Every legal scholar has learned the difference between a court interpreting a statute and a court making new law – between applying the legislature’s policy choice and surreptitiously replacing it with one’s own. Doctrines of the separation of powers and
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Data, Content, Context, Slop
There are many stakeholders in the information economy. For decades, creators, workers, market intermediaries, media companies, and digital platforms have tussled over how information, articulated in different forms such as “works”, “content”, or “knowledge”, can be monetised and who should…
Bolschewisten, Terroristen, Kleingärtner?
Der Bundestag berät derzeit einen Gesetzentwurf zur Änderung des Vereinsgesetzes. Dieser soll verhindern, dass ausländische Staaten oder gar terroristische Organisationen über Vereinsstrukturen in Deutschland Einfluss ausüben. Die Bundesregierung will die Sonderregeln für „Ausländervereine“ verschärfen. Damit rückt ein Rechtsbegriff aus…
Unterstelltes Misstrauen
Bremen verbietet ab sofort religiöse Symbole und religiös konnotierte Kleidungsstücke im Polizeidienst bei „zielgerichtetem Außenkontakt“. Hierzu wurde am 15.10.2026 eine Rechtsverordnung verkündet. Diese sollte den Maßstab des § 34 Abs. 2 S. 4 BeamtStG konkretisieren, im Ergebnis unterläuft sie…
Geheimniskrämerei im Plenarsaal
Die CDU-Fraktion im Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt hat angekündigt, sich bei der (voraussichtlich im Dezember) anstehenden Wahl eines Ministerpräsidenten nicht nur zu enthalten, sondern für die ersten beiden Wahlgänge den Sitzungssaal zu verlassen. Hintergrund dieses Manövers ist, dass die Wahl…
Common Good Ideology Seeks to Colonize Canada
My The War against Law: What’s wrong with common good constitutionalism1) focuses on the Oxford-based and dark money-funded “Judicial Power Project”, which in the UK makes the legal arguments in the service of an illiberal conception of…
“Police Violence Is Deeply Entrenched in France”
„Polizeigewalt ist in Frankreich tief verankert“
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King
The 2026 revision of the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) has removed one of its most contested provisions: Article 29(1) which had required Member States to introduce a civil liability regime for violations of the Directive’s human rights…
Flawed, but Forward
On 16 September 2026, Trial Panel II of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) convicted the former President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, and three other former high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). While the judgment triggered fierce political reactions…
