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Justiz und Algorithmen
(2021)
Richterliche Rechtsfindung ist fehleranfällig. Was unspektakulär klingt, belegen neuere empirische Daten eindrucksvoll. Durch Rationalitätsschwächen kann es zu Verzerrungen und jedenfalls dazu kommen, dass sachfremde Aspekte einfließen. Können Algorithmen und »Künstliche Intelligenz« dazu beitragen, dass gerichtliche Entscheidungen »rationaler« werden? Überlegungen zur Automatisierung im Recht sind nicht neu, müssen aber aufgrund neuer technischer Möglichkeiten und Erkenntnisse zur Entscheidungsfindung neu gedacht werden. Eine vollständige Automatisierung scheidet allerdings aus. Einzelfallgerechtigkeit zu gewährleisten, ist in vollautomatisierten Verfahren nicht möglich. Neben technischen sind es zuvorderst verfassungsrechtliche Hürden, die einem solchen Vorhaben Grenzen setzten. Ein Verbot algorithmenbasierter Unterstützungssysteme ist dem Grundgesetz indes nicht zu entnehmen. Sofern es gelingt, den Systemen rechtsstaatliche Funktionsweisen einzuhauchen, können neue Technologien die richterliche Rechtsfindung sinnvoll unterstützen.
In der Welt digitaler Benutzeroberflächen begegnen Nutzer immer häufiger sog. „Dark Patterns“, die Entscheidungen ihrer Adressaten subtil in eine bestimmte Richtung lenken. Wer Webseiten aufruft, stellt etwa fest, dass es deutlich leichter ist, Berechtigungen für Cookies zu erteilen, als diese zu verweigern. Der Beitrag leuchtet die bestehenden recht-lichen Grenzen, aber auch Lücken für Dark Patterns im Datenschutz-, Vertrags- und Lauterkeitsrecht aus.
Der Beitrag setzt die Staatshaftung für automatisierte Entscheidungen in den Zusammen-hang mit Risikopotenzialen automatisierter Verwaltungssysteme, verschuldensunabhängi-gen Staatshaftungsansprüchen, datenschutzrechtlichem Schadensersatz aus Art. 82 DSGVO sowie der Amtshaftung im Zeichen der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung. Abschließend werden Handlungsempfehlungen thematisiert.
This article asks how and why United Nations organizations reform their administrative structure and processes over time. It explores whether we can observe a convergence towards a coherent administrative model in the United Nations system. Like in most nation states, reform discussions according to models like New Public Management or post-New Public Management have permeated international public administrations. Against this background, the question of administrative convergence discussed for national administra-tive systems also arises for United Nations international public administrations. On the one hand, similar challenges, common reform ‘fashions’ and an increasing exchange within the United Nations system make convergence likely. Yet, on the other hand, distinct tasks, administrative styles and path dependencies might support divergent reform trajectories. This question of convergence is addressed by measuring the frequency, direction and rationales for reforms, using a sample of four international public administrations from the United Nations’ specialized agencies (the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labour Organization, International Monetary Fund and World Bank). We find that conver-gence depends on the area of reform (human resources or organizational matters are more harmonized than others) and time (some international public administrations are faster or earlier than others).
Handbuch Onlinezugangsgesetz
(2021)
Das Handbuch arbeitet die Anforderungen und Konsequenzen des Gesetzes zur Verbes-serung des Onlinezugangs zu Verwaltungsleistungen (Onlinezugangsgesetz - OZG) vom 14.08.2017 auf. Das OZG bildet nach den Vorstellungen von Bund und Ländern die entschei-dende rechtliche Grundlage für eine umfassende und weitreichende Digitalisierungs-initiative im Bereich der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Bund und Länder sind auf Basis des OZG verpflichtet, bis zum Jahr 2022 ihre Verwaltungsportale zu einem Portalverbund zu ver-knüpfen und alle rechtlich und tatsächlich geeigneten Dienstleistungen darüber auch online anzubieten. Diese Bestimmungen enthalten große Sprengkraft.
