Adopting a comparative law perspective, it examines the legal and technical measures available to protect minors and evaluates the strengths and limitations of relying on tort law as a tool for ...
Vor allem Populisten machen die Demokratie verwundbar. Doch auch, wer die Demokratie verteidigen will, kann sie verwunden.
Amid numerous global catastrophes, a quieter crisis at home is strikingly overlooked: a direct attack on equality and, effectively, the denial of Roma people’s rights, their freedom of movement, and ...
Autocratic legalism examines how legal frameworks and institutions become instruments for eroding democratic systems. In this context, law operates not as a constraint on authoritarian rule, but as a ...
Willingness to reconsider their ideas could demonstrate the Zeitenwende – the 2022 “ historic turning point ” in German security policy that extends also to hearing new perspectives. Yet, their ...
The Treaty on European Union establishes three distinct criteria that every Commissioner must meet at the time of appointment and maintain throughout their term in office: general competence, European ...
Die „No-Harm“-Regel auszuweiten scheint uns nicht nur zur Feier der Friedensnobelpreisverleihung eine noble Idee, vielleicht sogar nobler als der Preis selbst. Immerhin ist es mit dem Frieden wie mit ...
The current policy of the German government toward Afghan human rights defenders, local staff, and other refugees who hold German admission commitments is – literally and legally – a crime. This is ...
Nach § 31c S. 3 PartG ist die Bundestagspräsidentin verpflichtet, rechtswidrig erlangte Spenden durch den Erlass eines Verwaltungsaktes zu sanktionieren. Dieser Pflicht korrespondiert ein subjektives ...
Nicolas Sarkozy was prosecuted on several charges: corruption, illegal campaign financing, concealment of misappropriated Libyan public funds, and conspiracy. He was found guilty only of the latter ...
The EU’s sanctions framework is meant to work in two steps: unanimity for decisions defining the Union’s approach to “a particular matter of a geographical or thematic nature” under Article 29 TEU, ...
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