Law

Fabian Michl offers a fresh perspective on German electoral law by contrasting the paradigms of personal and party representation. He shows how parliaments, parties, governments, and courts shape electoral rules beyond power politics, tracing paradigm shifts from the nineteenth century up to recent reforms.

States of emergencies often pose a greater threat to human rights than to the state itself. Max Milas examines how human rights adjudicative bodies in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the UN have developed and applied consistent standards in states of emergencies - upholding human rights through a shared, legitimacy-driven approach.

Viktoria Kraetzig develops a paradigm for the interface of doctrinal concepts in the European multi-level system. According to it, national law and EU law are linked in such a way that EU law establishes requirements for national private law in terms of its substance and, in some cases, its form, but never in terms of its doctrinal principles.

The categories that protect the individual also limit it. Based on Hegel's concept of freedom, Nils Weinberg develops a concept of legal identity as a »form of freedom« of liberal anti-discrimination law: freedom means self-determination in relation to others and requires dynamic, not arbitrary legal categories.