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In Germany, legal experts urge updates to the Basic Law
29 November 2017
The Germany Federal Constitutional Courton Tuesday ruled against increased prices for telephone calls for prisoners.
The complaint was brought by an inmate af…
8 November 2017
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday called for a third gender option in the registry of births.
Intersex people, who are neither male nor fema…
28 July 2017
In a decision published on Thursday, the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe said it saw no problem with the deportation of non-German citizens thought to pose at…
26 July 2017
A recent amendment to the Basic Law of Germany empowers the state to deprive anti-democratic political parties of federal funding. At first glance, this might a…
11 July 2017
A vote was not necessary in the upper house of Germany's parliament, the Bundesrat, on Friday, because no state challenged the draft legislation. The original p…
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