englischThe monograph focuses on a critical analysis of the entire body of ECtHR case law on domestic violence against women and its gender-sensitive development over more than 15 years – with both progress and setbacks. The influence as well as the regulatory content of the Istanbul Convention [...]

englischThe work addresses the question how far parental rights in the digital world reach and where limits are (must be) imposed by the state in order to balance them against the rights of the child. The subject of investigation are thereby the phenomena of sharenting and digital helicopter [...]

englischWith the growing influence of digital forms of expression, their negative consequences become more and more apparent. They are increasingly used for the dissemination of hate speech. Consequently, the question arises to what extent the standards of the analogue world are also transferable to [...]

englischThe thesis analyzes the development, legal qualification and significance of the principle of mutual trust for the (fundamental rights) EU multi-level system. For this purpose, the author examines the international law background, legal policy, legislation based on mutual recognition, and [...]

englischThe work examines the applicability of human rights in general and the ECHR in particular in international and non-international armed conflicts. In this context, the paper analyses the existing case law of the ECtHR on the extraterritorial applicability of the ECHR. Special attention is [...]

englischConflicts in Eastern Ukraine, on the Crimean Peninsula, and in the Balkans and the Caucasus – the Council of Europe system is in crisis, which has led to the renaissance of a long-forgotten instrument of European human rights protection: the interstate complaint procedure under art. 33 of [...]

englischThe European legislator has been involved in the introduction of collective actions for a number of years. All previous initiatives have been eyed critically at times, as an emergence of American circumstances was feared to follow the introduction of such procedures. Nevertheless, in 2013 [...]

englischThis study focuses on the legal protection of non-state actors against binding decisions made by regulatory agencies. For this reason, its author considers the question of the democratic legitimacy of regulatory agencies from the perspective of a non-state actor. In this context, the ESMA [...]

englischWho is a journalist and who as a journalist is entitled to invoke protection of journalistic sources? Considering recent technolgical developments in the media field and an increasing number of attacks against freedom of the press this question has gained a lot of relevance in recent times. [...]

englischThe idea of the more economic approach marks the long-awaited review of EU prohibition of abuse of dominance. This work depicts the development of the more economic approach under Article 102 TFEU, and in particular analyses two Commission’s documents: the 2005 Discussion Paper and the 2009 [...]