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Latest Issue | Volume 26 (2025)

Volume 26 | Special Issue 5

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Event: Spotlight on Hotspots and the New EU Migration Pact

On September 23, the European Commission is to reveal its long awaited new “Pact on Migration.” After the fire in the Greek border camp in Moria, the stakes are high…

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September 18, 2020
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Volume 26 | Issue 2 Special Issue: Constitutional Judging Under Pressure

Constitutional Judging under Pressure: The Role of Judges in Safeguarding the Rule of Law, Equality, and Planetary Survival Başak Çalı, Cathryn Costello, Nora Markard Equality Law: A Structural Turn Shreya…

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September 7, 2025
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Speech and Tolerance in German Law

Speech and Tolerance in German Law Jan Böhmermann’s satiric poem speculating on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fondness for animals has again uncovered Germany’s complicated relationship with free speech.  In…

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June 6, 2016
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Special Issue: Traditions, Myths, and Utopias of Personhood

The German Law Journal is proud to announce the publication of the special issue “Traditions, Myths, and Utopias of Personhood” (Volume 18, No. 5), which has been edited by Toni…

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September 4, 2017
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Call for Special Issue Proposals: Volume 27 (2026) & 28 (2027)

Deadline for special issue proposal submissions: 19 September 2025 Submissions should be sent to Klaas Eller [klaas.eller@uva.nl] The German Law Journal has a proud and successful tradition of publishing timely and innovative special…

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July 18, 2025
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Digital Content Initiative: Featuring Special Issue 21.3 on “Border Justice”

The German Law Journal is proud to announce its new digital initiative, which will present some of our ground-breaking scholarship through video and podcasts. Our videos are available on YouTube,…

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October 7, 2020
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Call for Special Issue Proposals Volume 23 (2022) & 24 (2023)

Call for Special Issue Proposals Volume 23 (2022) & 24 (2023)   Deadline for special issue proposal submissions: 3 September 2021 Submissions should be sent to Matthias Goldmann [goldmann@mpil.de] The German…

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March 1, 2021
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    Call for Special Issue Proposals: Volume 26 (2025) & 27 (2026)

    Call for Special Issue Proposals: Volume 26 (2025) & 27 (2026)   Deadline for special issue proposal submissions: 15 May 2024 Submissions should be sent to Klaas Eller [klaas.eller@uva.nl] The German Law Journal has a…

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    Editorial | Volume 24 No. 5

    Dear Readers, This latest issue, comprising content published separately in FirstView, is wide-ranging in its scope. With articles discussing solidarity with migrants at sea, the international legal-historical insights of Charles Henry Alexandrowicz, attorney-client…

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    Editorial | Volume 24 No. 4

    Dear Readers and Friends, Moments of political and societal transformation are often generative episodes for legal thought, bringing new theories to the fore and expanding the reach and visibility of others. The project…

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    GLJ New Editors-in-Chief: Klaas Eller

    It is an immense pleasure and honour to join the team of Editors-in-Chief of the German Law Journal, a journal I have first gotten to know as a window to the world during…

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    GLJ New Editors-in-Chief: Clara Rigoni

    As a fairly new member of the editorial board, I feel honoured to join the panel of the Editors-in-Chief of the German Law Journal. I currently hold a position as Maître Assistante at…

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    Editorial | Volume 24 No. 3

    Dear Readers and Friends, There is no shortage of illustrations of how digitalisation transforms our social and political lives and the role that law plays therein. The notion of cyberspace as an extra-legal…

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    Call for Special Issue Proposals: Volume 25 (2024) & 26 (2025)

    Call for Special Issue Proposals: Volume 25 (2024) & 26 (2025)   Deadline for special issue proposal submissions: 15 July 2023 Submissions should be sent to Klaas Eller [klaas.eller@uva.nl] The German Law Journal has a…

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    Editorial | Volume 24 No. 2

    It is my great pleasure to introduce issue 24.2, which is the first of our issues to be composed from articles published under our new FirstView process. Each of these articles was published FirstView on…

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    Editorial | Volume 24 No. 1

    Dear Readers and Friends, It is too early to historicize the Covid years and the health crisis remains present in many parts of the World. Rather than treating the Covid era as a…

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    Editorial | Volume 23 No. 9

    Dear Readers,   What a year this has been! While many of us had the chance to get back together and experience the inspiring atmosphere of academic conferences taking place “in-person”, meeting friends…

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