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.

How should Europe be defended militarily in the future? Laura Maria Wolfstädter examines the need for and the limits of the Europeanization of defense equipment, with a particular focus on the operational level, and outlines the concept of a future European Defense Union.

The principle of nemo tenetur is one of the central principles of criminal proceedings governed by the rule of law. The requests for information in national antitrust proceedings, as expanded by the 10th amendment to the German Competition Act (GWB), give rise to a critical examination.

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.