European Forum

Keywords: Rechtsdiskurs – Sprache – Staatenverbund – Verfassungsverbund – Verfassungsgemeinschaft – Wortwissenschaft.

Das Recht und die Wissenschaft vom Recht sind sprachgebunden; Sprache ermöglicht und begrenzt Rechtsdiskurse; Sprache ist Macht- und Vermittlungsinstrument, Rechts- und Kulturgut zugleich....

Keywords: language – interdisciplinary exchange – limitations – EU law discourse – international law – transnational law.

Die Chancen und Herausforderungen einer – je nach dem normativen Standpunkt – sprachlich vielfältigen bzw. zersplitterten Europarechtswissenschaft sind zahlreich. Der vorliegende...

Keywords: translations of decisions – constitutional courts – German-speaking European legal studies – Bundesverfassungsgericht – Verfassungsgerichtshof – Conseil constitutionnel.

Will man die Rolle der deutschsprachigen Europarechtswissenschaft über Landesgrenzen hinweg beleuchten, kommt...

Keywords: legal unity – scientific discourse – fragmentation – comparison of laws – public law – international law.

Ob man nun die EU als Rechtsgemeinschaft, als Rechtsunion, oder als Rechtsraum bezeichnet,[1] zugrunde liegt ein Anspruch auf Einheit, auf Interdependenz zwischen...

Abstract: The paper addresses the question whether there exists a specific “Austrian” community of EU law scholars. This forms part of the broader question whether there exists a peculiar German or German-speaking community of EU law scholars (to which the current issue is devoted). To this end, the paper examines three fields – the impact of the...

Abstract: The Insight focuses on case C-348/21 HYA and Others, in which the Court of Justice deals with the admissibility at the trial of the statements of an absent witness questioned at the investigative stage. On the basis of art. 8 Directive 2016/343, the EU judges first derived the right to examine witnesses from the right to...

Abstract: This contribution focuses on the definition of “decision” in divorce matters for the purpose of Brussels IIa and IIb Regulations. Shaping the concepts of “decision” and “court” in EU family matters has become controversial since when extrajudicial divorces have spread around Europe since the early 21^st century. In 2022 the CJEU...

Abstract: The end of 2022 saw the publication of the proposal for reform of the preliminary ruling procedure, drafted by the Court of Justice of the EU. If the proposal goes through, it will bring about one of the most significant changes in the EU judicial system in its seventy years’ history. In this Insight, I start with an overview of the...

Keywords: Digital Markets Act – platform economy – fairness – equity – distribution – legal standard.

The notion of “fairness” is ubiquitous in the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”).[1] Yet, its meaning remains elusive. This piece considers different ways to interpret fairness in the...

An Unusual Insight: A short premise by the Board of Editors. This is an unusual Insight. It does not look at the existing law of the Union but rather at its possible and auspicious development. It does not ad-dress only the scholarly world, but also the much wider circle of persons interested in the future of the Union. In spite of this feature, or...