15 German Law Journal No. 6 (2014)
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This issue finds us engaged with the issues and critical
perspectives that have long occupied the Journal’s editors.
The significance of
the past for German law is profoundly evident in Federal Minister Heiko Maas'
speech on the proposed reform of Germany's homicide statutes. The past is
also very present in an excellent survey of German property restitution issues
that was contributed by Dostal, Strauss and von Carlowitz.
Continuing one of
the Journal's finest traditions, we are very lucky to have a wonderful
case-note on a recent decision of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Fenger and Lindemann provide an invaluable guide for the Journal's
English-speaking readership to the FRAPORT decision, which, according to some
light-hearted commentary, made the Frankfurt Airport the "freest place on
earth."
Europe also gets its due. Zhang considers the European data
protection regime from a unique, transnational perspective. And Abazi
examines the parliamentary control of the increasingly relevant EUROPOL.
I am particularly
pleased to be able to offer you a set of pieces under the heading "Europe
and the Lost Generation." These pieces—from Poulou, Brunkhorst,
Caruso and Fach-Gomez—respond to a GLJ call for papers that sought to give
voice to legal researchers who are thinking and writing about the European
project in the light of the human toll that has resulted from the rescue and
bailout measures deployed in response to Europe's soverign-debt and banking
crises. Perhaps these pieces will stir others to write, thereby breaking
the silence on this political and moral calamity. We would welcome new
contributions on this point.
Finally, it is with great sadness that we join
many others in mourning the recent passing of McGill Law Professor H. Patrick Glenn.
No one who works from a transnational perspective on the law will have eluded
his profound insights on the enduring complexity and diversity of increasingly
globalized legal systems. The work of the German Law Journal—existing at
the intersection of the local and cosmopolitan—is unavoidably a continuing
tribute to Glenn.
