The fact that the new rules enable pullbacks rather than pushbacks does not make this case-law inapplicable. Although France, as a Member State, may be presumed safe and compliant with EU law and ...

What such a process ideally looks like was demonstrated in June 1981 after an Israeli airstrike had taken out the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. In its letter to the UN Security Council, Israel ...

An existential threat” – this is how the International Court of Justice (ICJ) characterized climate change in its long-awaited advisory opinion on the obligations of States with respect to climate ...

In response, in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, whose purpose, he said, was to give these stations a wider voice and “to enrich man’s spirit” by creating “a great ...

These efforts have culminated in two decisive rounds of recall voting against 31 district legislators from the majority party – 24 slated for July 26 and 7 for August 23 – potentially unseating more ...

This is the conflict – a “no win” – in which progressives experience the Court’s current engagements with these issues.

Rather than read the case as narrowly about Medicaid, the case is best understood as advancing several political goals held by the majority of justices in the Court as aligned with a current attack on ...

And yet, a common question seems to be asked: in the face of authoritarian determinism, what can be saved of the democratic process? Until when does it make sense to hold on? For some historians, in ...

Today’s Court reprimands the Davids, not Goliath. To be fair, Justice Kavanaugh suggests in his concurrence that the proper fight belongs between two Goliaths – the President and the Supreme Court.

The Commission hails the new targets as “ambitious”. But the proposal clearly bows to concerns about geopolitical competition. “ EU no longer willing to act alone on climate ”, the Guardian thus ...

Thus, the people’s representatives in Congress could starve the army of resources should the President employ it in oppression. The Framers were deeply aware that one of the most effective constraints ...

I had the honour of being awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster. I was ...