Rechtsfrieden - Friedensrecht

In recent years, new developments in politics and society's increasing discontent with existing structures of democracy are challenging lawyers around the world, as well as the discipline of law as such. Hence, the question arises in how far law itself is realistically able to ensure peace and solve conflicts, as it is originally intended to. Inspired by the prominent example of the Peace of Augsburg of 1555, the following fourteen abstracts again contest today's understanding of and relation between law and peace in general. In the centre of attention lies the question, if and in how far contemporary public law fulfills the functions of ensuring peace and solving conflicts, especially in regard to the new challenges of the 21st century.