»The Social Reference of Freedom of Property. A Consideration of the Federal Constitutional Court's Interpretation of Fundamental Rights in the Face of the Statutory Coal Phaseout«: The social reference is a central argumentation figure within the Federal Constitutional Court's jurisprudence on the property guarantee of Article 14 GG. The thesis defines the concept of social reference on the basis of a case law analysis, analyzes its legal implications for the protection of property, and illustrates it by means of an example using the Coal-fired Power Generation Termination Act.