Along with a group of other Israeli international law scholars, we have sent an urgent letter to Israel’s Minister of Defense, the IDF Chief of Staff, the Attorney General

and other senior officials concerning a plan, presented by the Minister of Defense Israel Katz, to “concentrate” the population of Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian [...]

  Huub Verbaten, Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute Huub Verbaten , Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute Photo credit: Markus Bernet, via Wikimedia commons

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In the latest chapter of a long running saga, a panel of the DC Circuit today upheld the authority of then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd  Austin to withdraw from plea agreements

with three of the 9/11 defendants.  The start of the majority opinion in In Re: United States of America , No. [...]

The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN authored by Talia Roitberg Harmon, Michael L. Perlin, Maren Geiger, Lea Roitberg and Stacy Bielic.

Here is its abstract: The United States Supreme Court held in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. [...]

This week, Mirit Eyal (Alabama; Google Scholar) reviews a new work by Michael D. Guttentag (Loyola-L.A), The New Law and Inequality Scholarship, 105 B. U. L. Rev. 897 (2025).

In recent decades, both legal and economic scholarship have largely converged on the view that redistribution can be pursued through the... [...]

—Goran Selanec, Justice, Constitutional Court of Croatia [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.]

The European Union has been fraught with two alarming trends in the last decade and a half. [...]

For the Balkinization Symposium on Richard Primus, The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power (Harvard University Press, 2025). Jonathan Gienapp  When

we interpret the U.S. Constitution, we often rely on deep-seated intuitions. We take certain things for granted and see things through a particular lens. [...]

“Save the rule of Law in Spain”, read a banner held by a number of unidentified judges who were demonstrating before the premises of the Spanish Supreme Court, a couple

of days ago in Madrid. But save it – from whom? The demonstrators would no doubt reply: from Pedro Sánchez and his government, which has undertaken the first serious [...]

Last week, I had the honour of being awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster. I was absolutely delighted – not only, but

also, because it’s actually the first academic degree I’ve ever received. I belong to a generation of law students who completed their studies with a Staatsexamen [...]