German-Ukrainian expert discussions on constitutional law at the IRZ
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- Published: November 25, 2025
Once again, in the second week of November, we welcomed the Acting President of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Petryshyn, and five other members of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to our offices in Bonn as our guests. Together with former Federal Constitutional Court judges Prof. Dr. Udo Steiner and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gaier, they continued their long-standing and ever-intensifying German-Ukrainian expert discussions.
This year, the topics discussed included the doctrine of the ‘intervention-like preliminary effect’ of the Federal Constitutional Court, the constitutional protection of social rights, the constitutionality of administrative, financial and tax sanctions, and the relationship between judicial restraint and judicial ‘activism’ in constitutional court rulings. As you can see, there was a lot to discuss!
We were particularly pleased that the President of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Brocker – who is also President of the Higher Administrative Court – received the delegation in Koblenz afterwards to explain the relationship between administrative jurisdiction and constitutional jurisdiction and to present two decisions of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate that have attracted nationwide attention. Many thanks!