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08 July 2020

Wahlstation beim Verfassungsblog

Für kluge und engagierte Rechtsreferendar_innen (m/w/*) haben wir in unserem neuen Büro in Berlin-Kreuzberg ab sofort einen Schreibtisch frei.

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15 April 2026

Neutralised (Right to) Strike

On 13 March 2026, the European Committee of Social Rights published the decision concerning the right to strike in essential public services (EPS) in Italy. On the one hand, the decision found that the notion of EPS is too broad and underspecified. On the other hand, it found no violation of the European Social Charter relating to the (absence of) effective judicial review. The decision overlooks the constitutional and institutional peculiarities of the Italian system and shows a limited understanding of procedural realities, which effectively neutralise the judicial oversight.

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Why Primacy Operates Differently in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

The EPPO’s anti-corruption mandate meets a constitutional constraint in Greece, where only Parliament may initiate proceedings against ministers. The familiar logic of EU primacy offers no easy way through, as Union law itself leaves gaps and accommodates national procedural orders. What emerges instead is a structural limit: in criminal law, integration proceeds within – not against – constitutional tradition.

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Das Aufenthaltsrecht besteht nicht nur aus Asyl

Friedrich Merz hatte Ende März erklärt, dass „rund 80 Prozent der in Deutschland jetzt sich aufhaltenden Syrerinnen und Syrer zurück in ihr Heimatland kehren“ sollen. Dazu müssten auch Personen mit anderen Aufenthaltstiteln – ggf. sogar Eingebürgerte mit doppelter Staatsbürgerschaft – das Land verlassen. Welche Aufenthaltsmöglichkeiten gibt es für Schutzsuchende, wenn der Grund für den humanitären Schutz entfällt? Für einen großen Anteil der Betroffenen gibt es bereits eine Alternative zum Asylrecht: Die Beantragung jedes beliebigen anderen Aufenthaltstitels schützt rechtssicher vor einem eventuellen Widerruf syrischer Anerkennungen.

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14 April 2026

The Case for Constitutional Disobedience

With Péter Magyar’s landslide victory in the Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2026, hopes of a return to democracy have rarely been as high as now. The electoral victory has the potential to turn into a constitutional moment for Hungary, yet it is overshadowed by a profound constitutional dilemma: Is it justified to disobey the constitution to rebuild democracy and the rule of law? I argue that constitutional disobedience may not only be justified but legally required in favour of substantive constitutional values and democratic rebuilding.

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13 April 2026

Two-Thirds Majority Is Essential but Not Enough

We can start now rebuilding our democracy and constitutionalism. TISZA Party, led by Péter Magyar, secured a constitutional majority on 12 April 2026. This broad democratic authorization allows for the creation of a new constitution, but it will take time, a lot of effort, and careful consideration. A constitutional majority provides an exceptional form of democratic authorization. Yet, especially in reconstruction contexts, it risks reproducing the very patterns of concentrated and exclusionary lawmaking that characterized the previous regime.

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Marketplace of Malpractice

Every day we depend upon the counsel of our doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, architects, and pharmacists. Yet, in a startling decision, the Supreme Court recently struck down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors in an opinion that threatens to undermine the professional advice on which we all constantly rely. The Court's reasoning is simply nonsense in the context of the professional speech that all of us rely on all the time.

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State Bodies

India's New Trans Rights Act reorganises the terms on which transgender lives become intelligible to law. Its animating logic, that trans identity is an “acquirable characteristic” the state must verify rather than an irreducible human experience it must recognise, directly confronts the constitutional architecture erected by the Indian Supreme Court in previous case law. The Act re-medicalises identity, re-bureaucratises recognition, and risks criminalising both community kinship structures and legitimate gender-affirming care.

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12 April 2026
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Beyond Intermediaries

Recent investigations into the dissemination of illegal content generated by Grok have exposed a structural gap in the EU’s legislative framework: while the Digital Services Act equips the European Commission with far-reaching powers over large online platforms, it does not clearly capture generative AI systems per se. As a result, the Commission may be able to act against platforms integrating such systems (such as X), but not necessarily against the systems themselves (such as Grok). This asymmetry raises a broader question that has increasingly gained attention in policy and academic debates: can generative AI applications be brought within the scope of the DSA?

