Überindividueller Rechtsschutz

Legal remedies which can be used regardless of the violation of a right undermine the German system of legal redress for individuals, in which the only party authorized to take legal action is the one who claims a violation of his own rights. European Community law is largely responsible for these supraindividual rights of action, since it has obligated the members of the European Union to initiate supraindividual legal remedies in environmental, social and consumer protection law. In addition to environmental law as a point of reference, Sabine Schlacke studies all the supraindividual rights of action in public law as well as comparable regulations in civil law. She shows that supraindividual rights of action are not significant in regard to one specific area but that they are of fundamental significance for the German and the European legal systems.