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WEBWen es trifft: Der Volksbegriff der AfD und Szenarien der Diskriminierung. Wenn diesen Sonntag Landtagswahlen in Thüringen und in Sachsen stattfinden, könnte eine autoritär-populistische Partei stärkste Kraft werden, die mit ihrem Volksbegriff gegen Menschenwürde und Demokratieprinzip verstößt und die rechtliche Gleichheit der Staatsangehörigen in Frage stellt.
Podcast – Verfassungsblog
WEBThe fifth episode of #DefendingTheDefenders, the rule of law podcast by Deutscher Anwaltverein and Verfassungsblog, focuses on Colombia, where the situation for attorneys and human rights defenders is particularly dangerous. In recent years, hundreds of attorneys and human rights defenders have been …
Editorial – Verfassungsblog
WEBWhich principles govern? Mark A. Graber is Regents Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law in Baltimore. Verfassungsblog is a journalistic and academic forum of debate on topical events and developments in constitutional law and politics in Germany, the emerging common European constitutional space and beyond.
All Blogposts – Verfassungsblog
WEBVerfassungsblog is a forum of debate on topical events and developments in constitutional law and politics in Germany, the emerging European constitutional space, and beyond. It sees itself as an interface between the academic expert discourse on the one hand and the political public sphere on the other. So far more than 450 authors from all ...
What we do – Verfassungsblog
WEBWhat we do – Verfassungsblog. Verfassungsblog is an academic and journalistic open access forum of debate on topical events and developments in constitutional law and politics in Germany, the emerging European constitutional space and beyond. It sees itself as an interface between the academic expert discourse on the one hand and the ...
Germany’s Failing Court - Verfassungsblog
WEBMay 18, 2020 · Germany’s Failing Court. Commentaries to the German Federal Constitutional Court’s unprecedented judgment in Weiss (2 BvR 859/15 and others of 5 May 2020) are likely to focus on the German court’s argument on proportionality (see e.g. the very helpful comment by Tony Marzal). As is well known by now, the German court criticised the Court ...
Judges, Political Mandates and Judicial Independence in Germany
WEBJan 20, 2023 · In Germany, 2022 has been a turbulent year regarding former (extreme) right-wing Members of Parliament (MP) returning to their original office as civil servants and judges. Two cases created special great media attention: Jens Maier and Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, demanded (and partly succeeded) to return to serve as judges again. These cases bring the (often problematic) relationship between ...
Libraries (EN) – Verfassungsblog
WEBVerfassungsblog. for Libraries. Verfassungsblog publishes analyses by scholars on current topics in constitutional law and policy. Founded in 2009 as a “blog” by Max Steinbeis, about 3,000 experts from around the world have now published, discussed, and shared their research with their colleagues and the general public on Verfassungsblog.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Verfassungsblog
WEBDec 19, 2023 · Hence, the package wrapped as ‘defence of democracy’ against threats from the outside might in effect be a welcome pre-Christmas gift for the very enemies of democracy on the EU’s inside. DOWNLOAD PDF. LICENSED UNDER CC BY-SA 4.0. Feisel, Franca Maria: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The EU's 'Defence of Democracy' Package, VerfBlog ...
To Save the Rule of Law you Must Apparently Break It
WEBDec 11, 2020 · The interpretative declaration of 10 December 2020 is set to go down in history as a dark page for the rule of law in the Union legal order. Regardless of whether this document will be challenged before Court in the coming sixty days, it represents an unprecedented attempt by the Member States to disregard the rule of law as their dominant organisation principle. The Union being a “Community ...