KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft

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...

The article examines the viability and the desirability of the use of constitutional grammar on the global plane. It asks whether global constitutionalism is a viable and/or desirable concept that should be theoretically (and later practically)...

This contribution sets out to trace an unacknowledged narrativity of international law. It argues that narratives are cognitive instruments that organize the experienced knowledge in the form of a story. Within these stories, narrators can invent...

The relationship between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) has occupied legal scholarship extensively over the last decades. It is undisputed today that IHRL also applies in situations of armed conflict,...

This essay introduces the theme of the volume: The Grammar(s) of Global Law. Legal grammar is understood as the conceptual and linguistic foundation on which legal decisions rest - law’s meta-structure, its argumentative techniques and its...

Although the treatment of aliens by state authorities has been consistently under the scrutiny of the European Court of Human Rights, the detention of irregular migrants in reception centres has only recently been examined by the Court. Given the...

This article examines the connection between globalization and conceptions of sovereignty in the „post-westphalian“ age. Further developing the protection of human and fundamental rights, also in international law, can be understood as an...

Cet article présente et débat de l’évolution de la politique migratoire du Luxembourg relative à l’entrée des immigrants économiques, familiaux et humanitaires. A cet effet, nous nous basons sur certaines données du projet IMPALA, qui...