KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft

The paper aims to supplement the predominantly functional arguments for lawmaker’s margins of appreciation within constitutional rights proportionality with an argument from legal theory. It holds that it is the analytical (or logical) evidence of...

The article illustrates the course of social and legal transformation processes using the example of the regulation of the state's use of AI video surveillance. At an abstract level, it shows the multiple connections and interactions between...

Immanuel Kant's birthday was 300 years ago recently. His essay 'On Perpetual Peace' (Reclam 2014) can be understood as a frame of reference and an early wise warning against (currently misguided) globalisation, which he mockingly referred to as...

Productivity growth in the US has been higher than in Europe for many years, leading to ever-widening differences in per capita income between the two countries. This article documents that lower firm dynamics, i.e. fewer firms entering and leaving...

The White Paper on the Future of Europe presented by then Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in 2017 outlined five possible scenarios for the development of the European Union up to 2025. Against the background of these scenarios, this article...

The prospect of enlargement and the geopolitical challenges of the „Zeitenwende“ (watershed) make reforms in the EU indispensable. Enlargement and reforms must take place in parallel. While the European Parliament, the European Council and the...

The responsibility of the euro member states for their respective independent economic and fiscal policies leads to heterogeneity in the economic fundamentals of the euro member states, which has an impact on the risk premiums for government bonds,...