Law

Cyberattacks on businesses and private individuals have become part of everyday life - but to what extent is the state obliged to counter these threats? Carolin Kemper examines which measures the state should or could take to support private actors in defending against cyberattacks.

Fundamental rights in the classical sense are based on a principle of primacy. At least in an overall view of holders and addressees of fundamental rights, human beings must enjoy a higher level of protection than the state. In no case do fundamental rights protect the state against its citizens.

How can the costs of environmental protection be financed? This volume approaches this question from an interdisciplinary perspective. It combines academic foundations with practical approaches and highlights ways to achieve a fair distribution of environmental costs - in the interest of a sustainable future.

Anyone who deceives in order to avert state sanction claims does not commit fraud. Lucas Walker examines the transfer of this idea to billing in statutory medical care and argues that avoiding exclusions from remuneration under social law should not in every case be classified as billing fraud.