Climate and environmental law from the GLJ
The German Law Journal‘s first issue of Volume 27 opens with four articles engaging with issues of climate and environmental law.…
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Conceptual and comparative law scholarship
A new issue of the German Law Journal showcases a wealth of conceptual and comparative scholarship. Opening the issue is Alex Green’s discussion of legal symbolism in Das Rheingold, the first of Richard Wagner’s masterpiece tetralogy.…
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Legal concepts in transitions
In September 2024, when the German Law Journal was celebrating its 25th Anniversary in Berlin, we also launched our very own Transnational Junior Faculty Forum in collaboration with Max Planck Law.…
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Read a new issue on Comparative AI Law
The search for legal frameworks for artificial intelligence is often cast as a race: Brussels regulates, Washington experiments, Beijing plans, and others are said to be catching up or falling behind.…
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A focus on democracy
Small but perfectly formed, the latest issue of the German Law Journal has an overt focus on democracy. These five articles showcase the range and variety of scholarship in the GLJ.…
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(Informed) Consent to Dispute Resolution Agreements
Dispute resolution agreements – forum selection, arbitration, and choice-of-law clauses – are ubiquitous in modern business relationships, in both consumer and commercial contracts.…
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New from the German Law Journal
Following hot on the heels of issue 3 is this issue, the fourth of volume 26, showcasing articles already published on Cambridge Core via FirstView.…
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A focus on constitutional law
The latest issue of the German Law Journal has a constitutional flavour. It opens with a contribution to the comparative study of constituent power from Ngoc Son Bui, who addresses the research gap in the study of constituent power in socialist regimes, both current and former.…
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Constitutional Judging under Pressure
Constitutional courts today find themselves at the front lines of three converging crises: the persistence of socio-economic inequalities, the escalating climate emergency, and the erosion of democratic norms through rising autocratization.…
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Reflections on constitutional transformations and more in the GLJ
The newest issue of the German Law Journal brings together critical reflections on constitutional transformations, contestations of citizenship, and evolving roles of public institutions in times of crisis.…
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Jurisprudence, European integration, digital governance, and socio-economic rights
The editorial team of the German Law Journal is delighted to present the latest issue—a collection of timely reflections on issues of jurisprudence, European integration, digital governance, and socio-economic rights awaits you.…
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Legal Infrastructures
The German Law Journal editorial team is enthusiastic to be able to present to you this Special Issue dedicated to ‘Legal Infrastructures’, a concept that has attracted attention in several legal contexts recently, without however being fully spelled out and made accessible to wider debates.…
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Constitutionalism, technology, environmental governance and more
The latest issue of the German Law Journal is perfectly timed for the start of the year, as it covers an array of themes poised to dominate the scholarly agenda in 2025.…
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Strategic Litigation in EU Law
In a new special issue of the German Law Journal, guest editors Pola Cebulak, Marta Morvillo and Stefan Salomon trace the rise of ‘Strategic Litigation in EU law’.…
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GLJ looks ahead after 25 years
In September, the German Law Journal had the honour of welcoming former and current editors, friends old and new, contributors and luminaries to our 25th Anniversary event in Berlin.…
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The German Law Journal celebrates its 25th anniversary and a new issue
In September, the German Law Journal celebrated 25 years with a special event in Berlin! Learn more here. The editors invite you to read the GLJ’s fourth issue of 2024.…
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Celebrating student editors of the GLJ, and a new issue
It is our particular pleasure to present the latest issue of the German Law Journal, which not only contains five outstanding articles but also showcases the academic research of our student editors from Washington and Lee University Faculty of Law.…
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German Law Journal’s latest issue focuses on fundamental, human, and social rights
The German Law Journal editorial team is delighted to bring to you the second issue of this year, which maintains a focus on fundamental, human, and social rights throughout. …
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Criminal justice, principles, and trust theory from the German Law Journal
A new issue of the German Law Journal opens with a distinctive criminal justice flavour, as both of the opening articles engage with issues concerning crime.…
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The FIFA World Cup 2022 and the struggle for human rights in Qatar
The editors of the German Law Journal are delighted to bring you this latest issue, a combination of three diverse and appealing individual articles and a series of shorter interventions that form a Special Section on ‘The FIFA World Cup 2022 and the struggle for human rights in Qatar’.…
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Informal Judicial Institutions—Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay
The latest Special Issue of the German Law Journal challenges our ways of understanding courts as principally formalized institutions following strict rules and procedures.…
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Explore the breadth of scholarship in the GLJ
This latest issue of the German Law Journal opens with a bold idea: the establishment of a ‘World Citizens’ Initiative’ as a means by which individuals would be able directly to ‘influence the agenda of the primary organs of the United Nations’.…
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The Systemic and the Particular in European Law
If summer felt too short to you, we are excited to have an intellectual energizer on offer: Our latest special issue is devoted to a conceptual tension that runs through many legal fields—and that our guest editors identify as a key register for European law: the relation between an individual case, doctrine or breach and a possible systemic dimension.…
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Summer reading with the GLJ’s latest issue
This latest issue, comprising content published separately in FirstView, is wide-ranging in its scope. With articles discussing solidarity with migrants at sea, the international legal-historical insights of Charles Henry Alexandrowicz, attorney-client privilege, and European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy, there will be something here for everyone.Our…
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Law and Political Imagination: The Perspective of Paul Kahn
Moments of political and societal transformation are often generative episodes for legal thought, bringing new theories to the fore and expanding the reach and visibility of others.…
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Journal process changes from the GLJ
It is my great pleasure to introduce issue 24.2, which is the first of our issues to be composed from articles published under our new FirstView process.…
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International Trade Law and State Intervention in the Economy in the Covid Era
It is too early to historicize the Covid years and the health crisis remains present in many parts of the World.…
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Breaching the Boundaries of Law and Anthropology
