Tag: German constitutional law
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COVID-19 and the Basic Law: On the (Un)suitability of the German Constitutional “Immune System”
—Pierre Thielbörger, Professor, and Benedikt Behlert, Research Associate and PhD student, both at Institute for the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV); Ruhr-Universität Bochum [Editor’s Note: This is a translation of a German-language post from Verfassungsblog, which can be found here.
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Is Proportionality Culturally Based?
—Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Iddo Porat, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel In a recently published book Proportionality and Constitutional Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2013) we look closely at constitutional culture centering on two crucial concepts of constitutional law: balancing and proportionality.