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Kessler, Julian

Mag. Julian Kessler, LLM.oec. BA is currently an employee in the department for Roman Law at the University of Salzburg. His interests both in education and research range from law and legal philosophy to economics, politics, sociology, and linguistics. Besides, he is voluntarily engaged in several associations.
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Paternalism and Nudging

Legal paternalism is the theory that the state may legitimately interfere with its citizens by obligations and bans in order to benefit them “for their own good”. Typically, such measures infringe the citizens’ autonomy, since the state imposes principles on them about what is good or bad.