On May 28, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a unanimous ruling against President Donald Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs, in a case filed by
Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five U.S. businesses harmed by the tariffs. [...]
Even as debates swirl over early assessments of the damage inflicted upon Iran’s nuclear facilities, a more fundamental question remains: Why did Israel, and then the United
States, decide to attack Iran now, even as U.S.-Iranian negotiations sputtered along? [...]
With the announcement of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Iran and Israel (one both governments pledged to uphold conditionally, contingent on the other’s restraint), speculation
has begun to shift from whether the conflict would escalate into full-scale regional war to whether this pause might create space for diplomacy, reconstruction, or [...]
The Trump Administration just announced that the Japanese steel giant Nippon Steel has granted it a powerful “golden share” in U.S. Steel as a condition for its acquisition
of this major US-American steel manufacturer. A “golden share” is a special class of share that grants its holder – typically a state entity – extraordinary [...]
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Am 20.–21. November 2025 findet am Weizenbaum-Institut in Berlin ein Workshop zum Thema „Generative AI & The Faces of Power“ statt. Der Workshop zielt darauf ab, die
vielschichtigen Machtverhältnisse im Zusammenhang mit generativer KI in sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Kontexten zu untersuchen und kritisch zu reflektieren. [...]
On 3 June 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a long-awaited judgment in Kinsa, holding that a third-country national who
enters the EU irregularly with a minor in their actual care does not, by that act alone, facilitate unauthorised entry. [...]
This Saar Blueprint critically examines how gender-based persecution is addressed in EU asylum law, revealing persistent normative and jurisprudential gaps. Two recent ECJ
rulings illustrate emerging progress towards a gender-sensitive approach. They also show the need to reform the legal approach to the issues. [...]
[Dr Alison Bisset is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Reading School of Law] The Ljubljana-The Hague Convention on International
Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crimes of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Other International Crimes was adopted in May [...]
