Niels Petersen: Is proportionality an instrument of judicial activism?

The relationship between proportionality test and judicial activism is the source of fierce disputes in the constitutional literature. On 2 September we will receive professor Niels Petersen in our series International Dialogues in Constitutional Law. Petersen is professor at the University of Münster, Germany, and the author of Proportionality and Judicial Activism, published by Cambridge University Press. In his book, Petersen analyses the case-law of the constitutional courts of Germany, Canada, and South Africa, aiming at delivering answers based on empirical data.