Adequate and fair asylum procedures are a precondition for the effective exercise of rights
granted to asylum applicants, in particular the prohibition of refoulement. In 1999 the EU …

Conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights present delicate trade-
offs when concerns for social and ecological justice are increasingly intertwined. This book …

This article aims at clarifying the practice of judicial review of subsidiarity, which is widely
held to be either injusticiable, or only to a very low extent. These objections contra …

EU competition appeals typically involve applications by private businesses to annul
decisions made by the European Commission. Moreover, these appeals are first assigned at …

When national measures restrict free movement rights, Member States canargue that their
actions are, nevertheless, justifiable and proportionate. But how do they actually …

Der Sachverhalt spielt für Gerichtsentscheidungen eine zentrale Rolle. Auch in der
Normenkontrolle sind Gerichte mit Tatsachenfragen konfrontiert. Jedoch geht es hier um …

The debate over the creation of an EU patent right spans several fruitless decades.
Recently, however, the row over proposals (the so-called European Patent Litigation …

" Eine Gemeinschaft aus Rechtsstaaten kann nur eine Rechtsgemeinschaft sein". Wie
treffend und weitsichtig diese Einschätzung des ersten Kommissionspräsidenten, Walter …

This doctoral thesis has been accepted by the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg in
December 2018. The subsequent changes to the institutions of the European Union (EU) …

European Court of Justice–General Court–EU procedural law and practice–Procedural
rights of the parties to judicial proceedings before the EU Courts–Participation of the parties …