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to take up current academic disputes and trace them back to their legal roots or, conversely, to discuss basic legal concepts on the basis of current disputes. This sounds easier than it actually is. After all, law consists of words that have to be interpreted but do not have a generally valid, fixed meaning. Rather, the interpretation of law is guided by preconceptions and other prior influences. Making these visible is the focus of the center's research. The publications in various genres - monographs on individual topics, collected works, encyclopedias, books and journals, commentaries, case and book reviews, not least articles in newspapers - cover Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public International Law, European Law, and legal theory.

Detailed information on the research results can be found in the publication lists of Professor Fastenrath and of his former academic assistants.