Niels Petersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Petersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels |
| FAMILY NAME | Petersen |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6272-6059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christoph Engel zum 70. Geburtstag
194
Quirin Weinzierl
Quirin Weinzierl: Dark Patterns und die innere Sphäre der Grundrechte. Grundrechtlicher Schutz vor dem Ausnutzen von Rationalitätsdefiziten. - Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. (Internet und Gesellschaft, Bd. 36.) XXI, 298 S.; brosch.: 104,- €. ISBN 978-3-16-163428-4; eBook: Open Access. ISBN 978-3-16- 163429-1
Equality and its discontents
The meaning of equality is highly contested. As a result, courts across different jurisdictions have developed distinct doctrinal approaches to operationalize the concept. This article argues that four primary equality frameworks can be identified, each reflecting not only different understandings of equality but also varying degrees of judicial deference to the legislature and executive. The first is the equality-as-non-discrimination model, whi…
Equality, Climate Change and Future Generations
This article argues that measures that are harmful to the climate, or state inaction on climate change, constitute a violation of the non-discrimination guarantees in international human rights treaties because they discriminate against future generations. The article defines future generations as a group of individuals that are yet to be born as well as children under 18 years of age because they lack political representation. The core of the ar…
Ökonomische Methoden im Recht
Ökonomische Argumente werden auch für Juristen immer wichtiger. Dieses Lehrbuch soll Juristen mit ökonomischen Methoden vertraut machen, um ihnen ein besseres Verständnis dieser Argumente zu geben. Es richtet sich dabei sowohl an Studierende als auch an Wissenschaftler und Praktiker. Für die dritte Auflage wurde das Lehrbuch aktualisiert und punktuell überarbeitet. Die dritte Auflage des Lehrbuchs greift aktuelle Entwicklungen auf und wurde durch…
The implicit taxonomy of the equality jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee
The article analyses the individual communications of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) on how the latter conceptualizes equality under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). It finds an implicit taxonomy in the case law that is not reflected in the doctrinal formulae that the HRC applies. The argument proceeds in several steps: First, I argue that the concept of equality in human rights treaties depends heavily on it…
Karlsruhe’s Lochner Moment? A Rational Choice Perspective on the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Relationship to the CJEU After the PSPP Decision
On May 5, 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court issued the PSPP decision, sending shock waves through the European Union. This contribution analyzes the consequences of the PSPP decision for the future relationship between the German FCC and the CJEU and for European integration as a whole. The article consists of four parts. First, I will provide some context and model the interaction between domestic and international courts from a rati…
Alexy and the “German” Model of Proportionality
Robert Alexy is one of the most prominent proponents of proportionality in international legal scholarship. His theory has two dimensions. On the one hand, it is a normative defense of balancing. On the other hand, it seeks to provide a reconstruction of the case law of the German Federal Constitutional Court. This Article focuses on the reconstructive part of his theory. It argues that his reconstruction of the jurisprudence of the German Consti…
Empirische Verfassungsrechtswissenschaft
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Ökonomische Methoden im Recht
Ökonomische Argumente werden auch für Juristen immer wichtiger. Dieses Lehrbuch soll Juristen mit ökonomischen Methoden vertraut machen, um ihnen ein besseres Verständnis dieser Argumente zu geben. Es richtet sich dabei sowohl an Studierende als auch an Wissenschaftler und Praktiker. Für die Neuauflage wurden alle Kapitel überarbeitet und ergänzt, zwei Kapitel sind von neuen Autoren vollständig neu verfasst worden. Außerdem wurden Randziffern ein…
Lrich Vosgerau
Ulrich Vosgerau: Staatliche Gemeinschaft und Staatengemeinschaft: Grundgesetz und Europäische Union im internationalen öffentlichen Recht der Gegenwart
Der Schutz von Minderheiten als Schranke der Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit
This article deals with the tension between freedom of expression and the protection of minorities in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It looks at three different constellations: the prohibition of blasphemy, the ban of xenophobic or racist hate speech, and the prohibition to deny certain international crimes, such as genocide. After a detailed analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on these three ma…
The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Politics of Identifying Customary International Law
