Law of the person, the family and private life

This field of research focuses on the legal topics of marriage, family, filiation, protection of adults, caregiving and privacy. In order to clarify the conditions and conditionality of current developments in family law, we subject the field’s prevailing trends, guiding principles and concepts to interdisciplinary and comparative analysis.

In particular, the aim is to better understand the specific arrangements existing amongst legal actors and society as well as the interplay of dogma, discourse and interpretation – for it is only through a genuine appreciation of the present that a meaningful prediction of the future becomes possible.