KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft

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...

Traditionally understood, human rights law is designed to provide protection to individuals from arbitrary use of state power. States, however, are not the only powerful actors that can impact the enjoyment of human rights. It has increasingly been...

This article deals with the right to appeal as established in the Rome Statute and guaranteed in proceedings in front of the ICC. The Rome Statute acknowledges the right to appeal as a right to challenge both convictions and other decisions. Due to...

Proportionality in its abstract form has never ceased to be considered as a fundamental criterion of the legitimacy of State intervention; at least in the context of the liberal democratic State. In the recent years, the globalisation and,...

This article focuses on the impact of Brexit on various elements of the UK Antitrust law and their practical implications for enforcement of the competition rules assuming the UK to be outside the EEA and the single market. The article looks at the...

After the commotion of a legal scandal, the Austrian Minister of Justice proposed in March 2016 to expand the training of judges with a mandatory teaching unit in judicial history. The author illustrates the discussion process and shows the...

167 136 flat burglaries in 2015 in Germany and an increase about 15 030 cases from 2014 to 2015 testify from no good police achievement. In the article it is shown with the help of the data from 1957 to 2015 that differently than from police trade...

On 1 April 2016 the new German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act (Verbraucherstreitbeilegungsgesetz - VSBG) in his major parts entered into force. With the new legislation the German lawmaker is going to establish a process, which - as a written...