Volume 100 (2017), Edition 4

When the Attorney General at the European Court of Justice, Paolo Mengozzi, presented his Opinion in the case X and X on 7 February 2017 he provoked a turmoil amongst the general public as well as amongst legal scholars and experts. Whilst...

On 10 May 2017 the Constitutional Court of Hessen in Wiesbaden had to decide on a case that reveals that the lack of statutory standardization of the law of industrial action raises difficult constitutional questions for Germany as a federal state...

Information technologies increasingly influence our everyday lives. Tablets and smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives. They do not only serve as means of communication but are also used to organize private and professional...

The access to justice is practically as important as the law itself. It is put in jeopardy by conflicts of interest of the legal counselors. The dissolution of formal procedures of the criminal proceedings caused by negotiated agreements and...