Landesverfassungsschutzgesetze

Domestic intelligence in Germany is organized with one federal office and sixteen state offices for the protection of the constitution. It is inevitably that with seventeen different legislatures, intelligence law is a highly dynamic matter. The landmark ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court in April 2022 on the Bavarian State Constitutional Protection Act calls for a fundamental legal reorganization. The objections relate to questions of intervention structure, regulatory technique, definiteness and proportionality. This is the first comprehensive comparative legal analysis of the structures and regulatory techniques of the individual state laws.