Constitutional Export
am 30.12.2004 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. The German constitution, developed in the late fourties under the influence of the occupational forces to incorporate modern constitutional principles and benefit from lessons learned with older constitutions in Germany and abroad, has become an export. Jutta Limbach, a former chief justice at the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and currently head of the Goethe Institut extolled the …
Secrets Under Constitution
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Constitutional protection extends to trade secrets in matters before the administrative law courts, the Constitutional Supreme Court in Karlsruhe decided in a telecom case, docket number 1 BvT 2097/03, on March 14, 2006, which…
Election of Con Law Justices
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Law student blog Jurakopf links to a PDF file describing the principles of the appointment of justices to the German constitutional court, Bundesverfassungsgericht, in Karlsruhe. The research service of the federal diet in Be…
Police to Police PCs
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. In its press release no. 82/2007, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Germany in Karlsruhe announces the hearing of October 10, 2007 in the matters 1 BvR 370/07 and 1 BvR 595/07 on the constitutionality of the governments use…
German Federal Constitutional Court decision in English/Bundesverfassungsgericht Entscheidung auf Englisch
Transblawg / The decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of 14th October 2004, which was widely commented on in the press - it deals with how far German courts are obliged to enforce decisions of the European Court of Human Rights -...…
Elections Just Like That
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. After an electoral loss of his party in the state of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Chancellor Schröder would like to disband the federal diet in Berlin and hold federal elections in the fall. In the regular cycle, such election…
Extradition Stopped
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / SWM - Berlin. The German Constitutional Court, Bundesverfassungsgericht, stopped the extradition of German citizen Mamoum D. to Spain. D. is suspected of supporting terroristic groups, including Al Quaida, since the late nineties. Most of the…
What is the constitutional order of the European Union now?
Die neue Mehrsprachigkeit / It is a commonly asked question – what is the legal basis (the constitutional framework) under which the European Union is operating now? This is debated by academics and legal practitioners. But most of the European officials and politicians seem…
