http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170422-153432 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/how-old-is-14-really-on-child-marriage-and-case-by-case-justice/ How Old is 14 Really? On Child Marriage and Case-by-Case Justice Hussain, Adeel eng 2017-04-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Best Interest of the Child Child Marriage Orientalism Post-Colonialism UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 A bizarrely archaic hiccup for old-school historicists, curiously ambivalent and legally intriguing to others, child marriages currently enjoy an unforeseen centrality in Germany’s public life. Europe today is hard pressed to look beyond its shores for instructive twenty-first century survival scripts. India’s past offers some lessons on child marriages for the current German predicament.