leg­al pro­sec­u­tion with­in the im­me­di­ate bor­der area between states (“crime in the bor­der area”). Fur­ther­more, these ana­lyses are not pos­sible without elab­or­at­ing on the eth­ic­al con­vic­tions of the re­spect­ive pop­u­la­tions, which are cru­cial to the na­tion­al crim­in­al justice sys­tem. A second main re­search in­terest at the chair and the IZE is the ana­lys­is of the eth­ic­al frame­work for the fu­ture de­vel­op­ment of med­ic­al tech­no­logy, which seems to in­creas­ingly ques­tion the ap­par­ently tightly fixed bound­ar­ies of the hu­man spe­cies (e.g. so called cre­ation of chi­mera and hy­brids, con­cepts of posthu­man­ism, na­n­o­tech­no­logy etc.). This raises the ques­tion wheth­er and how eth­ic­al bor­ders can be set that are ap­pro­pri­ate for the pro­gress of med­ic­al tech­no­logy.