Politik und Recht

Acting as their key means of regulation, the law serves those in politics as both a point of reference and justification of their actions. At the same time, it is also one of the tools with which they like to achieve their aims. The law thus has two sides to it: it is constitutive for those in political circles and guides their actions, yet is also shaped and changed by those individuals. This makes answering the question of what role the law plays in politics extremely difficult. By documenting the results of the first two conferences convened by the research group entitled “Politik und Recht”, this anthology makes a contribution to assessing the law’s political dimension. The studies presented at these conferences were based on the key concepts of legislation and interpreting the law, and focused on the following questions: What kind of scope does the law create for decision-making among interpreters? In what institutional context do those involved in politics act when putting the law into practice? And how is the daily struggle between politics and the law structured? With contributions by: Andreas Anter, Andreas Corcaci, Sebastian Dregger, Benjamin Engst, Annette Förster, Verena Frick, Thomas Gawron, Rolf Gröschner, Sebastian Huhnholz, Thorsten Hüller, Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer, Jörn Ketelhut, Uwe Kranenpohl, Oliver W. Lembcke, Ilya Levin, Roland Lhotta, Alexander Neupert-Doppler, Felix Petersen, Hartmut Rensen, Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz, Jared Sonnicksen, Manon Westphal, Sebastian Wolf, Michael Wrase, Dirk Zeitz