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Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Robert ALEXY discusses the dimensions of human rights protection and the approaches to their application in a specific case: balancing and subsumption. He differentiates between principles and rules, defining the former as “mandates of optimization”, and explains that when they conflict, the law of balancing must be applied, the development of which leads us to his well-known formula of weight, which defines the weight of a principle in a specific case based on numbers as basic elements. He explains the content of his formula, differentiating it from legal discourse, and refutes the criticisms received from the doctrine.