In this episode, we investigate the possibilities and challenges of building human rights capacity and conducting risk assessments within companies. Our guest is Leonel Lisboa,
consultant, Head of the Löning Academy, and PhD researcher in International Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. [...]
Does EU Cohesion Policy funding help local politicians win re-election? New research by Marco Di Cataldo and Elena Renzullo demonstrates that incumbent mayors gain electoral
support when they attract substantial … Continued [...]
Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on John Witt's new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon
and Schuster, 2025). [...]
According to recent media reports, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally ordered special forces to “kill everybody” ahead of a Sept. 2 operation targeting alleged drug
traffickers in international waters. That order allegedly resulted in a follow-on “double tap” strike that killed two survivors who were clinging to wreckage. [...]
On 25 November 2025, the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) confirmed in Trojan that Member States are obliged to recognise the marriage between two same-sex EU citizens lawfully concluded
in another Member State in the exercise of their freedom of movement, even if their national legislation does not itself allow such marriage. [...]
The EU Commission has set October 2025 as the start date for the roll-out of the long-awaited new Entry/Exit System (EES). European countries using the EES will introduce the
system gradually at their external borders. Established by Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, the ESS system will capture four fingerprints, a facial image and travel data [...]
SLaVEgents: Enslaved persons in the making of societies and cultures in Western Eurasia and North Africa, 1000 BCE - 300 CE SLaVEgents
aspires to be a pioneering contribution to the study of antiquity, shifting the focus of research from the elites to the lower classes. [...]
Access to Cuneiform Texts (CDLI-ACT) - the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in Arabic The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), in
collaboration with Al-Qadisiyah University, is pleased to announce the launch of Access to Cuneiform Texts (CDLI-ACT), directed by Professor Haider ‘Aqīl ‘Abid, [...]
The newly established Centre for Legal History of India (CLHI) at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany, has just advertised three
PhD positions and a postdoc position in the field of Indian legal history, all of which are fully funded. [...]
