President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14164, one of 26 he signed on the first day of his second term, did much more than reinstate federal executions. Trump directed the
Attorney General to seek the death penalty in every case in which a “capital crime” is committed by an undocumented migrant. [...]
Azerbaijan has recently moved to strike a peace deal with Armenia after violently recapturing the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. But continued fighting between
the two countries might be more likely than peace, and other transnational threats continue to lurk beneath the surface. [...]
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WAR — U.S. RESPONSE [...]
On 8 April 2025, the Supreme Court of India (“Court”) issued a landmark ruling addressing a pressing constitutional question: Does the Indian Constitution (“Constitution”)
allow a Governor to simply take no action on a bill passed by the State Legislature? The Court’s unequivocal answer was no. [...]
In the near future, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) may issue its first compensation awards against Russia for its conduct in the war in Ukraine. When that happens,
the question of how to enforce such awards will become paramount. Given Russia’s lack of cooperation, claimants may seek to enforce compensation awards in third [...]
Nachdenken und Diskutieren über Nietzsche in Schönburg. Das ermöglicht die Nietzsche-Werkstatt, die vom 10. bis zum 13.09.2025 zum dreiunddreißigsten Mal stattfinden wird.
Unter der Leitung von Sarah Biachi (Frankfurt) und Hemut Heit (Weimar) geht es darum, das Verhältnis von Nietzsche und kritischen Theorien (er)neu(t) auszuloten [...]
Where there is a will, there is a way. This phrase could sum up the logic behind the judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeal of 2 December 2024, which condemned the Belgian
government to compensate for the damage resulting from the abduction and racial segregation of children of white fathers and Black mothers (hereafter métis) during [...]
The Journal of International Economic Law is delighted to announce the fifth annual JIEL Junior Faculty Forum. The JIEL JFF brings together early career scholars (including
junior faculty, visiting assistant professors, PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows, etc.) working in the field of international economic law. [...]
In the rich scholarship on and practice of hard and soft laws in the international order, hard law (specifically legally-binding treaties) is often perceived more favourably
than soft, non-binding legal instruments, given the former’s precise wording and enforceable obligations compared with the latter’s aspirational remit and assumed [...]
Two articles about the legal regulation of medication abortion. Nathan Cortez & Joanna L. Grossman, Who Regulates Abortion Now?, 110 Iowa L. Rev. 1579 (2025) Contrary to both
conventional wisdom and recent Supreme Court pronouncements, abortion is not simply a... [...]