It is often observed in the literature on customary international law that the identification practice of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for customary norms deviates from the traditional definition of customary law in Article 38 (1) lit. b of the ICJ Statute. However, while there are many normative and descriptive accounts on customary law and the Court's practice, few studies try to explain the jurisprudence of the ICJ. This study aims…
Legislative Inconsistency and the "Smoking Out" of Illicit Motives
This Article analyzes consistency arguments that are common in the case law of several courts relying on the proportionality principle in their individual rights jurisprudence. It examines cases from five different constitutional or supreme courts, and argues that the main function of consistency considerations is the “smoking out” of illicit motives. Legislative inconsistency is an indication that the legislature also pursued different aims than…
Verhältnismäßigkeit als Rationalitätskontrolle
Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit befindet sich auf der Schnittstelle zwischen Recht und Politik. Vielen Verfassungsgerichten wird der Vorwurf gemacht, politischen Aktivismus zu betreiben. Als eines der Hauptinstrumente eines solchen verfassungsgerichtlichen Aktivismus wird - zumindest in der deutschen Diskussion - die Abwägung im Rahmen der Verhältnismäßigkeit ausgemacht. Diese sei juristisch nicht rationalisierbar und eröffne Verfassungsrichtern daher…
Opposition im Völkerrecht
Opposition im Völkerrecht: Ein Beitrag zur Legitimation internationaler Rechtserzeugung
Balancing and judicial self-empowerment
Many critics of the proportionality principle argue that balancing is an instrument of judicial self-empowerment. This contribution argues that the relationship between balancing and judicial power is more complex. Balancing does not necessarily create judicial power, but it presupposes it. This argument is confirmed through a case study of the German Federal Constitutional Court. The analysis shows that the German Constitutional Court was very r…
Proportionality and the Incommensurability Challenge in the Jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court
The proportionality test is a central doctrine of the individual rights jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court. However, one core part of the proportionality test, the balancing of competing interests, is often severely criticised because it is supposed to lack rational standards of comparison. Therefore, many critics of balancing claim that courts make policy decisions by second-guessing legislative value-decisions. This article…
Gesetzgeberische Inkonsistenz als Beweiszeichen Eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse der Funktion von Konsistenzargumenten in der Rechtsprechung
Many courts use consistency arguments when they have to resolve conflicts of competing legal principles. The use of consistency arguments by the German Constitutional Court has recently been heavily criticized in the German constitutional law scholarship. Consistency requirements are perceived as additional rationality demands that misconceive the nature of the political process. This contribution compares the use of consistency arguments by the …
Demokratie und Grundgesetz
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Rechtsgrundsätze im Völkerrecht am Beispiel des Vorsorgeprinzips
Rechtsgrundsätze im Völkerrecht am Beispiel des Vorsorgeprinzips
Rational Choice or Deliberation? Customary International Law between Coordination and Constitutionalization
Rational-choice approaches have gained in prominence in recent years. However, by focusing on behavioral equilibria, they can only explain phenomena of traditional customary law, which is mainly identified by an analysis of state practice. International legal scholarship increasingly reverts to interpretative methods of identifying unwritten norms, though - e.g., in the fields of human rights and global public goods. This contribution analyzes wh…
Das Verhältnis von Völkerrecht und Landesrecht. Eine kritische Betrachtung alter und neuer Lehren unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention
Das Verhältnis von Völkerrecht und Landesrecht. Eine kritische Betrachtung alter und neuer Lehren unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention
Demokratie als teleologisches Prinzip
Der Wandel des ungeschriebenen Völkerrechts im Zuge der Konstitutionalisierung
The role of state practice in the formation of unwritten international law has attracted a lot of attention in recent decades. According to the traditional view, state practice is one of the two constituent elements of customary international law. In practice, its importance is however decreasing. Modern international law scholarship increasingly turns to interpretative methods when identifying customary law. In this process, international courts…
The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Politics of Identifying Customary International Law
It is often observed in the literature on customary international law that the identification practice of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for customary norms deviates from the traditional definition of customary law in Article 38 (1) lit. b of the ICJ Statute. However, while there are many normative and descriptive accounts on customary law and the Court's practice, few studies try to explain the jurisprudence of the ICJ. This study aims…
