Tag: German Constitutional Court
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The EU Judiciary After Weiss – Proposing A New Mixed Chamber of the Court of Justice: A Position Paper
—Daniel Sarmiento, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and J.H.H. Weiler, NYU School of Law There is little point in rehearsing in length, yet again, the all too justified laments about the unfortunate decision of the German Constitutional Court (“BVerfG”) in the case of Weiss on the European Central Bank’s public asset purchase program.
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Fake News, Backlash and the Rise of the German Populist Right – An Update on German Developments
–Michaela Hailbronner, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Münster, Germany In the last few years, foreign observers have increasingly looked to Germany and Angela Merkel as potential new leaders of the free world. Rich, democratic and equipped with a strong belief in the Rechtsstaat, Germany has seemed a bastion of liberal democracy at a time when others…
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I-CONnect Symposium–The Chilean Constitutional Court’s Abortion Decision: Door Opened and Left Ajar
[Editor’s Note: This is Part I in our symposium on the one-year anniversary of the Chilean Constitutional Court’s abortion decision. The Introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Blanca Rodriguez-Ruiz, University of Seville The recent decriminalisation of abortion in Chile is indeed to be welcomed, yet it stands as a case of too little, too late.
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The German Constitutional Court’s Latest Decision on European Elections: No Protection Needed
—Dr. Markus W. Gehring, Deputy Director, Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge & Fellow in Law, Hughes Hall, and Ad personam Jean Monnet Chair in Sustainable Development Law & Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada The German (Federal) Constitutional Court ruled two days ago on February 26 that the 3% hurdle for…
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An End to European Multilateralism: A Comment on the German Bundesverfassungsgericht’s OMT Decision
—Dr. Oliver Gerstenberg, University of Leeds When it comes to adjudicating the European sovereign debt crisis, the German Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG) emerges as a sharply divided court. Back in August 2012, Mario Draghi pledged to do “whatever it takes” to prevent a single currency break-up.
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The “Rumble in Karlsruhe”: The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Historic OMT Case
—Russell A. Miller, Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law A few years ago I was at a transatlantic policy event in Washington, DC. It was the height of the Eurozone’s sovereign debt and banking crisis and there was palpable fear that that the Euro would crumble.
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Constitutional Dialogues in Italy
—Francesco Duranti, Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy) On January 13, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a judgment on the electoral law (no. 270/2005) for both Houses of Parliament (Camera dei Deputati, the Lower House; and Senato della Repubblica, the Upper House)[1].
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A Coat of Many Colors
—Claudia E. Haupt, Associate-in-Law, Columbia Law School Cross-posted from the Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John’s University School of Law In this post, I want to pick up some of the themes I alluded to in my first post and respond to Marc’s observations here and Mark’s observations here.