On 20 September 2024, the German Law Journal celebrated its 25th anniversary in a special ceremony at the Harnack House of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany. The event offered an inspiring reflection on the development of the Journal, exciting discussions about the present and a visionary outlook for the future. The first highlight of the programme was the speeches by the German Minister of Justice, Dr Marco Buschmann, who emphasised the influence of the GLJ on legal scholarship, and the Polish Minister of Justice, Adam Bodnar, who himself published in the GLJ at the beginning of his (academic) career and has been on friendly terms with the project and its sponsors ever since.

From the speech by Marko Buschmann:

»The Journal was never just an explanatory journal for German constitutional law. From the very beginning, it has been a forum for transnational mutual information and reflection on legal systems and legal cultures in all their variety and diversity. Anyone who wants to understand developments in European law, international law and comparative law must keep an eye on this journal. It regularly brings other disciplines on board and enriches the international perspective with an interdisciplinary one.«

The event was organised in cooperation with Max Planck Law and Cambridge University Press.

Since its foundation 25 years ago, the German Law Journal has developed into one of the leading international platforms for transnational academic exchange on questions of law in all its breadth. As an open access journal, it publishes freely accessible articles from a wide range of legal traditions and thus contributes to an unrestricted global debate.

Here are a few impressions of the event:

[Translated by DeepL]