Niels Petersen Do Constitutional Courts Use Balancing to Promote Judicial Activism?
Niels Petersen is a Professor of Public Law, International Law and EU Law at the University of Muenster and a Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn (Germany). His research interests are law and social sciences, international law, comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory as well as antitrust law. He was a Hauser Research Scholar and Emile Noël Fellow at the New York University School of Law.
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2007-2015
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2010
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Columbia University, New York
2008
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Goethe University of Frankfurt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
2005
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Frankfurt Circuit Court
2003
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2001
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In an empirical analysis of the German and the South African constitutional courts and the Canadian Supreme Court, the study presented in this video examines the use of the concept of balancing. Contrary to the common understanding, NIELS PETERSEN shows that courts do not use balancing to engange in judicial activism. Instead, they restrain themselves and employ proportionality as an instrument of rationality review, i.e. a means for compensating political market failures.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10012
Verhältnismäßigkeit als Rationalitätskontrolle. Eine Rechtsempirische Studie Verfassungsrechtlicher Rechtsprechung zu den Freiheitsgrundrechten
- Niels Petersen
- Jus Publicum 238
- Published in 2015
