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Die Tagung von Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Konstanz und des WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism ist den Problemen, Fragestellungen und Perspektiven der Geschichte der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in der Bundesrepublik gewidmet. Die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts ist eine bedeutende Quelle der Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte, aber auch der politischen sowie der Sozial- und Ideengeschichte der Bundesrepublik.

Europe and Germany are struggling to cope with an influx of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. Fences and walls, to keep asylum seekers out, are replacing sustainable solutions. The EU is both unwilling and incapable of formulating a sensible response to the crisis. Antony Loewenstein has investigated how governments around the world are increasingly privatizing and warehousing refugees, outsourcing responsibility to companies running detention centres, health care and surveillance drones for profit.

2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of the German Co-determination Act of 1976. This law, which mandates the parity representation of workers in the supervisory boards of companies with more than 2000 employees in Germany, constitutes one of the key pillars of the ‘German model’ of corporate governance and industrial relations. This occasion offers an opportunity for researchers to assess the contribution of co-determination to economic democracy and the social market economy in the context of internationalization, liberalization and digitalization.