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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What’s clear is this: both Germany’s responsibility under international law for arms exports to Israel and the potential ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rule of law is not only under threat in Islamabad – it’s also faltering at Germany’s national borders. In their analysis, ...

This decision marks the end of what was likely Germany’s most prominent climate liability case. Since the OLG Hamm did not permit an appeal to the Federal Court of Justice – and taking the case to the ...

Decent work in the platform economy” is one of the items the ILO will discuss during its upcoming 113 th International Labour Conference from 2 to 13 June 2025 – a first in the ILO’s history. In ...

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 ...