The current Steering Committee of the Interest Group History of International Law needs to be renewed. ESIL Members with an interest in history are invited to submit their
candidacies by the end of the current week with the ESIL Secretariat (ESIL.Secretariat at eui dot eu). [...]
This blog has regularly published comment on legal issues that emerge in the context of elections to the Bench of the ICJ. For any scholar of the Court, these matters are exciting
and interesting, not to mention surrounded by a certain amount of bewilderment as to ‘unwritten rules’, ‘expectations’, ‘customs’, and ‘practices’ [...]
Amid contention that global governance was unprepared and incapacitated in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this November, a special session of the World Health Assembly
will convene to discuss a potential international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response. [...]
Jens Bisky: Hat „Die Theorie der Gerechtigkeit“ von John Rawls in Ihrer intellektuellen Sozialisation als Verfassungsrechtler eine Rolle gespielt? Christoph Möllers: Eigentlich
nicht, sie hat mich nie so richtig angezogen und daher bin ich erst relativ spät dazu gekommen. [...]
Kaum jemand hat die politische Philosophie in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts so stark geprägt wie John Rawls. Seine monumentale Theorie der Gerechtigkeit von 1971
habe, so heißt es, die politische Philosophie nach den totalitären Verheerungen des 20. [...]
Lesenotiz zu John Rawls: Über Sünde, Glaube und Religion. Mit Kommentaren von Joshua Cohen, Thomas Nagel und Robert Merrihew Adams. Mit einem Nachwort von Jürgen Habermas.
Aus dem Amerikanischen von Sebastian Schwark. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010. 344 S. [...]
Eine feministische Auseinandersetzung mit der Wirkungsgeschichte von John Rawls bringt (mindestens) zwei Herausforderungen mit sich: Zum einen unterscheidet sich die Rezeption
von Rawls‘ Arbeiten je nach feministischer Perspektive massiv. So stehen liberale feministische Theorien dem Rawlsianischen Projekt zwar kritisch, aber doch zumindest [...]
The ability of independent researchers to access online platforms’ data is a precondition for effective platform governance, independent oversight and to understand how these
platforms work. In particular, granular access to online platforms’ data allows researchers to carry our public interest research into platforms’ takedown decisions [...]
Letter To Senate Finance Committee On H.R. 5376: We are teachers, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of tax law, property law, natural resource management, and land
use law. We write today to express our deep concern about a provision recently added to the Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act,... [...]
By Jack Wass (Stout Street Chambers, New Zealand) The enforcement of judgments from Chinese courts continues to generate controversy in common law countries. In Hebei Huaneng
Industrial Development Co Ltd v Shi, the New Zealand courts have been faced with the argument that because Chinese courts are not independent of the political arms [...]
