Law

How does Europe protect standards once achieved from backsliding? Lena Sophie Kaiser traces how the Court of Justice of the European Union has developed a novel protective instrument from the EU's catalogue of values, while also highlighting the limits of its legitimacy.

The Ecological Analysis of Law proposed by Simon Marx examines the ecological consequences of legal decisions, evaluates state action on the basis of the criteria of resource sufficiency and resource consistency, and develops solutions that ensure livable conditions without disproportionately restricting fundamental rights and freedoms.

Teleological reduction is an established, though contested, component of legal methodology. It has long been particularly popular in criminal law. Against this backdrop, Kristina Peters takes the opportunity to examine and clarify the remaining open questions surrounding the use of teleological reduction in criminal law.

In a German-Italian comparative perspective, Luca Silvani presents the judicial referral as a flexible instrument of constitutional adjudication that reflects the differing functional conditions and strategies of the Federal Constitutional Court and the Constitutional Court of Italy.