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The IECL Lunchtime Seminar Series offers our Academic Visitors an opportunity to share their research, exchange ideas, and connect with colleagues on both substantive and methodological aspects of their work.
Each seminar usually lasts 30–45 minutes, with 20–30 minutes for the presentation followed by 10–15 minutes for Q&A. A light sandwich lunch will be provided.
Raimund Reck
Concepts of Privacy in Family Law
Abstract: In family law scholarship, it is often taken for granted that one of family law’s essential functions is to secure a sphere of private life. Privacy is thereby considered a value but also a burden of the family as well as of family law. At the same time, legal guarantees of privacy are widely acknowledged to involve more than the mere shielding of a private sphere from regulation. Once family law seeks to articulate a substantive concept of privacy, it enters a field marked by deep theoretical disagreement and conceptual ambiguity.
Against this background, the project examines the theoretical frameworks and legal instruments through which family law constructs and operationalizes concepts of privacy. By mapping doctrinal mechanisms, it aims to identify underlying structural principles and fundamental distinctions shaping the legal treatment of private life. Methodologically, the study draws on contemporary German legal theory while also exploring the extent to which social-philosophical accounts of privacy can be integrated into legal analysis and made productive for family law.
