With so much uncertainty facing federal employees, many on probation want to know what their rights are—especially when it comes to actions against their employment like
removing civil service protections, terminations, or reductions in force. Here are some of the most common questions about probationary employment in the federal [...]
What if we find ourselves forced to admit that we all are in the entirely wrong movie? What if it turns out that time has passed us by with our human rights convention and
our rule of law? What if we are nothing more than remnants of a bygone submerged Ancien Régime after all, standing around in confusion, scratching our wigs and fiddling [...]
Was, wenn wir uns mittlerweile einfach komplett im falschen Film befinden? Was, wenn die Zeit über uns hinweggegangen ist mit unserer Menschenrechtskonvention und unserer
Rechtsstaatlichkeit? Was, wenn wir hier nur noch als Anhänger*innen eines überwundenen und versunkenen Ancien Régime in der Gegend herumstehen, die sich verwirrt [...]
On May 5, 1950, President Harry S. Truman signed the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) into law. The measure subjected all branches of the U.S. armed forces to a single
system of criminal law and created a civilian appellate court to review decisions of the services’ respective boards of review. [...]
President Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025 Executive Order (EO) on “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats” is
squarely aimed at reviving some version of the Muslim travel ban of his first term. [...]
On 10 July 2024, the 83rd anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom, an alternative commemoration was held near the monument to the massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbours. Replete
with Roman-Catholic religious references, it boiled down to prayers for Poland and the presentation of posters and slogans: “We demand the truth about Jedwabne!”, [...]
Extremist violence, ethnic tensions, and authoritarian governance in the Sahel region of West Africa have generated a regional crisis with global implications. After a decade
of escalating conflict, governments, Russian mercenaries, and extremist groups alike are using violence against civilians to pursue their interests. [...]
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For more than a decade, lawyers and political scientists have extensively studied the “authoritarian playbook” – the instruments, methods and processes used by autocrats
such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to capture established democracies. However, so far, the impact of autocratic economic governance on the rule of law has been surprisingly [...]
