The article surveys action taken by the European Community to combat fraud affecting its financial interests, focusing on the development of investigative authority granted to OLAF, the European ...''Office Pour La Lutte AntiFraude'' and its impact on the procedural rights of the alleged defrauder. It shows that the involvement of OLAF can be crucial for a national fraud investigation and subsequent criminal prosecution and that it meets the criteria set out by the Strasbourg organs for the applicability of Article 6 ECH. The article explores whether the legal sources governing the activities of OLAF or national-or rather, Community-law guarantee sufficient protection for the alleged defrauder and thus pay respect to principles arising from the rule of law in law enforcement. It is shown that general principles of Community law, which were mostly established in antitrust law, may provide a certain protection for the suspect, but may not protect him in all regards. It is thus argued that, in the long run, it will be necessary to provide special fair-trial rights which offer protection to alleged defrauders from those infringements arising out of the specific features of a Community investigation.
This book celebrates and mourns the increasing relevance of the 2008 volume of 'Profiling the European Citizen. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives' (edited by Mireille Hildebrandt & Serge Gutwirth). ...Both volumes contain in-depth investigations by lawyers, philosophers and computer scientists into the legal, philosophical and computational background of the emerging algorithmic order. In BEING PROFILED:COGITAS ERGO SUM 23 scholars engage with the issues, underpinnings, operations and implications of micro-targeting, data-driven critical infrastructure, ethics-washing, p-hacking and democratic disruption. These issues have now become part of everyday life, reinforcing the urgency of the question: are we becoming what machines infer about us, or are we?
This book has been designed as a work of art by Bob van Dijk, the hardcopy has been printed as a limited edition. The separate chapters (2000 word provocations) will become available in open access in 2019.
Der Einsatz von Robotern in vielen Lebensbereichen rückt ein Grundanliegen des Rechts neu in den Fokus: die möglichst klare Zuweisung von Verantwortung. Als technologische Innovation wirft die ...Digitalisierung bestimmter Vorgänge die Frage nach der Angemessenheit unserer Haftungskonzepte auf. Wenn Intelligente Agenten, sei es als Roboterautos, Prothesen oder Bewässerungsanlagen, einen Schaden verursachen, weil sie im autonomen Modus Daten nicht richtig aufnehmen, falsch interpretieren oder unpassend reagieren, stellt sich die Frage: Haften die Menschen hinter der Maschine? Die Frage nach der Verantwortung für Intelligente Agenten ist aber weder neu, noch beschränkt sie sich auf die Rechtswissenschaft. Sie wurde bereits im römischen Recht diskutiert und beschäftigt heute die Technikfolgenabschätzung. Der vorliegende Band spannt den Bogen von der Antike zur Moderne und von den Grundlagenfragen zur Anwendung in der Versicherungswirtschaft, im intelligenten Verkehr oder im smarten Haus.
Mit Beiträgen von:
Prof. Dr. Christian Armbrüster, Freie Universität Berlin; Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Harke, Universität Würzburg; Prof. Dr. Gerhard Seher, Freie Universität Berlin; Prof. Dr. Ruth Janal, LL.M., Freie Universität Berlin; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Cosima Möller, Freie Universität Berlin; Prof. Dr. Michael Decker, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe; Dr. iur. Jonathan Erhardt, BA, Universität Bern; Prof. Dr. Martino Mona, Universität Bern, Prof. Dr. Sabine Gless, Universität Basel; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kurt Seelmann, Universität Basel sowie Prof. Dr. iur. Dipl.-Biol. Herbert Zech, Universität Basel
To several governments, modern international terrorism cannot be handled adequately within the ordinary criminal justice system. To fight terrorism (including the criminalization of certain “abstract ...danger”, preparatory activities such as terrorist training, membership in a terrorist organization) more effectively, criminal law had to be adapted.
To several governments, modern international terrorism cannot be handled adequately within the ordinary criminal justice system. To fight terrorism (including the criminalization of certain “abstract ...danger”, preparatory activities such as terrorist training, membership in a terrorist organization) more effectively, criminal law had to be adapted.
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