Crises are a good test case, not only to check the practical performance of the law, but also to gain conceptual clarity about the possibilities of (certain areas of) the law. This post compares a German regulatory approach to private law with the US Law and Political Economy (LPE) movement. At first glance, the LPE … Read more
Illegal Occupation, Serious Breaches of Fundamental Norms of International Law and the Collapse of the Jus ad Bellum/Jus in Bello distinction It is no understatement to say that the 19 July 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion concerning the Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem … Read more
At the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Conference in Berlin in June 2024 (see Herzog), Stefan Grundmann, the chair of our panel “Polycrises and a substantive approach to private law in Germany”, introduced my contribution by stating: “– and, of course: climate change!”. Why was he right in terming climate change a central issue for LPE … Read more
Eine Erwiderung auf Joachim Herrmann Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung erlebt einen neuen Höhenflug: Der Bundesrat hat auf Initiative (des schwarz/rot regierten) Hessens den Bundestag aufgefordert, eine einmonatige Speicherung von IP-Adressen einzuführen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Schleswig-Holstein und Baden-Württemberg (die schwarz/grünen Koalitionen der Bundesrepublik) unterstützen eine ähnliche Initiative und auch hier auf dem Verfassungsblog fordert der bayrische (CSU-)Innenminister Joachim Herrmann „Mehr … Read more
Law and Political Economy in the European Context The relationship of Economics and Law is long, contested, and entangled. Law and Political Economy (hereinafter: LPE), a group of legal scholars that are mostly working at universities in the United States, offers yet another perspective on this relationship. In a nutshell LPE may be described as … Read more