The outgoing Bundestag is currently debating an amendment to the Basic Law to enact a multi-billion-euro financial package. The main issues are loosening the debt brake for defence spending and creating a special fund for infrastructure. What is at stake? We asked Florian Meinel, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Georg-August … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy attorney Monica Basche was quoted in a recent Baltimore Sun article that reported on the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (“DPSCS”) pilot program for body-worm cameras for correctional officers. The pilot program will start with a staggered roll-out at five Maryland prisons, with an agency-wide roll-out later this … Read more
On 18 December 2024, the Lithuanian Constitutional Court held that the law, prohibiting the dissemination of public information depicting same-sex relationships is unconstitutional as it violates the freedom of thought of children and the right to found a family under the Constitution of Lithuania. The decision follows the rationale of the European Court of Human … Read more
In July, the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) did something unprecedented: it passed the Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration with a 5/6 majority. The law authorizes border guards to refuse applications for international protection in a limited area on Finland’s border – in practice, the eastern land border – except for persons considered vulnerable … Read more
Armenian Constitutional Ruling Obscures the Peace Process with Azerbaijan In October 2024, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan simultaneously approved a Protocol regulating the joint work of their respective border delimitation commissions. Originally signed in August, this Protocol sets the legal and procedural framework for the subsequent border delimitation process between the two South Caucasus … Read more
