With this new edition, the book has been brought up to date again. In particular, the decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court on personal rights, on the competing relationship between the fundamental rights of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and those of the Basic Law, but also other important decisions of the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice, such as, for example: ECJ 22.2.2022 - C-430/21 (primacy of Union law) BVerfG NVwZ 2022, 139 (obligation to regulate a triage) BVerfG 9.2.2022 - 2 BvL 1/20 (constitutionality of Section 315d I No. 3 StGB) BVerfG 12.1.2022 - 2 BvC 17/18 (election review complaint) BVerfG NJW 2021, 1808 (urgent applications against night-time curfews under federal law) BVerfGnkungen) BVerfG NJW 2021, 1723 (Climate Protection Act, review against the standard of the GG) BVerfG NJW 2021, 1518 (European arrest warrant) BVerfG NVwZ 2021, 1211 (authorisation for a veterinary medicinalBVerfG NVwZ 2021, 226 (Antiterrorism Act II) BVerfG NVwZ-RR 2021, 697 (Scope/limits of the Federal Government's duty to inform the Bundestag/Federal Council as early as possible on EU matters) BVerfG 25.3.2021 - 2 BvF 1/20, 2 BvL 5/20, 2 BvL 4/20 ("Berlin rent freeze") BVerfG 2.3.2021 - 2 BvE 4/16 (unsuccessful action before the court - CETA) BVerfG 10.2.2021 - 2 BvL 8/19 (asset recovery, review against the standard of the GG) BGH NJW 2021, 1404 ("pocket calculator prohibited at the wheel") BVerwG NVwZ 2021, 411 (headscarf ban against female trainee lawyer) VGH Mannheim 3.11.2021 - 6 S 3018/19 (Admissibility of an animal protection law association action for official intervention - prohibition of turkey farming) VG Köln 8.3.2022 - 13 K 326/21 (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution may classify AfD as a suspected case) The conceptual principle of the book has been retained. Readers should not only acquire the necessary substantive legal knowledge, but also the ability to apply what they have learnt in the context of an examination paper.