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11 April 2026
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Neither What Italy Needed, Nor What it Deserved

On 22 and 23 March 2026, the Italian electorate rejected a constitutional reform of the judiciary. This vote, while unlikely to deal a decisive blow to Meloni’s government, has already had notable political repercussions – most prominently, the resignations of two key figures within the Ministry of Justice. However, when situating the reform in the broader Italian political context, it goes too far to conclude that it would have pushed Italy in a direction similar to Hungary’s.

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10 April 2026

After Collapse

Ten years after the Hungarian government began its campaign against Central European University, Hungary now stands on the brink of a political turning point: elections that could finally shake the system built by Fidesz. With opposition leader Péter Magyar leading in the polls, an old prediction is suddenly coming true. Yet it raises a more unsettling question: even if the system collapses, can Hungary simply rebuild what once proved so vulnerable to illiberal capture?

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Nach dem Kollaps

Zehn Jahre nachdem die ungarische Regierung ihre Kampagne gegen die Central European University begonnen hat, steht Ungarn nun an der Schwelle zu einem politischen Wendepunkt: Wahlen, die das von Fidesz errichtete System erstmals ins Wanken bringen könnten. Mit Oppositionsführer Péter Magyar an der Spitze der Umfragen bewahrheitet sich plötzlich eine alte Prognose. Zugleich drängt sich eine beunruhigendere Frage auf: Selbst wenn das System zusammenbricht – kann Ungarn einfach das wiederaufbauen, was sich einst als so anfällig für illiberale Vereinnahmung erwiesen hat?

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09 April 2026

A Win That Isn’t

Last week, the U.S. government asked the Supreme Court to bless its attempt to put the country’s citizenship attribution rule into the service of its anti-immigrant agenda. At issue was the constitutionality and legality of the President’s Executive Order 14160. It seeks to deny citizenship to children born to non-citizen mothers who are undocumented or lawfully but temporarily present and non-citizen fathers who do not possess a green card. After Wednesday’s oral argument, there is broad consensus that the Court is unlikely to do so.

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Beating (Authoritarian) Populism with (Democratic) Populism

Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, is set to lose the parliamentary elections on 12 April 2026. According to recent polls, Fidesz’ main rival, centre-right Tisza, seems to be within reach of attaining a two-thirds constitutional majority. While this may provide conditions for re-establishing democratic institutions, it also implies that Tisza would not be constrained by any meaningful democratic controls. Avoiding the double trap of meeting populist expectations and stabilizing institutionally unconstrained powers are two major tasks the new government needs to perform.

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Three Lessons from the UN Declaration on Enslavement

On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, led by African and Caribbean states, the Declaration on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity. The Declaration can be read as operating within the language of foundational instruments of international law while simultaneously pushing their limits through a set of decisive doctrinal moves. Seen in this light, the Declaration offers at least three lessons for international law today.

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Holding Fast

Perhaps the most memorable line in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises appears in an otherwise minor exchange. Bill Gorton asks the dissolute, perpetually broke Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” Campbell replies. “Gradually, and then suddenly.” Campbell’s road to ruin will strike a familiar chord for those of us who study the rule of law in Turkey. After gradual and continuous deterioration, March 2026 will stand apart. It marks one full year since Ekrem İmamoğlu was placed in detention and his trial formally began.

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08 April 2026

Contra la violencia machista

Während Deutschland beim Schutz von Frauen an bürokratischer Zersplitterung und uferlosen Diskussionen um Straftatbestände scheitert, hat Spanien den Kampf gegen Gewalt gegen Frauen mit beispielloser Entschlossenheit zur Staatsräson erhoben. Von spezialisierten Gerichten bis zur synchronisierten GPS-Überwachung von Tätern und Opfern zeigt das "spanische Modell", wie ein konsequenter Opferschutz die Femizid-Rate im Vergleich zu Deutschland halbieren kann. Was muss sich hierzulande ändern, damit Schutz kein Zufallsprodukt mehr ist?

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Criminalization without Harm

On March 4, 2026, the Georgian Parliament passed yet another wave of anti-democratic changes to the Law on Grants and the Criminal Code. The law now criminalizes political expression if individuals or civil society organizations receive foreign support without prior government authorization. Beyond clear violations of freedom of expression and association, the Georgian case reveals a structural gap in criminal law theory and practice – the lack of substantive limits on criminalization. At the same time, the Georgian case shows that this need not be so: at least two concrete rules against criminalization emerge from the Georgian case.

