That legal position was later affirmed at the highest level. The Constitutional Court had ruled in February 2024 that similar referendum proposals – such as freezing the lev until 2043 – were legally ...

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 ...

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 ...

Der Verdacht selektiver Strafverfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen ist so alt wie das Völkerstrafrecht selbst. Schon die Nürnberger Prozesse gegen die Eliten des Dritten Reiches wurden teils als ...

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 ...

Das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin hat mit Beschluss vom 2.6.2025 (VG 6 L 191/25 u.a.) im Eilverfahren entschieden (hier im Volltext ), dass drei somalischen Asylsuchenden der Grenzübertritt nach Deutschla ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assoziierungsabkommen nach Art. 217 AEUV stellen die engste Form einer Partnerschaft zwischen einem Drittstaat und der Europäischen Union dar. Moderne Abkommen enthalten neben Marktöffnungsklauseln ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...