While there are steps to hold the Taliban accountable through the International Criminal Court (ICC), the possibility of a ...

A key step towards improving public debt transparency is to analyze it through the lens of constitutional law. As the first part of this post explains, applying a constitutional law framework to ...

Earlier this month, Advocate General Richard de la Tour delivered his Opinion in Shipov, a case before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dealing with the gender recognition rights of a trans woman ...

In the context of the C-630/23 judgment concerning foreign currency loans, the UP normally operates in two panels of 20 judges each. However, in this case the Civil Law Chamber also joined, and a ...

I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years, and in all that time I have been more or less confident that basic minima of freedom of speech would remain unscathed ...

Even the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killing has remained silent to date. In July, Henning Lahmann argued here that Germany’s silence in the face of Israeli and U.S. attacks on ...

In Italy, the Corte Costituzionale has long treated rent control as a site of normative tension between property rights and social goals. Drawing on Articles 3, 41, and 42 of the Italian Constitution, ...

This could be the ECJ’s best opportunity to speak on the EU’s climate mitigation obligations under European and international law. After sketching how international and regional courts and tribunals ...

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On 11 September 2025, Advocate General (“AG”) Ćapeta delivered her Opinion in Aucrinde, the very first case to reach the Court on the interpretation of the Recast Evidence Regulation since it became ...

In an era of growing threats to democracy worldwide, the independence of apex courts has emerged as one of the critical fault lines. From subtle co-optation to overt manipulation, judicial ...

“Invisibility means here that […] the loss of human lives or offence to human dignity of poor people, although reported and extensively acknowledged, is invisible in the sense that it does not result ...