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07 April 2026

Weaponizing Necessity

On March 30, 2026, reports indicated that the US would allow a Russian oil tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of crude oil to dock in Cuba, delivering much-needed fuel to an island that had faced an effective US oil blockade since January 29, 2026. The arrival underscored the severity of Cuba’s energy crisis, produced by a deliberate escalation of US economic coercion, using both sanctions and tariffs. As tools of economic warfare, tariffs operate as forms of state crime that produce systemic harm and human suffering in Cuba and across the region. 

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The IOC’s Great Leap Backwards on Genetic Sex Testing

On 26 March, the International Olympic Committee released its Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport. Now, to be eligible for the Olympic competitions, all women and girls will have to undergo a genetic test that screens for the SRY gene. This sharp policy change has been in the cards since Kirsty Coventry took the helm of the IOC last year. This post provides a first critical analysis of this U-turn on genetic sex testing, revealing its scientific, procedural, and legal shortcomings.

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Verabschiedungskultur jenseits des Rechts

Das „Regierungsprogramm“ der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt kreist rund um das Thema Migration. Viele der migrationspolitischen Forderungen sind nur auf Europa- und Bundesebene umsetzbar. Aber auch diejenigen, die auf Landesebene angesiedelt sind, scheitern bei ihrer Umsetzung an vielen Stellen an Grenzen, die ihnen das Recht setzt – ihre Umsetzung ist überwiegend unzulässig. Es ist trotzdem vorstellbar, dass die AfD ihre rechtswidrigen Forderungen teilweise umsetzt. Nicht zuletzt die aktuelle Landesregierung zeigt ihr jetzt schon, wie das funktioniert.

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The Frequencies of Freedom

On 26 February, the CJEU found that not renewing the license of the government-critical radio channel Klubrádió violates EU law (case C 92/23). The judgment constitutionally foregrounded media freedom as a central benchmark for the enforcement of telecom rules. Moreover, it rejected Hungary’s argument of formal legal compliance and focused on the holistic silencing potential of the respective decision. Finally, the Court recognised the imperative for a domestic regulatory framework that effectively safeguards media freedom and pluralism.

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02 April 2026

Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón

“Will we women have the strength necessary to do away with the traditional Mexican concept of a democracy without women?” What sounds like an oxymoron today was the very real question women all around the world had to face in the 20th century. Fortunately, the answer to this question posed by Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón would eventually be affirmative – after 24 years of struggle to obtain women’s suffrage.

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Das Ende der Versicherung der Ehe

Die FinanzKommission Gesundheit empfiehlt, „die beitragsfreie Krankenversicherung für Ehegatten und ihnen gleichgestellte Lebenspartner ohne Kinder unter sechs Jahren abzuschaffen.“ Dabei ist nicht die Abschaffung der beitragsfreien Mitversicherung von Partner*innen an sich erklärungsbedürftig, sondern ihre Bindung an die Ehe. Statt die beitragsfreie Familienversicherung weiterhin an die Ehe zu koppeln, sollte sie sich konsequent an der Übernahme von Sorgeverantwortung orientieren, um alle Familien gerecht zu entlasten und zugleich eine strukturelle Abhängigkeit allein für Frauen zu vermeiden.

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Poland’s “Illegal Judges”

For the first time, the CJEU has called for a “legislative framework” to remedy the systemic problem of irregularly appointed judges in Poland’s judicial system in its judgment of 24 March 2026 in Case C-521/21. Until such time, the CJEU has ruled that neo-judges attached to ordinary courts may only be recused on a case-by-case basis. However, such an individual assessment is not required for the neo-judges appointed to courts of last resort. The CJEU’s twofold approach prioritises system stability over the individual right to effective judicial protection.

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Litigating Human Rights of the Mind

Last week, two U.S. courts for the first time found Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for inflicting harm on users and for violating consumer protection law. These rulings have a signalling effect on Europe, and initial reactions have already placed great hope in them. Human rights organisations celebrated them as a “watershed” for big tech accountability. The rulings were based on consumer protection law and negligence (tort law). Nonetheless, they could arguably be a potential driver for human rights litigation.

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01 April 2026

Schärfere Schwerter gegen eine zügellose Exekutive

Wenn Behörden gerichtliche Entscheidungen missachten, stellt sich die Frage nach der tatsächlichen Durchsetzbarkeit des Rechts. Der neue Vorschlag der Bundesjustizministerin zur Bekämpfung exekutiven Ungehorsams setzt vor allem auf höhere und wiederkehrende Zwangsgelder, verzichtet jedoch zugleich auf zentrale Vollstreckungsinstrumente gegenüber Amtsträgern. Die geplanten Änderungen markieren einen erneuten Versuch, die Effektivität verwaltungsgerichtlicher Vollstreckung zu stärken – bleiben jedoch in zentralen Punkten hinter den Anforderungen eines konsequenten Rechtsschutzes zurück.

