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- Title
ENTWICKLUNGEN DES ÖSTERREICHISCHEN VERFASSUNGSRECHTS IN DEN JAHREN 2017 UND 2018.
- Authors
EBERHARD, HARALD; WAGNER, ANTONIA; Vogin, F.
- Abstract
In 2017 and 2018, Austrian constitutional law was characterized by a fair share of novelties. Especially exciting was the (partial) realisation of the long-planned project to untangle the complex system of competences between the Federation and the Länder. Further amendments to the Constitution regarded the education system, a field of law characterized by political controversies. Given the creation of a new administrative body, shared between the Federation and the Länder, the constitutional law has been given a new facet. Furthermore, two remarkable decisions of the Constitutional Court generated a great deal of attention. In 2017, the Constitutional Court decided that same-sex couples will be allowed to marry by the beginning of 2019 and declared the existing laws to be discriminatory. Shortly after, the Court issued its landmark decision on the rights of intersexual persons, ruling that sex entries in the civil registry forms and in identity documents have to reflect the individual self-determined gender identity.
- Publication
European Review of Public Law, 2018, Vol 30, Issue 3, p889
- ISSN
1105-1590
- Publication type
Article