Efforts to verify legislative gridlock in German federalism by analyzing legislative statistics have been largely unsuccessful. For instance, contrary to popular opinion, the complete failure of a government initiative due to the veto of an opposition-dominated Bundesrat is actually quite a rare...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG), der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) und der Gerichtshof der Europäischen Gemeinschaften (EuGH) sind mit unterschiedlichen, funktional aber vergleichbaren Aufgaben im europäischen Mehrebenensystem betraut. Sie wirken insofern auch nicht...

Public goods and human rights are sometimes treated as intimately related, if not interchangeable, strategies to address matters of common global concern. The aim of the present contribution is to disentangle the two notions to shed some critical light on their respective potential to attend to...