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WiSe 13/14: VL German Public Law in a Nutshell

Markus Heintzen; Heike Krieger

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Fremdsprachenfachkompetenz und Wahlangebot im SB 6

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Course content and timetable

1	October 18th 2013	Basics (German statehood, private / public law, hierarchy of norms, rule of law) (Heintzen)
2	October 25th 2013	The German Constitutional Court (Krieger)
3	November 1st 2013	Elections, Parliament, Procedure of Legislation (Heintzen)
4	November 8th 2013	Government, Administrative and Judicial Procedure (Heintzen)
5	November 15th 2013	Federalism; Public Finance and Budget (Heintzen)
6	November 22nd 2013	Open Statehood (The position of European Law and International Law in the German legal order) (Krieger)
7	November 29th 2013	Don´t mention the war: The armed forces under the German constitution (Krieger)
8	December 6th 2013	Human Rights I: General survey, human dignity, the individual´s right to personality, proportionality (Krieger)
9	December 13th 2013	Human Rights II: Equal treatment, non-discrimination (Heintzen)
10	December 20th 2013	Human Rights III: Freedom of speech; Germany´s Defensive Democracy; Freedom of religion (plus: relationship between state and churches) (Krieger)
11	January 10th 2014	Human Rights IV: Freedom of professional and commercial activity; guarantee of private property; outlook to tax and to social security law (Heintzen)
12	January 17th 2014	General administrative law I: organization, forms of administrative action, procedure (Heintzen)
13	January 24th 2014	General administrative law II: remedies, liability; civil service (Heintzen)
14	January 31st 2014	Germany´s security services (police law; intelligence services) (Krieger)
15	February 7th 2014	Building and planning law; services of general interest (Krieger)
16	February 14th 2014	How to administer 3,5 million people: the organization of Berlin (Krieger)

Recommended Reading

Donald P., Kommers and Russell A. Miller	The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany: Third edition, Revised and Expanded	2012
Gerhard Robbers	The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany: Third edition, Revised and Expanded	2012
Werner Heun	The Constitution of Germany: A Contextual Analysis (Constitutional Systems of the World)	2011
Nigel Foster and Satish Sule	German Legal System and Laws	2010
Nigel Foster	German Legal System and Laws (4. Aufl.)	2010
Marina Künnecke	Tradition and Change in Administrative Law: An Anglo-German Comparison	2009
Joachim Zekoll and Matthias Reimann	Introduction To German Law (Introduction to the Laws of Series)	2005
Sabine Michalowski and Lorna Woods	German Constitutional Law: The Protection of Civil Liberties	1999
David P. Currie	The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany	1995
Christian Tomuschat	Germany's Mixed-Member Electoral System: A Victim of its Sophistication?	GLJ 2013, issue 1
Karsten Schneider	Yes, But...One More Thing: Karlsruhe's Ruling on the European Stability Mechanism	GLJ 2013, issue 1
Erich Vranes	German Constitutional Foundations of, and Limitations to, EU Integration: A Systematic Analysis	GLJ 2013, issue 1
Birgit Peters	Germany's Dialogue with Strasbourg: Extrapolating the Bundesverfassungsgericht's Relationship with the European Court of Human Rights in the Preventive Detention Decision	GLJ 2012, issue 6
Sebastian Recker	Casenote - Euro Rescue Package Case: The German Federal Constitutional Court Protects the Principle of Parliamentary Budget	GLJ 2011, issue 11
Christian DeSimone	Pitting Karlsruhe Against Luxembourg? German Data Protection and the Contested Implementation of the EU Data Retention Directive	GLJ 2010, issue 3
Armin Steinbach	The Lisbon Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court - New Guidance on the Limits of European Integration?	GLJ 2010, issue 4
Christian Tomuschat	The Effects of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights According to the German Constitutional Court	GLJ 2010, issue 5
Corinna Coors	Headwind from Europe: The New Position of the German Courts on Personality Rights after the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights	GLJ 2010, issue 5
Matthias Mahlmann	The Politics of Constitutional Identity and its Legal Frame-the Ultra Vires Decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court	GLJ 2010, issue 12
many	Special Issue: The Lisbon Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court	GLJ 2009, issue 8
Jörg Philipp Terhechte	Judicial Accountability and Public Liability-The German "Judges Privilege" Under the Influence of European and International Law	GLJ 2012, issue 3
Mehrdad Payandeh	Conference Report-Collectivity: Public Law between Group Interests and the Common Good; The Annual Meeting of Public Law Assistants in Hamburg 2012	GLJ 2012, issue 7

Exam

There will be a final written exam. close