The delegation from the German Federal Administrative Court visited our Institute

On 1 November, a delegation of judges, assistant judges and other expert staff of the German Bundesverwaltungsgericht from Leipzig visited the Institute of State and Law. In the first part of the meeting, the Director of the Institute of State and Law Ján Matejka presented the mission and activities of our institution, the second part was devoted to a discussion on the legal protection of the environment and climate in Germany and the Czech Republic. The subject of the debate was, among others, the constitutional right to a favourable environment in the Czech Republic, the first climate judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court from this spring, and the first Czech climate lawsuit.