Verfassungsblog – On Matters Constitutional
Drawing from the conference „Law and Political Economy in Germany“ in June in Berlin, this blog symposium dives into a dialogue between the Law and Political Economy Discourse and German legal thinking. Convened by Andreas Engert, Eva Herzog, Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Bertram Lomfeld and Silvia von Steinsdorff, the symposium is supported by ...
The Strictest Asylum Policy Ever? – Verfassungsblog
2 hours ago · On 13 September 2024, ahead of the presentation of the State Budget, the new Dutch coalition presented their finalized plan to implement what it has labelled as the strictest admission regime ever in the field of asylum law. To implement its Outline Agreement, titled ‘Hope, Courage and Pride,’ the government plans to rely on an derogation provision in the Dutch Aliens Act 2000.
Taking Back Control? – Verfassungsblog
3 hours ago · This week, the Polish government unveiled its new migration strategy, titled “Take Back Control. Ensure Security. Poland’s Comprehensive and Responsible Migration Strategy for 2025-2030” (Odzyskać kontrolę. Zapewnić bezpieczeństwo. Kompleksowa i odpowiedzialna strategia migracyjna Polski na lata 2025-2030). The plan, introduced with ...
Anti-Racism Law and its Limits – Verfassungsblog
7 hours ago · Anti-racism law, its limits, and the “conceptual blurriness” of race. The brief inquiries into law and race have hinted at the problems lying at the heart of anti-racism law. Anti-racism law is tasked with combatting inequalities stemming from race. As law, it is subject to law’s limits: it is dependent upon what is thought in society.
Podcast – Verfassungsblog
The 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 killed, death threats against them are being ...
All Blogposts – Verfassungsblog
All Blogposts – Verfassungsblog. Verfassungsblog 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 ...
A Hard Year – Verfassungsblog
Dec 17, 2021 · A Hard Year. As always at this time of year, this last editorial of 2021 is not only a weekly review, but also a kind of annual review. As of today, we have published 936 articles in 2021, so by New Year’s Eve we might end up in walking distance of the 1000 mark. With this, we have reached a total of almost 1.2 million readers.
To Save the Rule of Law you Must Apparently Break It
Dec 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 ...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back – Verfassungsblog
Dec 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 ...
Judges, Political Mandates and Judicial Independence in Germany
Jan 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 ...