Auch schlechte Eltern sind Eltern
In drei Kammerbeschlüssen hat das BVerfG Eltern in schwierigen Lebenssituationen davor bewahrt, das Sorgerecht für ihre Kinder entzogen zu bekommen.
Articles for category: Deutschland
Bad Parents are Parents, too
This article is available only in German.
Justice Sotomayor in Berlin: a case against true objectivity
This year, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finally broke his seven-year silence, but only by cracking a joke that even the stenographers were unable to comprehend. He spends most Court hearings lounging around in his leather chair, staring at the ceiling. Apparently he is listening, but for years observers of the Supreme Court have wondered what he is thinking, what motivates his judgments and why his opinions seem to get ever more conservative. Last week we were able to witness a Justice of entirely different temperament, when his colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor presented her memoire, My Beloved World, in Berlin. ... continue reading
Norway’s constitution at 200 years: a story of stability and change
Today Norway celebrates the 200th anniversary of its constitution of May 17, 1814. Of the world’s constitutions in force today, only the US constitution of 1787 is older than the Norwegian constitution. So what kind of constitution is the Norwegian constitution, in 1814 and today? How has it endured for so long?
Mind the Gap
The European UnionData Protection Directive of 1995 has always had lofty, and in many ways implausible, ambitions. As regards the private sector, it seeks to outlaw the input, storage or other processing on computer of any information relating to a living individual »data subject« (irrespective of whether the information is innocuous and/or widely available in the public domain) unless in each and every case that processing complies with a set of provisions put in place to ensure the protection of »the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons, and in particular their right to privacy« (Art. 1 (1)). Subject to ... continue reading
„The CJEU is about to reinvent itself“
Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann, Datenschutzexpertin von der Universität Frankfurt, im Verfassungsblog-Interview zum Google-Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs, zu den Auswirkungen auf Meinungs- und Informationsfreiheit und zur neuen Rolle des EuGH im institutionellen Gefüge der Europäischen Union.
Strasbourg strengthens its Punch
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Election of Federal Constitutional Court Justice Disunites Social Democrats
This article is available only in German.
Lübbe-Wolff-Nachfolge sorgt in der SPD für Ärger
Die SPD besetzt einen Verfassungsrichterposten, und ihr amtierender Justizminister Heiko Maas hat kein Wort dabei mitzureden? So scheint es zu sein im Augenblick. Die Nachfolge von Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff im Zweiten Senat hat die SPD-Bundestagsfraktion ganz alleine klar gemacht. Und sowohl das Verfahren als auch das Ergebnis missfällt manchem in der Bundesregierung aufs Äußerste. „Dilettantisch“ war das Wort, das ich heute dazu gehört habe.
Blogschau // Debatten der Woche // 1.5. – 8.5.2014
Was die rechtswissenschaftliche Blog-Landschaft in dieser Woche zum Nachdenken animiert hat.
