The rule of law crisis has been taking place in Poland since 2015 when the newly elected right-wing PiS government (Law and Justice) decided to radically restructure the justice system. The justice ...
Den ersten Teil dieses Beitrags finden Sie hier. I. Schmitts erste Rechtfertigung der „kommissarischen Diktatur“ des Reichspräsidenten Carl Schmitts vielfältige Ausführungen und auch Positionswechsel ...
On 23 March 1933, an act was adopted in Nazi Germany in response to the “crisis” of the Reichstag fire to enable Hitler to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and the presidency. Article 48 ...
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Von der Öffentlichkeit noch wenig bemerkt gerät auch die Arbeit in den Parlamenten von Bund und Ländern durch die Corona-Pandemie in praktische Schwierigkeiten. Ein deutsches Parlament besteht im ...
“It’s political economy, stupid!” There is probably no better way to express our increasing frustration caused by the avalanche of commentaries on the Weiss judgment by the German Constitutional Court ...
Is This President Erdogan’s Last Term in Office? A Note on Constitutional Interpretive Possibilities
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected as president in 2014. In 2018, he was elected to the same position for a second term. The Turkish Constitution, aside from one exceptional case, is clear in its ...
This is a first reaction (usual caveats for quick reactions apply…) to yesterday’s decision of the German Constitutional Court on the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Program. This is part of the ECB ...
On 19 th May 2020, the First Senate of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) delivered a decisive judgment on the German Act on the Federal Intelligence Service (Gesetz über den ...
3. Problems left unaddressed by the Court of Justice’s rulings to date Notwithstanding the seminal and welcome rulings issued this year by the Court of Justice, a number of important and urgent issues ...
Is Germany facing a tidal shift in police powers? Does the border between the prosecution of criminal offences and the prevention of looming dangers, which has so far been regarded as self-evident and ...
According to the Collins Dictionary, in a game of cat and mouse, one person “tries to confuse or deceive the second in order to defeat them”. Indeed, a cat-and-mouse game perfectly describes ...
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