KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft

The German Federal Constitutional Court is one of the most respected institutions in the Federal Republic. However, it has never been uncontested in its history. A wave model for the emergence and subsidence of criticism directed at the court is...

According to German general budget law, government revenues and expenditures must be shown separately in the budget. This so-called gross principle is deviated from on various occasions in the federal government's practice, especially in the case of...

The article is a – detailed – review of the legal habilitation thesis by Benjamin Lahusen: “the service is not disturbed“ - "The Germans and their Justice 1943 – 1945". Starting from the thesis of a service that was not disturbed even by...

The European Union is a cooperative club to generate benefits for all member states. In order to do justice to the different preferences of the members, the EU was only given specific and unanimously decided competences. After the welfare economist...

The following article was written as part of the cooperation between the law faculties in Luxembourg and Vientiane. It is part of a cooperation policy project on the implementation of rule of law principles in countries of the Global South. The...

According to Norbert Elias, the decline of formerly great nations leads to a serious crisis of meaning and identity for the affected peoples and their elites. If they seek refuge in war, it is not out of reprehensible motives, but in need of...

Using the example of the ECJ's decision on the German infrastructure use charge for passenger vehicles (C-591/17), the article addresses methodological questions of indirect discrimination in the context of the EU`s fundamental freedoms. In doing...

Competences are delimitated in a discursive process, which is traditionally given too little consideration. Exploring the example of the mandate of the European Central Bank and the underlying contractual framework, the article wants to show why the...

Based on an examination of the relevant UN-Documentation, this report identifies four notable instances of the topic of restitutions and reparations for victims of the Third Reich appearing as a topic of interest for UN bodies: the provisions made...

By analyzing civil law exams students failed to pass, this case study aims to identify the heuristic strategies which led students to make mistakes. It is shown that these strategies are sometimes part of some kind of hidden curriculum of law...