Rechtsstaat in Lectures - Lecture No. 4

The contribution by Lawyer Markus Rau analyzes the verdicts by the German Federal Court of Justice, the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in the so-called “Mauerschützenfällen”, i.e. those cases in which persons responsible for the killings at the inner-German border had been sanctioned by criminal law. The article is based on a speech given by the author during the 2nd German-Romanian Criminal Law Conference in Bucharest on 10 March 2007. The conference had been organized by the Rule of Law Program SEE and the German-Romanian Lawyers’ Association.