Proportionality and the Incommensurability Challenge in the Jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court
The proportionality test is a central doctrine of the individual rights jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court. However, one core part of the proportionality test, the balancing of competing interests, is often severely criticised because it is supposed to lack rational standards of comparison. Therefore, many critics of balancing claim that courts make policy decisions by second-guessing legislative value-decisions. This article…
Der Wandel des ungeschriebenen Völkerrechts im Zuge der Konstitutionalisierung
The role of state practice in the formation of unwritten international law has attracted a lot of attention in recent decades. According to the traditional view, state practice is one of the two constituent elements of customary international law. In practice, its importance is however decreasing. Modern international law scholarship increasingly turns to interpretative methods when identifying customary law. In this process, international courts…
Rechtsgrundsätze im Völkerrecht am Beispiel des Vorsorgeprinzips
Rechtsgrundsätze im Völkerrecht am Beispiel des Vorsorgeprinzips
Rational Choice or Deliberation? Customary International Law between Coordination and Constitutionalization
Rational-choice approaches have gained in prominence in recent years. However, by focusing on behavioral equilibria, they can only explain phenomena of traditional customary law, which is mainly identified by an analysis of state practice. International legal scholarship increasingly reverts to interpretative methods of identifying unwritten norms, though - e.g., in the fields of human rights and global public goods. This contribution analyzes wh…
Das Verhältnis von Völkerrecht und Landesrecht. Eine kritische Betrachtung alter und neuer Lehren unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention
Das Verhältnis von Völkerrecht und Landesrecht. Eine kritische Betrachtung alter und neuer Lehren unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention
Demokratie als teleologisches Prinzip
Demokratie und Grundgesetz
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Gesetzgeberische Inkonsistenz als Beweiszeichen Eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse der Funktion von Konsistenzargumenten in der Rechtsprechung
Many courts use consistency arguments when they have to resolve conflicts of competing legal principles. The use of consistency arguments by the German Constitutional Court has recently been heavily criticized in the German constitutional law scholarship. Consistency requirements are perceived as additional rationality demands that misconceive the nature of the political process. This contribution compares the use of consistency arguments by the …
Proportionality and the Incommensurability Challenge in the Jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court
The proportionality test is a central doctrine of the individual rights jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court. However, one core part of the proportionality test, the balancing of competing interests, is often severely criticised because it is supposed to lack rational standards of comparison. Therefore, many critics of balancing claim that courts make policy decisions by second-guessing legislative value-decisions. This article…
Verhältnismäßigkeit als Rationalitätskontrolle
Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit befindet sich auf der Schnittstelle zwischen Recht und Politik. Vielen Verfassungsgerichten wird der Vorwurf gemacht, politischen Aktivismus zu betreiben. Als eines der Hauptinstrumente eines solchen verfassungsgerichtlichen Aktivismus wird - zumindest in der deutschen Diskussion - die Abwägung im Rahmen der Verhältnismäßigkeit ausgemacht. Diese sei juristisch nicht rationalisierbar und eröffne Verfassungsrichtern daher…
Opposition im Völkerrecht
Opposition im Völkerrecht: Ein Beitrag zur Legitimation internationaler Rechtserzeugung
Balancing and judicial self-empowerment
Many critics of the proportionality principle argue that balancing is an instrument of judicial self-empowerment. This contribution argues that the relationship between balancing and judicial power is more complex. Balancing does not necessarily create judicial power, but it presupposes it. This argument is confirmed through a case study of the German Federal Constitutional Court. The analysis shows that the German Constitutional Court was very r…
Legislative Inconsistency and the "Smoking Out" of Illicit Motives
This Article analyzes consistency arguments that are common in the case law of several courts relying on the proportionality principle in their individual rights jurisprudence. It examines cases from five different constitutional or supreme courts, and argues that the main function of consistency considerations is the “smoking out” of illicit motives. Legislative inconsistency is an indication that the legislature also pursued different aims than…
Ökonomische Methoden im Recht
Ökonomische Argumente werden auch für Juristen immer wichtiger. Dieses Lehrbuch soll Juristen mit ökonomischen Methoden vertraut machen, um ihnen ein besseres Verständnis dieser Argumente zu geben. Es richtet sich dabei sowohl an Studierende als auch an Wissenschaftler und Praktiker. Für die Neuauflage wurden alle Kapitel überarbeitet und ergänzt, zwei Kapitel sind von neuen Autoren vollständig neu verfasst worden. Außerdem wurden Randziffern ein…
