On Thursday, June 27, the Supreme Court held that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's March 2018 order, directing the Census Bureau to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census

questionnaire, "rested on a pretextual basis," i.e., that it "cannot be adequately explained in terms" of the "sole stated reason" Ross offered--a purported request [...]

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) – the governing body of association football – is an association domiciled in Switzerland, yet it has an

influence on the realisation of human rights of individuals all over the world, including football players, coaches, club officials and owners, intermediaries, referees, [...]

FIFA’s recent turn to human rights has quickly become the centrepiece of its institutional mission and identity. In the course of four years, FIFA has commissioned an independent

human rights audit, amended its Statutes to include a specific commitment to respect and protect all internationally recognised human rights, adopted a Human Rights [...]

The aim of the present post is to address the relevance of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the legal basis for its work, the European Convention on Human Rights

(ECHR), for FIFA. In part I, it will be shown that there is room for the ECHR and the ECtHR to become relevant for the work and activities of FIFA. [...]

Ursula von der Leyen and not one of the spitzenkandidaten promoted by the parties in the EP election campaign will be the EU Council’s nominee for Commission President. Throughout

the week, wails of dismay could be heard in the halls of the European Parliament, of the German Social Democrat and Green headquarters, and among parts of the German [...]

The question whether the various norms of the acquis communautaire may be applied to disputes between private parties was at the heart of many sport rulings of the Court of

Justice of the European Union (further referred to as “CJEU” or “the Court”). [...]

I’m as surprised as everyone else that over the past 24 hours the Administration decided to flipflop, in such wildly Trumpian fashion, on whether to keep fighting to add

a citizenship question to the Census. Our government’s clown show approach raises the usual questions of whether it is better or worse to temper malevolence with [...]

The Supreme Court will shortly consider whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination in employment, covers discrimination on the basis

of sexual orientation and gender identity.  The lower courts are split on whether such protection is granted by the plain language of the statute.  The case will [...]

Justice Gorsuch's dissent in Gundy v. United States relies on Amity Shlaes's book The Forgotten Man for this description of some of the facts in the Schechter cases: "Kosher

butchers such as the Schechters had a hard time following these rules. Yet the government apparently singled out the Schechters as a test case."  According to Wikipedia [...]

The battlefield after the European Council summits is still coated with dust, but damages to Central and Eastern Europe and more specifically the Polish and Hungarian government

are already visible. There will be no representative of the new Member States (those that entered the EU in and after 2004) among the top jobs. [...]