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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...

The constitutional right to participate as a voter in governmental elections in the Federal Republic of Germany is based on article 36 of the German constitution (Grundgesetz). Thus, every German citizen has the full right to participate at the...

The concept of lucid interval is a relic of common law. In psychiatry, it is considered to be outworn for about 150 years. Consequently, the legislator abstained to incorporate it to the Civil Code. Thus, jurisprudence and science still treat it. In...

Malgré la mission de protection dont ils sont investis, les soldats et policiers commettent des crimes dans le cadre de missions de protection des Nations-Unies, ces crimes prenant la forme en particulier d’exploitations et d’abus sexuels...

Since 2007, the provision of „intensive ambulant palliative care“ is guaranteed by German Social Right, § 37 b SGB V. The aim of this legal amendment within the public system of health insurance is, to assure, that people who dy, are enabled to...

The article examines whether the interpretation of resolutions of the UN Security Council follows the universal grammar of public international law with general rules of interpretation or a special grammar. First, interpretation will be presented as...