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"They're not little adults": the struggle for proper and standalone children's rights in the German Basic Law![Young people in Germany demonstrate against climate change (photo credit: DPA) Young people in Germany demonstrate against climate change (photo credit: DPA)](/sites/default/files/bd8ae8097a917c079039a48be3b2cf58282f41ce8729614ca30c2b7b9f8a7f95-646x431.jpg)
30 April 2021
Germany's Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the country's 2019 climate protection act is in part unconstitutional.
"The regulations irreversibly postpo…![Parliament of Germany (photo credit: Joan/flickr) Parliament of Germany (photo credit: Joan/flickr)](/sites/default/files/49900103768_3880884e9e_o.jpg)
13 January 2021
Opposition politicians and child protection organizations essentially welcome the agreement between the Union and the SPD to include children’s rights in the Ba…![Constitutional Court of Germany Building (photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Constitutional Court of Germany Building (photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/Constitutional%20Court%20of%20Germany_Sean%20Gallup-Getty%20Images.jpg)
30 April 2020
The strict responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany have triggered a slew of judicial challenges, including before the Constitutional Court. While the Cour…![photo credit: pixabay photo credit: pixabay](/sites/default/files/justice-2060093_1920.jpg)
26 September 2018
Dieter Grimm LL.M. ’65, a former justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, returned to Harvard Law School on September 18 to speak on “Courts unde…![photo credit: Globovisión/flickr photo credit: Globovisión/flickr](/sites/default/files/4518833780_b722177977_o.jpg)
23 August 2018
Germany’s Grundgesetz, or Basic Law, is widely regarded as one of the best constitutions in the world. With Germany in ruins and disgrace just three years after…
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