Legal obligations to future generations
with Svenja Behrendt
We all want to leave a better world behind, but can we write laws that protect people who are not born yet? Svenja Behrendt (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany) explores the legal and ethical challenges of ensuring a just future for future generations.
Episode based on the article
Facing the Future: Conceiving Legal Obligations Towards Future Generations
By Svenja Behrendt
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About the Speaker
Svenja Behrendt is a junior professor of public law at Mannheim University (Germany) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Public Law, in Freiburg (Germany). She received her doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) in 2021 from the HHU Düsseldorf (Germany). Her research focuses on fundamental rights, constitutional law, legal theory, democracy, and fundamental questions of law in the light of datafication, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and climate change.