Law

Do constitutional courts overstep into the realm of politics? Jonas Tafel examines the recurring accusation of judicial overreach and, using the example of the Court of Justice of the European Union, develops a model that enables more nuanced criticism while also highlighting potentials for acceptance.

Jörg Spörl examines Erik Wolf's significant narrative of the Great Legal Thinkers of German Intellectual History using an innovative analytical framework and situates it within contemporary political, sociological, literary-historical, pedagogical, philosophical, and legal discourses.

In the late 1950s, European law underwent a linguistic shift that made the language of European law more political and less precise. Thorben Klünder systematizes the vocabulary of European law, traces its historical development, and offers a critique of European legal language, metaphor, and theory.

What does European competition law have to do with climate protection and social justice? Jule Halbach develops a model demonstrating how competition authorities and courts can take sustainability considerations into account when applying the control of abusive practices by dominant undertakings.