Law

Climate change, floods, and fires present major challenges for the state and society. Sebastian Bretthauer exposes existing shortcomings and uncertainties in the law and develops guiding principles for an independent legal framework governing disaster management organization - one that ensures effective, legally sound, and cooperative protection.

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.

Constitutional court standards shape constitutional law. But how abstract or context-specific should we interpret them? Drawing on pragmatist theories, Simon Pielhoff proposes a method of interpreting standards that navigates between historicization and abstraction.

To what extent do the transitional provisions of Article 83 of the EU Succession Regulation safeguard legitimate expectations in light of the new harmonised system of international succession law? Dinah Riss examines this question and develops proposals for an interpretation of the provision that appropriately balances the interests involved.