Law

The recognition of rights of nature shapes environmental law debates worldwide. Its weaknesses emerge in balancing species and climate protection during renewable energy expansion. Collective actions by associations (Verbandsklagen) offer a more coherent alternative.

German procedural law restricts the parties' power to compel the other party to disclose information. In contrast, the EU legislator has created numerous new disclosure obligations, which the author analyzes comprehensively and describes systematically in this work.

The study examines the role of service providers such as craft businesses and care services in the mobility transition and develops solutions for their integration into the law of urban mobility, taking into account both constitutional and statutory requirements.

Vladyslav Rak analyzes the causes of the shift in the Federal Constitutional Court's understanding of the free democratic basic order in 2017. He attributes this shift to a changed semantic content of fundamental concepts of state theory that has emerged over the course of the past decades.