The Future Law Working Papers was established in 2022 to offer a forum for cutting-edge research on legal topics connected to the challenges of the future. As the German Constitutional Court recently ruled, we have to act today to save the freedoms of tomorrow. Similarly, the Future Law Working Papers series hosts research that tackles difficult questions and provides challenging, and at times uncomfortable, answers, to the question of how to design good normative frameworks to ensure that rights and obligations are spread fairly within societies and between societies, in this generation and the next. The series is open for interdisciplinary papers with a normative twist and the editors encourage creative thinking. If you are interested in contributing, please send an email to the editors at zukunftsrecht@uibk.ac.at. Submissions are welcome in English and German.The series is edited by the senior members of the Department of Legal Theory and the Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck, Matthias C. Kettemann, Malte Kramme, Clara Rauchegger and Caroline
Voithofer.Founded in 2019 as the tenth department of the law faculty, the Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law at the University of Innsbruck (ITZR) investigates how law can make individuals as well as society, states as well as Europe "fit" for the future and if and how law has to change in order to meet future challenges. This includes the preservation of freedom spaces as well as natural resources in an intergenerational perspective, the safeguarding of societal cohesion in times of technologically fueled value change, the normative framing of sustainable digitization and digitized sustainability, and the breaking through of traditional legal structures of domination and thought with a view to rediscovering the emancipatory element of law against law.
