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This is an Open Access book.Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby contributes to filling in this gap for the European continent. Taking an interdisciplinary politics and law perspective, and combining empirical and theoretical considerations, the book addresses the important link between democracy and judicial governance. In particular, it provides for three interconnected contributions. First, the book provides for a comprehensive classification of European countries into different models of judicial governance. Second, the book analyses empirically the relationship between the design of judicial governance and the quality of democracy. Third, building on those findings, the book presents policy reflections for the reform and improvement of mechanisms for judicial governance in European countries. The book seeks to refine our knowledge about the relationship between judicial governance and democracy, making an important academic and social contribution. In an era in which many democracies backslide and deconsolidate, it assesses to what extent existing mechanisms for judicial governance have contributed to the stability and quality of democratic systems in which they are implemented. Furthermore, the book puts forward reflections to improve the role of organs for judicial governance in fostering the quality of democracy. Since the book introduces in an accessible form key concepts of Judicial Governance, it will be of interest for the general public as well as academics and students in the fields of Law and Political Science. The book also addresses policy makers, as based on our empirical knowledge about the interaction judicial governance and democracy it puts forward ideas for a design of judicial governance that is more capable of protecting democratic systems of government.

In Deutschland und Chile steigt die Nachfrage nach Sterbehilfe ständig. Die Herangehensweise des Strafrechts an das Thema ist in beiden Ländern stark repressiv und wird den gesellschaftlichen Bedürfnissen nicht immer gerecht, sodass in den kommenden Jahren eine Zuspitzung der Problematik zu erwarten ist. Der Autor hat folglich eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung durchgeführt und analysiert, inwiefern die bisherige Regelung legitim und kriminalpolitisch sinnvoll ist. Aus der Untersuchung ergibt sich, dass das Verständnis des Grundrechts auf Leben in den beiden Ländern zu unterschiedlichen Einstellungen zur Sterbehilfe führt. Zusätzlich verdeutlicht die Arbeit die Notwendigkeit von institutionalisierten Sterbehilfemöglichkeiten. Zur Vereinbarung der grundrechtlichen Ansprüche auf Sterbehilfe und der staatlichen Lebensschutzpflicht wird deshalb ein System vorgeschlagen, das die Sterbehilfe zwar grundsätzlich verbietet, aber auch ein strenges Ausnahmeverfahren vorsieht.