This Time it’s Serious
On burning barricades, shifting balances and other riotous matters of constitutionalism.
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Introduction: Constitutional Resilience and the German Grundgesetz
What lessons does the plight of the Polish and the Hungarian democracy hold for a seemingly stable constitutional state like Germany? How resilient would the German constitutional setup turn out to be in the case of an authoritarian majority taking and successfully holding on to power? What kind of legal or institutional changes may be helpful to make that event less likely and/or less hard to prevent? These were the questions we aimed to address in a debate jointly organized by Verfassungsblog and WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism, generously supported by Stiftung Mercator.
Continue Reading →Into the Open
On voting for the bad guys, rooting for the good guys and other matters of constitution and compromise.
Continue Reading →Law Rules!
On backpedalling Poles, diesel-guzzling Bavarians and other matters of constitutional pro- and regress.
Continue Reading →Wenn die Justiz auch einfach mal keine Ahnung hat
Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie gehen vor Gericht, und die Richterin sagt: Ja, ehrlich gesagt… weiß auch nicht. Bin ich überfragt. Tut mir leid, aber ich habe leider überhaupt keine Ahnung. Das wäre ein Fall, für den die Rechtsschutzgarantie in Artikel 19 IV Grundgesetz wie gemacht zu sein scheint, oder nicht? Ein Gericht darf sich nicht achselzuckend abwenden, wenn jemand kommt und seine Rechte einklagt. Ein Gericht hat Ahnung zu haben. Anders aber in einem aktuellen Senatsbeschluss das Bundesverfassungsgericht.
Continue Reading →Constitutional Metastasis
On Hungarian elections not being exclusively Hungarian and other news from the constitutional cancer ward.
Continue Reading →Constitutionalizing Facebook
On public space, private autonomy and other matters of who owes what sort of justification to whom.
Continue Reading →Confessions of an Ex-Neoliberal
On past mistakes made and future mistakes to be avoided and other matters of constitutional penitence.
Continue Reading →Viewed from Without
On constitutional holism, colliding trains and other matters of constitutional catastrophe.
Continue Reading →A Ghost Story
On the German Reich, Polish judicial reforms and other uncanny phenomena of paraconstitutional law.
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