'The System-Theoretical Concept of Assets. An Examination of the Economic Theory of Assets in
German Criminal Law Against the Background of Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory': This study is
dedicated to one of the most prominent discussions in German criminal law: the concept of
assets. According to the so-called strictly economic approach the monetary value alone
determines the characterization of assets. However case law and legal literature often also
take normative aspects into account. As a thought experiment this study asks to which extent
an economic approach can address normative aspects based on Niklas Luhmann's theory of the
economic and legal systems.
