Law

The idea of recognizing nature as a legal entity has gained considerable momentum worldwide in recent years. Jula Zenetti examines the key question for our legal system in question: To which extent could nature benefit from the recognition of rights of nature also in EU law and German law?

The categories that protect the individual also limit it. Based on Hegel's concept of freedom, Nils Weinberg develops a concept of legal identity as a »form of freedom« of liberal anti-discrimination law: freedom means self-determination in relation to others and requires dynamic, not arbitrary legal categories.

To enable banking supervision to operate effectively, it must - similar to central banks - be shielded from undue influences by politics and the banking sector. At the same time, action within the scope of its mandate must be ensured. Christopher Finck examines the relation between independence and democratic accountability in banking supervision.

Vladyslav Rak analyzes the causes of the shift in the Federal Constitutional Court's understanding of the free democratic basic order in 2017. He attributes this shift to a changed semantic content of fundamental concepts of state theory that has emerged over the course of the past decades.