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Balancing as a Means of Judicial Activism? Analysis of the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Use of Balancing Language

German Law Journal
Many constitutional courts use balancing in constitutional right adjudication. However, critics argue that balancing is an (self-)empowerment of the courts and a tool of judicial activism.
Kilian Lüders
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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 895-906, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 907-920, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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SOME ASPECTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROL IN THE SWISS CONFEDERATION, THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA, AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

Jurisprudencija
This article analyzes the procedure for establishing the institutions of constitutional justice in the Swiss Confederation, the Republic of Austria, and the Federal Republic of Germany, including the requirements for persons seeking to become a ...
Milda Vainiutė (†), Kristina Kenstavičienė   +1 more
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Socio-ethical Objections to Assisted Suicide

Chrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka
Legal considerations regarding suicide are not just a legislative issue, but largely concern the deepest cultural underpinnings of the political community.
Manfred Spieker
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Disagreement About Fiscal Policy

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 966-981, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Politicians disagree about fiscal policy. This disagreement should have economic effects beyond the effects of government spending and taxation. We use the full set of speeches in the German Bundestag since 1960 and apply state‐of‐the art natural language processing techniques to construct two series of fiscal disagreement starting in 1970 ...
Albina Latifi, Viktoriia Naboka‐Krell, Peter Tillmann, Peter Winker   +3 more
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Power to the people – power to the court? Constitutional complaints and the legal mobilisation of the ‘right to democracy’

European Law Open
Since its ruling on the Maastricht Treaty, the German Federal Constitutional Court has developed a doctrine that elevates the fundamental constitutional principles in conjunction with the right to vote to the status of a ‘right to democracy’.
Stefan Thierse, Pia A. Lange
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(Re)inventing Genocide: Legal and Political Implications of the “Genocide of Soviet People” in (Post‐)Soviet Russia

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 513-529, October 2026.
Abstract This article examines the emergence and instrumentalization of the concept of the “genocide of the Soviet people” in both Soviet and post‐Soviet contexts, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary use in chronological perspective.
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Irina Rebrova
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Acquitted on the Benefit of Doubt … but not Proven Innocent! The Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the Next Generation EU Program

German Law Journal
Until recently, the recognition to the European Union of the capacity to borrow from capital markets for spending purposes was considered almost inconceivable without a treaty amendment.
Georgios Anagnostaras
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Autokratické tendence německého císaře Viléma II. ve vztahu k legislativnímu procesu Říšského sněmu (1888–1900)

Právněhistorické studie
The study “Autocratic Tendencies of German Emperor Wilhelm II in Relation to the Legislative Process of the Reichstag (1888–1900)” analyzes the constitutional and political framework of the German Empire during the reign of Wilhelm II, focusing on his ...
František Stellner, Kristina Kaiserová
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