Marital rape and intimate partner violence are controversial issues all over the world either because they are recognised as criminal acts and strongly condemned, or because they are silenced as something that belongs to the private sphere and should not be the object of public scrutiny. In...

Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination....

Fundamental rights are being restricted to combat the pandemic. Can we question these measures' appropriateness?

As technology continues to innovate at lightning speeds and technology becomes more central to everyday life, personal data must be protected. In 2017, the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union set an important precedent in the world of data protection...

As technology continues to innovate at lightning speeds and technology becomes more central to everyday life, personal data must be protected. In 2017, the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union set an important precedent in the world of data protection...

Vertrauen ist wichtiger als Eigeninteresse: Das zeigt eine Online Befragung, die wir von April bis Mai 2020 unter knapp 4800 Teilnehmenden durchgeführt haben. Die Haltung zur Lockerung pandemiebedingter Beschränkungen wird weniger dadurch bestimmt, ob jemand daraus wirtschaftliche oder...

Trust matters more than self-interest: That is the result of an online survey we conducted among roughly 4,800 participants in April and May 2020. Individual attitudes towards easing restrictions to contain the coronavirus pandemic are not primarily shaped by whether people fear economic or...

How will governments and courts protect civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? Ethical Hacking discusses the attendant moral and legal issues. The first part of the 21st century will likely go down in history as the era when ethical hackers opened governments and the line of transparency...

In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...

At the global level, civic space is narrowing and thus efforts to protect and promote it are more important than ever. The OECD defines Civic Space as the set of legal, policy, institutional, and practical conditions necessary for non-governmental actors to access information, express...

Einleitung -- Nudge – Ökonomische Grundlagen und Definition -- Nudge in Deutschland – Die Einordnung des Konzepts und seine rechtliche Bewertung -- Rechtliche Bewertung von Nudge – Die praktische Anwendung im Verwaltungsrecht -- Schluss.

"This book offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for practical solutions to mass poverty. Arguing for a "global new deal," the authors provide a viable direction for structural reform to protect those left behind by the world economy."

"At the time of writing, the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19,1 has infected people in 212 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. As of May 17, 2020, 5,780 people have died in Canada, and worldwide, there are over 313,000 reported deaths. The...

Niemand hat die Absicht, das Bargeld abzuschaffen! Doch trotz aller Dementis aus Berlin, Frankfurt und Brüssel scheint die sukzessive Abschaffung des Bargelds weiter voranzuschreiten. Das beschlossene Aus für den 500-Euro-Schein sowie das Drängen der Politik auf eine europaweite Obergrenze...

Why Ethical Hacking? -- Essential Terms and Concepts -- Methodology and Quantitative Studies of Ethical Hacking: Evidence-Based Decision and Policy-Making -- Legal Cases Around the World (with Jelena Ardalic) -- Select Ethical-Hacking Incidences: Anonymous -- Select Ethical-Hacking Incidences:...