Guest: Rick Sallaba (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy) It has been over a year now since the German government introduced Bürgergeld. The reforms present
a major reworking of Germany’s unemployment benefits system. While Bürgergeld has done away with a number of sanctions that were deemed unfair and counterproductive, [...]
Guest: Ragini Surana (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) Suppose you pay someone more than you intended to by mistake. What rule of law can be used to
rectify the situation? It is not the law of contract because neither of you anticipated this possibility. [...]
Guest: Alice Margaria (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) Defining what makes someone a father has become a complex task in contemporary Europe. What roles are attributed
to genetics, marriage, gender, and active involvement in a child's life? Courts are increasingly grappling with these questions, prompted by a combination of societal [...]
Guest: Nina Cozzi (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) After the liberation of Italian territory from the Nazi-Fascist regime, the government begun work
on the drafting of a new constitution. One of the most novel aspects of the 1948 constitution was Article 37, which entitled working women the right to equal pay [...]
Guest: Jan Peter Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) In this episode Jan Peter Schmidt discusses the long-standing tradition that the
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law (MPI) has of providing expert opinions on foreign law for German courts. [...]
Guest: Philipp Sauter (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) In this episode Christopher Murphy talks with Philipp Sauter about nuclear fusion.
As opposed to nuclear fission, i.e., splitting a heavy atomic nucleus into smaller nuclei, nuclear fusion uses the opposite approach to combine - or fuse - light [...]
Guest: Nadjma Yassari (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) In this episode Christopher Murphy learns from Nadjma Yassari, head of the Research
Group 'Changes in God’s Law' at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, how societal beliefs and assumptions on the role [...]
Guest: Erica Ollikainen-Read (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) In this episode of the Lawcast, Erica Ollikainen-Read explains to Christopher Murphy
that the British Empire was not just shipping, merchants, soldiers, cannon, and conquest. [...]
Modern policing increasingly relies on the extensive use of personal data collected in large-scale databases which are rendered interoperable and automatically searchable through
modern AI technologies. With this strategy, security authorities seek to become more effective and efficient, to the point that potential offenders may be automatically [...]
The impact of AI on law enforcement and the administration of justice is a contentious issue, offering both promise and peril. While it holds the potential to reshape these
domains, there are inherent dangers to navigate. Chief among these concerns is the potential for AI to amplify state powers, risking coercion, intrusion, and excessive [...]
