Seit der Eurokrise ist Europa im Griff der Austeritätspolitik. Doch wer hat darüber entschieden? Während die EU ein europäisches Parlament kennt, bestimmen in der Eurozone allein die Regierungen, in der Regel sogar, ohne die nationalen Parlamente ernsthaft zu fragen. Heraus kommt eine...

This research paper assesses the necessity for the EU to adopt a binding legal instrument on combatting violence against women (VAW). In particular, it argues that a broadly framed instrument which harmonizes national legislation and complements and integrates existing international instruments...

Over the last decade, a significant body of biomedical law has emerged within EU law. In so far as the EU has long been portrayed as aiming mostly if not only at economic integration, it is surprising at face value to see issues such as human embryonic stem cell research or trade in oocytes even...

The present article looks at the history and features of legal academic discourse on the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). It first establishes that people from inside the Convention system have been the first ones to posit ECHR law as a worthwhile object of study within academic...

This paper originates in the statement of the human dignity principle’s (HDP) growing importance in many legal orders. It first examines whether many legal orders’ interest for the HDP may be linked to its intrinsic (symbolic/axiological) or extrinsic (usefulness in terms of litigation)...