German Law Journal: GLJ Shorts and GLJ Specials

Feb 03 2025 18 ep. 12 mins 8
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The German Law Journal has been providing Open Access to Comparative, European, and International Law for over 20 years. Listen to #GLJShorts to find out what our most recent articles are about and to meet the person behind the paper. Listen to #GLJSpecials to dive deeper into selected articles or for an introduction into our most recent Special Issues. Find video versions of our podcasts on our YouTube channel!

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GLJ Short - "Searching for Law in Its Own Right: A Fresh Look at the Demarcation Problem"

Feb 03 2025 6 mins  
In this GLJ Shorts episode, Stefano Bertea presents his article "Searching for Law in Its Own Right: A Fresh Look at the Demarcation Problem" , which appeared as First View in December 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

GLJ Short - "Image-Based Sexual Abuse and EU Law: A Critical Analysis"

Jan 27 2025 6 mins  
In this GLJ Shorts episode, Carlotta Rigotti presents her, Clare McGlynn's and Franziska Benning's article "Image-Based Sexual Abuse and EU Law: A Critical Analysis" , which appeared as First View in December 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

GLJ Special - ‘Strategic Litigation in EU Law’: Insights from the Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Dec 23 2024 48 mins  
This GLJ Shorts episode accompagnies the Special Issue ‘Strategic Litigation in EU Law’, published in December 2024 and curated by guest editors Pola Cebulak, Marta Morvillo, and Stefan Salomon. In this podcast, guest editor Marta Morvillo engages with Marta Pardavi and Gruzsa Matevcic of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a Budapest-based NGO that provides help to refugees, det

GLJ Short - Trust and the Exchange of EU Classified Information

Sep 02 2024 6 mins  
In this GLJ Shorts episode, Sofiya Kartalova presents her article "Trust and the Exchange of EU Classified Information: The Example of Absolute Originator Control Impeding Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny at Europol", which appeared in the GLJ vol. 25:1 in April 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

GLJ Short - My Body is my Temple? Comparing Sexual Crimes and Property Crimes in a Human Rights Tradition

Jul 01 2024 6 mins  
In this GLJ Shorts episode, Otava Piha presents her article "My Body is my Temple? Comparing Sexual Crimes and Property Crimes in a Human Rights Tradition" , which appeared in the GLJ vol. 25:1 in February 2024. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Benjamin Veit Weck.

GLJ Short: Resistance and Reform as Responses to Human Rights Criticism

Jun 03 2024 6 mins  
In this GLJ Shorts episode, Shubham Jain presents his article "Resistance and Reform as Responses to Human Rights Criticism: Relativism at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022", which appeared in the Special Section "The FIFA World Cup 2022 and the struggle for human rights in Qatar" in GLJ vol. 24:9 in December 2023. Interview by German Law Journal editor in chief Clara Rigoni, editing by Be

GLJ Special: Environmental Rights Between Constitutional Law and Local Context: Reflections on a Moving Target

Sep 01 2023 4 mins  
In this video, Abduletif Idris explains how the members of the Environmental Rights in Cultural Context research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology combine legal studies and anthropology to tackle the concept of environmental rights. Drawing on empirical evidence from case studies in Ethiopia, Mongolia, and Ecuador, the researchers see how constitutionally en

GLJ Special: Lost in Translation? The Promises and Challenges of Integrating Empirical Knowledge on Migrants′ Vulnerabil

Sep 01 2023 4 mins  
Luc Leboeuf is the coordinator of the EU-funded VULNER project, which examines the application of the concept of vulnerability in the adjudication of asylum cases. There is still no common legal understanding of “vulnerability”; it takes on different meanings in different contexts, and is becoming a tool of selection and exclusion as it evolves as a legal instrument. In this sh

GLJ Short: Sex Must Be Voluntary: Sexual Communication and the New Definition of Rape in Sweden (GLJ 22:5)

Aug 24 2021 6 mins  
“Sex must be voluntary; if it’s not, it’s a crime,” reads the Swedish government’s ad campaign. The new Swedish rape law is all about communicating consent – “listen, ask, and tune in so that you’re sure what others really want,” the ad continues. Feminists have long campaigned against rape laws that require active resistance from the victim, even where lack of co

GLJ Special: Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century (GLJ 22:5)

Aug 24 2021 14 mins  
Over the last years, mass protests against sexualized violence against women have led to law reform in many countries. They were sparked by shocking rape cases as well as #MeToo and similar campaigns. The Istanbul Convention provides an international framework for what is sometimes called "carceral feminism." Time to take stock and to evaluate the impact of the consent paradigm, th