Lrich Vosgerau
Ulrich Vosgerau: Staatliche Gemeinschaft und Staatengemeinschaft: Grundgesetz und Europäische Union im internationalen öffentlichen Recht der Gegenwart
Der Schutz von Minderheiten als Schranke der Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit
This article deals with the tension between freedom of expression and the protection of minorities in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It looks at three different constellations: the prohibition of blasphemy, the ban of xenophobic or racist hate speech, and the prohibition to deny certain international crimes, such as genocide. After a detailed analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on these three ma…
The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Politics of Identifying Customary International Law
It is often observed in the literature on customary international law that the identification practice of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for customary norms deviates from the traditional definition of customary law in Article 38 (1) lit. b of the ICJ Statute. However, while there are many normative and descriptive accounts on customary law and the Court's practice, few studies try to explain the jurisprudence of the ICJ. This study aims…
Empirische Verfassungsrechtswissenschaft
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Karlsruhe’s Lochner Moment? A Rational Choice Perspective on the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Relationship to the CJEU After the PSPP Decision
On May 5, 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court issued the PSPP decision, sending shock waves through the European Union. This contribution analyzes the consequences of the PSPP decision for the future relationship between the German FCC and the CJEU and for European integration as a whole. The article consists of four parts. First, I will provide some context and model the interaction between domestic and international courts from a rati…
Alexy and the “German” Model of Proportionality
Robert Alexy is one of the most prominent proponents of proportionality in international legal scholarship. His theory has two dimensions. On the one hand, it is a normative defense of balancing. On the other hand, it seeks to provide a reconstruction of the case law of the German Federal Constitutional Court. This Article focuses on the reconstructive part of his theory. It argues that his reconstruction of the jurisprudence of the German Consti…
The implicit taxonomy of the equality jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee
The article analyses the individual communications of the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) on how the latter conceptualizes equality under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). It finds an implicit taxonomy in the case law that is not reflected in the doctrinal formulae that the HRC applies. The argument proceeds in several steps: First, I argue that the concept of equality in human rights treaties depends heavily on it…
Ökonomische Methoden im Recht
Ökonomische Argumente werden auch für Juristen immer wichtiger. Dieses Lehrbuch soll Juristen mit ökonomischen Methoden vertraut machen, um ihnen ein besseres Verständnis dieser Argumente zu geben. Es richtet sich dabei sowohl an Studierende als auch an Wissenschaftler und Praktiker. Für die dritte Auflage wurde das Lehrbuch aktualisiert und punktuell überarbeitet. Die dritte Auflage des Lehrbuchs greift aktuelle Entwicklungen auf und wurde durch…
Quirin Weinzierl
Quirin Weinzierl: Dark Patterns und die innere Sphäre der Grundrechte. Grundrechtlicher Schutz vor dem Ausnutzen von Rationalitätsdefiziten. - Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. (Internet und Gesellschaft, Bd. 36.) XXI, 298 S.; brosch.: 104,- €. ISBN 978-3-16-163428-4; eBook: Open Access. ISBN 978-3-16- 163429-1
Equality and its discontents
The meaning of equality is highly contested. As a result, courts across different jurisdictions have developed distinct doctrinal approaches to operationalize the concept. This article argues that four primary equality frameworks can be identified, each reflecting not only different understandings of equality but also varying degrees of judicial deference to the legislature and executive. The first is the equality-as-non-discrimination model, whi…
Equality, Climate Change and Future Generations
This article argues that measures that are harmful to the climate, or state inaction on climate change, constitute a violation of the non-discrimination guarantees in international human rights treaties because they discriminate against future generations. The article defines future generations as a group of individuals that are yet to be born as well as children under 18 years of age because they lack political representation. The core of the ar…
Christoph Engel zum 70. Geburtstag
194
Political science (20 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (8 works) · Law and Political Science (8 works) · Constitution (5 works) · European and International Law Studies (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Jurisprudence (5 works) · Constitutional court (4 works)