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.

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.

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.

Dealing with tax planning errors raises numerous questions at the convergence of private and tax law. Katharina Göpfarth examines instruments for remedying tax mistakes and, through a comparative analysis of Germany, England, and Canada, demonstrates the ambivalent effects of the elimination of tax consequences.