Law

The state is responsible for securing an energy supply that sustains society, the economy, and public institutions, yet legal and practical limits constrain its role. Despite extensive regulation, its influence remains restricted, as responsibilities are shared among many actors and multiple objectives must be balanced.

What objectives does the discharge of residual debt serve? Jakob Teigelkötter aligns this institution of insolvency law with general principles of private law and provides a dogmatic foundation for a consistent discharge of natural persons.

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.

How can fundamental rights protection remain effective as social realities evolve? Lea Norta addresses this fundamental question for the first time through the lens of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and develops criteria for its further development within the European multilevel system of rights protection.