KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft

The falling apart of most of the developed industrial and post-industrial societies based on market economy and private property into a small society of owners and a large society of non-owners is a well known and widely recognized matter of fact....

This article deals with the legal challenges that currently arise on a reform of the public broadcasting mandate. In the first part, the spectrum and goals of the current reform proposal are outlined and systematized. As a result, it becomes clear...

The contribution explores a difference between two sets of cases regarding fundamental rights. On the one hand there are applications of common duties with typical fundamental rights implications. On the other hand there are applications where the...

On 16 July 2021, the German legislator adopted the Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains (LkSG). It is the most important step taken so far by the German legislator in terms of promoting corporate sustainability and the protection of human...

The law governing the German intelligence services lacks a consistent concept, is non-transparent, fragmented and in urgent need of reform. In May 2020, the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court held that the Federal Intelligence Service...

The Federal Constitutional Court declared the transformation path to climate neutrality as established by the legislature in the Climate Protection Act to be unconstitutional. Not mainly the result of this climate decision but the reasoning of the...

The article addresses the discussion on inherent rights of nature that is conducted on an international level by presenting reasons to assign subjective rights to non-human beings and attempting to refute objections against it. The article’s focal...

Gender equality laws have existed in public administration in Germany since 1998. These laws specify the constitutional requirement of gender equality on the basis of article 3(2) of the German Constitution. Considering the background of present...

In March 2020, during the first wave of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in Europe, several Member States, including the Federal Republic of Germany, saw fit to resort to the reintroduction of border controls with some of their...

In Germany, police laws of the Länder contain regulations on banning alcohol in public places. Despite attracting the attention of legal scholars and courts, the issue whether alcohol bans discriminate on grounds of social class has been...

Gender Pricing is a widespread phenomenon. According to various studies, women-specific products and services often are more costly than comparable versions of products and services for men. As products made for women are frequently coloured pink,...

The Corona pandemic, which has been going on for over a year, has Germany tightly in its grip. More than ever before, the digitalisation deficit in administration and business, which was already frequently noted, has become visible. Yet modern...

The article starts from the observation that in German and US-American university campuses a tendency towards neo-corporatism is gaining in importance. This new form of corporatism is characterized by the fact that the lines are no longer following...

The French philosopher Michel Foucault, who is regarded as the founder of the discourse analysis of power and knowledge theory, also dealt with "heterotopias". He understood this to mean counter-places in which the everyday real places are...