"This book opens an often nationally focused field of research to a transnational, common European debate. It addresses the ongoing transformation of the civil service, examining its evolving landscape across Europe and exploring the intricate web of historical, social and political influences...

The global increase in greenhouse gases is also changing the climate conditions more severely in Germany. This particularly affects local cultivated landscapes, which cover large parts of Germany and are already experiencing a wide range of ecological problems. Although agricultural land use...

The global increase in greenhouse gases is also changing the climate conditions more severely in Germany. This particularly affects local cultivated landscapes, which cover large parts of Germany and are already experiencing a wide range of ecological problems. Although agricultural land use...

Der im Februar 2023 erschienene Kommentar zum Bundesstatistikgesetz bietet erstmals seit dem letzten Kommentar aus dem Jahr 1988 eine aktualisierte rechtliche Einordnung der Regelungen des Bundesstatistikgesetzes. Der Beitrag stellt anlässlich dieser neuen Kommentierung die statistikrechtlichen...

Der im Februar 2023 erschienene Kommentar zum Bundesstatistikgesetz bietet erstmals seit dem letzten Kommentar aus dem Jahr 1988 eine aktualisierte rechtliche Einordnung der Regelungen des Bundesstatistikgesetzes. Der Beitrag stellt anlässlich dieser neuen Kommentierung die statistikrechtlichen...

Im komplexen System staatlicher Lenkung nutzen Hoheitsträger auch Erkenntnisse aus der Verhaltensforschung, um menschliches Verhalten besser vorherzusagen und effektiver zu steuern: verhaltensbasierter Regulierung. Ein besonders kontrovers diskutiertes Lenkungsinstrument ist das "Nudging". Es...

Gegen den Landeshaushalt 2022 des Freistaats Thüringen bestehen nach Einschätzung von Helmut Siekmann erhebliche verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken. In einem Gutachten kommt Siekmann zu dem Schluss, dass sich die festgestellten globalen Minderausgaben im Vergleich zum gesamten Haushaltsvolumen...

Mit Urteil vom 10.04.2018 (1 BvL 11/14) hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die Vorschriften der Einheitsbewertung des Grundvermögens für Zwecke der Grundsteuer für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Die Arbeit untersucht die daran anschließende Grundsteuerreform auf Bundes- und Länderebene formell...

A wise man once said: ‘Just when you think things cannot get any worse, they will.’ The year 2019 was such a dramatic year for Turkey. The agenda was as loaded as ever. In early 2019, the stinging defeat of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the municipal elections made...

This paper questions the relevance of constitutional law in legal systems. Comparative constitutional law scholars have become used to the assumption that constitutional law is a universal point of reference which can be addressed in comparison. If comparative constitutional law is intended to...

Hard cases present a dilemma at the heart of constitutional law. Courts have a duty to decide them—to vindicate rights, to clarify law—but doing so leads to errors (judges do not know the “right answer”) and strains the credibility of courts as impartial decision makers. Theories of...

The year 2019 for the Iran jurisdiction, in a nutshell, was a year characterized by intense polarization, with a deterioration of recent critical developments in the jurisdiction. In 2019, the two fundamental characteristics of the Constitution, Islamic and Republican, representing the...

Fraus legis – defrauding or evading the application of law – is a phenomenon well-known to students of private law, but its application in public law, including constitutional law, remains largely unconsidered. To consider whether a transaction, or, it is submitted, an enactment, is an...

A constitutional regime's basic stability and effectiveness depend upon appropriate trust and distrust. Trust by relevant parties, of deserving recipients, in proper contexts and degrees, is required for governmental efficiency, for meaningful social solidarity, and for general cultural...

Die Arbeit in einem sozialhilferechtlichen Beschäftigungsprogramm kann eine Voraussetzung sein, um Leistungen der Sozialhilfe und der Nothilfe (Art. 12 BV) zu erhalten. Diese Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern diese Anspruchsvoraussetzung für die Leistungen der subsidiären sozialstaatlichen...

Following the election in November 2017 of a new Labour-New Zealand First Government supported by the Green Party, 2018 was something of a consolidating year in New Zealand’s parliamentary democracy. This new Government spent much of the year coming to terms with the fact that it had (somewhat...

This article analyses the interstate dispute settlement mechanisms between member states of the German Confederation (Deutscher Bund). The question as to how disputes between German sovereigns should be decided already had a long (pre-)history dating back to the Middle Ages. Article 11 IV of the...

Chapter 1: Global Covid-19 policy response between law and political economy -- Chapter 2: Law and political economy of China’s early pandemic response: limited economic support and insulation -- Chapter 3: Under Weak State Capacity, Are Militarized Lockdowns in the Philippines the Great...

Richard E. Wagner has published a multidisciplinary collection of fifty essays written by different scholars in the areas of James M. Buchanan’s wide-ranging work. This volume is so broad in scope, so rich in fascinating reflections, so instructive that anybody should benefit from it who has a...

For more than 100 years the “American system” of adjudication mastered by one Supreme Court vested also and in particular with the power to review administrative as well as legislative acts enjoyed the virtual monopoly to serve as the role-model of Constitutional review. When the Austrian...

Predominantly a European phenomenon, the study of legal iconography has expanded to the common law world and informed approaches to Anglo-American legal development. European painting, sculptures, and other artwork were used in forensic settings to channel behavior of judges, lawyers, and...

This article considers the constitutional nature of socio-economic rights under the Hong Kong Basic Law, principally through the lens of article 39 which mandates the implementation of the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights into domestic law. So far, the Hong Kong...

This contribution reviews Ran Hirschl's book “Comparative Matters” to discuss the discipline of comparative constitutional law. It contrasts his social science approach, informed by comparative politics, with a more lawyerly approach he very much critiques. The latter considers law above all...

Die Studie analysiert die (verfassungs-)rechtlichen Möglichkeiten für den Bund unter der Schuldenbremse im Grundgesetz, Investitionen und in diesem Zusammenhang auch Infrastrukturinvestitionen durch Kreditaufnahmen jenseits der für den Bundeshaushalt festgelegten Grenze von strukturell 0,35 %...