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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Drittwirkung

Germany [de]

Martin Borowski

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
February 2018

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutional interpretation — Freedom of religion — Judicial review of legislation — Powers and jurisdiction of constitutional courts/supreme courts — Judicial review — Judicial decisions — Islamic states — Censorship — Freedom of belief — Freedom of expression — Individual rights — Limitations on rights

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1. The German expression Drittwirkung (in literal translation ‘third-party effect’) refers to effects of constitutional rights of one private party for another private party. This is to say that if one private party (individual, private corporation, or other non-state-actor) is the holder of a certain constitutional right against the state, this constitutional right has Drittwirkung if and when it gives rise to legal effects for other private parties. Since this phenomenon refers to legal effects between and among private parties on the horizontal level (as...
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