Recent Contributions and Publications

The new and revised 7th edition (2024) of Konkrete Gerechtigkeit – Eine Einführung in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft der Gegenwart is now available at Nomos.

The new and revised 8th edition of Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie (2024) is now available at Nomos. 

The book Mind and Rights – The History, Ethics, Law and Psychology of Human Rights is now available in stores as well as open access.

On February 8th, 2022, Professor Mahlmann held a public talk concerning the topic of "Mind and Rights – Why Human Rights Have Deep Roots in Human Psychology, History, Ethics, and Law" at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights of the Oxford Law Faculty. The talk presents central theses of Professor Mahlmann's forthcoming book "Mind and Rights. Why Human Rights have Deep Roots in Human Psychology, History, Ethics, and Law", to be published 2022 by Cambridge University Press. The talk may be viewed here.

There is no reason whatsoever that can be derived from the theories of evolution and human psychology that undermines the case for human rights. Link to article

Parameters of the Legal Regulation of Genome Editing in Switzerland and Europe: 

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Biotechnology: Legal expert briefs

The International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) offered a statement on 6 March 2022 on the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The statement can be read here.

The lecture was part of the interdisciplinary lecture series: Tragedy and Human Nature – 100 Years of Friedrich Dürrenmatt at the University of Zurich. 

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Prof. Matthias Mahlmann on presidential pardons in the radio show Echo der Zeit on SRF (Swiss Radio and Television), 20.01.2021. 

Prof. Matthias Mahlmann and Lukas Bärfuss in conversation with UZH Magazine on the complex relationship of law and literature (in German).  

A new volume on Leibniz' philosophy of law and state, Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie bei G. W. Leibniz, ed. by Tilmann Altwicker, Francis Cheneval and Matthias Mahlmann, is released by Mohr Siebeck.