …