Future-Proofing in Public Law

Dr. Nicole Koblenz LL.M. LL.M.; AkadR a.Z. Dr. Nicholas Otto; Prof. Dr. Gernot Sydow M.A.

doi:10.5771/9783748966050

Summary

Is public law “future-proof”? Early career scholars from different countries discussed this question at the Second Münster Conference on Public International and Comparative Law in Münster in September 2024. The results are collected in this volume. From the perspectives of European Law, International Law and Comparative Law, the individual contributions take a future-oriented look at topics such as the rights of present and future generations, climate protection, online regulation and democratic decision-making.

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Copyright year: 2026
Publication date: 14.01.2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-3541-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-6605-0
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Studien zu Staat, Recht und Verwaltung/Studies on State, Law and Administration
Volume: 41
Language: English
Pages: 260
Product type: Edited Book

Preface No access Pages 1 - 6
Introduction: Future-Proofing in Public Law No access Pages 7 - 8 Nicole Koblenz, Nicholas Otto, Gernot Sydow
Marco Antonio Simonelli
1. I. Introduction No access
2. II. The Constitutional Entrenchment of Intergenerational Justice No access
3. 1. 1. Ombudspersons for Future Generations No access
  2. 2. Parliamentary Committees for Future Generations No access
4. IV. The Judicial Protection of Future Generations No access
5. V. Conclusion No access
Barbara Jakkel
1. I. Introduction No access
2. 1. 1. Human Rights in Global Climate Policy No access
  2. 2. Human Rights in Courts No access
  3. 3. What Makes the Human Rights Approach Attractive? No access
3. 1. 1. The Anthropocene No access
  2. 2. The Anthropocentrism of (Human) Rights No access
  3. 3. Legal Solutions from a Biocentric and an Ecocentric Perspective No access
4. IV. How can a Human Rights Approach Answer the critique of Environmental Ethics? No access
5. V. Conclusion No access
Derya Nur Kayacan Fidan, Maria Liana Vodiţă
1. I. Introduction No access
2. II. The Concept of Future Generations’ Rights as Human Rights No access
3. 1. 1. The Pre-emptive Enforcement of Future Generations’ (Human) Rights No access
  2. 2. The Concretisation of the Temperature Goal on the Basis of the Concept of Future Generations’ Rights No access
4. IV. Conclusion No access
Juan Alonso Tello Mendoza
1. I. Introduction No access
2. 1. 1. An Approach from the Literature No access
  2. 2. A Courts’ Perspective No access
  3. 3. A European Constitutional Identity? No access
  4. 4. A Balance of the Legal Situation No access
3. 1. 1. An Approach from the Literature No access
  2. 2. An ECtHR’s Perspective No access
  3. 3. A Constitutional Courts’ Perspective No access
  4. 1. a) Repoliticising Human Rights No access
    2. b) Rebalancing the System No access
4. IV. Conclusion No access
Tavini Nanayakkara
1. I. Introduction No access
2. II. Definitions of ‘Future-proofing’ and ‘Social media’ No access
3. 1. 1. Importance of Future-proofing Expression on Online Platforms through Promoting a Marketplace of Ideas No access
  2. 1. a) Attention Scarcity No access
    2. b) An ‘Anxious Generation’ in ‘Dopamine Nation’ No access
    3. 1. (1) Emergence of Dark Patterns No access
      2. (2) Violations of Privacy and Micro-targeting No access
      3. (3) Deepfakes No access
    4. d) Overreliance of Younger Generations on Social Media to Obtain Information No access
4. 1. 1. State Actors as Sole Regulators of Online Expression: Doubts of Impartiality No access
  2. 2. Social Media Companies as Sole Regulators of Expression Online: Clash with Profit-maximisation and Vested Interests No access
  3. 3. Solution: A Combined Effort No access
5. 1. 1. Preclusion of the Creation of Monopolies of Social Media Platforms by State Regulation No access
  2. 2. Social Media Platforms to Decide their Own Censorship Schemes No access
  3. 3. Mandatory Disclosure of Censorship Schemes through State Regulation No access
  4. 4. Attribution of a Higher Brand Value by Users to Expression-respecting Platforms No access
  5. 5. Legislative Regulation on Exposure of Children to Technology No access
  6. 6. The Need for a Fundamental Shift: Users’ Self-regulation on Platforms No access
  7. 7. Setting an Example: Duty of Present Generations of Users towards Future Generations of Online Users No access
6. VI. Conclusion No access
Giulia Taraborrelli
1. I. Introduction No access
2. 1. 1. Early Visions of the Internet No access
  2. 2. The US Approach to Media No access
  3. 3. Online Intermediaries Regulation in Europe No access
  4. 4. A New Relationship between Public and Private Authorities No access
  5. 5. Digital Constitutionalism No access
3. 1. 1. a) The Logic behind Content Moderation No access
    2. b) The Use of Self-regulation No access
    3. c) The Supervision over Self-regulation No access
  2. 2. Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression across the Atlantic No access
4. 1. 1. The First Steps of the European Digital Single Market Strategy No access
  2. 2. The European Regulation of Digital Markets, Services and Artificial Intelligence No access
5. V. Concluding Remarks No access
Andrea Fiorentino
1. I. The Climate and Environmental Crisis and Participatory Democracy Against the Backdrop of the Crisis of Representative Democracy No access
2. 1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 2. The French Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat No access
  3. 3. The Climate Assembly UK No access
  4. 4. The Spanish Asamblea Ciudadana para el Clima No access
3. III. The Features of Citizens’ Assemblies and Future Generations’ Interests No access
4. IV. The Perspective of the Institutionalisation of Climate Citizens’ Assemblies No access
Giulia Mannarini
1. I. A Necessary Premise No access
2. II. Deliberative Practices in the West No access
3. III. The Curious Case of ‘Authoritarian Deliberation’: the Chinese Experience No access
4. IV. Concluding Remarks No access
Jan Philipp Huth
1. I. Introduction No access
2. 1. 1. The Status Quo of Citizens’ Participation in EU Decision-Making No access
  2. 2. In Brief: On the Concept of Deliberative Democracy No access
  3. 3. The European ‘Society/ies’ of Article 2 TEU No access
3. 1. 1. a) Pioneering the Evolution: The Irish Convention on the Constitution and Citizens’ Assembly No access
    2. b) The French Convention citoyenne pour le climat No access
    3. c) The Ostbelgien Model No access
  2. 2. Previous Attempts to Enhance Deliberative Citizens’ Involvement on the Supranational Level No access
4. 1. 1. Institutionalisation No access
  2. 2. Participatory vs. Parliamentary Democracy? No access
  3. 3. Enforceability and Agenda-Setting No access
  4. 4. Publicity of Deliberation No access
  5. 5. How to Assemble a European Deliberative Mini-Public? No access
5. V. Conclusion No access