englischPublic law and its scholarship interact in many ways with other areas of law - be they norms of other origins or those typically assigned to other areas domestically - as well as insights from other disciplines. It is only by looking at these interactions that public law and its scholarship [...]

englischPublic law allocates responsibility. It regulates – and sometimes fails to regulate – the responsibility of individuals towards society, the responsibility of the State towards its population, other States and the environment, and the responsibility of the present generation towards the [...]

englisch'Access to law' examines both personal and substantial conditions of access to the different phases of law creation and its legislative, executive and judicial manifestations. These conditions also include actual authority structures which affect threats to freedom and equality.

The [...]

englischUnlimited access to information and new economic opportunities – the benefits stemming from the digital transformation are manifold. At the same time it´s challenges are numerous: economic, political and societal activities are contested by technologies and calling for new responses. [...]

englischConstitutions form the legal basis of a society. They reflect a society’s essential basic decisions, and as societies change, so do constitutions. At the same time, they offer basic stability and a strong foundation for argumentation in legal discourse. These conference proceedings [...]

englischPersonal independence and objectivity are the hallmarks of courts obeying the rule of law. Nonetheless, rulings are not drawn up in a vacuum. Courts and judges operate in a complex web of relationships and are subject to multifarious influences – institutional and functional, internal and [...]

In einer zunehmend globalisierten und von Harmonierungstendenzen geprägten Welt stellt sich die Frage nach sogenannten Universalwerten.Der Tagungsband der 57. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht zum Thema „Rechtskultur und Globalisierung“, die an der FernUniversität in Hagen stattfand, beleuchtet [...]

Die Fragestellung danach, wie der Zusammenhang von Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft erfasst werden kann, ist immer dort von gesteigertem Interesse, wo die Ergebnisse eines Prozesses nicht von vornherein feststehen und von der zeitlichen Entwicklung abhängen können. Der Tagungsband der 56. [...]

englischIn recent years, new developments in politics and the society's increasing discontent with existing structures of democracy are challenging lawyers around the world, as well as the discipline of law as such. Hence, the question arises in how far law itself is realistically able to ensure [...]

englischIn a multi-polar arena of complex national and international interests the State is in transition from an undisputed sovereign in economic, political and social affairs towards an actor amongst others. The State thereby is increasingly confronted with new tasks, fields and distribution of [...]