RphZ Rechtsphilosophie

Die Schwierigkeit bei Sammelbänden besteht oftmals darin, ihnen eine gemeinsame Absicht zu entnehmen. Was sich für den Verfasser als Oeuvre darstellt, ist für den Leser vielfach nur eine Aneinanderreihung von Texten aus verschiedenen Epochen....

Quotas for structurally disadvantaged groups have been discussed for around fifty years. The article analyzes the development and changes in this discussion. Even though a material understanding of equality has replaced a formal concept of equality...

Legal gender studies, as the area of legal scholarship specialized in the study of law, gender and sexuality, have a lot to offer to the field of family law. The article identifies three key contributions that legal gender studies make to the...

It has become quite common within the field of Legal Gender Studies to take intersectionality into account. Applying an intersectional approach does not only entail a proliferation of relevant categories of analysis, but implies a relational line of...

The article explores the concept of collective autonomy, which is central to labor law, through the lens of Otto Kahn-Freund’s work on workers’ collective organization. It examines how insights from intersectional legal gender studies enrich...

In many areas of legal scholarship, the long cherished standard of objectivity, crudely juxtaposed to subjectivity, has become contested. The article advances positionality as a concept between objectivity and subjectivity. Positionality upholds the...

This study traces the astonishing – from today’s point of view – promptness or carelessness with which violent legal institutions, in particular slavery and cruel punishment, were accepted or even approved in Ancient philosophy. The basic...