The right to self-defense - which includes a right for the individual to use violence when subjected to certain types of attacks, intrusions and so on - is regulated in the Criminal Code (BrB) 24:1. This possibility of exercising justified violence, where the consequence of the practitioner staying within the limits of what is permitted is that he or she is released from responsibility for what would otherwise have been a criminal act, is important to study in more detail: the right to self-defense constitutes an explicit exception to the state monopoly on violence that is otherwise considered to be a central part of the construction of society. There is a need to study the regulation of self-defense both in terms of criminal law doctrine (in order to arrive at what is the applicable law on various issues, despite the fact that objections to self-defense are very frequent, there are no major such studies) and ideologically. The project addresses both of these aspects.