Although the federal government will not shut down for another five days, pretty much anyone who is paying attention has known for some time now that a shutdown
is inevitable. The machinations this week involve only Speaker McCarthy’s desperate efforts to salvage House Republicans’ abysmal public messaging. Whether [...]
Suppose you thought that current proposals for Supreme Court reform were merely politically motivated and ill-advised. How might you react to Jack Balkin’s
suggestions (including his earlier discussion)? Specifically, are there plausible constitutional objections to them? (I write “plausible” to signal that I don’t [...]
In its recent concluding observations on Germany, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities identified significant shortcomings in the implementation of Art.
24 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the right to inclusive education (para. [...]
Stellen Zwei Stellen als Doktorand*innen (m/w/d) (65%, E13 TvöD Bund, zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt), Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
(Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy), Bewerbungsfrist: 01.10.2023. Zwei Stellen als... [...]
Can Ukraine hold elections while it is in the midst of a full-scale invasion by Russia? This question has recently received international attention, including comments from
US Senator Lindsey Graham advocating for elections during the war. However, holding elections during the current state of war faces not only factual but also legal [...]
A phrase like „Parliament decisions on its own behalf“ („Entscheidungen in eigener Sache“) has not been codified in Spanish legal and political discourse. Nevertheless,
it is acknowledged that there are certain issues where political parties within parliament possess distinct interests that may influence their legislative choices.1) To [...]
It must be acknowledged: in Italy, a judgment such as that delivered by the German Federal Constitutional Court on 24 January 2023 on party financing is currently constitutional
science fiction. With this ruling, the Court held that the legislative reasoning failed in justifying the need for additional financial resources for parties, with [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is known as a fierce defender of human rights in the European Legal Space. It interprets the European Convention on Human Rights
(ECHR), protects the human rights of 676 million citizens in 46 different states, including all Member States of the European Union, and even Luxembourg’s European [...]
In a previous post I explained how we might achieve the effective equivalent of term limits for Supreme Court Justices by changing the rules of the Court's appellate jurisdiction.
According to my proposal, the President and Senate would appoint a new Justice in the first and third year of each President's term. [...]
Blocked streets, occupied airports, and a Brandenburg Gate sprayed with paint: Civil disobedience is making a spectacular comeback, in Germany as elsewhere. While the state
responds with sometimes drastic severity, legal scholars must reflect. Can civil disobedience be justified in times of the climate crisis? Or is it just ordinary [...]
