Liability Question: Is Sticking on Streets Still a Legitimate Protest? There are also different opinions among lawyers.
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The Frankfurt lawyer Samira Akbarian has received two awards for her dissertation on civil disobedience. She thinks that breaking the law could also be compatible with democracy.
OSamira Akbarian does not want to judge whether it really helps to protect the climate if people stick themselves to the streets or throw mashed potatoes at paintings. She lacks the scientific expertise for this, says the lawyer. But from the perspective of her field, she thinks it’s possible that radical activists are doing a service to democracy. Because civil disobedience, according to her thesis, could reinterpret the constitution.
Akbarian impressed two juries at the same time with her reasoning – although she did not present her thoughts in a pleading, but in a dissertation. For her doctoral thesis, the 32-year-old scientist from Goethe University received the German Study Prize from the Körber Foundation in the humanities and cultural studies section. The award comes with 25,000 euros. She was also awarded the Werner Pünder Prize of the University of Frankfurt, which is endowed with 10,000 euros.
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