The European Union is a community based on the rule of law. The EU legal order is the backbone that holds the EU together, and the German Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling
in Weiss poses a profound threat to that legal order. This threat goes far beyond the potential consequences of the Weiss ruling for European monetary policy. [...]
Some governments have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by developing policies based on ideas from behavioural psychology, especially ‘nudge theory’. But the pandemic
has highlighted two important failings of ‘nudging’ – its libertarian opposition to state intervention; and its lack of any theory of psychological interiority. [...]
For the Symposium on Timothy William Waters's Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale University Press, 2020) and F. H. Buckley's American
Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup (Encounter Books, 2020). [...]
“[W]hereas it is necessary for the speedy extermination of the disease… be it ordered, that all the inhabitants of the city…be vaccinated." As the world awaits the
development of a COVID-19 vaccine, this edict is as conceivable today as it was in 1902, when it was first decreed to help mitigate a smallpox outbreak in Cambridge, [...]
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law The 125 page opinion in Jones v. DeSantis by United States District Judge Robert Hinkle results in
an detailed permanent injunction outlining how Florida must comply with the... [...]
Von FRIEDERIKE GEBHARD Die Beschwerdeführer, die sich direkt am Tag des Inkrafttretens des im Vorfeld kontrovers diskutierten Masernschutzgesetzes mit Eilanträgen gegen die
zum 01.März dieses Jahres eingeführte Masern-Impfpflicht an das Bundesverfassungsgericht gewandt hatten, sind (vorerst) gescheitert (1 BvR 469/20). [...]
In den letzten Wochen wurden in den Polit-Talkshows dieses Landes und andernorts viele Lockerungen im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie diskutiert. Eine ausgeprägte Voreingenommenheit
mancher Diskussionsteilnehmer kam in besonderem Maße zum Vorschein, wenn über den sogenannten ReStart der Fußball-Bundesligen diskutiert wurde. [...]
Yesterday, the President of Poland appointed Małgorzata Manowska as the First President of the Supreme Court. Manowska cannot be considered an independent judge in light of
the judgment of the ECJ in A.K. v Sąd Najwyższy and the subsequent rulings of the Polish Supreme Court. [...]
The fifty days of the ‘COVID-19 and States of Emergency’ Symposium covered the height of the global legal reaction to the pandemic, offering a snapshot of countries in
collective crisis. It began with a call for a global conversation on the kind of legal norms which should govern the situation of worldwide pandemic. [...]
Kritik am Föderalismus zählt in Deutschland zu den festen Ritualen der öffentlichen Kommunikation. Einen Flickenteppich aus undurchsichtigen, unnötig komplizierten Regeln
habe dieser gewebt. Der Bundesstaat sei ein aus der Zeit gefallenes Relikt – so lauten einige der während der Covid-19-Krise wiederkehrenden abwertenden Meinungen. [...]
