The U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in United States v. Skrmetti and, as many expected, voted 6-3 along ideological lines to uphold a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming ...

In fact, if the preference is to have a text that embraces the unconditional primacy of EU law as a self-standing legal order, the Constitution does not satisfy the preference even without the ...

And now even the most fundamental norms are being broken once more.” “Wavering between hope and despair. For someone whose ...

With these timeless lines, the famous diplomate, politician and Indian freedom fighter Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Swarupa ...

Looking from T2 only backwards and never forwards to T3 risks creating an ever-receding horizon of state responsibility. If ...

Ultimately, the case centers on two complaints: the Commission’s failure to provide updated legislative timelines as required ...

All three interventions ultimately point to a shortfall in the rules of citizenship attribution that are at stake. Combined they yield a message in the negative: neither soil, nor blood nor money, per ...

Venezuela held local and parliamentary elections on May 25 th. Unsurprisingly, Maduro’s allies won with an overwhelming majority. Even though Maduro had severely tilted the playing field in his favor, ...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned its own October 2023 judgment that had declared military trials of civilians unconstitutional. In a 5–2 majority decision, the newly constituted Constitutional ...

The first is from the standpoint of a philosopher of criminal law, in which I am an academic specialist. The second is from the standpoint of a political sociologist, in which I am a novice. Even ...

Instead, the Court should have fully examined the complaint under Article 3, given the severity of the required medical intervention including involuntary sterilisation; an intervention that is far ...

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