What a journey - incredibly grateful to ministers @MarcoBuschmann & @Adbodnar, our speakers, authors, editors and friends who joined us to celebrate 25 years of @Ger_Law_Journal! A true showcase of transnational scholarship, community, and the bold vision that defines the GLJ at its best. Here's to many more! 🎉

What is the "demarcation problem" in law? Check out the interview of Stefano Bertea (Università degli Studi di Messina) on GLJ shorts, where he gives an overview of his article "Searching for Law in Its Own Right: A Fresh Look at the Demarcation Problem" 📑 Article ➡️ 📽️ Video ➡️

GLJ Volume 2025 Issue 5 is out! Check out its editorial, which contains an outline of the volume and a throwback to our 25th anniversary's celebrations in Berlin!

RT @CUP_Law: New Issue of German Law Journal now available 📚 @Ger_Law_Journal #OpenAccess

A new GLJ Short is out! Carlotta Rigotti talks about the article "Image-Based Sexual Abuse and EU Law: A Critical Analysis" that she co-authored with Clare McGlynn and Franziska Benning Check it out at ⬇️

The German Law Journal Special Issue on "Strategic Litigation in EU Law" is out! Have a look at the brilliant contributions at ▶️ and listen 🎧 to the editors Pola Cebulak @polatoja, Marta Morvillo @MartaMorvillo, and Stefan Salomon talking about the volume in our GLJ Special Podcast 📻 🔽

Is there a truly “glocal” method of comparative constitutional interpretation? In his latest GLJ article "Juges Sans Frontières? A Glocal Theory of Constitutional Interpretation", Rodrigo Camarena Gonzalez critically engages with the debate on constitutional transplants, challenging its nationalist bias, and proposes a truly glocal theory of judicial interpretation. Check it out at ⬇️

How long can pre-removal detention of immigrants last? In their latest GLJ article "The Pre-Removal Detention of Immigrants: A Return to Ordinary Meaning", Bas Schotel and Ingo Venzke delve into the question of maximum duration of immigrant detention in the of the ECHR ⬇️

Can basic principles and business aspects of corporate governance and compliance management be applied for a better understanding of the doctrine of superior responsibility? Through an analysis of U.S., German, and international standards Irakli Kvirikashvili depicts some specific and controversial aspects of the third element of the doctrine - the failure to adopt necessary and reasonable measures- to obtain a clearer and more comprehensive understanding on the superiors’ duties. "The Duties under the Doctrine of Superior Responsibility: What Can We Learn from Business Standards on Corporate Governance & Compliance?"

Digital disinformation must bring us to change our conception of (negative) freedom, considering freedom of speech as an institution, an organizational space leading to a normative theory of public discourse, which synthesizes the constitutional interests related to the protection of freedom of expression... ...so argues Corrado Caruso in his latest GLJ article "Towards the Institutions of Freedom: The European Public Discourse in the Digital Era" Check it out at

Does the obligation to protect freedom of expression extend to the non-enforcement of judgments that could have a chilling effect on public debate in EU Member States? And what are the legal implications within the framework of the EU’s mutual recognition regime? By analyzing the Real Madrid v. Le Monde case, Zuzanna Nowicka examines these and other questions in her latest GLJ article "SLAPP vs. Mutual Trust: Protecting the Public Debate Through Public Policy Considerations". Check it out at

The first comprehensive analysis of the (EU) 2024/1385 Directive's provisions on image-based sexual abuse (“IBSA”) is now out on the German Law Journal! Check out the article by Carlotta Rigotti, Clare McGlynn and Franziska B. Benning "Image-Based Sexual Abuse and EU Law: A Critical Analysis"

Is the revision of EU guidelines in competition law necessary? In his latest GLJ article, Lukasz Grzejdziak analyzes the evolution of the views of economics on the effects of vertical integration. He confronts them with the theories of harm and efficiencies stemming from vertical mergers as described in the U.S. 2020 VM Guidelines, the U.S. 2023 Merger Guidelines, and the EU NHM Guidelines in order to show the dynamics, origins, and basic assumptions of changes in the standard for assessing vertical concentrations in the U.S. Have a look at the article at

How often does European consensus shape the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights? In his latest GLJ article, Vincent Martenet (Université de Lausanne- Faculté de droit, des sciences criminelles et d'administration publique) assesses the intensity of the impact of a consensus or a trend analysis on a judgment’s or an advisory opinion’s ratio decidendi. The article further shows what shaping a right actually means and suggests that cases that are more prone to a potentially persuasive consensus or trend analysis will typically deal with matters of political or general policy, sensitive moral or ethical issues, or changes in the case law. Check it out at

RT @maxplancklaw: Reminder: Join @KlaasEller on 5 December for an event on environmental due diligence, climate change, and corporate respo…

"Future Generations in Climate Litigation: Early Whispers of an Intergenerational Law?" Alessandro Drigo addresses the intersection of future generations and climate litigation in his latest GLJ article

Matej Avbelj's GLJ article "Reconceptualizing Constitutionalism in the AI Run Algorithmic Society" examines the theoretical and practical challenges to constitutionalism arising from the profound technological changes under the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in our emerging algorithmic society. The author claims for a new constitutional theory that adequately accounts for the scale of technological change. Check it out at

"Party-Legislation of Legislating-Party in the Chinese Socialist Rule of Law: The Role of the CCP in the Party-State Legislation Revisited" In her latest GLJ article, Wenjia Yan examines how the CCP as a legislating Party acts in the state legislation as well as in its own internal legislation and what influences the Party’s legislating behaviors bring to the socialist rule of law. Check out the article at