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.

How does Europe protect standards once achieved from backsliding? Lena Sophie Kaiser traces how the Court of Justice of the European Union has developed a novel protective instrument from the EU's catalogue of values, while also highlighting the limits of its legitimacy.

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.