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31 March 2026

„Aber die Journalisten dürfen das doch auch“

Gesichtserkennung im Netz soll der Polizei neue Fahndungsmacht geben, doch der Gesetzentwurf bleibt an entscheidenden Punkten vage. § 98d StPO-E erlaubt den Abgleich mit milliardenschweren Bilddatenbanken, ohne festzulegen, welche Daten genutzt werden, wie zuverlässig die Systeme sind oder wer die Treffer prüft. Das öffnet Raum für Fehlidentifizierungen und weitreichende Eingriffe bis hin zu Persönlichkeitsprofilen. Und auch oft bemühte Argument trägt nicht: Journalisten bewegen sich rechtlich keineswegs auf sicherem Boden.

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Selectivity of Religious Ethos on Trial

On 17 March 2026, the CJEU decided in C‐258/24 (Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung) that a Catholic association cannot dismiss an employee on the ground that she has left the Catholic Church while simultaneously employing non-Catholics for the same assignment. The judgment provides a contextualised concept of loyalty, differentiating between the loyalty to the Church and the loyalty to the religious employer. This nuanced approach towards a tiered system of duties of loyalty may foster convergence between national and European case law.

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Strafe statt Schutz

Schutz vor repressiven Regimen endet für viele nicht an der deutschen Grenze: Einschüchterung, Überwachung und Gewalt reichen bis ins Exil. Der neue § 87a StGB verspricht Abhilfe, bleibt aber weitgehend symbolisch und greift an den eigentlichen Problemen vorbei. Statt Betroffene wirksam zu schützen, setzt die Politik auf Strafverschärfung – und verfehlt damit die strukturelle Logik transnationaler Repression. Wer Sicherheit sucht, bleibt so oft weiterhin auf sich allein gestellt.

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30 March 2026

No More Manels

In the email signature of a former UN Special Rapporteur was a sentence that has stayed with me: “I do not join manels.” A “manel”, now widely defined as an all-male panel, is not simply descriptive. It reflects structural patterns in who is recognised as an expert and who is not. On 31 March 2026, the University of Cyprus is holding an event on the status and future of the Sovereign Base Areas. All speakers are male. Are there no female academics at the University of Cyprus who could speak?

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Out of Bounds

A planned homecoming for Croatia’s handball team in Zagreb escalated into a constitutional dispute when the national government overrode the city’s refusal to host a controversial nationalist singer. What followed was not only a conflict over local authority, but a test of the constitutional limits on state power. At the same time, symbols tied to Croatia’s fascist past resurfaced at the center of public celebration, backed by political actors. The episode exposes how quickly legal boundaries and historical consensus can come under strain.

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Exekutive Selbstermächtigung

Die Einstufung „sicherer Herkunftsstaaten“ wird in Deutschland künftig per Rechtsverordnung durch die Bundesregierung geregelt. Während das Instrument ursprünglich die Asylverfahren beschleunigen sollte, könnte es nun die parlamentarische Kontrolle untergraben und die Rechte Schutzsuchender einschränken.

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28 March 2026

The Playbook of Repression

India is the world’s largest democracy. It is also increasingly a democracy that is eating itself from within. Under the Bharatiya Janata Party governments of Narendra Modi, now in their third consecutive term, the formal architecture of democratic governance remains intact: elections are held, courts sit, and newspapers continue to be published. This post is an attempt to make sense of what is happening.

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Dignity at the End

On 11 March 2026, the Supreme Court of India allowed the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the case of Harish Rana v. Union of India. The Court’s acceptance of non-voluntary passive euthanasia through a best-interests paradigm might seem to be normatively attractive in certain hard cases, but it ultimately risks undermining patient autonomy and leading to ableist assumptions in the absence of a more demanding, procedurally sound account of substituted judgment and safeguards.

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27 March 2026

Anatomy of an Escalation

Deepfakes are currently being cast as a startling new threat. They dominate headlines, raise difficult legal questions, and fuel technocratic debates on regulation. One prominent example is the legislative initiative put forward by Stefanie Hubig, German Federal Minister of Justice, aimed at specifically tackling digital violence and the abuse of deepfake technologies. However, we must not overlook the true scale of the problem: deepfakes are not the cause, but the latest symptom. They represent a technological upgrade for a form of violence deeply embedded in analogue power structures.

