[Pirst posted in AWOL 11/6/09. Updated 26 November 2021] [Pirst posted in AWOL 11/6/09. Updated 26 November 2021]  plekos: Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und

Berichte zur Erforschung der SpätantikeISSN: 1435-9626 [...]

L'arrêt Sassi et Benchellali c. France, rendu par la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme le 25 novembre 2021, décide que les auditions de deux détenus français de Guantanamo

effectuées par les autorités françaises ne portent pas atteinte au droit au procès équitable garanti par l'article 6 § 1 de la Convention européenne des droits [...]

Posted by Sara M. Butler, 26 November 2021. All Hallows in London. A felon’s right to claim sanctuary upon sacred ground for a period of forty days is hardly a new subject

for this blog (see previous blogs by McSheffrey, Butler, Kesselring, and McSheffrey). [...]

Dapo Akande (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) & Miles Jackson (University of Oxford - Faculty of Law) have posted The Right to Life and the Jus ad Bellum:

Belligerent Equality and the Duty to Prosecute Acts of Aggression on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: General Comment 36 of the Human Rights Committee, adopted in 2018, [...]

This local article reports on a notable development in a capital case that caught my attention because it involves a defendant who was involved in a major development in Supreme

Court capital jurisprudence more than 30 years ago.  The press piece is headlined "Pervis Payne death penalty set aside, judge will decide if life sentences are [...]

​Sara Fegan & Rosalie Rothwell from Allen & Overy join Tamara Duncan to discuss gender diversity in law, as well as give their top tips for females starting their own legal

journey. [...]

Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman: Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman:

Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah [...]

Rivka Weill There is a deep sense of crisis regarding the US Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) legitimacy. President Biden has tasked a Commission with reviewing and recommending

possible reforms to restore the Court’s legitimacy. My argument in Court Packing as an Antidote based on an examination of all Supreme Court nominations and confirmations [...]

Rechtsgebiete:  Liegen zwischen Tat und tatrichterlicher Entscheidung mehr als 2 Jahre Zeit, so liegt eine sogenannte "fahrverbotsfeindliche Verfahrensdauer" vor. Ein Regelfahrverbot

kann dann nur noch in besonderen Fällen angeordnet werden. Eigentlich ist aber Indizwirkung des Regelfahrverbotes, die auch dahin... [...]

A national supreme court must not declare a request for a preliminary ruling by a lower court unlawful on the ground that the referred questions are irrelevant and unnecessary

for the original case. This has been held by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in its important decision C-564/19 IS. [...]