JOURNAL: The German Law Journal

The following was recently sent by the Editor-in-Chief of the German Law Journal: Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the July issue of the German Law Journal: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/ “Pas d’ Europe sans d’Allemagne.” In an essay published in Le Monde in September, 1947—amid the still smoldering embers of the war—the French jurist and sociologist Maurice Duverger raised the challenging prospect that there could be no Europe without Germany. That may be truer today than ever before. One of the pistons firing in the German engine at the heart of today’s Europe is the country’s influential jurisprudence. As long as this is true, the German Law Journal’s coverage will account for the intersection of German and European law. We have done that in remarkable fashion in this, the fourth issue of volume fifteen. Peter Lindseth, in his provocative and insightful article, responds in part to the claims former German Constitutional Court Justice Udo Di Fabio has made about the limits on the democratic possibilities of a united Europe. Lindseth is referring to a German debate and by doing so he is helping frame the broader discussion about European democracy. Roderic O’Gorman can point, in part, to German policy in the Eurozone crisis as a basis for the difficult austerity program Ireland is pursuing. And with some well-placed academic irony, O’Gorman resorts to the German constitutional jurisprudence recognizing a right to a subsistence minimum of social welfare support as the basis for criticizing the German insistence on austerity as part of the Eurozone recovery. Stefan Thiel surveys European constitutional courts’ Lisbon Treaty judgments, including the decisions of the Czech Constitutional Court, the French Conseil constitutionnel, and the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. But the German Constitutional Court’s seminal 2009 decision helped set the tone and framework for these dramatic domestic constitutional engagements with Europe. That decision is given thorough treatment in Thiel’s article. Even Gábor Spuller’s article on developments in Hungarian constitutional law recognizes that this is both a European story as well as a story about the influence of German law and legal institutions, if only as models, in Hungary.

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The editors of the German Law Journal have written the following:

This is the third issue in volume fifteen. After kicking-off 2014 with two special issues [Plea Bargains in Germany and OMT Decision of the BVerfG], we return in this issue to our regular “coverage of developments in German, European and International Jurisprudence.” For the most part this rich selection of articles and commentary came to us as unsolicited submissions that were selected for publication after the Editorial Board’s rigorous review.

It is a challenging, invigorating and illuminating slate of contributions.

JOURNAL: German Law Journal

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JOURNAL: German Law Journal

The new issue of the German Law Journal, Review of Developments in German, European and International Jurisprudence is now available at www.germanlawjournal.com.

The new issue is an international and comparative Symposium on Constitutional Reasoning, which brings together an impressive and inspiring international group of scholars in constitutional law, comparative law, legal theory and legal philosophy. The Symposium, as highlighted by the author of the introduction, the President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Professor Andreas Vosskuhle, is both timely and on the cutting edge of comparative constitutionalism, as it illustrates the relevance of contextualized and historically informed comparative jurisprudence. Such scholarship navigates the boundaries between adjudication and comparative constitutional theory and further informs the fast growing and increasingly global practice and discourse on judicial dialogue.

JOURNAL: New - German Law Journal

The Editors of the German Law Journal have written:

We are pleased to announce that the new issue of the German Law Journal, Review of Developments in German, European & International Jurisprudence is now available at http://www.germanlawjournal.com/. We are grateful to our authors for having contributed to this exceptionally fine and diverse issue and to our student editors at Osgoode and Washington & Lee for their diligent work in getting the July number up, despite their busy summers with internships, summer associate jobs and travel.

We are taking this opportunity as well to thank you, our readers, for their continued interest in the Journal and wish everyone a healthy and hopefully somewhat relaxing couple of weeks, before another busy fall begins.

JOURNAL: German Law Journal

The new issue of the German Law Journal is available at www.germanlawjournal.com.

The current symposium issue was convened by GLJ editorial board member, Floris de Witte and Moritz Hartmann and contains pertinent scholarly interventions into the debate over the state of the EU's political and economic constitutional set-up and we are thrilled about this timely undertaking.

JOURNAL: (2013) 14 German Law Journal

The editors of the German Law Journal have circulated the following:

Dear Readers:

We are pleased to announce that the new issue, beginning the 14th volume of the German Law Journal, Review of Developments in German, European & International Jurisprudence, is now available at www.germanlawjournal.com.
As the Journal did with the German Constitutional Court's landmark Lisbon Case in 2009, we have again worked quickly to provide you with commentary on and criticism of the Karlsruhe and Luxembourg courts' recent engagement with the ESM Treaty. This timely special section, "The ESM Before the Courts," was coordinated by GLJ editors Moritz Renner, Emanuel Towfigh and Floris de Witte. The cases themselves, just as much as the challenging notes we've collected here, more than adequately fill the month's promised insight into "German" and "European" jurisprudence--even while demonstrating that those old categories are increasingly questionable. The general tenor of these pieces seems to be that the Karlsruhe court was up to its old tricks and that the Luxembourg court was helping the EU chart new, controversial territory, even if the path it laid out doesn't thoroughly convince or satisfy.

There's more European coverage in this month's "Article" from Matej Avbelj, who asks "Farewell to the EU-27?"

Perhaps all of this is building to the Journal's special issue "Regeneration Europe"--convened by GLJ editors Floris de Witte, Nina Boeger and Jen Hendry--which we expect to publish later this spring.

A rich set of works also awaits you in our "Developments" section. We particularly draw your attention to Christian Tomuschat's fine commentary on the German Constitutional Court's recent decision calling (once again) for amendment of the Federal Electoral Act, now before it causes trouble in the Federal election scheduled for this fall. Not only does his piece thoughtfully examine the Court's ruling. But it is also a useful primer on Germany's "sophisticated" mixed-member electoral system, which confounds with "negative votes" and "over-hang mandates".

The rest of the "Developments" pieces address foreign-citizen expulsion, U.S.-German conflicts in intellectual property law, the perilous (legal) fate of seals in the Arctic, and the perpetual tension between the promotion of trade and the protection of human rights.

We thank you, our readers, and the colleagues on the editorial team and our student editors, for their wonderful commitment, and wish you - as always - Happy Reading!

Russell Miller
Peer Zumbansen
Editors in Chief
The German Law Journal