Law

Viktoria Kraetzig develops a paradigm for the interface of doctrinal concepts in the European multi-level system. According to it, national law and EU law are linked in such a way that EU law establishes requirements for national private law in terms of its substance and, in some cases, its form, but never in terms of its doctrinal principles.

Cities act as a magnifying glass for social inequality; nowhere is this more evident than in housing. Anna-Katharina König explains why urban housing crises are a constitutional issue. Drawing on a comparison with South Africa, she demonstrates how property rights and social rights shape distributive conflicts over housing.

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.

The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) creates functional multi-level governance areas by connecting regions across borders. However, diverging legal and administrative systems in the Member States remain an obstacle. The future of European integration must therefore be conceived from the perspective of border regions.