Sigrid Boysen

Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg

A.F. Lang/A. Wiener (eds.), Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, 2. ed., Edward Elgar, 2023, forthcoming.

«The General Assembly […] Solemnly proclaims the necessity of bringing to a speedy and unconditional end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations; And to this end Declares that: […]» «Foreign investment agreements freely entered into by, or between, sovereign States shall be observed in good faith.» Dass internationales Recht Fortschritt ist...

Environmental degradation through deforestation has been characterized as ‘the most critical public welfare issue of our age’. Forests form part of the planet’s threatened ecosystems, whilst also being a possible means to mitigate many of the overwhelming environmental threats including biodiversity loss and climate change. The monograph analyses t...

Wozu brauchen wir eine transnationale Konzeption des Klimaschutzrechts? Und was genau ist transnational am transnationalen Recht? Auf Grundlage eines Ansatzes, der die Transnationalisierung des Rechts als methodologische Perspektive und Herausforderung nicht allein für das internationale Recht, sondern für die Rechtswissenschaft versteht, erörtert...

The volume summarises the contributions to the fourth conference of the Working Group "Law and Politics in the European Union", which was jointly organised with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin in April 2017. We started by investigating how narratives develop and what functions they have in the integration process. Does the "Europe of the Fat...

This conference transcript collects the lectures given at the interdisciplinary conference on gender equality and democracy, which took place in Hamburg in December 2017. The book addresses the issue of gender quotas for parliaments, elected committees in public administration and federal courts. While Germany celebrates the 100th anniversary of wo...

The practice of governing by action-driven conclusions is particularly evident in the field of climate and energy policy, in which a large number of substantial decisions, at a remarkable level of detail, are pre-set by the Council or the European Council, before they enter the formal decision-making process. The article discusses whether there are...

The constitutionalization of international law over recent decades has been marked by the fading of formal categories, chiefly among them territorial sovereignty and equality of states, and, vice versa, the emergence of value-oriented concepts which focus on the claims of democracy and democratic self-determination. This new law-cum-value approach...

Openness and transparency have been high on the European Union's political agenda during the last decade. In light of the continuing debate over the EU's democracy deficit, and the never-ending crisis in its social acceptance, the principle of openness in Art. 1 TEU promises to improve the effectiveness and legitimacy of the supranational decision-...

Why should public law be concerned with networks? What is the point of taking up a concept that does not originate from a legal context? What is the appeal of this topic? Perhaps the concept describes certain “basic structures of post-nation society”, thus questioning traditional central categories of public law; certainly, it has a certain moderni...

The German Federal Constitutional Court's ruling in Distomo brings an end to a decade-old litigation and closes one of the last open chapters of Germany's judicial handling of World War II. Survivors and descendants of victims of a 1944 massacre in Greece carried out by German troops in obvious violation of humanitarian law even of the day had sued...