Alexandra Windsberger

The project deals with a question that ultimately concerns us all: when, why and to what extent do we actually have to help and stand up for each other and under what conditions can omissions be punished with a criminal penalty - the sharpest sword of a state?
This requires a fundamental understanding of the legal and philosophical dimensions of the category of action "omission", which is to be developed in this project. A philosophical deepening is at the same time the basis for a comparative legal expansion. In this context, the criminal law solutions in cases of omission depend heavily on the theory of crime in discourse with the concepts of legal philosophy used in a state. This requires a comparative analysis within and outside Europe. The comparative work will deal with different concepts of the state and, from this perspective, analyze the state of interdependencies between legal theory and philosophical concepts. The aim is not to map the dogmatic lines in different countries; the aim is to facilitate an international dialog between experts from law and philosophy in order to recognize the interdisciplinary and comparative dimensions of the conditions of imputation for omissions in order to draw conclusions for basic dogmatic structures in criminal law.