Is Carl Schmitt Still Relevant To Contemporary Public Law?

Carl Schmitt has had a surprising posthumous global career.  Schmitt was a major legal thinker of the Weimar period, a leading legal voice of the German National Socialist regime and an influential behind the scenes intellectual presence in the West German public law scene after … [Read more...]

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Tear Down the Wall! Should the Charter of Fundamental Rights be Extended to Purely Internal Situations? Reflections on the European Parliament’s Proposals to Amend the EU Treaties

This article examines the implications of abolishing the so-called purely internal rule, an “invisible wall” introduced by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in 1979, which limits the application of the EU’s internal market freedoms and, accordingly, of the Charter of … [Read more...]

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