Publications by Dr Stefan Theil
Full list of publications by Dr Stefan Theil.
- Stefan Theil, ‘Germany’, in Preliminary Human Rights Assessment of Legislative and Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic across 27 Jurisdictions (eds Liora Lazarus, Christos Kypraios, Danilo B. Garrido Alves), Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford, 2020
- Stefan Theil, ‘The Rationale of Constitutions from a Cultural Science Viewpoint’, in Peter Häberle on Constitutional Theory - Constitution as Culture and the Open Society of Constitutional Interpreters (eds Markus Kotzur), Hart Publishing, 2018
- Stefan Theil, ‘The Open Society of Constitutional Interpreters - A Contribution to a Pluralistic and "Procedural" Constiutional Interpretation’, in Peter Häberle on Constitutional Theory - Constitution as Culture and the Open Society of Constitutional Interpreters (eds Markus Kotzur), Hart Publishing, 2018
- Stefan Theil, ‘Carefully Tailored: Doctrinal Methods and Empirical Contributions’, (2025) OJLS
- Stefan Theil, Alexander Smith, Ashley Weinberg, Dinesh Bhugra, Michael Liebrenz, ‘Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law’, (2025) International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 101, 102109
- Stefan Theil, Alexander Smith, Stephen D Hart, Michael Liebrenz, ‘Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks’, (2023) 89 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 101908, Elsevier
- Stefan Theil, ‘Private Censorship and Structural Dominance: Why Social Media Platforms Should Have Obligations to their Users under Freedom of Expression’, (2022) Cambridge Law Journal
- Stefan Theil, ‘Unconstitutional Prorogation of Parliament’, [2020] Public Law 529
- Stefan Theil, ‘Excavating Landmarks—Empirical Contributions to Doctrinal Analysis’, (2019) 32 Journal of Environmental Law 221, 2020
- Stefan Theil, ‘The Problem with the Normative Content of Section 24 of the Constitution of South Africa’, (2019) 37 Nordic Journal of Human Rights 105
- Stefan Theil, ‘The Online Harms White Paper: Comparing the UK and German Approaches to Regulation’, (2019) 11 Journal of Media Law 41
- Stefan Theil, ‘Is the ‘living instrument’ approach of the European Court of Human Rights compatible with the ECHR and International Law?’, (2017) 23 European Public Law 587
- Stefan Theil, ‘What red lines, if any, do the Lisbon Judgments of European Constitutional Courts draw for future EU integration?’, (2014) 15 German Law Journal 599
- Stefan Theil, ‘Der Umfang des Umweltschutzes in der Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte’, (2014) 36 Natur und Recht 330
- Stefan Theil, ‘Cautious scrutiny: The German Constitutional Court on the Federal Climate Change Act’, (2022) 85 Modern Law Review (advance online)
- Stefan Theil, ‘A Cause Worthy of More Effort: the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Climate Change Decision’, (2022) 81 Cambridge Law Journal 1
- Stefan Theil, ‘Germany - Federal Constitutional Court on the Horizontal Effect of Equality Rights Between Private Parties’, [2020] Public Law 181
- Stefan Theil, ‘Germany - Federal Constitutional Court Qualifies the Distinction between Fundamental Rights Obligations of the State and Private Actors’, [2019] Public Law 790
- Stefan Theil, ‘Loremza Violini and Antonia Baraggia (eds.) The Fragmented Landscape of Fundamental Rights Protection in Europe – The Role of Judicial and Non-Judicial Actors (Edward Elgar, 2018)’, (2020) 83 Modern Law Review 686, 2019
- Stefan Theil, ‘Nadine Strossen, Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press 2018)’, (2019) 69 University of Toronto Law Journal 404
- Stefan Theil, Joint Response (no single author), ‘Cambridge Centre for Public Law Response to the Government Consultation to Reform the Human Rights Act 1998’, 2022
- Stefan Theil, Oliver Butler, Kate Jones, Harriet Moynihan, Catherine O’Regan, Jacob Rowbottom, ‘Response to the Public Consultation on the Online Harms White Paper’, 2019
- Stefan Theil, Kate O’Regan, ‘Comments on Facebook’s Draft Charter for an Independent Review Board’, 2019
- Stefan Theil, ‘Medical Incapacity and the UK Constitution’, 2025
- Stefan Theil, ‘Substantively orthodox: three takeaways from the ECHR climate change decisions’, 2024
- Stefan Theil, ‘Not Just an Enhanced Opinion Poll: Regarding Scottish Independence, the UKSC Puts Politics Back Into the Driving Seat’, 2022
- Stefan Theil, ‘Henry VIII on Steroids – Executive Overreach in the Bill of Rights Bill’, 2022
- Stefan Theil, ‘Missing the Forest for the Trees – Deficits in Doctrinal Methods and How Data Can Help’, 2022
- Stefan Theil, ‘Germany – a federal executive power grab?’, 2020
- Stefan Theil, ‘Prorogued until October? How the Prorogation Act 1867 could be used to Sideline Parliament for Good’, 2019
- Stefan Theil, ‘Unconstitutional Prorogation’, 2019
- Stefan Theil, ‘Germany’s legal Crackdown on Social Media: Four Misconceptions Dispelled’, 2018
- Stefan Theil, ‘The German NetzDG: A Risk Worth Taking?’, 2018
- Stefan Theil, ‘An Aversion to Weimar: German Constitutional Hesitance on Dissolving the Bundestag’, 2017
- Stefan Theil, ‘Neither Full Independence, nor Perfect Union: Constitutionalism as a Third Way for the Future of Scotland’, 2017
- Stefan Theil, ‘A Vote of Confidence for the German Democratic Order: the German Federal Constitutional Court Ruling on the Application to ban the National Democratic Party’, 2017
- Stefan Theil, ‘A Union of States, Constitutions, Administrations and Judiciaries: Some Initial Thoughts on the OMT Ruling of the German Constitutional Court’, 2016
- Stefan Theil, ‘Polycentricity – A Fatal Objection to the Adjudication of Environmental Rights?’, 2015
- Stefan Theil, ‘Constitutions as culture: Two insights from Peter Häberle’s "The rationale of constitutions from a cultural science viewpoint"’, 2015
- Stefan Theil, ‘Three Insights from Peter Häberle’s “Preambles in the Text and Context of Constitutions"’, 2015