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Anatomie einer Eskalation

Deepfakes erscheinen in der öffentlichen Debatte jetzt als neue Bedrohung. Sie produzieren Schlagzeilen, geben Anlass für neue Gesetzesinitiativen und technokratische Diskussionen. So will Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig mit einem aktuellen Entwurf gezielt gegen digitale Gewalt und Deepfake-Missbrauch vorgehen. Doch wir sollten die gesamtgesellschaftliche Dimension dieses Problems nicht übersehen: Deepfakes sind nicht Ursache, sondern das jüngste Symptom. Sie sind ein technisches Upgrade für eine Gewalt, die tief in unseren analogen Machtverhältnissen wurzelt, und entlang sozialer Unterschiede systematisch diskriminiert.

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Filter am Flaschenhals

Wer sich gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung betätigt, soll in Zukunft auch in Sachsen stets vom juristischen Vorbereitungsdienst ausgeschlossen werden können. Nach der am Mittwoch verabschiedeten Novellierung des sächsischen Juristenausbildungsgesetzes kann Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern der Zugang zum juristischen Vorbereitungsdienst auch dann versagt werden, wenn sie sich verfassungsfeindlich, aber nicht strafbar verhalten haben. Damit beendet der Landtag den sächsischen Alleingang, auf den er sich 2021 mit der Normierung der Strafbarkeitsvoraussetzung selbst begeben hatte.

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Der lange Schatten der Wehrpflicht

Seit der jüngsten Novelle des Wehrpflichtgesetzes steht männlichen Staatsbürgern zum 18. Geburtstag wieder eine verpflichtende Musterung ins Haus. Der Staat behält sich vor, aus der zunächst freiwilligen eine verpflichtende Wehrpflicht zu machen. Nach welchem Verfahren die Betroffenen dann ausgewählt werden, lässt das Gesetz allerdings ausdrücklich offen. Mit Walter Benjamins Theorie der rechtserhaltenden Gewalt können wir sehen, dass es gerade die bestimmte Unbestimmtheit des neuen Gesetzes ist, die ein latentes Bedrohungsgefühl bei den Gemusterten auslösen wird.

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Grundrechtsdialog auf Augenhöhe

Vergangene Woche veröffentlichte der EuGH sein Urteil im Fall Katholische Schwangerschaftsberatung. Dabei hatte sich der EuGH mit der Frage auseinanderzusetzen, ob kirchliche Arbeitgeber auf den Kirchenaustritt ihrer ArbeitnehmerInnen mit einer Kündigung reagieren dürfen. Vielmehr dürfen sie die Kirchenmitgliedschaft nur dann als Beschäftigungsvoraussetzung festlegen, wenn sie für den jeweiligen Tätigkeitsbereich notwendig und insgesamt verhältnismäßig ist. Dieses Urteil ist ein nächster Schritt in Richtung eines Kooperationsverhältnisses zwischen EuGH und BVerfG, das seinen Namen tatsächlich verdient.

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Tyranny’s Useful Idiot

In the aftermath of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the US and Israel attempted to portray the attack as the continuation of an ongoing conflict, self-defence, as well as a humanitarian effort. However, most international lawyers condemned the attack as “manifestly illegal”. In response, they argued that the illegality “must be weighed against the principle of reality”, “given the murderous nature of the Iranian regime”. This narrative characterises international law as tyranny’s useful idiot. In reality, it serves as a justification to abandon the law as a practice to legitimise political actions.

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26 March 2026
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Towards a Legal Concept of Digital Well-Being 

The European Commission's preliminary finding on TikTok’s addictive design from last month might be a game-changer for protecting users’ digital well-being under EU law. The Commission’s focus moves beyond illegal content on the platform to the design of the platform itself. For the DSA to make this enforceable, “digital well-being” needs to be operationalised in a way that regulators and platforms can actually measure and mitigate. This blog post begins with the Commission's findings to advance the first steps toward a theory of digital well-being within the EU platform regulation framework.

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Nur wer die Verfassung ändert, bleibt ihr treu

SPD und Linke verhandeln derzeit in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mit CDU, Grünen und FDP über eine Änderung der Landesverfassung: Geplant ist unter anderem eine Verlängerung der Frist zur Wahl der Regierungsspitze. Grund ist das erwartete Wahlergebnis, nach dem entweder eine Regierungskoalition unter Beteiligung der AfD oder ein Bündnis aus SPD, CDU und Linken wahrscheinlich ist. Entsprechend schwierig und langwierig könnten die Koalitionsgespräche werden. Die Verlängerung der Frist würde eingehende Verhandlungen ermöglichen und die Chancen auf eine langfristig stabile Regierung erhöhen.