Nach einer Kartierung der rechtlichen Anforderungen und Möglichkeiten im ersten Teil des Buches werden im zweiten Teil die Potenziale und Grenzen der Verwaltungsautomation aus Sicht der Verwaltungsinformatik als dem "Maschinenraum der Verwaltung" aufgezeigt. Im dritten Teil werden die organisatorischen bzw. institutionellen Gestaltungspotenziale näher untersucht. Der vierte Teil widmet sich den neuen Anforderungen an Führung und Ethik im öffentlichen Dienst.
La crisi legata alla diffusione globale del virus SARS-Covid 19, dopo aver imposto agli Stati europei di impiegare strumenti emergenziali per rispondere alla prima fase della pandemia, sta ora richiedendo l’adozione di riforme amministrative strutturali che possano permettere l’effettiva realizzazione dei progetti contenuti nei Piani Nazionali di Ripresa e Resilienza e finanziati attraverso il Recovery fund europeo.
I sistemi amministrativi nazionali si trovano, quindi, di fronte ad una nuova fase di profondo mutamento nella cornice delineata dalle istituzioni europee e dovranno affrontare nei prossimi anni trasformazioni necessarie per permettere la ripresa del sistema economico.
L’analisi dei diversi Piani di ripresa mostra come i diversi Paesi abbiano previsto interventi e azioni solo in parte simili. In alcuni casi, le riforme previste rappresentano la realizzazione di progetti già in corso, avviati durante il 2020 oppure già in fase di realizzazione. In altri casi, invece, si tratta di riforme del tutto nuove che sono state previste per la prima volta.
Atlas der Innovation
(2021)
Policies to promote high participation in Higher Educations (HE) systems aim to deliver social justice and economic development through widening participation of under-represented groups. Degrees of Success provides a critical test of this through examination of participa-tion and success of learners progressing to HE with a vocational background.
Employing an original conceptual framework that combines the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu the authors analyse the various transitional frictions experienced by learners with VET backgrounds on their journeys into and through the HE system. The findings indi-cate that including students with vocational qualifications does lead to widening participation but that their modes of participation may not provide fair access and outcomes. In part this is due to the epistemic incompatibilities between higher and vocational education which remain unresolved despite constant VET qualification reform.
This book, therefore, extends the debate about widening participation beyond metaphors of barriers to access to consider the epistemic and pedagogical challenges of increasing student heterogeneity in high participation HE systems. The analysis and policy suggestions therefore have relevance for all seeking to support students' HE learning journeys, and policy makers concerned with how best to utilise HE systems as means of furthering social mobility and justice.
Die öffentliche Verwaltung steht aktuell vor großen Herausforderungen, die nach neuen Antworten verlangen. Innovationen sind in der oft als unflexibel wahrgenommenen öffentlichen Verwaltung also dringend geboten, um angemessen auf diese teils „wicked problems“ reagieren zu können. Verwaltungsinnovation richtet sich zugleich nach innen, indem Service-Orientierung und eine Kultur der Offenheit verstärkt in den Vordergrund rücken, und nach außen, um Leistungen für Externe zu verbessern. Wissenstransfer aus Wissenschaftseinrichtungen sowie gemeinsames Arbeiten im Sinne von Co-Design und Co-Produktion spielen hierbei eine wichtige Rolle. Diesen Transfergedanken greift die Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer auf. Der Beitrag leitet zunächst verwal-tungsspezifische Bedürfnisse ab und entwickelt hierfür ein erweitertes Transferverständnis. Anschließend werden neue Wege des Transfers, wie sie im Projekt „Wissens- und Ideen-transfer für Innovation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung“ in Speyer erprobt werden, vorgestellt. Gelingensbedingungen und Herausforderungen werden diskutiert.
The Covid-19 pandemic is a multi-faceted crisis that challenges not only the health systems and other policy sub-systems in the single Member States, but also the European Union’s ability to provide policy responses that address the transnational nature of pandemic control as a union-wide ‘public good’ that affects health and social policies, border control and security as well as topics related to the single market. Thus, the pandemic constitutes a veritable capacity test for the EU integration project.
This article attempts to take stock of the Union’s early reaction to the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak. After an introduction and a short note on the scope and methodology of the analysis a theoretical framework is developed. Scrutinising the pertinent literature on crisis management, we reflect the traditional hypothesis that in times of crisis the centre becomes more relevant against the background of the EU crisis management system, and discuss the role of informality in particular during the time of crisis. Against this backdrop, empirical evidence from interviews with EU officials and documents in selected policy fields (health and emergency management, digitalisation, and economic recovery) are analysed, before a discussion and conclusion complete the study.
