More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...

More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...

The UN Charter and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties require interpreting treaties and settling international disputes in conformity with the principles of justice and international law. This contribution discusses procedural and substantive principles of justice which the...

Die Arbeit in einem sozialhilferechtlichen Beschäftigungsprogramm kann eine Voraussetzung sein, um Leistungen der Sozialhilfe und der Nothilfe (Art. 12 BV) zu erhalten. Diese Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern diese Anspruchsvoraussetzung für die Leistungen der subsidiären sozialstaatlichen...

While overshadowed by rulings concerning the rights of detainees, executive power and judicial review in the war on terror, the Supreme Court recently issued three surprisingly significant decisions on international law. These cases show a realistic reaffirmation by the Supreme Court of...

The paper aims at appraising whether domestic courts, because of different legal and institutional constraints, construe the systemic character of the international legal order differently from international courts and international legal scholars. After recalling the extent to which...

The assignment will be focusing on International court of justice acts that helped in development of international law directly or indirectly. International law itself is weak law because of heterogenic nature of state’s laws. Few of them overlap each other few of them don’t. International...

The protection of a "system of undistorted competition" within the internal market is one of the core elements of EU law that institutionalizes economic integration. The addressees of the prohibitions regarding restraints of competition such as Articles 101 and 102 TFEU are "undertakings". Hence...