With the new academic year either already underway or just around the corner, we truly hope you had a relaxing and inspiring summer break, with plenty of opportunities to turn towards your summer reading list and finish the stack of books and papers you wanted to devour for a long time.…
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GLJ Special Issue on New Private Law Theory
Do you like books? So do we. And do you like book reviews? Same here. But why does the German Law Journal hardly publish book reviews?The…
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Expanding your summer law reading list
This small and compact 5th issue of the German Law Journal reaches you from a sunny office but can be consumed at the beach, in the mountains or anywhere else you are travelling this year, whether physically or not.In…
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GLJ Editorial Message for 23.4
We are delighted to bring this issue 23.4 to you. It contains seven excellent articles alongside a special section of short-form papers dedicated to the analysis of recent developments in criminal law and procedure in Germany.…
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The Rational and Not So Rational Life of International Law
Russia’s armed attack on Ukraine has prompted many to despair of international law . What is the value of a legal order that has no effective remedy in store against even the most blatant violations?…
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GLJ Editorial Message for 23.2
Dear Readers,Didn’t we all wish for a fresh and calm but rather uneventful spring – where we would renew the joy of the wonderfulaspectsof academic life: engaging with colleagues and students, visiting conferences?…
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GLJ Editorial Message for 23.1
We hope you have had a good start to 2022. We are here to make it better still with a new issue of the German Law Journal with a focus on public law.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.8
It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of issue 22.8 of the German Law Journal. This bumper issue – delayed as a result of industrial action in the UK, my apologies – contains not one but two special sections (‘Climate Litigation’ and ‘Views from the Bench’) and a selection of excellent articles across topics united by an interest in governance at international level.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.7
Esteemed Readers,Dear friends,Allow me to exceptionally begin with a housekeeping issue. While preserving its cherished identity, the German Law Journal is expanding geographically.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.6
Dear Reader,It is my great pleasure to welcome you all back from your summer break and announce the publication of issue 6 of the German Law Journal.We…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.5: Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
Esteemed Readers,Only two decades into the 21st century, it seems premature to take stock of it already, unless it concerns an area where the tides have shifted as dramatically as with regards to the treatment of sexual violence in criminal law.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.4
Dear reader,It is with great pleasure that I can announce the publication of issue 22(4) of the German Law Journal, which compromises a rich selection of papers on European law and theory.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.3
Esteemed Friends of the German Law Journal,It’s Special Issue time again!Today we are excited to deliver to you another one-of-a-kind Special Issue of the German Law Journal .…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 22.2
Dear readers,We hope you are well. Welcome to yet another issue of the German Law Journal. Before I introduce the wonderful articles that fill this issue – rich in concepts and surprising findings – a brief reminder that our yearly call for Special Issues was just launched.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.8
Dear readers, We hope you are well. We’re here with an early end-of-year present: a wonderfully eclectic new issue of the German Law Journal taking you to all corners of the world.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.7
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and Methods Dear Readers, We hope that the beginning of the academic year has been kind to you, and that you are all staying safe and healthy through the challenges of virtual, blended, and face-to-face teaching.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.6
Dear Esteemed Readers, For some of us the academic year has already started, for some of us it is right around the corner; some will teach online, some will teach in person, some will do both; some will have the freedom of a sabbatical, and regret travel restrictions, some are in the middle of the application process to enter academia; wherever you are, whatever your mode of teaching or research will be, whatever position you are in professionally, the latest issue of the German Law Journal is there for all of you and offers some great and maybe distracting reading (something almost everyone is probably grateful for in these extraordinary times).…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.5
Dear Readers, As teaching in a memorable pandemic-time term draws to an end, we are most happy to add to your summer reading list: the latest issue of the German Law Journal!…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.4
Dear Esteemed Reader, It is my pleasure to announce the most recent issue of the German Law Journal and remind you of our most recent Call for Special Issue Proposals (submission deadline 31 July 2020).…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.3
Special Issue on Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations Esteemed readers, dear friends, Corona is dominating our lives.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Vol. 21 Issue S1
Esteemed readers, dear friends, Wherever you are in these exceptional times, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.2
Dear Reader, The year is just six weeks old, but the German Law Journal is already releasing its second issue of the year.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 21.1
Dear readers, Happy New Year, and welcome to the new decade! We hope you enjoyed a restful break, and are full of energy to tackle the new year!…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.8
Dear Readers, It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the last issue of the German Law Journal’s 20th anniversary year.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.7
Dear Friends of the German Law Journal! As we have mentioned more often than you probably like to hear, 2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of the German Law Journal (yes, the twentieth anniversary, did we mention that?),…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.6
Dear readers, We are back after a wonderful summer break – and hope you enjoyed yours. And we are back with a bang!…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.5
Dear readers, We bring you best wishes and some light summer reading from the HQ of the German Law Journal. Our latest issue touches on several topical aspects of European Union Law – a field that has begun to entail to many diverse policy areas and disciplinary traditions that it is perhaps meaningless to still pretend some level of overall coherence.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.4
Dear Readers, It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of vol 20(4) of the German Law Journal and our new call for special issue proposals for volumes 21 (2020) and 22 (2021).…
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GLJ Editorial Message for 20.2 and 20.3
Esteemed readers, The bad news is that our teenage years are over – the German Law Journal turned twenty these days.…
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GLJ Editorial Message for Issue 20.1
Dear Readers, Winter has been short, but we have used time well and can happily announce: this Issue of the German Law Journal, marking its twentieth anniversary, is the first one published jointly with Cambridge University Press — for all friends of this remarkable project truly a moment to rejoice!…
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