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.…

GLJ Editors · 11 March 2024
The latest Special Issue of the German Law Journal challenges our ways of understanding courts as principally formalized institutions following strict rules and procedures.…

GLJ Editors · 28 September 2022
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.…

GLJ Editors · 28 July 2022
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…

GLJ Editors · 28 July 2022
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…

GLJ Editors · 30 May 2022
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.…

GLJ Editors · 24 March 2022
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?…

GLJ Editors · 15 March 2022
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.…

GLJ Editors · 24 January 2022
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.…

GLJ Editors · 29 October 2021
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.…

GLJ Editors · 16 September 2021
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…

GLJ Editors · 9 August 2021
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.…

GLJ Editors · 25 June 2021
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.…

Jen Malat · 7 May 2021
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 .…

GLJ Editors · 19 March 2021
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.…

Jen Hendry · 28 January 2021
Dear readers,It is our pleasure to bring to you this latest issue of the German Law Journal, (vol. 22 issue 1), the first of a new year that has already been highly eventful.…

GLJ Editors · 1 December 2020
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.…

GLJ Editors · 1 October 2020
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.…

GLJ Editors · 1 September 2020
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).…

GLJ Editors · 1 July 2020
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!…

GLJ Editors · 1 May 2020
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).…

GLJ Editors · 2 April 2020
Special Issue on Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations Esteemed readers, dear friends, Corona is dominating our lives.…

GLJ Editors · 2 March 2020
Esteemed readers, dear friends, Wherever you are in these exceptional times, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe.…

GLJ Editors · 3 February 2020
Dear Reader, The year is just six weeks old, but the German Law Journal is already releasing its second issue of the year.…

GLJ Editors · 6 January 2020
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!…

GLJ Editors · 1 December 2019
Dear Readers, It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the last issue of the German Law Journal’s 20th anniversary year.…

GLJ Editors · 1 October 2019
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?),…

GLJ Editors · 1 September 2019
Dear readers, We are back after a wonderful summer break – and hope you enjoyed yours. And we are back with a bang!…

GLJ Editors · 1 July 2019
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.…

GLJ Editors · 1 May 2019
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).…

GLJ Editors · 2 April 2019
Esteemed readers, The bad news is that our teenage years are over – the German Law Journal turned twenty these days.…

GLJ Editors · 1 February 2019
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!…
Holly Pascoe · 8 February 2023
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science


Politics and Religion · 31 March 2026
In this post Niva Golan-Nadir and Daniel Smith expand on their recent Politics and Religion article ‘From religious to secular perspectives of religion and state – tracing the American Blue law‘.…

Karen Stollznow · 15 November 2024
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…

Andreas losch · 16 January 2018
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

Dr Dami Ajayi · 28 March 2022
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…

Kevin Lala and more · 29 August 2025
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…

Karen Stollznow · 23 November 2020
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
Andreas losch · 16 January 2018
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability


Melissa Loja and more · 17 May 2024
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…

Alexandra R. Lampard-Scotford · 23 August 2022
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.

APSR Authors · 15 December 2020
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…

Holly Pascoe · 8 February 2023
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science

Dr Dami Ajayi · 28 March 2022
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…

Karen Stollznow · 15 November 2024
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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