15 January 2026

Der Richter ist sein Henker

Die Wahl eines neuen Richters des montenegrinischen Verfassungsgerichts am 25. November 2025 hat einmal mehr ein strukturelles Problem offengelegt: Die Richter:innen entscheiden faktisch über das Ende ihrer eigenen Amtszeit – und können dadurch die verfassungsgemäße Erneuerung des Gerichts blockieren. Damit steht nicht nur die Nachbesetzung einzelner Stellen, sondern die Funktionsfähigkeit des Verfassungsgerichts – und damit der Verfassungsordnung insgesamt – auf dem Spiel.

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27 August 2019

Pseudo-Legal Justice

On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K., a member of the Council of the Anti-corruption Agency of Montenegro, was dismissed of his duties, by the very same body that appointed him: the Parliament of Montenegro. This could be the first sentence of a novel written by Franz Kafka if he was with us today. While Kafka’s Josef K. was arrested and left to roam free through a court building to find a courtroom in which his destiny would be determined, Josef K. in this story is in a similarly peculiar situation: He does not know which court in Montenegro he should appeal to and present his grievances. This Kafkaesque reality is the result of a questionable interpretation of the law by Montenegro’s Supreme Court – just another piece in the demise of the country’s rule of law.

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