27. February 2024

OPPENLÄNDER represents religious community in constitutional complaint

A liberal Jewish religious community has filed a constitutional complaint in order to obtain its own state treaty and appropriate financial support. To date, the religious community has received financial support via the Central Council of Jews in Germany, which entered into a state treaty with the federal government in 2003. However, the support passed on by the Central Council amounts to less than one per cent of the support, although the number of believers and congregations would correspond to four to fifteen per cent.

Prof Dr Christofer Lenz and Dr Maximilian Stützel are representing the religious community and are basing their constitutional complaint on an earlier decision by the Federal Constitutional Court, among other things. At that time, the Federal Constitutional Court stated that the state may not place a religious community in a “relationship of dependence” on another religious community.

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OPPENLÄNDER was again honoured by Legal 500

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11. February 2025

OPPENLÄNDER wins organ dispute for parliament

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10. February 2025

OPPENLÄNDER strengthens IT and data protection law with new lawyer

Judith de Vries has been with OPPENLÄNDER since August 2024. She advises on issues relating to new technologies.

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03. January 2025

Lexology Index ranks Dr Matthias Ulshöfer among the world’s 15 leading lawyers in the field of ‘Government’

In the newly published Client Choice Report 2025 by Lexology (formerly Who's Who Legal), Dr Matthias Ulshöfer is recognised as one of the world's leading lawyers in the field of ‘Government’

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