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International perspectives

The Federal Constitutional Court has always seen itself as part of the international legal order and the global community of constitutional courts. It is in regular contact with national and international courts. There is ample opportunity for exchange when the members of the Federal Constitutional Court visit their counterparts within and outside of Europe or welcome foreign delegations in Karlsruhe.

The Federal Constitutional Court is an active member of many international networks. It was one of the initiators both of the Conference of European Constitutional Courts, which has regularly taken place since 1972, and of the meetings with the German-language constitutional courts (Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein), the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, which have been held since 2006.

The Federal Constitutional Court seeks to facilitate discussion on an international level by providing English translations of its decisions and press releases as well as English-language information on various topics at www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/en. Thematic collections of selected decisions are translated into English and published as “Decisions of the Bundesverfassungsgericht”.

Abstracts of selected decisions by the Federal Constitutional Court in English and French are available at the CODICES database, a database on constitutional case-law maintained by the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).

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