Schwerpunkt zum Schutz journalistischer Arbeit im europäischen Rechtsraum © Philipp Böll / DW von ALICIA DAMBERG-JÄNSCH Im Schatten der öffentlichen Debatte um die umfangreichen

Justizreformen unseres Nachbarlandes werden auch Medienfreiheit und -vielfalt Opfer des Abbaus einer demokratischen Grundordnung. [...]

The rule of law is at the center of modern constitutional thought. The phrase "rule of law" was coined in the late nineteenth century by A.V. Dicey, the influential British

constitutional scholar. People have different views about what this ideal means today, but the importance of the rule of law is not denied. [...]

Schwerpunkt zum Schutz journalistischer Arbeit im europäischen Rechtsraum By CHRISTINA ETTELDORF The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) guarantees the freedom of the

press. In light of the vital role of the press as “public watchdog”, which is an essential element of political opinion-forming in a democratic society, it is [...]

A report by the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project (TLSP) provides fresh evidence that the Commission formed in 2017 to examine the mass dismissals of public servants

and liquidation of media outlets and other organisations functions arbitrarily and without transparency. [...]

Steven D. Schwinn, UIC John Marshall Law School The Second Circuit ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capital One have to comply with subpoenas issued by the House Financial Services

and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for financial records related to... [...]

Schwerpunkt zum Schutz journalistischer Arbeit im europäischen Rechtsraum By SARA K. TORSNER Amongst the many aspects of jurisprudence, legal practice and the extant range

of institutional forms the law occupies, there is the often overlooked sociological fact that the law is (amongst these many other things) a civil institution concerned [...]

Leistungen zur Gewährleistung eines menschenwürdigen Lebensstandards sind unantastbar. Das hat die große Kammer des EuGH in der Rs Haqbin (C-233/18) am 12. November 2019

für das Flüchtlingssozialrecht entschieden. § 1a des Asylbewerberleistungsgesetzes (AsylbLG) wird den Anforderungen des EuGH nicht gerecht, und das BVerfG könnte [...]

Now that many (though certainly not all) of the relevant facts concerning President Trump’s Ukraine affair are in, House Democrats face crucial choices.  Drafting articles

of impeachment is no boilerplate task.  How the Judiciary Committee chooses to define Trump’s transgressions may have far-reaching consequences.  In drafting [...]

For the symposium on David S. Schwartz, The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland (Oxford University Press, 2019). David

Schwartz [...]

In the immediate aftermath of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, her son Matthew displayed extraordinary clarity when he explained that his mother “was assassinated

because she stood between the rule of law and those who sought to violate it”.  They seek to violate it still. [...]