Die Ausgestaltung der Grundrechte

Matthias Cornils examines the extent to which the rights of liberty in the Basic Law limit the lawmaker without having this limitation seen in principle as a ban on intervention in the sense of the traditional interpretation of fundamental rights as rights of protection against intervention. Based on detailed individual analyses of fundamental rights, broadcasting freedom, contractual freedom, property, marriage, freedom of association and the actual legal protection, the author criticizes the widespread opinion that the content of all or some of the fundamental rights was determined more or less by the lawmaker.