The essay examines changes in German law on administrative procedure recently introduced to address the challenge of digitization. This reform was undertaken in the framework of the very complex German legal system, which has federal structure, as well as the so-called “three pillars” of general administrative, financial and social security procedures, and a tradition of homogeneous development. The article also investigates the links between administrative procedural law and the legislation on e-government, as well as the problem of the poor interoperability of the IT systems of the various levels of government (Federation, Länder and Municipalities), that the (federal) law on online access to public services proposes to solve. Finally, the potential and limits of digitization of administrative procedure are examined, distinguishing binding and routine measures (easily automated) from the new frontiers of artificial intelligence.
Is academic freedom threatened? The book examines current challenges to academic freedom in Europe, focusing mainly on Italy and Germany.
The cases discussed demonstrate that research and teaching are under pressure in Euro-pean democracies: in Hungary and Poland due to political constraints, in other countries due to societal expectations. Considering different interrelated aspects, the four parts of the book explore many real and potential threats to universities, scientific institutions and researchers, ranging from the European dimension of freedom of the arts and sciences to comparative analysis of emerging challenges to academic freedom against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. They highlight threats to university autonomy from the economic orientation of university governance, which emphasizes efficiency, competition, and external evaluation, and from new rules concerning trigger warnings, speech restrictions, and ethics commissions.
Detailed study of these complex threats is intended to stimulate scholarly reflection and elicit serious discussion at European and national level. The volume contributes to the search for a new role of universities and scientific institutions and is addressed to academics and political stakeholders.
Universities in Germany and other countries have recently undergone comprehensive reforms: they are expected to contribute to social development through exchange with external actors. These exchanges are commonly termed “third mission”. In this context knowledge and technology transfer can prove to be particularly critical to academic freedom, because market logic and economically rational behaviour may lead to goals in conflict with the institutional logic of scientific communities.
Academic freedom is currently under pressure. The most obvious cases in Europe are those of Hungary and Poland, where the state interferes directly in core academic issues by chan-ging the laws. More generally, research and teaching are at risk in European democracies. Except in Hungary and Poland, this is not only due to political constraints: society itself seems to have lost its trust in science. Scientific results are declared “fake news” and students and lecturers are not allowed to discuss social, gender or integration issues (keyword: “trigger warning”). Such threats to research and teaching curb scientific autonomy directly and indirectly.
Education plays a key role in knowledge society, since, from a meritocratic perspective, it opens up fair opportunities for well-paid jobs, thereby increasing social mobility and well-being more generally. In order to foster their economic competitiveness, cities are therefore encouraged to engage in knowledge-based urban development by trying to provide good schools and world-class universities to attract the “creative class.” However, meritocracy is a “myth,” as access to educational opportunities is itself socially biased. With the example of Heidelberg, a so-called “knowledge pearl,” we show how knowledge-institutions, such as the university, may shape socioenvironmental contexts in ways conducive to spatially selective access to—and use of—educational opportunities. Instead of reducing social polarization, knowledge-institutions may instead (re-)produce inequalities.
Digital technologies often have a dual-use nature, which means they can be used for both civil and military purposes. For instance, object recognition software can be used for auto-nomous civil driving or for autonomous targeting within armed drones. Thus, their uncon-trolled proliferation may pose risks to international peace and security. Generally, export controls aim to mitigate these risks while avoiding unreasonable restrictions on global trade and development. The novelty of digital dual-use items and the dynamics of their transfer pose new challenges for the international export control system and raise critical legal questions under international law. Does international law hold export control rules that sufficiently address the broad spectrum of relevant digital dual-use items and their rapid technological advancement? Furthermore, how do these rules treat the digital transfer of such items?
The presentation aims to answer these questions by, first, carving out the relevant inter-national export control rules. Secondly, the application of these rules to the digital dual-use items and their international transfer is analyzed. Finally, to the extent that the applicability is affirmed, the presentation will examine the international export control law’s requirements to the international transfer of digital dual-use items.