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Why is it forbidden to sell and buy organs? Why is the exchange of kidneys that leads to many successful transplants allowed in some countries such as the US, but not in others like Germany? Which markets or transactions we allow, affects the choices that people have, and how they may pursue their goals. Kidney exchange would seem needlessly complex if we instead allowed kidneys to be bought and sold; but this is illegal everywhere except in the Islamic Republic of Iran. There are many other transactions that are repugnant or forbidden, and this differs between countries.

Constitutional democracies recurrently grapple with fear-inducing tests. Drawing on challenges posed during the first half of the twentieth-century by economic collapse, unprecendeted violence, and anti-parliamentary dictatorships, and seeking to surmount treatments of emergency and exception rooted in the writing of Carl Schmitt, the talk will place today's conundrums within a historical and analytical context.

Die Städte spielen bei der Umsetzung der Energiewende eine Schlüsselrolle. Aufgrund ihres enormen Energieverbrauchs und ihrer hohen CO2-Emissionen stehen sie in besonderer Verantwortung, sich viel stärker als bisher in die Umsetzung der Energiewende einzubringen. Als Wirtschaftsstandorte und Innovationslabore bergen sie hierfür auch große Chancen.

More than ever before, questions of movement, displacement and belonging, equality and inequality, borders and otherness have become hot-button issues worldwide. Public law--whether domestic, European or international--structures practices of inclusion and exclusion, borders and boundaries, and line-drawing in a variety of ways. The analysis and assessment of how that happens, for what purposes and with what effects, is the focus of this conference.

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We have entered into a new economy that is characterized by the intensive use of information and communication technologies which enable globalized production and distribution of goods and services. The new economy is also characterized by rising inequalities and a labor market polarization. This workshop aims to facilitate a scholarly exchange of research on challenges emanating from various aspects of the new economy for the wellbeing of family and children across nations.

While much research has explored how to change organisations toward more gender equality, the role of men in those processes is less well understood. Men are often seen as hindering progress on gender equality (Cockburn, 1991; McKinsey, 2012; Prime & Moss-Racusin, 2009). However the United Nations #HeforShe campaign has led to much discussion about men’s involvement in gender equality processes in general and feminism in specific. Men can be understood as change agents for gender equality (Vries, 2015).