Walter Georg Leisner describes the legal forms of safeguarding human existence, through stateprotection of its minimum and bases as well as its financial promotion. Constitutional guarantees lead to a system assuring the fulfilment of basic human needs.

Walter Georg Leisner describes the current problems surrounding the safeguarding of human existence. He examines the scope of protection of human dignity from the perspective of central fundamental rights such as the right to life or the freedom to choose an occupation. It is the government tax authorities in particular who have been bound by the Federal Constitutional Court to respect the subsistence level. The safeguarding of existence is provided for mainly in public law and in the basic constitutional principles. The author studies the establishment of the substinence level, the basis of livelihood and assistance in statutory law, in social and fiscal law, in the law concerning aliens and public subsidies as well as in civil law on protected earnings rates and oppressive contracts. He develops a standard system of dogmatics for safeguarding the elementary needs of life.

Autorentext
Geboren 1973; Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in München und Hamburg; 2002 Promotion; 2006 Habilitation; seit 2001 Rechtsanwalt in München.