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Hollowing Out Human Rights

In less than two months, the Council of Europe is set to consider the adoption of a Political Declaration intended at “rebalancing” the European Convention on Human Rights in immigration contexts. These developments have implications for the connected rights commitments made under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998. If the 1998 Agreement’s rights commitments start from, and extend beyond, the ECHR rights, this cannot be reconciled with efforts to water down those rights and shackle the interpretive role of the Strasbourg Court.

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Blocked Without Explanation

In recent weeks, several X (Twitter) and Meta users have reported that their posts and accounts were blocked in India following government orders issued under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. According to reports, affected users received automated notifications from X stating that their posts had been blocked in response to a legal demand attributed to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. These blocking orders highlight a broader problem with India’s internet blocking regime.

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Copyrighting Voice and Image

With the increasing proliferation of deepfakes, Denmark has become the first country in the EU to specifically protect one’s image and voice through a new legislative initiative. As of 31 March 2026, a new intellectual property right is expected to enter into force, modelled as a neighbouring right to copyright and specifically designed to protect a person’s voice and physical appearance. Traditionally, voice and image have been protected as personality rights. The new legislation reconceptualises them as intellectual property rights, making them potentially transferable and commercially exploitable.

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25 March 2026

No, Grazie

Over the weekend, Italians resoundingly rejected the Meloni government’s constitutional reform on the overhaul of the judiciary via referendum. With the “No” side receiving 53.2% of the popular support, with an unexpectedly high turnout at 55.7%, this is Meloni’s first political defeat since becoming Prime Minister in 2022. The consequences of the referendum show that Italian checks and balances are stronger than one might have feared. As Meloni is likely to adjust her strategy, and with new electoral reforms on the horizon, Italian democratic resilience will soon face another real test.

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A Deal Is a Deal

Veto threats are ordinary currency in Brussels. A veto against an agreed compromise, used to force concessions on an unrelated dispute and to stage a domestic election campaign, is not. The events of 19 March 2026 were serious not only because Viktor Orbán blocked money for Ukraine, but because he did so after having promised in December 2025 not to stand in the way. This time Orbán went too far – if the other leaders fail to respond effectively, they will be teaching everyone that the most profitable strategy is blackmail.

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Was und wie lehren wir im Jurastudium in Zeiten von KI?

Der technologische Wandel wird das Jura-Studium grundlegend verändern. Künstliche Intelligenz hat bereits heute erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Lehre und Ausbildung. Universitäten, Hochschulen und Justizprüfungsämter müssen darüber nachdenken, über welche Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen Absolvent:innen juristischer Studiengänge in der nahen Zukunft verfügen sollen. Dazu gehören neben juristischen Kernkompetenzen und spezifischen KI-Kompetenzen auch soziale, kommunikative und kritisch-reflexive Fähigkeiten

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Verfassungsrecht als Alibi exekutiven Ungehorsams

Die Berliner Justizsenatorin Badenberg hat öffentlich verkündet, dass sie das Berliner Partizipationsgesetz, mit dem mehr Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in den Landesdienst aufgenommen werden sollen, für teilweise verfassungswidrig hält und es deshalb nur noch eingeschränkt anwenden will. Ihr verfassungsrechtlicher Einwand kann jedoch schon auf Anhieb wenig überzeugen. Man muss sich also eher fragen, ob hier nicht aus politischen Gründen ein Widerspruch herbeikonstruiert worden ist. Das Gesetz deswegen nicht anzuwenden, erweist sich daher als eine Form exekutiven Gesetzesungehorsams.

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24 March 2026

Deepfakes und die Strafrechtsfalle

Dieser Tage herrscht berechtigte Empörung und Erschütterung über das, was Collien Fernandes und unzähligen weiteren Frauen tagtäglich insbesondere im digitalen Raum widerfährt: Sexualisierte Deepfakes machen eine neue Qualität von Gewalt gegen Frauen sichtbar – und erzeugen politischen Handlungsdruck. Schnell richtet sich der Blick auf das Strafrecht. Dabei liegen die nachhaltige und erfolgsversprechende Lösungen ganz woanders.

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