German law has been of long-standing interest and increasing relevance around the world, but access for researchers and practitioners very frequently was limited by the necessity of German language proficiency. Offering English-language access to these fields, the "Annual of German and European Law" is a significant contribution to the global discourse on and study of German, European and Comparative law. Each volume presents: articles - original, cutting-edge scholarship from the fields of German and European law; jurisdictional reports - comments on the latest case-law from Germany's most significant courts and the case-law of the European courts having importance for Germany; book reviews - surveying the most compelling recent literature (whether in the German or English language) in the fields of German and European law; and translations - exclusive English-language versions of significant primary sources of German law, including statutes and court opinions).
The first volumes of the "Annual of German and European Law" have attracted contributions from some of the most preeminent commentators, scholars and jurists in the fields, including, among others: Luke Nottage (Volume I), Juliet Lodge (Volume I), Alexander Somek (Volume I), Susanne Baer (Volume I), Renate Jaeger (Volume II), Gunter Frankenberg (Volume II), Botjan Zupani (Volume II), and Nigel Foster (Volume II). The third volume maintains this tradition of high quality, peer-reviewed scholarship with contributions expected from Gertrude Lubbe-Wolff (Justice, German Federal Constitutional Court) and Christian Joerges (European University Institute).