KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft

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...

The negotiations on the trade agreements between the EU and Canada (CETA) and the United States (TTIP) have led to intensive political debates occurring with regard to free trade, investment protection, standards of protection for foodstuffs and...

The European Commission has set an objective to formulate international investment agreements in such a way that no misuse by exploiting vague formulations and broad arbitrational freedom will be possible any more. It is precisely the commitment to...