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

Though judges (and prosecutors) have been on strike a number of times before in Spain, this time is different. The governing body of the Spanish judges, the “ Consejo General del Poder Judicial ”, ...

The application of these rules led Caster Semenya, a dominating 800m female runner, to become ineligible to compete in international athletics competition since 2019 and to initiate a judicial ...

Scholars of authoritarianism discuss two “soft guardrails” of democracy: 1) “mutual toleration” — a shared understanding that people and parties with different views and values must respect one ...

The GDPR serves as a “backbone of the EU’s digital rulebook”, but has also been a source of intense debate and criticism from the outset. Broadly, two main sides have emerged: some say the GDPR ...

In doing so, it dramatically expanded parental rights over students and education without concern for the rights of children or consideration of pedagogy and curriculum. While the current era of the ...

But there is another, underappreciated way in which the Court has defanged the judiciary’s systemic ability to confront the executive branch’s illegal immigration behavior: the Court has failed to ...

On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued Advisory Opinion No. 32 — the most important and progressive document yet released by an international court on the climate ...

The measures adopted by the Hungarian government within its domestic legal system openly and progressively defy the fundamental values and principles of Article 2 TEU. As a result, Hungary has not ...

In it, the IACtHR affirms that the right to a healthy climate falls within the scope of human rights protections under the American Convention on Human Rights. It outlines the responsibilities of ...

A different kind of legal obligation, however, is emphasised by JOACHIM WIELAND (GER): the German legislature is obliged to ...

The motion of censure against the von der Leyen Commission, formally submitted on July 3, 2025, and scheduled for vote on July 10, 2025, presents three principal categories of alleged violations with ...