Legal knowledge production in the presence

Research Project

Jurisprudence works with texts. It interprets and systematises them and, on this basis, produces new ones. Its task is to generate knowledge about applicable law. However, jurisprudence has always come across texts that have not been produced within the institutionalised legal discourse. How do contemporary legal scholars and jurists deal with such texts? How do they interpret and systematise them, establish references to legal sources in the narrower sense and, as a result, create (relatively) autonomous thinking and knowledge? A legal knowledge of what law is and what defines the possible space of what can be legally thought and said. I work on these and related questions on the basis of current legal issues of private law raised by digitalisation (e.g. legal subjectivity of autonomous digital assistants and property rights in data). Within the course of this project, I seek to gain deeper insights into the essence and nature of this legal thinking, the knowledge generated and the assumed autonomy.