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Doctoral Group: "Growing up in the Welfare State"

  • Capacity to act and Responsibility of Adolescents in Subsistence Security Law
  • Distribution Decisions in the Context of the Allocation of Places in Daycare Centers
  • Normative Framework on the Right to Basic Education

Doctoral Group: "Health Law"

  • Artificial Intelligence, Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent
  • Immunisation and Justice - A Legal Comparison of Vaccine Injury Compensation Schemes
  • Access to Primary Health Care in Tanzania: A Study of the Legal and Regulatory Framework
  • Comparing Legal Determinants of Telemedicine Quality in Germany, the United States, and France
  • Subjective Rights in the Organ Allocation System

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Individual Dissertation Projects

  • Deeply anchored? Gender stereotypes and (social) law
  • Recognition through Social Law - Interdependencies in a Society of Social Freedom
  • Vulnerability as a Legal Principle
  • Judicial Enforcement of Social Benefits Provision in Latin America

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The Welfare State as an Integral Part of a Just Social Order

10.06.2026

As part of the lecture series ‘Ethical and Religious Foundations of the Welfare State’, the lecture on 21 April 2026 addressed the question of how modern welfare states could be philosophically informed and what role the concept of the common good…


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