We congratulate Dr. Andreja Krzic Bogataj for being awarded "Young Lawyer of the Year 2022"! She received the prize of the Association of Slovenian Lawyers for her doctoral thesis " Klägerfreundlichkeit als Prinzip des Sozialgerichtsverfahrens: Ein deutsch-slowenischer Rechtsvergleich ", which she elaborated at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. In her thesis, published by Nomos in 2021 and also available open access as e-book, Andreja Krzic Bogataj examines the question of how effective legal protection can be ensured for litigants in social law disputes against the

Government measures against the coronavirus, in particular nationwide lockdowns, have at times suspended the mechanisms of the market economy. Through no fault of their own, many people found themselves without work or income overnight. A research team led by Prof. Ulrich Becker , Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, has investigated how strongly and successfully social law has helped to secure livelihoods during the pandemic. In collaboration with legal scholars worldwide, the comparative study, which was started already in spring 2020, has been expanded to 21

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the important role of legal instruments in a global health emergency to the fore, whether at the international, regional or national level. Five doctoral students from the Social Law Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, together with scholars from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, have investigated various aspects of regulatory problems in dealing with the pandemic as part of the project " The Fragmented Nature of Pandemic Decision-Making ". Their findings were now published open

Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy Publishes 2nd Wave of Pension Maps - Pension insurance and its sustainable financing are regularly a bone of contention in politics. But how do other countries actually organise their citizens' pensions? And what can be learned by looking at the bigger picture? The Pension Atlas of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, which has now been expanded to include 28 countries, provides an easy-to-understand overview of different pension systems and makes it possible to compare them with one another. It comprises 25 European

The research project "The (Mis)Perception of Economic Inequality" (PERGAP) by Dr. Simone Schneider will be funded with a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) of about 1.5 million euros over the next five years. At the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Simone Schneider will work with her own research team to investigate in particular the influence of welfare state institutions on social perception and preference formation. Discussions about increasing income inequality around the globe have taken on even greater significance in the wake of the COVID19