Author: Ursula Gernbeck, Katrin Höffler and Kai Ambos

[Ursula Gernbeck is a public prosecutor at the Munich I Public Prosecutor's Office and previously worked in the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice; she gives her personal opinion here; Katrin Höffler and Kai Ambos are professors of law at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The authors thank Dr. Lucia Sommerer, LLM (Yale) for preparing this English version.] Rarely have protests in the recent past...