Law

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.

Teleological reduction is an established, though contested, component of legal methodology. It has long been particularly popular in criminal law. Against this backdrop, Kristina Peters takes the opportunity to examine and clarify the remaining open questions surrounding the use of teleological reduction in criminal law.

In a German-Italian comparative perspective, Luca Silvani presents the judicial referral as a flexible instrument of constitutional adjudication that reflects the differing functional conditions and strategies of the Federal Constitutional Court and the Constitutional Court of Italy.