englischA hijacked passenger plane is used to target a highly crowded public space.

Has the national government the authority to shoot that plane down?

The events of 9/11 pose this question to all states. While the competence to shoot down a hijacked plane is legally and socially undisputed in the [...]

englischTerrorist attacks have tested the liberal values of Western democracies again and again. The events of September 11th, 2001 have triggered a long-standing security debate in Germany and have revived doubts about the rationality of the established principles of proportionality and balancing. [...]

englischThis edited volume includes the lectures held at the seventh German-Taiwanese colloquium in Goettingen. It focused on comparative law with respect to the link between law itself, legal doctrine and language. This topic relates to a broader German academic debate about the function and value [...]

englischEver since the introduction of elements of direct democracy into constitutional reality, there has always been a tension between it and parliamentary democracy. This book explores the topic of direct democracy, in particular the issue of financial proviso in plebiscitary legislation [...]

englischCompared to other European countries, referendums are quite frequently held in Russia, especially at the municipal level – since 1993, there have been more than 1,300. The author for the first time examines the normative structure and practical use of the referendum in the federal subjects [...]

englischGermany and Japan are both highly developed countries, but their settlement patterns are quite different. While Germany's cities and population structure are more decentralized, Japan has a centralised settlement structure with a strong focus on the capital region, as well as the Kinki and [...]

englischThis volume presents an accessible overview over the current state of the legislation on the freedom of assembly in eleven selected member states of the Venice Commission: the UK, France, the US, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, the Russian Federation, the Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Tunisia. The [...]

englischThe choice of whether or not to consider foreign legal material within the decision making process by the SCOTUS has engendered a divisive debate among constitutional theorists, judges, and participants of the political discourse in America. The author investigates the rationale behind this [...]

englischThis compilation includes the contributions to the sixth German-Taiwanese on Public Law, which dealt with the principles of administrative law in terms of constitutional law. The 16 authors examine central aspects of administrative law both from the German and the Taiwanese perspective, [...]

In der aufsehenerregenden Citizens United-Entscheidung aus dem Jahre 2010 hat der Supreme Court die Bedingungen für die Wahlkampffinanzierung durch Unternehmen drastisch liberalisiert. Die Autorin zeichnet die wechselnden rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für die finanzielle Einflussnahme von [...]