Plagiarism watchdog Stefan Weber issues a caution about Ann-Katrin Kaufhold's potentially harmful copying practices
In a provocative contribution published in the "Osaka University Law Review" in 2018, Professor Ann-Katrin Kaufhold proposed a novel form of global supervision known as "system supervision." This independent basic form, neither state nor economic supervision, has stirred up quite a storm in academic circles.
Kaufhold's essay, originally a lecture given at Osaka University in 2015, discusses significant historical events such as the SARS outbreak in China in 2002 and the insolvency of investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008. The scholar argues that this new form of supervision could help ward off systemic risks.
However, Kaufhold's proposal has raised concerns among some legal scholars. They question the fundamental economic knowledge and elitist nature of Kaufhold's proposals, as well as the potential for the supervision to restrict freedoms and rights to individual development. The maintenance of the rule of law and the liberal democratic constitutional order is also a point of contention.
Ulrich Beck, a renowned sociologist, has cited Kaufhold as an example for an instance that could legitimize global "system monitoring." However, his classic work "Risk Society" serves as the scientific foundation for considering how to deal with new global risks, and some scholars argue that Kaufhold's proposals lean towards an Orwellian supervision, which they deem inferior in terms of efficiency.
The Berlin publisher, known for maintaining professional quality standards, has launched an Open Source initiative, allowing all interested parties to offer texts with relevant content. Selected contributions will be published and remunerated. Stefan Weber, a communication scientist and a private lecturer at the University of Vienna, has submitted his comments on Kaufhold's contribution as part of this initiative.
Weber is known for his accusations against Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, a fellow scholar, of possibly having her husband write parts of her doctoral thesis. His comments on Kaufhold's proposals are not without controversy, as he compares them to a dirigist society model and argues that such a model is inferior in terms of efficiency.
The global "system supervision" proposed by Kaufhold would require national states and supranational entities like the EU to cede competencies. This has led some to perceive it as an attack on the liberal democratic constitutional order. The scholar suggests that the legislator should use this new form of supervision to ward off systemic risks, but does not describe how it would be democratically legitimized.
As the debate continues, it is clear that Kaufhold's proposal has sparked intense discussion and raised important questions about the future of global governance and the balance between individual rights and systemic stability.
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