Any restriction on their rights demands the closest judicial scrutiny. The dissenting judges, however, did not hold back. In their view, the majority had abandoned established case law and signalled a ...

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Israel’s military actions fulfil the actus reus of genocide as defined in Article II of the Genocide Convention (or Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and § 6 of the ...

German courts later deemed this provisory shield a protective weapon, arguing that it could protect Russ from coercive police measures such as pepper spray. Since the mere carrying of such a ...

In an apparent attempt to force nonprofits to conform to the current administration’s views relating to discrimination, antisemitism, and other topics, President Trump, his officials, and to a lesser ...

What’s clear is this: both Germany’s responsibility under international law for arms exports to Israel and the potential ...

Slovakia’s electoral system for its National Council elections has remained relatively stable over time. Its foundations were laid in 1990 – just after the fall of the communist regime in then ...

The rule of law is not only under threat in Islamabad – it’s also faltering at Germany’s national borders. In their analysis, ...

Accepting any peace agreement resulting in Ukraine losing part of its territory, however, would not only legitimize territorial aggression but also reinforce Russia’s use of constitutionalized memory ...

I will claim that, notwithstanding MORENA’s promise that the amendment would grant Mexico a reinvigorated judicial branch, it is getting a newly elected judiciary whose legitimacy has been tarnished ...

This decision marks the end of what was likely Germany’s most prominent climate liability case. Since the OLG Hamm did not permit an appeal to the Federal Court of Justice – and taking the case to the ...

The Danish-Italian public letter to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) from 22 May 2025 must be understood in the context of two decades of “crises” in the European human rights regime. Its ...