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.

Anna Henriette Weininger analyses the role of alternative assessment in environmental law. In her study, she highlights its diverse legal foundations, its procedural significance between environmental protection and efficiency, and outlines perspectives for the future development of environmental procedure law.

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.