Law against the right

How resolutely are politicians and the judiciary countering the growing threat from the right? For the fourth time, the report "Law against the right" has uncovered right-wing extremist tendencies in the administration of justice. Where is the judiciary not making sufficient use of its instruments in defence of democracy and diversity? What is it doing to protect those who are committed to our civil society? More than 30 prominent authors describe the most important cases from the past year. An offensive analysis of the failures of the justice system and a critical chronicle of successful legal counter-strategies, including the following topics: The Itzehoe concentration camp trial. Sexism in the administration of justice. The overreaching of the rule of law against the "climate stickers". The trivialisation of the neo-Nazi legend of an allied "bomb holocaust" by the Saxon judiciary. With articles by law professor Katrin Höffler, victims' advocate Onur Özata, Federal Commissioner against Antiziganism Mehmet Gürcan Daimagüler and law professor Anna Katharina Mangold, among others.The report is edited by Nele Austermann, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Heike Kleffner, Kati Lang, Maximilian Pichl, Ronen Steinke and Tore Vetter. The editors are journalists and critical lawyers who are guided by a basic insight: Right-wing extremists see the law as an arena for their political struggles and try to exploit it for their own purposes. If all these attempts are documented and evaluated, an important step will have been taken towards being better able to defend oneself.