Law

The obligation to conduct a suitability test is the most important legal instrument for protecting retail investors when it comes to investment advice. Zeno Wirtz examines the question of whether the quality of suitability tests can be enhanced by using digital technologies and argues for a legal obligation to implement them.

The religious constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany has undergone numerous multifaceted changes. These are tracked and analysed with a view to the changes in (religious) society, jurisprudence and the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Rodin Robakowski examines the relationship between a supranational legal system such as the European Union and the laws of its member states. Legal theory can provide an external point of view to examine the requirements for an autonomous legal system and the concept of normative conflicts within and between such systems. It also sets out the conditions for unified and contradiction-free legal interaction where both systems can exist without being subsumed by the other.

During the 1848/49 revolution, the German people claimed constitutional power for themselves for the first time. However, this power was not able to assert itself against the superior forces of inertia - that did not happen until seven decades later in the twentieth century.